Week Five, Day Three

Ok, remember how yesterday's painting was the epitome or awesome to me? Guess what today's is. That's right, positively abhorrent. But here it is, in all it's gewshness

for some reason this file was also incomprehensibly huge

SHOTR STORY STATUS: the version of this that I'm turning in for creative writing is done, but the "real" version I didn't work on too much today. I did, however, get some ideas from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People that I will either apply to this story or have saved in the brain somewhere

Week Five, Day Two

This one is super cool and honestly, I don't feel like it's finished yet. This may be my favourite yet? It's up there. Anyway, I definitely need to do some more work on it (such as including a human person) and I will be sure to update when that happens but for right now I think it's pretty neat.

the biggest problem going on here is that I started with the darkest green of all time for my base and had struggles because of that. Also perspective is a little finicky with the trees. I'll work on it... Also converting this to a PNG left weird artefacts... gewsh get them out of there

SHORT STORY STATUS: done?!?!!?!?!?!??!?! Possibly. Oddly enough today when I was doing my 750 words I did this flash fiction that I really liked and it's really short so I don't know if it counts but I really like it and I might be using it for my creative writing homework for wednesday. I will probably expand upon it a bit so it's an entire story and if I'm lucky

Week Five, Day One

I don't know what this is.

it kind of makes me think of a cross between German Impressionism and Surrealism but there isn't enough chiaroscuro going on

SHORT STORY STATUS: I have not done my 750 words yet so we'll see

Week Four, Day Seven

I hope this image makes sense. In theory it's supposed to be like a secret cave? Under some trees? It sounds absolutely retarded when I explain it. Maybe I should've just said nothing and let you, the reader, be confused about what it is.

ignoring the possible this image makes no sense I am a fan of this colour scheme

SHORT STORY STATUS: recently I've been thinking to myself that for next year I'm going to change the name of this blog to "52 Edits, 365 MORE drawings" and along those lines, I'll just cut my losses from the weeks where I fail (read: every week but week one) so I can jump right into working on a new story at the beginning of each

Week Four

Ok I guess here it is? Gewsh. My life is a joke today. I guess this is more of a scene than a short story, but I am lame. wordcount: 1,053

Read it Here

Week Four, Day Six

Today was out of control because I went snow boarding for ~7 hours today. Luckily, I knew about this in advance and made plans to do some kind of drawing during school (does this make me horrible? I don't think so.) the ones I coloured in that are in colour are from today, everything else is from yesterday

backstory to ugly Martin Luther: when I took AP Euro, I would always try to draw the portraits that were in the slideshow, as fast as I could while still taking notes, which meant they came out 1) sloppy 2) ugly 3)hilarious. I haven't had a chance to do another one until now that I'm taking Western Civ part 2

SHORT STORY STATUS: for reasons as listed above, I did not really work on my story today

Week Four, Day Five

having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card photoshop brushes that you can pretend to be water colouring with.

SHORT STORY STATUS: ~1000 words right now.

Week Four, Day Four

Wow, writing today's title was a struggle. Anyway, I do like this a lot, and I stole from was inspired by Impressionism today and thus we have the below painting. I do have a complaint. It feel like there needs to be something else going on in that right third and I honestly cannot figure out what. Someday if I realise that more than anything else this painting requires robots or something in the lower third, I will come back and make that happen, but for now, here we are

my favourite part is the sky. I could scrap everything else and not be bothered, but that sky is lookin' good

SHORT STORY STATUS: guess who actually did something with that today! THIS GUY. I read an article/tutorial last night about just wordvomiting in the voice you would use if you were talking to someone and thought I'd give it a try. I have about 500 or so words? I wrote them in fifteen minutes. I still need to finish week three and week two

Week Four, Day Three

Today I drew ears, because if you haven't noticed, my ears leave much to be desired. That got boring surprisingly fast. So I didn't do that many. Whatever, it was a good exercise

SHORT STORY STATUS: I DON'T KNOW. What am I doing with my life? gewsh.

Week Four, Day Two

AH I'M LATE I KNOW. I went and saw a film and should've posted this before I left because I was done with it but I'm a doofus so whatever. I painted/drew (I haven't decided if I like the way I went about shading this) Arthur! Who is a character from my NaNo novel from 2010

Just the average day in the life of the Monster hunting equivalent of an accountant

SHORT STORY STATUS: gewsh

Week Four, Day One

I'm putting off writing this poem for creative writing, but while I was going that, I was listening to the song I'm supposed to basing my poem off of on repeat. I feel like that's all the explanation I'm going to offer for this

the gunk on his nose looks like a moustache to my peripheral vision

SHORT STORY STATUS: merp. I've not quite finished week three yet, and I still have to do all this creative writing junk. So we'll see. bleh. Last night I had a realisation that I really like telling monster stories.

