Imagination Fair 2016 + Old Art + Inspirational Speech + Swirlshine's Blog + Art for Karalee

 Hey, Jammers!  Crazcatlover here, back with another blog post ;)  Today's post is very different from usual... and also much longer XD  So let's jump right in!

 Do any of you remember the Imagination Fair in Animal Jam? It's something they host every year to promote creativity and interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).  I was recently looking through some of my old art and found this!

Wow, that's some excessive watermarking XD And I wrote '7 days o a single charge' instead of '7 days ON a single charge'.... oopsy XD


 It was my entry for the 2016 Animal Jam Imagination Fair.  I entered it in Science category first, but I didn't win.... But then I also entered it for Technology, and I won that!

  I was super excited when I won XD  A device that could record and play back dreams is something I've wanted all my life, though I did once have a conversation with my buddy Germanshepherdluv2 on Animal Jam, where she mentioned that a pillow which could record dreams would be a great thing, soooo that was kind of my inspiration for this specific Dream Recording Pillow :)

  I'd almost forgotten about this until I looked through some of my old art files and found that!  Also, if you ever think you're bad at art or your art isn't improving, think again.  This is some art I drew for my buddy Budgielove in March of 2016:

  Oh, everything about this is wrong XD I didn't look at reference photographs back then; I only looked at Animal Jam animals.  If you look at any of my old art, you'll notice I pretty much drew all animals in the same pose: standing with one paw held up.  It makes it look like every animal I drew had an injured paw or something XD  Use reference photos, guys.  They really do help.  In one year of drawing, I've gone from THAT to this:

  Never give up on art.  Just keep drawing and practicing.  Art is something that takes time.  Don't stop drawing just because you don't think you're good at drawing.  You cannot improve art without practice.  It's been about a year since I've started drawing Animal Jam animals for my friends.  And in that year, I've learned a lot of things about art.  And I'm still learning.  This year, I want to practice drawing humans more.  I want to start drawing more animals besides wolves.  And you get to be a part of this art journey with me.
  If you want to be an artist, start drawing now.  In a year, your art will have improved immensely, but only if you pick up that pencil and start drawing today.

  In other news, today I found The Weekly Jammer News, an Animal Jam blog by Swirlshine!  I haven't read very much of it yet, but so far it's a very cool blog, and Swirlshine has such a fun and interesting way of writing... a fun and interesting 'voice', to use proper writers' terms XD

  I discovered that she had a really cool Animal Jam fan fiction story called Jamaasian Middle.  It's about what would happen if all her AJ friends and her went to the same middle school.  It's inspired by the Jamaasian High stories that some other AJ bloggers have started writing (including ajkraft, sarahkey8, lostfairy, and karalee).  I might write my own version next school year, who knows?  I really like reading AJ fanfiction, but I'm not very good at writing it myself XD

  Anyways, I decided to take on the huge task of drawing all the Bloggers in the story XD  Right now, I don't have detailed enough character descriptions of all the characters to draw them all, so I decided to draw them one-at-a-time, and started by drawing my buddy, Karalee!

If you also read this story, or you are a character in this story, please help me fill out the form below for each of the Blogger characters in the story!  I don't have full details of what each character looks like, so if you're a character in the story, it'd be really helpful if you filled the form in about your character!  

Character's Name (Name from the story only):

Girl or boy: 

Height (approximate is fine):

Weight (approximate is fine, like skinny/average/plump): 

Hair color: 

Eye color: 

Skintone: 

Hairstyle and length: 

Clothes:

Top: 

Pants/skirt: 

Jacket, if applicable: 

Shoes: 

Other: 

  Please don't include any personally identifiable information if you fill out this form about a character in the story based off of you!  I just want to know what the characters in the story look like so I can draw them accurately; it just so happens that these characters are based off of real people.  You can say AJ items that your AJ animal wears for the 'clothes' if you want.  Whatever your character is described to look like in the story.

  Technically they're all going to middle school soooo idk...  approximate age is no longer part of the form XD

(thanks to Karalee for writing this awesome character form!)

  Wow, this post is SUPER LONG!  I really like the longer post style, though, and I think I might start doing more posts like this in the future!  Usually I just post a video, maybe some art, and leave it at that, but I want to start working on making my blog interesting and spend more time writing posts.  I know my blog isn't very popular at the moment, but I want to start reaching out and commenting on other AJ blogs.  

  If any of you have any AJ blogs, I would really appreciate it if you could give me a little shoutout.  I work hard to make my Animal Jam content 100% kid-friendly.  I'm also going to be changing my 'no links in the comments' rule, so be sure to read the updated rules!  I now allow links to appropriate,  Animal Jam related websites.  So be sure to tell me about your favorite, kid-friendly Animal Jam blogs!

  I cannot guarantee that links to outside websites will always be 100% kid-friendly like my blog!  I cannot control these websites, so they may be updated and no longer be appropriate.  If I discover that there is a link in a comment to a website that is no longer kid-friendly, I will delete the comment, but I can't promise that links will always be appropriate.  Just a fair warning for you guys ;)   Make sure to be careful and stay safe on the internet!

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And of course, keep drawing and have a pawsome day!

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