30 Days Drawing Challenge!!

Hello artsy friends!!

One of my artsy friends posted this 30 Days Drawing Challenge on facebook and I wanted to do it too!
So, that is what I will be doing in September...hopefully.

The Horror of Painting digitally

View the Horror.

She is a victim of my first digital painting that was done in Photoshop, from beginning to end.

I am ashamed. I want to go bury myself somewhere.
Pfft.  This is what happens when I stray away from my usual cartoon/caricature-style.  At least I tried, I TRIED.  I REALLY REALLY TRIED.

Watch my process of doom and amuse yourselves:

Hello Recycle Bin, Or Not

Today we were cleaning out our bookshelf and I found a secret folder nudged behind the bookshelf.

And the secret folder contained these lovelies( or not) from about 1~2 years ago:

...and I didn't have the urge to throw them out!!  Shocking!

Okay, allow me to explain why this might be a shocker.

Plain and Blunt: I have an habit of throwing away my drawings/art work.  It's just an habit that developed from childhood.  It relieves stress/frustration for me.  Some people drink alcohol. Some people punch their pillows.  Me? I like to ceremoniously throw out piles and piles of my drawings/doodle/art.  I'll sometimes scrummage my room for doodles I can throw out, and I have a folder of doodles for whenever I have the urge to meet with the Recycle Bin. I also think that my style changes rather often so after more than a year, I can't stand looking at my older stuff; hence therefore (goody, a redundancy) I like to symbolically murder my older atrocities. 

But these?  They're kind of nice, especially because I actually like this style but I don't draw in this style very often these days and I don't have patience for this kind of detail...

...and LOOK!  The right sketch has a COFFEE STAIN on the right hand corner! Very fitting for this blog, don't you think?

Facebook Sketch Request

Sometimes when I'm bored or unmotivated about life, I will randomly ask my Facebook friends to ask me to draw something.  This time around, I quite liked the outcomes of the sketches, so dear fellow (imaginary) bloggers, if you do not mind, I would like to share with you my silly sketches and thoughts.

My first request was to draw a friend and his boy friend as Bowser and Toad, respectively.  I was utterly befuddled by this request.  You see, video games were like the fruit from Eden when I was growing up.  My mother sincerely thought that they would rot my brains; thus severing any possibilities of me becoming a gal nerd gamer and understanding the components of the Mario-verse.  So when I read "toad" I was thinking more on the line of Frog and Toad Are Friends and Bowser was someone who wears a BOWTIE. Obviously, I was deeply mistaken.  I drew this with a ballpoint pen.

Another request was BBC's Sherlock fanart.  I luuuuurve that show. Like LUUUUUUURVE it to bits. Even before knowing the existence of the show, I actually liked Benedict Cummberbatch from The Last Enemy and I adored Steven Moffet's Coupling, so as a Sherlock Holmes fan I was super excited about this show.  Benedict Cumberbatch + Steven Moffet = GOLD, but Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson is like Nutella on cupcakes.  So delicious and addicting.  Done in ink, brush, and pen (nibs).  I generally like the brush more because I can have more control and I like the bold lines.  However, I also like the spider web-like thin lines that the nibs could produce, despite my inability to control the pen to my liking.

No, did I? Noooo.

I was liking this sketch....until I noticed that I had chiseled away her hips in a Greg Land manner.

The world should know my shame.

This is my punishment.

Hoping for a Hero...and then some doodles

Some real-life tragedies seriously makes me wish Batman was real. 

On a non-tragic note, I like to doodle while watching TV shows/movies.  I've been watching Jeremy Brett's version of Sherlock Holmes series and I made a little game of drawing things/person my eyes falls on, without pausing the show.  

 

This game proved to be a bit challenging and I haven't played it ever since. 

Undeniably, I haven't been practicing as much as when I was taking art classes.  On the other hand, I try to make a conscious effort to carry around a sketchbook and sketch people I see.  The people I sketch are mostly people I see at work and the people at work usually looking down...

Someday, SOME DAY, I WILL be able to draw and capture real people's likeness.

Just practice,practice, and practice....

LE SIGH.

I WILL PERSEVERE.

....I hope.