Week Eighteen, Day Two

ok here is this thing. I have been working on it for a little while but I keep starting over because new.familysearch is a total beazy. Anyway, it's a map of my ancestor's (mostly) birth place (I say mostly because sometimes there's only a deathdate and I use that instead). Basically this is me confirming how ridiculously white I am. colour coded by century and parent. no where near completion at all. I thought I'd wait and post it when it's all done but then I realised it probably won't be all done by the end of 2012.

this.... is probably violating some kind of copyright law... but look at how many english ancestors I have!

short story/novel status: today is one of those slow motion panic attack days.

Week Eighteen, Day One

Because I was at church for like 13 and a half hours today, you get this piece I call "Horsebutt on an ugly gradient"

short story/novel status: see what I just said about thirteen and a half hours

badlands?

short story: oh wait

Week Seventeen

here is some junk

some junk

Week Seventeen, Day Six - Horsebutt part 2

YEP THIS HAPPENED. It's Indy's fault. this is what happens when I try to skype and draw.

this is an autumnal forest fire in case you were wondering

short story status: you are a buttcheek

Week Seventeen, Day Five

My chapbook is officially two thirds done! (too bad the hardest third is still yet to be completed). Hopefully these pictures aren't too blurry, I have the shakiest hands of all time, but only when I'm trying to take a picture of something.

grody pencil lines underneath (I wish I could erase them without it being way obvious)

Short story/Novel Status: that thing you saw bound is my short story for the week, but novel is going nowhere because I pretty much spent all day today doing two things: making Macaroni and cheese (why did it take so long? why did it take so long for me to eat? nobody knows) and working on this chapbook (true story, my printer decided it was too cool for school RIGHT when I needed it most. because of course it would, so that took me ages to sort.)

Week Seventeen, Day Four - I like big butts and I cannot lie

actually just butts in general.

novel/short story status: poooooomp

Week seventeen, Day Three

today is a collage of random, but then again, pretty much any day I spend time with Indy is. Today I got all the junk I need for my creative writing chapbook for real this time (thank you Hobby Lobby). I also got to see the finished results of our tie dye! They look positively bubonic! Also we went to Cafe Rio and on the way back I drew on our leftover lids. So there you have it.

this was me experimenting with my new 3 dollar water colours

 

Novel/Short story status: So novel is meh at the moment because I'm focusing on finishing school, however as a byproduct of that, I am kind of making a short story for creative writing that I'll probably use as a short story for the week

Week Seventeen, Day Two

So today I was pretty busy for some reason. I went to the brand new Museum of Natural history and drew a dinosaur there, but I wanted them to put it up on the wall and didn't have a way to take a picture of it while I was there and so I have no proof that this actually happened. However, I did a mockup of my final chapbook for creative writing that I'm going to be binding by hand (I still have like a million things to figure out with this, I'll keep you guys posted on how it goes...) to see if the thing I had in my brain would actually work in real life. I am happy to announce it does! Also that bookbinding is super fun and cool. Hopefully these pictures make sense

this one is bound "traditionally" or whatever, with a signature and a cover and it's glued to the back cover that connects the two books

This one is bound with Japanese Four Hole Stab binding. This way of binding doubles each page (hopefully you can see that in the picture) and will probably be easier for me to figure out, printing wise. also the back cover is sewn into the rest of the binding, unlike story two

our two stories as seen right next to each other

the back cover of both of these will be where I put my poem!

bonus grilled cheese from like a week ago

I will definitely do another post when I have the real versions ready to go

Novel status: I came up with some worldbuilding stuff last night, but because I've been so busy, I haven't really done much else with it.

Week Seventeen, Day One

I decided that Deb can be a Ravenclaw because all the yellow was killing me.

I forgot to colour her lips or eyes. whoops.

short story NOVEL status: yep, I started that last night. I've got 1,249 words so far, most of which I wrote last night. I haven't worked on it much today because of church and having to do creative writing homework (somehow that is unendingly ironic)

Week Sixteen, Day Seven

I started working on Deb but then Indy and I made tshirts for our race (we're diong a half marathon relay, so basically a 10K each), our team is The Bubonic Plague. We tie dyed the shirts too, but I thought I'd post the drawings I did for them anyway

too lazy to rotate this I guess.

text by Indy, map by me

short story status: not really happening this week I guess? sorry.

