Seven Quick Takes (and Day 11)

Today I'm doing 7 Quick Takes a'la Conversion Diary!



1.

Yesterday's theme for the 30 Day Drawing Challenge was Draw a Turning Point in Your Life.

I think that they day I was born was a very important time for me.


This is based off of a photo of me in the hospital the day I was born.

Yes, I actually had that strange alien ponytail sticking out of the top of my head. The nurse who did that either thought I was a unicorn or had a very strange fashion sense.

This drawing gets a place in Shaylynn's Terrible Drawings Hall of Fame.

I'm also in a terrible habit of posting these drawings a day late. Since I am the one "hosting" this challenge... that's a little pathetic.

(I know that I could have chosen any number of "turning points"-- I'm thinking of my First Communion inparticular-- but I just couldn't resist drawing my ridiculous baby ponytail!)




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EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
Major geek-out moment. My drawing is published in Gilbert Magazine!


This summer I went to the American Chesterton Society Conference with my mom. One of the speakers writes a column called, "Jogging with G.K." for their magazine. Those of you who know about Chesterton know that he was quite the massive guy. At the beginning of his talk, the speaker mentioned off-handedly that someone ought to draw Chesterton jogging.

So I did. It's not the best drawing by any means, but I did it quickly during lunch break.

A long story short, I'd shown it to the speaker who showed it to the society's president, who took it for their magazine. :) EEEEEKKKK!!!!!!

3.

Remember how I posted about the used guitar string jewelry? It's finally available in the Faerie Shoppe!



There aren't many pieces of guitar string jewelry up yet-- only two, most of my stock is on display at a local store!-- but I'll be getting more uploaded. And remember, I love custom orders and can make any of the designs again. :)

There's also some new bobby pins, hair jewels, and more Elven jewelry:




4.

I'm crazy busy doing graphics and other work for Ink and Fairydust.
This next issue will be awesome.

In the meantime, you can re-read the Sept/Oct issue!

5.

My family (or at least those who have been convinced to actually do some art-- gasp!) will be participating in the All Saint's artist trading card swap at Pondered in my Heart. I'm still deciding which saints to draw!

6.
This morning I attended a Catholic Writer's Guild meeting. There were many wonderful people there, and I can't wait to find out more about this group. My friends and I got a wee bit lost on the drive back. When I got home, Dad was in one of his deep-cleaning moods. We did everything from scrubbing the stairway railing to organizing the garage. After that, we had some family friends over. I did something I haven't done for five or so years: my friends and I play-acted a story in the moonlight. I love make-believe. :) And I love my friends.

7.
I'm really busy right now (in case you couldn't tell already). School, family, friends, art projects... there might actually be something called Too Much Of Good Things. Right now, I'm wishing that all my days were much, much longer than 24 hours!

Day 10-- Favorite Candy


I know this is a day late. So sorry! I'm just not always able to do a drawing, photograph it, and get it uploaded on the blog. Life's busy. :) Hopefully I'll get today's drawing up tonight.

I couldn't pick a favorite candy. Can you tell? I just drew all of them! Taffy and truffles and peppermint sticks and rock candy and Reeses and Three Musketeers... Plus lots of old-fashioned candy-store goodness.

This drawing is incomplete. I can't make up my mind whether to use colored pencil or watercolors... so I'm going to leave it up to you, dear blog readers! Leave a comment-- I'll do the one with the most votes. (It beats doing eeenie meeenie minie moe)

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Day 9: Favorite TV Show


Well, it ain't called a challenge for nothing, folks. I almost didn't get this one done on time!
This is supposed to be Charlie Eppes from Numb3rs. I knew I should have tried sketching a good drawing before attacking the paper with markers. Also, excuse the photo, it was taken by my desk lamp's yellow, yellow light.

(P.S. Go check out the Shoppe- new pretties are up!)
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Day 8: Favorite Animated Character


So... Larry the Cucumber isn't exactly my favorite animated character (PIXAR!) but I wanted something easy to draw. And something I could draw from memory.

And you can't beat a vegetable riding a unicycle.

I mean, seriously, nothing beats a unicycle.

(This is based on the intro scene in Veggie Tales: Lord of the Beans. Veggie Tales are awesome-- no, I don't care that they are kids movies, and neither should you-- Veggie Tales are awesome and nothing beats a Lord of the Rings spoof with a unicycle in it.)




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Day 7: Draw Your Favorite Word




GRANDILOQUENT

With my own definition written at the bottom.

I'm starting to be pleased with my typography (I don't know if you'd call this kind of drawing-of-words calligraphy?). I even looked up how to properly draw/grid the Roman Capitals. I never realized there was so much geometry in it!

Despite the fact that I'm the mutant of my family (being an artist and all), my little heart still sighs with pleasure when I learn about things like this.

Actually, this mutant is losing her mind... do you know, I'm actually enjoying my trignometry book?
It's only because trignometry is really geometry is disguise.
And geometry is cool, as far as math things go.
But I still hate algebra.
And arithmetic.



People keep trying to tell me that this isn't a word. BUT IT IS!

(Kudos to anyone who can guess what logo's font I tried to emulate for this. Hint: the logo is related to the only other "person" I know who uses ish in everyday conversation.)



Oh, yeah, I love irony.


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