deerly_dame

Well... first of all sorry for my english, it is my second language and writing is my weakest point... I guess one of the main reasons why I made this blog was to practice more my english? Anyway, let me introduce myself.

You can call me Sila, all my friends call me like that. My real name is a little unusual (specially for non-Brazilians hah) and I think 90% of the people always mistake something on the first times they write or say it. It also is the same name as an woman who was very important for the art in Brazil around the '20s and '30s. The thing is, although I admire her as a person, I really really dislike her style, aesthetically speaking. And as I am also - what some might call - an artist, I don't like to be associated with her. It's not that I don't love my real name, which I think is truly beautiful and that I'm very proud to have, but as a personal preference I don't like to use my real name sometimes, not that it is a secret that you can't find with a simple google search or just by asking me.

So, there you have my name - or alias. Now a bit more about me: I am a student of Design who has always loved to draw and scribble on everything. I have a true passion for drawing and painting and looking at art and speaking about drawing and watching people draw and learning stuff about it so on.

Of course the main reason why I got into drawing was anime and manga, which I still love but not so obsessively as I used to. Although I don't really love girlish shoujos that all my girl friends seem to love, yaoi and shota are my guilty pleasures, I can't deny it. I'm usually more attracted to read seinens or joseis or something more alternative but it's trut that I can read and watch almost anything from any genre. Just for example, at the moment I'm watching Magi, Creamy Mami, Inazuma Eleven GO, Cowboy Bebop, Persona 4 and (about to start) Un-Go and reading Evangelion, Tegami Bachi, Kaze to Ki no Uta and Magi.

I like video games, but the only ones I'm really good at are logic or puzzle games like Professor Layton or Ace Attorney. And Pokemon. I've played a few Zelda games and some rpgs like Final Fantasy (and finished even less of them), but the only rpg I really liked was Tales of The Abyss which I just started playing last week. Generally speaking, except it's Pokemon, Professor Layton or Ace Attorney I most likely won't play anything unless I have lots of free time and nothing better to do.

I watch some TV series now and then but I usually won't get much attached to them, except for Doctor Who and Sherlock that I started watching to exercise my english and then got shamefully addicted to. Actually I think it was more because we very hardly see any british show on tv here in Brazil and almost nobody knows it so I had to go to the internet and lurk forums about it and such so I grew fond of them and started talking to my friends about it? Yeah maybe. I've loved Britain and british culture since my mid-teen years and two years ago I had the chance to go there all by myself for a few weeks, it was a great experience and I hope I get to go there again, in fact right now my current university is making a selection of students to study abroad for one year with financial aids and everything and I hope I can get it!...

Well, I can't think of anything else to write here... and I'm not even sure anyone will at least read it 'orz anyway, I will try to keep writing here as some kind of personal blog or something. In fact I made an account here because I don't feel good about writing my personal stuff on tumblr, on twitter I can't write anything long and there's too much people I know irl following me and I don't want some of them to read everything I write. Also it's been a long time I don't even try make any new friends online... So I guess this blog is a kind of a fresh start, we will see how things will roll and I hope to know some new people here! ^q^