Week Sixteen, Day Six

As a continuation of the Napoleon Dynamite at Hogwarts, we have Pedro. For more information on this insanity, be sure to check out Indy's blog post about this.

Well, you have a sweet broom, and you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're, like, the only guy at Hogwarts who has a mustache.

short story whatever: IDK it's fine I guess. and by that what I really mean is I'm probably going to start writing my novel tomorrow (ahhhhh)

Week Sixteen, Day Five

these colours are going to make Indy throw up.

short story status: uhhhhh

Week Sixteen, Day Four

Thanks to Pottermore, Britney and I realised the amazing potential of if Napoleon Dynamite went to Hogwarts.

short story status: ehhh. Well I updated last weeks story?
Napoleon Dynamite belongs to someone who isn't me. As does Harry Potter

Week Sixteen, Day Three

an arm that doesn't suck!

short story status: I'm working on that story from last week even as we speak? I'm counting it

Week Sixteen, Day Two

mouths

short story status: agh I need to work on that one for my creative writing class but heaven forbid I have an attention span.

Week Sixteen, Day One

wow guess who got way distracted on pottermore and so this is what I have. I'm off to get a wand.

short story status: I get the feeling that I might be starting my novel by the end of this week

Week Fifteen

ok so this is ~technically~ an excerpt from my NaNo novel from last november, but since I'm changing it around to use it for my creative writing class, I think I can count it for this too.

read this junk

Week Fifteen, Day Seven

final day of brooding black and white week.......... maybe (ok probably)

short story status: I'll post it shortly (heh)

Week Fifteen, Day Six

I didn't realise until this was all done that I had my eraser set to pencil tool. fml. Hopefully what this is will make sense. Reference used

short story status: it's cool

Week Fifteen, Day Five

IDK if this is actually the case, but I kind of feel like it might seem like I'm being lazy this week, what with doing these really simplistic looking pieces but GOSH THESE ARE ACTUALLY FAIRLY DIFFICULT. working with two colours (ok values. whatever) to do more than just line art is like that. /struggles

short story status: eh

Week Fifteen, Day Four

This is liek yesterdays but with actual effort put into it (also the ugliest/weirdest looking horse butts of all time)

short story status: this week I have to write a short story for creative writing that everyone is going to critique and all that so I think I'm going to count that for this week (and possibly next weeks as well)

Week Fifteen, Day Three

I have this terrible habit where when I procrastinate one thing, I procrastinate EVERYTHING.

short story status: I'll get back to you when I'm done procrastinating it

Week Fifteen, Day Two

oh boy tomorrow I get to write a paper and an outline for a short story oh boy!

the top bit that I left blank would be where the text would go.

short story status: you heard the lady

Week Fifteen, Day One

Doodle from church today

"Under the Lightning Tree"

short story status: I got a paper to write

Week Fourteen, Day Seven

thus ends the week of green (minus the day of clay part 2)

Week Fourteen

for a creative writing assignment I wrote a scene for my novels that I'm going to be writing this year

read hither, yo

Week Fourteen, Day Six

cool stuff hither

short story status: poomp

Week Fourteen, Day Five

Avatar!

Short story status: coolness

Week Fourteen, Day Four

today in my creative writing class we made books! they are really cool so I'm counting them

You can't really see the third guy :( I tried to take more detailed pictures but none of them really came out

short story status: magical mysteries

Week Fourteen, Day Three

fun with Clay (not fun with trying to watch Back to the Future Part II). Indy and I worked together on all of these!

From left to right, Cyclops Chapstick Gnome  aka Indy (you call him Doctor Jones), 11th Doctor, and Bernard the Red Eggplanted Nose wonky eyepatched scurvy dog (he's a pirate)

short story status: blah blah blah

Week Fourteen, Day Two

sorry I got WAY DISTRACTED by the season 2 finale of Avatar

Something something slytherin (these colours go out to Indy tonight)

short story status: yep cool whatever

Week Fourteen, Day One

trololo

short story status: sort of actually working on it right now????