Ahhhhh

I did indeed complete the paitning for my Mums christmas present. AND I made her a necklace for her stocking. I took photos of the silhouettes that are on her bedroom wall of myself and my brothers heads when we were little,. scaled them and printed them to fit on this neat little pendant I bought at Michaels a few months back. Martha Stewart brand! Not a big fan but she does have some pretty darned neat stuff!

Now I'm working on faceups.....seriously not easy stuff. Such tiny little eyebrows!

Alright, so heres the painting, aaand I'm including thee photo I used for reference.

Christmas..... yugh

Alright!

So it's christmas eve...I still don't have the painting for my Mum done for tomorrow..Soo hopefully I'll be posting that in the morning before its wrapped after being completed! Heh....

In other news, I am jobless again. Seasonal staff hired on in December is kind of sad when everyone else was hired on in September....means those with three months experience get kept on an not so much you....er..me. Ahwell, at least they seemed sincere in offering me a reference. Didn;t even have to ask!

So I'll be job hunting again in the new year.... in the meantime I'll be trying to catch up on some art type things. And avoiding people....well not all people, but right now there are five people staying at my house. soon to be six. Family. I love all of them..... but at the same time. I do not lile sitting through racist comments, slurs, and inappropriate jokes...that I get snarled at when I make any effort to correct. So apparently I have no sense of humour because I don'tthink joking about peoples cultures is funny....yeah. Or that telling your Italian boyfriend that 'we's white folks round here' is 'cute'.

Soooo anyways, I should get to painting....had to finish this little book first though. Simple christmas gift type thingy for someone in the states.

Frustrated

Theoretically.... now just theoretically here... When you're working a job, and get paid, you should if there are no bills to pay be able to spend your money howeveryou see fit. Or say when you receive a check as a presents... said money should go towards some kind of present to make you happy no? So I receved such a gift.... and I spent it, on three seperate purchases. Of course my parents love to check my bank account. I then get drilled on what I'm buying and paying for with paypal.... told 'not to waste all my money' like my brother did over paypal. Kay...yeah, my brother wracked up a huge visa bill in his youth. But guess what!! I'm not my brother, I', also not 16, I'm not going to order something I don't have the immediate funds to pay for! Hence the paypal.... I next get paid on the 1st. That combined with my last check...I had plans for. Very specific purchasing plans, for lovely expensive items that will please me to add to my collection.I get the 'no more spending money on the internet!' I....would like to have my bank account to myself thanks. I have no problem with mom having access to it, seeing what I'm doing on it even. But harp about everything I do? No... thank you. Now... all the shifts working a painfull job I get nothing to look forward to showing for it.... and theres my grumping for the day.

First of many? er..maybe

Soo my dads birthday was December 3rd. And I'm a horrible daughter...because sure I knew when his birthday was, I just forgot it WAS december third! time goes by so fast! Sooo I painted a watercolour for him. So here is my Dad and my neice Olivia... I'm fairly pleased with the results... And of course when I do more, I'll improve! Woo!

So far as I got....

I was fooling around with Photoshop and tried to do a grayscale image of...dun dun dunn...My Doll! Yes, yes I know. Sooo this is as far as I got with it before my trial period finished up and I can no longer work on it anymore.

Cafe Crazy

In some ways I feel like clay cafe is a cop out....And yet, I love it! You can plan something simple, go in pint it on a plate, and be done! Voila, insta cermic peice. So far I have made a teapot and cup for my Papa, 4 coasters for my sister in law, 8 other coasters 4 for each aunt on my Mums side aaaand of course my Skull I made with Mandi. Next i will endeavour to do a portrait of my neice. A little nervercking painting ceramis is nooothing like other painting....Well, maybe acrylics ifyou're usingthem literally from the bottle nd not blending... but >,> I'm going to try blending colours Skintones oh my!! Oh maybe everythng should just be in black and white?

OH!! And I also made my neice a piggybank I am in love with, it's a black and white pig with pink stars....I'd take pictures, eventually. For now? Here is my long overdue Skull lamp..... and a random watercolour that's part of a secret santa exchange with Dolls.

Headcase

Drawing...Drawing is what I know I should be doing..I'm determined next weekat least I'm starting a one a day thing with these little banana leaf fish I have. I must draw them,. Until then? I'm making doll things! Yay! Errr...eh, yes, So Imade headbands....and this is them. They're er..kinda shitty, but I tried!

Pages of fail

So I should take a bookmaking cours...okay, notI'm capable of reading the books on how to make booksand following the directions on my own even! What I NEED is some proper tools. A bone thingy, and scoringness and...yess...well, and maybe patience as well.

So basically I am doing a secret santa with the BJD world....So I made (or tried to make) aSD doll sized book. It's sort of cute...? I feel like I should try again and maybe I will but oyyy, making christmas presents is hard! Buying things is just so much easier except I have no money. ...

