“If it’s to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world… We would make anyone our enemy! That’s what it means to be Fairy Tail!!” –Natsu Dragneel
After the other night, I did a lot of thinking, tinkering with my software a lot, I managed to get the software to how I wanted it but I also thought about my drawing style and I realized how much work I really need to put into it. So I decided a few things from now on.
1. I’m going to be practicing several different things each day (by that I mean one day I practice hands, legs, scenery. Next day I practice feet, bodies, vehicles, etc.) so that way I can have a better concept of everything.
2. I’m going to start watching tutorial videos on how to fully use my software and get a better grasp at it.
The Gajevy Love fest and Imprisoned title cover are going to be the last time I draw that style until I get a much better grasp at my work! Besides, I got a major major week coming up next week so I won’t be online much therefore I can work more and do what needs to be done.
Today my favorite series came to an end. I’m feeling a mixture of so many different emotions right now, but most of all I feel gratitude.
It’s no exaggeration when I say that if it weren’t for Fairy Tail, I probably wouldn’t be alive right now. I discovered Fairy Tail after chronic illness ruined my life, and I didn’t know how long I was going to live, or if it was even worth holding on. I was completely desperate and ready to give up, when Fairy Tail taught me how to hope, taught me that it’s not silly to dream, that if you have love in your life, you must keep living, no matter what. That someday it will get better, and you just have to keep smiling until then. Fairy Tail literally saved my life.
I’ve always been an incredibly negative person, as a defense mechanism. Fairy Tail helped me see value in being positive, and laughing even when you’re sad, and being kind even to people who don’t deserve it. It made me a more hopeful person, it made me a more humble person, it made me a kinder person, and it made me a happier person.
And even when it wasn’t teaching me valuable life lessons, it kept me going. Following the story kept me distracted from my physical pain enough to survive the long waits between doctor’s appointments. Falling in love with all of the many wonderful characters inspired me to draw, to blog, and to create my own characters. The promise of a new chapter every week gave me something to look forward to when I felt like there was nothing in the world worth getting out of bed for.
I even met some of my closest, most valued friends through Fairy Tail. And those that I already knew, I became much closer to through our guild bonds. I owe most of my most treasured real-life friendships to this series.
Not to mention that Fairy Tail made me comfortable in my own skin, a feat never before achieved by anyone or anything else. Many people criticize Mashima’s art style and portrayal of women, but it did a lot for me personally. His attention to detail and nuances in the female form helped me learn to love features that I had always seen as imperfections. Finding resemblances between myself and the beautiful women in Fairy Tail gave me confidence at my normal 125 pounds, my thyroid-deficient 145 pounds, and even my current malnourished 89 pounds. Even as my body changes and falls apart, I’m able to love it because of the confidence that Fairy Tail gave me.
I got my Fairy Tail emblem tattoo 3 years ago and I don’t regret it in the slightest, and I doubt I ever will. With this tattoo, Fairy Tail will always be a part of me, no matter how much time passes. Every time I glimpse the blue guild mark on my left thigh, I remember all of these ways that this manga has helped me. Saved me, even.
No amount of text could properly convey to you just how huge of an impact Fairy Tail has had on my life. More so than any other work of fiction I’ve ever seen. And as a life-long escapist, that’s saying something. It’s hard to think about what my life would be like today if I had never gotten into Fairy Tail, if I were even alive at all. I think I’m rambling, and I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself, but this manga and anime changed my life and I know I’m not alone. I know countless other people out there have been touched by Fairy Tail in the same way that I have, and even now that it’s over I know it will continue to touch new people every day, and continue to change the lives of people who thought they were ready to give up.
I can’t say it enough times. Thank you, Fairy Tail. Thank you Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Gray, Erza, Juvia, Gajeel, Levy, Wendy, Carla, Lily, Mira, Laxus, Makarov, Mavis, Zera, and everyone else in the guild. Thank you Ultear, Jellal, Meredy, Ichiya, Lyon, Chelia, Kagura, Sting, Rogue, Minerva, Flare, Brandish, and even Zeref. Thank you Layla, Grandine, Metalicana, Skiadrum, Weisslogia, and Igneel. Thank you Hiro Mashima. Thank you.👆
I’m trying to work on my gajevy love fest projects and I’ve been wanting to improve my art style digitally and manually. My clip studio paint pro has been acting out for a few days such as almost crashing when I save, and the pens I use on it will enlarge the ink when I want it thin and simple. It’s been irritating me for a long time and all I want is to make some really good artwork for once.
If you don’t mind I think if there’s anyone that wants too they can reblog this with their fav fics/authors. That way you can get a better more diverse recommendations!
So please reblog this with your recs/fav gajevy fics/authors!
I admit it I’ve shedded a few tears since the series ended and reading this comic makes me tear up. Personally, I don’t think it’s the end. For this part of the series, yes it is; but I think the way Mashima wrote the ending, it could go on. Side stories, Spin-offs, sequels, possible revival, I could go on with this. I think the ending was pretty good and I admit it I was tearing up at the scene with Natsu and Lucy. I do think they have feelings for each other; but Lucy isn’t ready for something as a big step like a romantic relationship.
You know, Todd Haberkorn, Natsu’s English Voice Actor made an album about a year ago (can be found on Itunes) and he has a song on the album that always makes me think of Natsu and Lucy called Soaring and the chorus always reminded me of them: “Partners to the end you and I In this world all around you and…I Together we’ll discover we’ll find out whats in store adventures that await us whats out there to explore a superhero journey we will be…soaring oh so high”
Thank you Hiro Mashima for an amazing series like Fairy Tail. I’ll be forever a huge fan of the series!
“One Upon A Time, there was a girl and a boy. Both who came from different periods in time.
They both went through many hardships in life, the boy lost his family in a dragon attack, while the girl lost her best friend.
But they didn’t let that stop them. The boy went forward despite everyone’s doubts and revived his brother while the girl went and saved her newfound friend from an early demise.
Because of their efforts in playing with life, they were both cursed.
However, they didn’t let their curse get in the way of their dreams.
Especially the girl, who’s dream continued to live on, even 100 years after her story!
Her dream touched so many lives and managed to change even the coldest of hearts.Her dream touched the lives of so many others in a different world.
A world where Magic didn’t exist.
Her dream helped so many through the best and worst of times.
And the brother of The Boy, took a pretty good brunt of the bad times.
But the brother of The Boy, like The Girl before him, didn’t let the bad times get him down.
No, he just took a girl he met in a faithful encounter by the hand…….
and with everyone behind them, they ran to the future together.
Their story may have come to an end, but the truth is, The Girl’s dream will never truly die. It’s all thanks to one man that their story was told.”
Normally for me these days I get those phone solicitors calling me. So I give it back to them by pretending to be a phone sex hotline or a Hindu at a customer service line (I know the last one sounds a little racist but truth is it’s good practice for me on my accents since I’m working to get into the voice over industry).
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