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Look at this crazy piece of info I found (while reading tumblr....of course.):




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

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Announcement: If you haven't noticed the addition to the links section already, or seen my post on the Facebook group, I have a new blog!

http://shianastacq4.blogspot.com/

it's my worklog for the 4th quarter project, incase anyone is interested in my progress.
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In other news, I was playing around on Thursday, and created this:

I'm rather proud of it :> (however, I have to work on diff. materials/making it stronger...when I tried to slip the paper off, it....ripped.)

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I posted this on facebook:

Colors of today

...Perhaps this will become a daily practice(?)

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(Wow, there's a new format to writing posts!)

I wonder why people in general seem to like taking personality tests. Is it because:
-they like feeling connected to other people/favorite characters
-are they classifying themselves in order to eliminate chaos in their lives
-to help find themselves (but personality tests are still theory, so...you can't trust them too much. Then they're controlling how YOU are, right?)

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I forgot to mention this in my weaknesses today, but sometimes I feel like I want to do everything and be the best at whatever I do.
I also feel like I'm full of contradictions...ex. I want to be the best, but then sometimes I just want to relax and take everything easy...

Joke tags:
#Don't know myself #Angsty teen #Thinking about life while doing homework later in the night
edit: #spontaneous

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Ennegrams. I remember the class having a discussion about it last year...I also remember my mom being really into this book she got about ennegrams. She had a hard time deciding what I was and what number she was, but she had no problem telling what my dad was, haha.

I took this test:http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/dotest.php
and while I was taking the test, some of the questions sounded exactly how I feel. It was crazy!

Result:

You are most likely a type 5.

Taking wings into account, you seem to be a 5w4.

2nd test on this website:

You are most likely a type 9 (the Peacemaker) with 1 wing
Sexual variant

Type 9 SX

Type 6 SX

Type 1 SP

Type 4 SP

Type 2 SP

Type 5 SO

Type 3 SP

Type 7 SO

Type 8 SO

Test 2:

Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||||| 58% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||| 62% Type 3 Image Focus |||||||||||||||| 70% Type 4 Individuality |||||||||||||||| 62% Type 5 Rationality |||||||||||||| 58% Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||| 38% Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||| 50% Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||| 42% Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 78% Your main type is 9 Your variant is self pres

Main Type	Overall Self

Take Free Enneagram Personality Test
Personality Test by SimilarMinds.com

Result Test 3 (I admit, I can get easily distracted by personality tests....eheheh...):

"8 The Asserter"

http://www.okcupid.com/results/the-quick-amp-painless-enneagram-test/?var_XYZ=48&fromCGI=1&var_ABC=78

I was going to do 3 tests, but my results seem to be all over the place (except they're all on the left side of the circle...)

Test 4 (I have no clue about these results):

RHETI Enneagram Type Indicator Results

Your highest score will indicate you basic type, or it will be among the top 2-3 scores. You have answered all the questions -- terrific!

Type 1	Type 2	Type 3	Type 4	Type 5	Type 6	Type 7	Type 8	Type 9
2	5	6	5	5	2	6	0	5

Test 5:

The Enneagram Type Indicator Sampler Results (RHETI Version 2.0)

Questionnaire Date:   4/18/2012 6:48:52 PM

The following numerical scores are calculated from your answers to the Sampler questionnaire. The highest score in any type is 8. You may want to print this page for reference before leaving the page, as you cannot return to the results (except with the "Back" button) without retaking the test.

Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4 Type 5 Type 6 Type 7 Type 8 Type 9 1 6 6 5 5 4 5 0 4

These same results reported in a histogram.

Type 1 Type 2       Type 3       Type 4      Type 5      Type 6     Type 7      Type 8 Type 9

Click the Type Name link above for a profile of each Type. Brief descriptions are provided below. You may print this graph out, but you MUST DO IT AT THIS TIME.You cannot go back once you have left the test results page!

Notes on the Results Your highest score was a tie between Type 2, and Type 3.

.......I think taking more tests is messing with my results....now I'm getting numbers on the right side.....(how is that possible?)




editing:
Oh, I remembered that I took one...november of 9th grade. I hunted around for it, and I found the results (It's actually the same quiz as the third test I took....huh!):




your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")

"I am unique"
Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.



