School updates, and a male me? :D

My self-portrait is finished, but it looks pretty mediocre compared to some other people's. For some reason, I'm getting the feeling that some people are copying me...? I'm painting a photograph of myself making a surprised expression with widened eyes in black and white, and I saw two other people also painting in black and white and their photo was also a surprised face with widened eyes. One of them even painted an eye-shadow-like wing going upwards that was exactly like in my painting's.

I know that 'surprised' isn't an original expression, but did they just have to use the same colour palette as mine? When I look at the self-portraits from last year's art students, only one of them was black and white so I thought that my canvas would stand out more if I did that too. Guess not.

...Or maybe I'm just being too paranoid. :x I had to hand in my artbook yesterday and I haven't finished all of the research and paintings I'm supposed to do. I'm probably going to get a C for it. My fault for not being organised. D:

I should probably blog about something more interesting, but nothing much has happened lately.

I did make a new friend though! :D We started bonding much more after finding out that we both play on the same website - TinierMe. I really like talking to her; I feel like I can be myself and say whatever I want to.

I have another friend on Skype and while it makes me smile to be around her, I feel a bit restricted somehow - as if I have to keep up to certain expectations. I'm not sure why I feel this way.

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Anyway! On a side note, I photoshopped a picture of myself into a guy a few months ago. :D I've only decided to upload the photo here now because I think my blog would look better with more pictures.

And yes, I know that the picture's tiny; it would look really fake if I made it any bigger. xD The hair is done by tying my own hair up into a ponytail and edited out on Photoshop, and then I drew the rest. (<-- I think the sentence structure here is an epic fail, but I'm not sure how to reword it to make it sound better. *noob*)

The photo is actually from back when I used to edit my pictures like crazy soejr;poweijr, so that's why the eyes look a bit strange (but my pose was so guy-ish here that I just had to choose this one).

All in all, I think I could pass as a girly guy. = w = b

Photoshop?

I'm too much of a chicken to post this on Puricute, so I'm just ranting here since I hardly have any followers. xD

I'm really curious. What's wrong with photoshopping your pictures? A lot of people on Puricute keep thinking "Your picture is photoshopped" as an insult and seem to look down on people who do use it.

Sure, Photoshop might make the picture not look like the real you at all if you go overboard with the editing, but isn't that the same as putting on tons of makeup? What's the difference between editing on fake eyelashes and actually gluing them on? If anything, using Photoshop is more economically beneficial since once you buy the programme, you can keep using it for the rest of your life. Isn't that cheaper than buying all that makeup? Makeup can be bad for your skin if you use it too much for a looong time, so isn't it better to just "put makeup" on a bunch of pixels?

To be honest, I photoshop my photos sometimes (don't hate me~ > <;), but just to add eyeshadow, eyeliner and false eyelashes because I don't have all that stuff in real life. I don't do anything overboard like making my nose smaller, thinning down my face, etc, so my edited photos still look similar to the real me.

I understand that not everyone's good at using Photoshop and why some people still use makeup in real life, but I don't think there's any reason to dislike the people who edit their photos (as long as they don't make themselves look like a complete different person, or changing their actual features rather than enhancing them).

What do you think?

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