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[#933: Not being able to draw in public because you don’t want people to see your process.]

Oh man, effing this.

One of my big art pet peeves is people peering at what I’m doing and then asking, “What are you drawing?”  Usually that’s enough to derail me right on the spot because then I have to stop and think about how to explain what I’m creating when I might still be in the process of figuring it out myself.  That also tends to make me question myself a lot.  Do I really want to draw this?  Am I drawing it right?  Maybe I should be drawing something else…  Then suddenly I don’t want to draw anymore.  Like all of my zen just got stomped on and I can’t get it back.  Also, what I’m drawing might not even turn out, so I’d like to be left to myself so that I’m the only one who sees the art if that’s the case.  If I finish successfully, then I will show it around and questions can be asked.

The only exception to this is when I’m at a convention in artist alley.  I deal with it there because people are there to see artists draw, buy art and order commissions.  Part of it is me dealing with it out of necessity, but that’s made easier by the location and the people somehow.  I think I just love conventions so much that the overall atmosphere really helps to keep me positive and confident.  

^ I completely agree with this, and I’ve had it happen to me before if I’m trying to draw something original and not fanart for once.  With the fanart I know the subject right away (generally) and my process isn’t so disturbed, but if I’m creating something original on the spot?  I was once sorely tempted to outright IGNORE someone I liked just so I wouldn’t lose the motivation or the inspiration.

I honestly appreciate it more if the curious person just sits down and watches for a bit, or even asks about drawing as a whole.  I don’t usually do the same to others who are drawing, I just leave them to it, but I personally don’t mind if you sit down and watch me work at all :3  Lol, just don’t interrupt me until I least have the undersketch done xD

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Changing our world, faster than light
The world as we know it is on the brink of disintegration, on the verge of dissolution. No, I’m not talking about the collapse of the Euro, of international finance, of the Western economies, of the democratic future, of the unipolar moment, of the American dream, of French banks, of Greece as a going concern, of Europe as an idea, of Pax Americana.

I am talking about something far more important. Which is why it made only the back pages of your newspaper, if it made it at all. Scientists at CERN (the European high-energy physics consortium) have announced the discovery of a particle that can travel faster than light.

Neutrinos fired 454 miles from a supercollider outside Geneva to an underground laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, took less time (60 nanoseconds less) than light to get there. Or so the physicists think. Or so they measured. Or so they have concluded after repeatedly checking for every possible artifact and experimental error.

The implications of such a discovery are so mind boggling, however, that these same scientists immediately requested that other labs around the world try to replicate the experiment. Something must have been wrong to account for a result that, if we know anything about the universe, is impossible.

And that’s the problem. It has to be impossible because, if not, everything we know about the universe is wrong. (INFN/AFP/Getty Images)

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