Week Three, Day Seven

I'm not sure what's going on here. I like it nevertheless. We'll just chalk it up to "I have a surrealist streak" and move on with our lives.

in case it wasn't obvious, (in case you were wondering from the short story post) I used the background the hand write the short story

So here we are. I will now proceed to finish my short story.

Week Three

Oh man, this guy was a close one, wasn't it? Ok, so here's the deal: I incorporated this story into my piece for the day so they have to help each other in order to finish (you'll see what I mean when you see the piece) So I'm going to post the story right now so I can have it have been posted before midnight for sure. As for the piece... IDK. we'll see what happens. For all intents and purposes it's finished, I just need to focus on the thing that's tied to the story. Thusly: story. This way I don't have to panic about posting it in time for midnight. Its current wordcount is 1647 and I would guess I'm about 3/4 of the way through the story.

Read it Here

Week Three, Day Six - Horrible Anatomy and Celtic Brooches

I don't want to fix it.

the brooch and co should probably be a separate piece, but I feel it complements this disgruntled dude, the way it hovers in the sky like a big scary looking celestial object whose existence he clearly is not pleased with

 SHORT STORY STATUS: I have one whole sentence of something I want to write about that isn't that stupid creative writing wordvomit from tuesday

Week Three, Day Five

Ok, I'm not going back to edit the SOPA one so here's yesterday's painting

In today's news, I drew naked people again :| The idea was focusing on arms, but... I mostly focused on everything but :/

No, I will not be providing an uncensored version of this

SHORT STORY STATUS: I have a new idea that isn't some artsy fartsy word vomit, but I'm perpetually tired. I'll try to work on it tonight when I do my 750 words

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today I did this weird cityscape thing. I'm rather fond of it, as it happens. So, here we are I suppose. It didn't take that long, but I think that will be ok. I had fun with colours and my new brushes. I don't normally do textures, but I thought I'd try, but when I tried it, it just looked funky so I stuck with a plain background so I wouldn't have to worry about it (hooray laziness). If anyone has feedback I'd love to hear it.

speaking of censorship from yesterday... I tired to figure out a way to get the SOPA/PIPA blackout page to work, but my html fu is weak. So I did this by hand. I promise I'll fix it tomorrow

SHORT STORY STATUS: I wordvomited last night! buuuuuut it's only 227 words right now. Still, better than nothing I suppose. Frankly, if I pass the 1000 word barrier this week, I'm counting that as a win.

stop SOPA from happening

Week Three, Day Three - Inappropriate

I was pretty scandalous today and drew both a lady butt AND Indy's armpit (and we all know what's next to a girl's armpit!!!!!!!), also her toes, which for some people is inappropriate (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE). Below is my... slightly censored version, below that is... basically the same thing but more ~revealing~ If you don't think your delicate sensitivities, just scroll fast and think of BYU

cleverly positioned text is a lifesaver.

SHORT STORY STATUS: I am going to go wordvomit something after I wordvomit this horrible "reading response" I have to do for creative writing (I thought I had it all done, but it turns out that we were allowed to do the poetry et al from the week before... so of course that was what I did. If it's all the same though, I ended up talking about Moby Dick the whole time)

please don't view in front of children or people who faint easily

and now I go to pretend I care about poetry for a bit
UPDATE: I forgot to add Indy's drawing of the day. It's a real cracker

Week Three, Day Two

I drew Rhenedith again :/ and I thought to myself that people are probably super bored of her by now so I also practised drawing the human body, with... ok results

I'm going through Understanding Anatomy again

My excuse for drawing Rhenedith is that I wanted to try out Ginger Haze's How I Draw dealio because I like her style and I like new brushes because I'm ooc

for some reason I initially thought that saving this as a JPEG was a good idea

SHORT STORY STATUS: currently ongoing existential angst is killing me so I don't know. I cannot handle my life right now as it is with this creative writing class. All I really want to do is draw stuff :/

Week Three, Day One

I doodled in church today and I was pretty happy with my results so I scanned them and coloured in the ones I liked. And by the ones I liked, I mean all of that one character from Week Two Day Four, who I've decided to name Rhenedith

The words in the middle ish of the page are a quote from Portal, because the guy giving the talk was going on about how valuable our organs/skin/et c are and all I could think was "As part of an optional test protocol, we are pleased to present an amusing fact: The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]" but I'm bad at remembering exact quotes

SHORT STORY STATUS: I'm not... entirely... sure. I'm just going to watch some sherlock and not care for a bit

Week Two

Alright kids, here's the dealio. Because this week is a joke, I have decided that I will post what I have for this story so far and my summation of parts that I still need to write so technically the whole story is still there, just in the roughest form of all time.

