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Days 15-17

Trying my best to get caught up here. :)

Day 15's challenge was Draw a Family Picture.

I attempted to draw miniature portraits of everyone in my family, putting each portrait in a frame that somewhat "matches" each person's personality. If you'll recall how my previous miniature drawing went... you'll understand why I gave up. It's a project to come back to when I have the patience.

(How is it that my stick figure drawings are worse than most people's? I don't get it.)

Day 16: Inspiration

This one was a no-brainer! Of course The Lord of the Rings is one of my biggest inspirations!

However, I'm wondering what made me think that I could paint a four-inch hand. I can barely draw a hand (particularly foreshortened ones like this)-- and I'm just learning how to paint. For what it's worth, though, I'm stubborn and spent a couple hours on this and I think that the final painting at least passes for a hand with a Ring of Power on it. :)

Day 17: Favorite Plant

"Should I draw a rose? Maybe those flowers by the side of the house? Perhaps athelas or mallorn or the Two Trees of the Sillmarillion? The Party tree? The lantern-tree that grew from Janis' peice of a street lamp? What about a fairy's mushroom? Or some of the strange-looking trees in the Japanese gardens?"

I couldn't decide so I drew the plant from Wall-E.

Of course, afterwards, I realized that I should have drawn the pizza plant!

30 Day Drawing Challenge at Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe

Please go ahead and use a seperate link for each day's drawings. :)

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Favorite Drawings: Week 1

Yes, this is coming to quite late. Quite late indeed. Forgive me. My brain seems to have a few loose wires at the moment.

Here are some favorite drawings from the talented people who have joined in the drawing challenge! It was extremely hard to choose only one per person... go visit their blogs to see artwork!

The first few drawings are from the three sisters at The Saracen's Head. They are wonderful artists and have done every day of the challenge so far, so go puruse their blog!

Lydia works wonders with graphite pencils, but this illustration-style drawing that she did really caught my eye. I think it's the subject matter-- so peaceful and homelike.

Mary drew Linus from Peanuts. (Linus is my favorite Peanut character!)

Anna drew this impressively accurate map of Middle-Earth. I love the way Lydia, Anna, and Mary manage to turn many of their drawings into Lord of the Rings themed artwork.

Alison, a talented illustrator over at Mousin' About, the Sketchblog of Alison Mutton, drew this little mouse. I'm not sure why, but I'm rather fond of it, it's so cute.

Victoria at Raindrops and Moonlight drew Kate Winslow as her favorite character. I especially love the colored version. :)

Sillouettes and swirly curls and drawings are awesome. Therefore, this drawing by Vicki from Decked Out in Ruffles is awesome. :)

Grace at Craziness From Grace drew this super-duper cute Chocolate Elf!!!

My favorite drawing that my little sister did has got to be this table full of pizza-- with chairs for guests.

In Which I Announce That I Was Too Far Off My Rocker

Let's see... where am I?

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The last drawing that I uploaded was Day 14: Your Favorite Fairytale. Today is November 19th.

This past week has been very busy for me (I'll spare you the long list of busy activities and projects), and I had to make the decsion to put this project on the back-burner. It's still burning-- but just on low temperature.

I'm sort of wishing that I had just made this a personal challenge-- I mean, I love seeing all the drawings you all have done, but I'm feeling guilty about being behind when I'm the one hosting the linky. :P

I've got drawings, or at least half-finished drawings for days 15-18... but no energy to get them photographed and uploaded tonight.

When I announced that I was off my rocker... I should have known better.

But I am stubborn, and I love art.

I fully intend to continue with this projects-- and possibly even get caught up again!

Day 14: Favorite Fairytale

The Children of Lir

Once, a Celtic king had four handsome and kindly children whom he loved very much. An enchantress grew jealous of the King's love for his children. She lured them away from their home, tricking them into thinking that they were visiting their grandfather.

The enchantress cast a terrible spell on the four children. They morphed into beautiful swans-- and were doomed to spend nine hundred years in swan form, living in three lakes.

Their father's heart was broken, but their sweet songs consoled him.

One version of the story ends with the peal of wedding-bells. A king and queen were married, and the enchantment broke. The swan children found refuge with a saintly monk (for St. Patrick had converted Ireland during their time under the spell).

The children were joyfully baptised, then twisted and turned and changed form...

An old lady and three wrinkled men died in the hermitage. The monk buried them in a peaceful grave.

(Here is a telling of this story. Various versions are described here.)

I love fairytales so much that I simply couldn't choose one to draw as my favorite fairytale! So I decided not to do an ordinary fairytale.

I'm not sure why I chose The Children of Lir. Perhaps it is because of the beautifully illustrated book that I read it in (The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myths and Legends by Marie Heaney, illustrated by P.J. Lynch). Perhaps because of the vivid imagry and wonderful drawing-potential. Perhaps it is because of it's bittersweet tradegy... I remember reading this tale when I was fairly young, and it has haunted me in that beautiful way that sad stories do.

Juggling Spilt Milk

Day 12: Most Recent Accomplishment

My most recent big accomplishment is becoming Graphics Editor of Ink and Fairydust and surviving the first issue! However, me sitting in front of a computer would make for a boring drawing.

I thought about drawing one of my favorite accomplishments: jumproping on the unicycle. However, that isn't exactly a new accomplishment...

So I drew my latest talent: juggling two balls. Yes, that is right! I can throw and catch TWO BALLS!

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Day 13: A Comic