How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.

• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.

• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.

• Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.

• Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!



What I Like About Being a FOUR

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level

• my ability to establish warm connections with people

• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life

• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor

• being unique and being seen as unique by others

• having aesthetic sensibilities

• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me



What's Hard About Being a FOUR

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair

• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved

• feeling guilty when I disappoint people

• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misunderstands me

• expecting too much from myself and life

• fearing being abandoned

• obsessing over resentments

• longing for what I don't have



FOURs as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games

• are very sensitive

• feel that they don't fit in

• believe they are missing something that other people have

• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.

• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood

• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)



FOURs as Parents

• help their children become who they really are

• support their children's creativity and originality

• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings

• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective

• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

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I hadn't really thought about my "core" a lot. Just in STAC...and since it's that time of year again, I've been thinking about why I make my art, and themes that appear etc.

A new one I discovered(?) was that I (mostly) tend to lean towards creating order...this is mainly with my hobby with sound editing. Since I haven't tried to create my own song yet, I enjoy making covers of other songs and playing around with how many people are singing etc. but I always obsess over getting the timing of the voices right (even down to the closest fraction of a second that garageband can edit with).

Annnnnd, here is a miscellaneous piece of art to end this entry. I drew this late at night when I was in a drawing mood, but didn't have anything planned out, so I was just drawing pictures of whatever popped into my head:

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Also, I realized that my brain turns off (in the good way, like when I'm drawing or sound editing) when I'm skiing!

I tried experimenting with a bigger canvas (digitally)....it's still pretty hard. I had to zoom out a lot.

(click to make bigger)
Spontaneous shape drawing of Peeta (I didn't plan it out as much as I usually do when painting...)

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Well, I'm back from my trip to Denver, CO (in which I learned how the F-word has evolved into a noun, adjective, and a verb due to this lovely t-shirt I saw) and during the trip I managed to read the whole Hunger Games series.
That was a depressing series.
I felt the writing was mediocre (mostly in the first book). There were a lot of cliches used, and I felt that the main character's first POV gave a whiny, depressing, angsty teenage feel to the series, which was a turn-off. However, in the later books, you grow attached to the characters and feel it when they get killed off in violent ways. Also, when the book started to talk about suicide and how humanity is self-destructive, it made me feel dispirited and doubt humanity (why are we living)? The book, since death is thrown at you all of the time, also made me question whether death is the answer. It seemed easier to just die when things were going wrong, and yet the main character's will to live was so strong, she pulled through. I suppose the book is realistic in the way the main character deals with what's thrown at her, and why the tone is so depressing.
I liked how the book commented on TV shows now days (how everything is a competition), and how strong the media can be (the propaganda battle, and the constant posing for the cameras). One of my favorite parts was when the book commented on the Capitol accent "high pitched and ending their sentences as if they're asking a question" (ahemahem...) But at times, I felt like the author was doing that to follow a trend.

ANYWAYS

I just saw the Hunger Games movie, and I surprised myself.
I thought I would like the movie better than the book, but it turns out that both forms complement each other well. Seeing the characters helped me realize how young they are (which made it hard to see Prim in the beginning because *SPOILERALERTshediesahorribledeathlaterSPOILERALERT*) and I liked seeing all of the designs of the houses and outfits (although they showed that rather quickly in the movie, while in the book there was more emphasis on the styles.)

Also, I have more faces to draw:

Katniss Everdeen, the Girl on Fire

edit: after reading the series, I needed something cheery.

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Shiana Mainarich

STAC Quarter 3 intensives

In Quarter 3 of STAC, I was in the art intensive. The work we did in the intensive can be divided into two parts: colors and lines; and 4 mediums: pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. We mainly focused on working with the color theory, and learning techniques for drawing faces by using photo references. We began by drawing a self-portrait while being timed, then after that, we got started with learning how to improve on seeing color and better our drawing.