Let's see, this week I set it to people be able to add comments. I need to change last weeks to that, because I want to hear what people have to say if anyone actually reads this and also wants to comment. I'm especialy curious about how the anachronism is in this story for the readers. I want it to be confusing at first, but not so much that you can't piece it together eventually. any feedback on that would be great :)

Current wordcount for actually written stuff is 1639 (as of 20:46 on 14-1-12)

read it hither

Week Two, Day Seven

This one came together pretty quickly, much to my surprise, but it's really serendipitous, so I'm not complaining. I have a million things that are happening today

those little dots at the bottom are supposed to be trees or something.... IDRK

SHORT STORY STATUS: agh. I have 1,028 words, so I'm technically ok, but really it's nowhere near finished. We will see what happens, or more likely, what doesn't

Week Two, Day Six

Since the colour red has made an appearance of some kind pretty much every day this week I'm going to intentionally include it in today's piece. I did llamas based on Indy's shirt! I also apparently didn't have any time today :/

originally this had the whole body but it just looked funky in a bad way so I cropped it. Immediately upon cropping, my only thought to title this was "Portrait of a Llama as a Young Man"

SHORT STORY STATUS: I'm about to do my 750 words so I'll wordvomit some short story. I ended up cutting some stuff out which is ok, but it means my wordcount is currently 594 words :|

Week Two, Day Five

today was one of those days that didn't happen, which is to say, so many things happened, I couldn't do the things I normally do as much as I normally do them. Anyway, I slapped this together really quickly (~20 min?) and I'm not really sure what it is, but I'm pretty sure I like it. Also for some reason this was a huge canvas when it didn't really need to be. Maybe I'll come back later and play around with it just because of the resolution. Also because even when it's converted for web it's still 16 MB. oh hey, I just looked and for some reason this ended up being 381 pixels/cm instead of my normal 150. This explains so much. Ok, now it's a reasonable size.

Ok, I take back the "I'm in love with redheads this week" as I realise that instead I'm just a really big fan of the colour red this week

SHORT STORY STATUS: still no progress. How is the end of the week almost here and this weekend is so hairy that there is no way what is my life

Week Two, Day Four

I'm having a bunch of fun with these new brushes. Today I drew a character whose  story I haven't written yet and whose name I don't know.

I seem to be on a redhead kick this week

 SHORT STORY STATUS: eh... I haven't worked on it. Writing is hard for me :/

Week Two, Day Three

My life is defined by laziness today. I'm sort of ok with that. Adjusting to my new school schedule is really messing with my sleep and so when I got home, I ate and then had a nice five hour nap. Then woke up and was like, oh I need to do these things. Today's painting sort of expresses the way I've felt today and yesterday or really any day I feel like I haven't gotten enough sleep, that said, it's still super lazy of me :/

something something ghost in the machine

 SHORT STORY STATUS: 756 words atm
UPDATE (10-1-12 23:14): whipped this up while playing around with new brushes

Week Two, Day Two - My Face hurts

I thought I would study expressions today. I looked through this tutorial first, but mostly I just made weird faces in my mirror.

yep, that one lone eye is definitely my favourite

 SHORT STORY STATUS: I'm reading through my old story I wrote but haven't done much else today (yet)

Week Two, Day One - revisit

Golly oh gee do I love to take old pieces of art I've done and redo them. So today I took one of my olderest characters, from maybe when I was twelve or thirteen and redid her. I first searched out one of the first drawings of her I did and had a good laugh at my own expense.

I see I still had issues with composition. Paper is a lot less forgiving than Photoshop in that sense. also had no idea how shadows worked ( still working on that......)

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to name her "Elixabeth" and have her go by "Lix" and my twelve year old brain did not make the phonological connection between lix and licks. Anyway, I had this whole story about her but since I'm considering rewriting it for this weeks short story (another revisit?! I'm ooc) so in the words of River Song, Spoilers. The important thing to know is that I intended her to be rebellious or whatever but.... I did little to actually make her rebellious I feel like. So, in my revisit. I had her shave half her head.

may or may not have been influenced by The girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which I have neither seen nor read.

SHORT STORY STATUS: currently planning on rejiggering the story for this character

Week One, Day Seven - left hand study

I am scared of drawing hands. so that's what I did today.

