Today is Thursday

 

Boots everywhere. House a mess. There are still french fries on the table and I just don't feel like dealing with them. Clothes need to be sorted and put away and washed and I need to make cookies and presents and the bathroom is smelly, but that's okay, because here are some daily drawings.

Felt tip pen is the bizzity bomb.

Scholar Ling AKA Silver Phoenix

 

Chris has been playing lots of Jade Empire on the new XBOX360, so I've been staring at this character a bunch. Pretty visually interesting game, though its hard to figure out exactly what she's wearing when she's always going around exploding people.

I know that I could go upstairs and draw and have a ton of reference materials, but I am full of excuses and lazy. So I'm just going to be glad that I can still just make stuff up on paper. It's funny, but I am starting to feel less afraid of a blank page. Less fear, but it's still tempting to start writing instead of drawing. I SHOULD try to play around with some new materials, or paper, or location, but the warm warm heater is here in the basement, and my supplies are in the cold cold attic.

Ballpoint pen.

White Cat in a Snowstorm

 

Remember the joke of drawing a little triangle in black and it being a polar bear in a blizzard? Yep. Also, I was tired! I meant to draw more, I really did.

Black permanent marker.

Good Evening

 

My silk painting artist friend Diane Tuckman sent me a lovely white ceramic candle holder shown at top right. Max sat still for 30 seconds while I drew him, and we watched more of our Netflixed Rome last night. Yay, Rome. I'm getting to the point in the series where the plot got a bit fuzzy for me, so it's exciting. Same with Battlestar Galactica, but that's besides the point. Look-- three whole shareable drawings in one night!

I love a felt tip pen.

Chris in the style of Dave McKean

 

He was concentrating very hard on the new XBox game, so I took that as my cue to draw draw draw before he started making faces and telling me not to draw him. It looks very McKeanish, doesn't it? The secret is: no eyelids.

Colored pencil.

Elise in the Land of Contour

 

Elise is ever-helpful for cracking the artistic whip over my head, but especially when she's had a few drinks and yells, "Don't take that pen off the paper!"

Pen (firmly) on notebook paper.

Rob!

 

Rob, who just recently joined facebook! Muhahaha!

Pen on notebook paper.

A God for Yesterday

 

Quick study of a small statue.

Pen on notebook paper.

Recent Beadwork

 

The leftmost piece is going to whomever it fits better between my mom and my sister. The center piece I made tonight, over at Em's house using her very cool materials. The last piece was commissioned by my mother. I hope she has something that all that pink will look good with, but those are the colors we talked about... :D We'll see if she likes it!

These are made of beads, nylon coated wire, some fancy golden wire, various plastic, wood, bone, minerals, semi-pecious stones, silver findings, glass beads, and glass beads I made myself (the large ones on the bracelet), as well as crimp beads, little wire protector things, silver toggles, and fashioned using needlenose pliers, a crimping tool, and even those funny little right angle needlenose pliers.

How about THAT?

Today I Made Some Things

 

See next post.

Colored pencil, nice and sharp.

Blue Bird

 

From an iPhone photo taken on the Aviary trip on Monday. Quick sketch last night.

Colored pencil.

Braddock Dragon

 

Drew this while celebrating the inauguration at Coral & Dale's House. Elise saw me staring around the room with sketchbook in hand, trying to focus, and suggested the large dragon perched above the TV. Rawr. This is one of those that I should try digitally painting. Hmm.

Felt tip pen, ballpoint pen.

My Cynical Red Pen

 

Threw some red marker up over one of the failed Polamalu profiles. I had had a long tiring day and made the mistake of looking at some really nice work over on the Deviant Art site, and well, if there's any response on my part, it is perhaps that I won't know the point of it until I am finished doing it, it being a drawing per day for 365 days. I feel like I'm... exercising. Or maybe exorcising. Maybe both.

Pen, colored pencil.

Polamalu Touchdown

 

We're going to the Super Bowl! Yay! I made five or six abortive attempts to draw an actual portrait of Polamalu from a photo, and just failed, so I did this cartoony thing instead. It seems a lot happier than I actually felt after failing to draw well, but it exists because Chris said something along the lines of, "How can you be grumpy when the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl?" So... yay!

Colored pencil.

Annoyed at Work

 

Customer service, while something I can excel at, is not always something I enjoy. I'd like to be as rude as this picture implies, but I'm not, really. I think this was the day I was already annoyed about other stuff. I'm sure Facebook remembers. Drew this at work.

Ballpoint pen.

The Doctor

 

Shut up. I've really been enjoying the new Doctor Who series, and David Tennant, and if I wish I had a sonic screwdriver, that's my own business. From a photo.

Colored pencil.

The Empress

 

Fashion magazines are good for something other than teaching you how to properly shape your eyebrows. Sometimes the photo shoots are actually cool and inspiring. I took a little more liberty with this one, because I like how it seemed to be Mother Nature in her bower, even if the original photo was a little more pale and consumptive. Pregnant belly!

Colored pencil.

The First Rule of Fight Club

 

After indulging in a lot of artistic laziness and whining, I cranked out this Tyler Durden quickly and liked it quite a bit. I really enjoy drawing from photographs, even if I my more cynical side makes me feel like just another Photoshop filter when I do.

Colored pencil.

Restless

 

Not much point in writing about this one.

Pencils.

Contracepcion

 

Drawn following my nightly sacrament. I love Middle Ages and Renaissance religious art, and I'm always looking to subvert it for my own mythologies, the earthly as divine and all that. I've never actually taken communion, but I've been taking birth control pills for about a decade. That's some kind of faith, right?

Pen, Markers, Colored pencils.

Not a Good Day

 

Turns out this was my one day a month where I cry at the slightest provocation. I didn't really think I'd be able to draw much of anything, but here you go!

My pen is very soothing.

SLACKER

 

Nullianac from Imajica, some random doodles. Not feeling it, really. A theme in the coming days. Woo.

Pen.

Boy

 

Just some boy I was thinking about. Not a perfect likeness, obviously, but some proper elements.

Pen, markers.

Easter Island Shadows

 

Drawing from memory is difficult, as is drawing from imagination, as is color, and lighting, and I'm going to go ahead and state for the record that this whole endeavor is hard and largely unsatisfying. I kind of liked how this turned out, though. Cute. Much much better than the other thing I tried to draw that night.

Felt tip pen. Markers.

Waiting at the bus stop

 

Strange thing, waiting for the bus and watching people go by in their cars. I can see them, smoking cigarettes, eating sandwiches, talking on cellphones, but I can't imagine what they think when they see me, if they see me. So, I took a bit of an outside perspective on this one. I think I'd feel a sorry for me, standing in the cold while they've got their heaters blowing.

Or maybe they think, "Why she's got her foot stuck out at that funny angle?" No, no, I'd say. That's just the way it's drawn. Couldn't get that quite right.

Colored pencils.