Lines: Pencil

First we learned how to grid a drawing so we would get used to where the relationships of key features of a face are (the eyes, nose, lips, hairline etc.). To make seeing these relationships easier, we used black-and-white photo references of movie stars and simplified (posterized) the colors so there would be only 3-4 shades of grey. After drawing a few faces on small grids, we drew 8.5X11’ grid drawings of Audrey Hepburn and Glen Ford.

The positive results were immediate. While drawing, my brain was forced to focus on shapes and plotting out the points of the eyes and nose, and the shapes of the shadows, rather than focusing on trying to draw something that looks like an eyebrow or mouth. Focusing on relationships and shapes helped make my drawings more accurate. Also, I got some practice on drawing with grids and drawing realistically.

Lines: Pencil 2

After spending a few STAC days on grid drawing, we had the chance to freehand faces. We still used various movie stars and photos as references, but this time colored references were added. Also, we didn’t posterize references at all (We got them from photography books.) However, this time we were given a packet with tips on drawing faces. I found this packet extremely helpful.

The packet consisted of three ways to draw faces, but we mostly used the one on the front. This way of drawing started with sketching a circle for the head and dividing it in half. Then, the lower half of the head was divided into 4 dots; the nose was placed at the second dot, and the mouth on the third dot.

Having a way to mark off the face helped a lot with drawing faces that had proper proportions. Looking back on drawing in this style, I realized that by using the technique of dividing the face up, we had a way of making a rough grid of a person’s face that we could use when drawing freehand.

Color: Theory + watercolor

While we were working on drawing faces, we also received an instructional packet on mixing colors. Using prior knowledge of the color theory, we used watercolors to experiment with creating greys from two complementary colors, darkening a color by using two complementary colors, avoiding creating mud (when mixing a color with one that wasn’t its complement). We also worked on how to push a color towards warm shades and cooler shades. I usually don’t work with traditional mediums, and I learned a few tips like “a color and its complement make grey” and “yellow and purple can be used to make skin tones.” I also learned what it meant to have “strong” color. When you mix colors, a strong color pushes the mixed color towards its color range with a minimal amount of pigment; it takes a small amount of the strong color to turn other colors towards it when mixed.

Applying this to watercolor also included learning how to use your water. The smaller the ratio of paint to water was, the lighter the color and vice versa.

Color: Theory + Acrylic and Oil

Using the color theory for acrylic and oil paints was basically the same as when I used it with watercolor. However, this time we could use white to lighten the color instead of using more water. Using white took a bit of getting used to, since we weren’t allowed to/couldn’t use white when we were painting with watercolors.

Medium: Watercolor

Working with watercolor was quite difficult. My main problem was controlling how watery my painting became. I had to constantly apply paper towels to keep the painting dry.

Also, I had a hard time deciding how to paint. After watching Ganes’ demonstration in STAC art, I saw all of the different ways you could use water and paint together, so I felt a little overwhelmed about\n which techniques to use. After finishing a painting, I often felt that I could have experimented more.

Medium: Acrylic

Working with Acrylic was “ok.” It helped me develop some techniques that I would be able to apply to oil, and it served as a less expensive way of experimenting with colors and blending things together. It was hard mixing the colors and keeping your palette tidy at the same time, since the paint spread around quite fast.

Medium: Pencil

While doing grid drawings, I used the pencil as I would when writing or doodling. However, when we did our freehand sketches, we were showed a technique where we shaved a pencil with a knife. This way, we could get a greater variety of lines and pressure out of the pencil. It was good experimenting with the different ways your lines could come out (I was used to doing that with my tablet, but it’s good to know that you can make your pencil have the same “pen pressure” effect!)

Medium: Oil

Working with oil was my first time ever. We were mainly allowed to experiment with the paints and do whatever we wanted to with them. I experimented with using walnut oil and water to thin the paint. Walnut oil worked best with spreading out the oil paint (However, if you used too much walnut oil, the paint started to gain a translucency similar to watercolor.) Mixing colors was much easier than with watercolor and acrylic. The paints mixed with little effort (I still have to try to make a grey.)

After learning all of these techniques and working with new mediums, my “library” of art styles has expanded. I feel more confident with drawing realistically, and being able to work in other mediums lets me experiment with traditional art. Also, having these skills will let me approach future projects with more options I can use and are confident with using.