I think my favourite one is the foreshortened one in the top right

Week One

And here we are. First story finally done. I have to give another shout out to 750 words because it was basically the only way this got written :/ true story, I'm not super happy with how this came out, but I'm really glad for it to be done.

read it here

art status: haven't started yet, but I know what I'm going to do

Week One, Day Six

I did a couple of quick sketches for today, I thought I'd only post the ones I actually liked. Today I painted The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, who makes a few appearances in my latest NaNo novel and then I objectified the male body. All in all a good day.

SHORT STORY STATUS: I haven't done much with it today, but I still haven't done my 750 words for the day, so I'll probably finish it up either tonight or tomorrow

Week One, Day Five

Today I went hiking with my friend Pine! It was super great and snowy and muddy and awesome, as any January hike ostensibly should be. After that, we swung around a did a quick jaunt up to Ensign peak and on the way up, I took this picture:

 If I were a lazy person (ok, I am a lazy person, but for right now never mind) I would just post this and call it good. I mean, technically it qualifies as art, but taking pictures isn't going to help me be better at drawing :/ Anyway, I got a bit discouraged with it until a nice Sondre Lerche song came on and then I was happy and finished this.

I ended up having to save this as PNG 24 instead of PNG 8. I think I might go back and save week one day two as such because it looked pretty rought

SHORT STORY STATUS: made some big strides when I finally made myself write the story as my 750 words for the day. I not only figured out what I want to do with the story overall, but now I have 750 more words. wordcount: 1,300

Week One, Day Four - The Dusty Must Couch.

"I awoke on an ancient black leather couch with dusty musty burnt umber orange shag cushions with little throw pillows made of bright red satin." from my 2011 NaNo. Clearly the best sentence I've ever written. There's a pretty stupid story behind it too. During NaNo, my friend Indy and I went to the downtown library to look at hobos or something for one of her classes and I had to go with her because of reasons so I brought my laptop, Nigel, so I could work on my novel a bit. Anyway, I was writing a pretty ~intense~ scene and I needed her help. Thus that sentence was born. A sentence that will forever live in INFAMY.
NOTE: this is not the finished version at all, but I don't know if I'll have time to finish it tonight, so I'm going to post it here provisionally and update if I can.

the dusty musty ends up making a few appearances in my novel. Sadly, they'll probably be edited so it's just this above couch.

I got back from my thing and realised I hadn't actually published this. so. I'm cool, basically. Also I ran out of time. so here's the real "finished" project

sadly, I only had time for one throw pillow

SHORT STORY STATUS: 535 words :/

Week One, Day Three - The Man with the Twisted Lip

I was reading some Sherlock Holmes last night and I found the description of Hugh Boone, the seeming villain in the story The Man with the Twisted Lip. "'His appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be thrown at him by the passers-by.'" I was captivated by the description (my brain painted a very distinct mental image), so I thought I'd draw him.

"He was, as the inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over his eyes and forehead."

I'm a little sketched out with the rendering of the shades, but I think it went ok. Anyway, I had a lot of fun doing this but already my brain is picking out faults BUT NEVER YOU MIND.

SHORT STORY STATUS: as of posting this I haven't done that much work on it, but I have time tonight and since my sleeping schedule is so messed up, I'll probably be up till four working on it, so expect at least a little progress by tomorrow. wordcount: 311. It doesn't help that I'm still not entirely sure what I'm going to do with this story and I don't feel like I have enough words to squander to get over that (I realise that isn't true, but my reptile brain refuses)

TOMORROW'S PAINTING: The dusty musty  orange shag couch from hell

Week One, Day Two

gew what happened to today. I feels like it didn't happen, at least as far as today's piece goes. I had struggles starting this and so I didn't get to work on it until 6 or so tonight and then I had to go be around human beings until about 30 minutes ago. I'm not sure why I'm making excuses, but here we are. Excuses aside, I am rather happy with how this turned out, particularly the waterfall. and here we are.

 Short Story Status: I have started, but not done much. I have about two paragraphs and 76 words. woohoo!
UPDATE 5-1-11: replaced PNG 8 image with PNG 24. It helped a little

Week One, Day One

oh snap. here we go I guess.

I am really good at boring blog post openers. I figured for my first drawing, I would do a self portrait, in the hopes that if I make it all the way to December 31st, I can do another one to see how much I've improved over the year. So here we are!

"you look so sad" "THAT'S JUST MY FACE." I never really notice how right people are until I do a self portrait. Maybe this is why I generally avoid them?

title possibilities: "I have the saddest face of all time apparently." It's not my fault this comic basically defines my life. I may come back later and work on this some more, but for right now I'm mostly happy with it.

short story status: I have a concept ready to go, but I haven't actually started writing anything