Now, onto 7th grade.I said 7th grade had a serious impact on my drawing skills because in 7th grade, I hung out with a small group of artists (none of the schools I've attended til high school had art classes). It was a group of eighth grade boys that I would hang around. DJ, Jax, and Wyatt. Wyatt doesn't have much of a part in any of this other than he wrote stories that mostly involved murder of some sort.DJ and Jax were Bronies (if you don't know what that is, it's a guy who enjoys the cute little childs show, My Little Pony).DJ was an artist too, he just drew more "pin-up" style fan art of My Little Pony characters(mostly Trixie or Rainbow Dash.) Jax was an artist too, but I never saw much of his work. I picked up a lot of my body drawing techniques from Seeing DJ's drawings. for almost that whole year, I was drawing anthro-like ponies wearing short skirts and thigh-high socks.Towards the end of seventh grade,I started drawing more anime-like characters. My friend Marie was a chibi artist.In 7th grade her art was getting really good and I decided I would try and learn something from her.So I left anthro avenue and drew nothing but nekos instead.
8th grade. I met my best friends in the whole world, Madison and Ariyana. Ariyana (I call her Ari)was a manga-fanatic, so I got to finish the sailor moon series and I then read a series called Sakura-Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura by Arina Tanemura. After that, I fell in love with manga and I watched my first anime, which was Soul Eater.( BTW, Soul x Maka) At that point, my heart was set on being a anime artist.I started writing short comics. Sadly, I only have one left because I either gave them away or I destroyed them (I went through flashes of just getting angry with myself for no reason and throwing weeks of work into the trash). towards the end of eighth grade, I read Alice in the country of hearts and Shugo Chara! (Ikutooo!)
Dj got expelled at the beggining of 8th grade. A lot of rumors swirled around about a severe PDA.
That's it for eighth grade then.the school year ended and we entered the summer of the current year, 2015.