Ten days

So I have officially made my room livable for some semblance of human habitatoion. Yay! I really wish I had two rooms though. Like..an apartement, Yes... a three bedroom apartement one room for me, one for a roomie perhaps and the third would allow me to have a studio! I need space just to store my art supplies let alone to use them. I really only have space to do sketches right now, small drawings where I can sit in the living room. So I am at least determined to continue that one! I have twenty pages left empty in my Harlow book......so if I can do teo a day it'll be done by next week. Yay! Then onto other things, I ahve christmas presents I need to make, and buy.... My Mum wants a painting of my neice. So I figure I can try and get that done..maybe - water colour or acrylic I am not sure.... Every eight hours or so I'm trying to put a coat of stain on my donkey...So far I fail at staining wood and it looks horribly uneven. Sand off and try again I guess? Haven't gotten back to clay cafe to finish my skull...Really need to get that done soon, tomorrow maybe...

Oh Productivity

I actually feel productive today. I got up before noon! I went into town, I painted a skull-lamp at Clay Cafe and spent some time with Mandi-darling. Our socializing aspect however of art makings sort of failed. :P Mostly because we were very focused on making pretty things!

And when you make one thing...really don't you feel like making more? So I got a couple other sketches in my old Harlow sketchbook done. Soon it will be filled and I will move on to other things! Like mosaic tables, coasters! the plate set I want or...maybe even....creaitng a body of work?

hohum

Dowloaded a free trial of photoshop cs4. I am in love. Squee~ Gradient scales are so lovely. Soo I toyed around and made my chara Bella... and then made it with less leafy things.

oy... >,>

So a month later I come back with!....nothing.

Well not nothing, but a marker version of a drawing I;ve already loaded two versions of on here....Sad or what? And I haven't even finished the digital version >,> So, lets just all pretend this is brand new and fabulous. I am actually drawing things....just, not things I'm putting on here...don'task me how my mind works, it wouldn't make sense.

So, t septembe,r school starts,I am not inschool nor do I have a job in one...new school year resolutions! On drawing a week on here...yes. So someone hold me to it.

drawing..aha....ahahahha...HAHAHAHAHAHA Yeah, I have no time recently. Next week...next wek I say! maybe?

Okay, this has nothing to do with drawing. But I was fooling around with GIMP to see if I could make a header type thing for online stuffs. And I did! Am pleased....granted I stole the imagery, but meh.

I ant to drawwww

I find myself thinkng of the things I ant to draw rather then th eprojects I need to be getting done for classes. Isn't that just the way of it?

Instea dof listening in clss today (course it was a bit of a waste of time in some sense) I drew todays entry. Just a pencil sketch right now, of twin boys. Kit and Kishi Demox. Character belonging to an online rp partner. This >,> will likely be getitng pasted into my sketchbook for the trading. But shhh, it's not cheating. I'm also trying to do a digital colouring, Yay!....and this is what I have so far

Hnnnnngh

Yeah So...I've failed at posting anything for some time. I'll get something up in a few days or so. I have been drawing actually! Just not stuff I want to put here because its for sketchbook exchanges. And then theres papers and projects and what have you.

I'm calling this my weekend post

Yep...okay, I fully intended getting things done this weekend! But I've spent most of my time in gutting my room and trying to organise and find places for things. It's amazing what you'll find tucked around your room all over the place! I have umpteen thousand pens!

So for the weekend...a dead chicken. A sketch from one of my photos at the Hunterian. I picked up my sketchbook from harlwo recently and realized I still had planned drawings that weren't done! So until it's full...My daily drawings I think are going to be what I planend to draw into those raggy pages. Then it will be done and pretty and I'll move on.

Oh classes

After nearly two eeks of no classes save an exam and all...its back on tomorrow. I really don't want to goooo. Honestlyas uch as I love learning, these classes don't even feel like that. And I jsut want to be done!I want to be done and I want to be working. I want a job..I should apply for a job. But then can I handle a job and these wretched classes at the same time? With my procrastination problem?

Well...here's my drawing for today-ish...Job Angel? Hahh, looks kind of sad to me. Liek my prospects!

Eeesh

Alright...So I think my thyroid meds are complete off...I pretty much just slept through two days. Not good. So! despite it being 1 am here is my Tuesday drawing. Monday..yeah, it just got missed. Aaaaand tomorrow? eh questionable. I have alot of cleanignto do. But...Yay green!

Hmm, it's like 5am monday morning! So much for the sort nap I planned on having at midnight. Anyways! Sundays image....yeah >< they didn't turn out so well.

Saturday

A preggers Oona. Hah, I love how completely disproportionate she is. So in light of this tomorrow I must work on Anatomy....Oh, and yes, Dante down in the corner. Obviously after Oona goes "I'm having your kid"

Just a sketch for today. Or for now at least.

Dante and Oona. Oona being my character...Sadly in this image she looks like a crackho..I'm hoping some colour will improve that.

Aaaand, then a colour version in marker. Not much of an improvement. This just is not Oona.

Thursday's boredom

No class today, Aaaand stuck home facing a mountain of cleaning in my room. So! Instead.

This is an attempt of sorts at my character Yelena and her...er. Keeper, Rali.

Okay, and so technically she looks kind of dominant... but then I think she is!

Prismacolour markers... scanned the line drawing first thoguh so I'm going to try a digital version.

Haha Finally!

So After many months...or, okay at least only two. I have finally drawn something beyond doodles in the margins of ny class notes! Eh voila. Not anytihng special, but its something. And! Since I now have a cute little 15 minute hourglass I'm going to have to do 15 minutes of drawing every day. The proof presumable will be placed on here!