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    Manuel Berja @manuelberja

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    Not nice, at all!

    Posted by manuelberja - April 18th, 2011


    I was working for my project(Friend of mine),Then my mother stand next to me and watching what I'm doing. then she ask me if I'm doing it easily, "no, it's hard for me" i replied. then she turned her laptop on and doing something(so on). after few minutes, "come here,let me show you something" and i saw someones Facebook profile. browsing albums and a lots and lots of Artworks are there. "he's an animator just like you" mother said and "that's cool!" i replied.
    viewing the artworks over and over again.
    (lots of manga characters, naruto, toradora, etc..)

    mother: that's ****'s son(her boyfriend's son)
    me: ....
    mother: look at his artworks!
    me: O_o
    mother: he did all of that.
    mother: His name is *blah blah blah* visit his profile and take a look at his artwork and use it as your reference.

    mother: he's 19 years old
    *younger than me and Better than me, that's nice*

    *i was just thinking,what exactly was her trying to point out*

    mother: Oh! look at him,look at his face, he's handsome!
    me: (i told myself *I'm not a gay*)

    *i continued what I'm doing with a little insecurity. of course because she's not proud of her own son. and she's checking out someone's artworks while mine was often,never maybe*

    *and the worst part for me is...*

    mother: Can you do that? (the artwork)
    me: No, i still need more practice...

    *then i remember what she told me when i was 17,
    mother: What course would you like to take
    me: animation
    mother:in terms of drawing, there's a lot of people who can do better"

    *Thank you,mother. that inspires me a lot*


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    yikes dude... This hits me on a lot of levels. And I would love to give you advice but, my family has done the same thing a few times more or less..

    you gotta do what you love for you, and the rest comes. Dont do it to impress anyone but yourself, or you'll get stuck in a rut..

    Just keep practicing and enjoy doing what you love. The rest comes after that believe me.

    Thanks for actually reading it all.
    thanks for the advice. very helpful. :)

    "you gotta do what you love for you, and the rest comes"
    billion of thanks for this. :D

    *I want to be just like you,someday*

    Your art is pretty good in my opinion, but your mum, isn't.

    really? you would be the first.
    Thanks.

    Well, that's sad, and of course there will always be someone better than you (People in general) but you just gotta think, for every one person better than you there's probably two ore three that are worse.

    I don't really care if someone is better than me. i'm not doing artworks to surpass others. I'm doing it because it's my dream, and i want to make them proud.

    Your good in animating, then you won a Bamboo Tablet. But your mother doesn't like it?

    Just think that you can be the best among the rest, but of course, you have to be careful with your popularity. Or people might backfire at you.

    Now I should practice too. My emotions and drawing skill at the computer, so I'll show them(some classmates who hates me) who is wrong and who is the boss.

    I hope you'll won a trophy here. But if your mom is still the boss(meaning liking others work but hating yours), STRIVE HARDER.

    I wish I should do the same, Sacrifice

    PS: I am also the person at your ENTRY#38, who said: "I don't have any :( but I'll make one sooner" but I'll concentrate on art first

    Thank you. well, looks like i can't do anything if the boss is my mom.

    well, looking forward in your future projects there. you're very nice. :)

    Maybe you'r mother is just an idiot who can't figure out she's hurting you'r feelings. No offense.

    yeah, i think so too. she's not proud any of us and her smile is fake.