In my long period of inactivity from DeviantArt, I have received messages from some users telling me to come back and that they hope everything is fine with me. (How sweet!!! Thank you! ) So, I decided it would be fair from me to explain this absence.

So, this month took place the entrance exams for the universities and so, of course, the art academy in Rijeka, which is the school I tried to apply to. For that I had to study a lot, so I was pretty tired and pressured, so I didn't make new stuff to upload on my profile. I mean, I did make drawings, of course, but they were just practice things and I didn't consider them so interesting.
Anyway, you can notice that some similar stuff I have already submitted. These are mostly artworks I had to do for my portfolio (but not all of them). For application I had to make 10 portraits (5 paintings + 5 drawings), 10 figures (5+5), 4 landscapes, 5 free topic (I chose my older stuff for that) and the portfolio design itself was judged as an artwork too (that's what the self portrait was for).
I'll add more later, gotta make photos of my stuff, I thought I did already, but I forgot where I saved them... ^_^"

So, how did the exams go.
well, we had to draw a portrait there and figure, we had to make a clay head and painting still life. And then there was also the interview and the exam of art's history.
I have this characteristic that I'm never completely satisfied about my works (especially when I see someone's better than I, and believe me, what I saw was too good), so all I did was so-so to me. Portrait drawing was definitely a disappointment because I missed the model's expression completely and I can definitely do better. But I was kinda satisfied with clay head, I did it better than expected, and it was my 3rd head in all my life.
Theory was very weak.
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The results.
So, the system is like this: you gain points for your works, for theory, for motivation and for your final results in your previeous high school, then they do maths on each one's points and make a top list, from the one with the most points to the lowest. And then those that didn't satisfy. Why they do so, because the number of students they accept is limited. It was 14 that got the scholarship + 10 that have to pay the scholarship on their own and 5 foreign students. So, to make it simple it's was 14+10 = 24.... And I was 26th on the list! *sigh* So typical of my luck.... u_u
Of course, no one gave up and everyone in the top 24 entered university.

However, this academy has 2 programs, one is for just artists in general and the other is for art teachers (at school, teaching kids). On this other, teacher's program, there remained 2 free slots, so who's interested can try in autumn and of course, I'm planning to try it out. So there's still some hope left. o_ó