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Did a little doodle based on the word of the week at www.facebook.com/30daydrawingchallenge
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...has started and will be featured on my blog for 30 days nyhagraphics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/30-day-drawing-challe... Please check it out, join in and/or leave feedback.
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Basically you can start anytime (today)
Use the list above list which you can re-draw or design.
The drawings can be quick 5 min sketches or as detailed as you like but have be new and done on the day...no recycling.
Scanned in or photographed with you iPhone. Load it to your blog, facebook page or flickr, tumblr.
Tag you pictures with "30 day drawing challenge" because its a viral challenge. There is a page on facebook to link your photos to also.
One rule: it doesn't have to be good, it just has to be drawn!
I totally recommend the challenge and it lets your creativity blossom - remember when we where a child and all you wanted to do is draw, well by day 7 all you'll want to do is draw the next illustration and by day 30 it will be a habit.
Good luck and share link with me when you start your challenge :o)
A few others that have done it tomomi-sarafov.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/30days-drawing-chal...
karenpennydrawsstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/30-day-drawin...
autumnseybert.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/day-8-favorite-ani...
Haha this is stupid. You know those things called "New Years' Resolutions" where you just break them after a month? Well, this is perhaps the first time I haven't broken mine. Last year I told myself I need to stop doing photography for free and this year I have been compensated for all my work. So here's my drawing myself taking a photo of myself with my old Canon FTb film camera in a mirror.
In other news, I really want to start writing again. I used to be entirely lyrical (re: emo) before I entered IT and wish I kept going. Someone sent me an email I sent to them before I started trade school and now I want to share it with you because it's ridiculously hilarious:
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Subject: I'll talk to you later (soon).
Message:
paris: (i'm jealous)
(i almost typed 'patrick'.)
(although i type and admit thoughts... i use brackets.)
a list from me to you. right here, right now from the lower mainland:
unemployed. (but working at the mall.)
webcam pictures with sick friends
falling in love with ideals
a fortune cookie; it read: "many ideals are becoming real"
(i wish.)
delayed email responses to corey
kiwi fruits. 2 of them eaten after midnight.
the shutter click
wanting to form a 90s dance band called 'sans pants'
diabolic elaborate planning
going to washington with felicity
salted popcorn while watching evening television alone
getting over the fact i am now single
clenched fist behind my back with bcit.
needing acceptance with bcit.
really really relying on getting accepted to bcit.
putting a lot of hope on going to bcit.
waiting for college transcript to apply to bcit.
bcit.
late nights with youtube. re: hard gay, avatar.
halloween party central starting on the 27th
realizing the love/hate relationship with vancouver
too poor to use the bus
clove cigarettes
mint tea sweetened by aspartame from the shell gas station
the 'narrator'
my reading at the launch
$5.06 to copy two keys
debt free
soon enough: seeing the 'one who got away' playing with the new pornographers
hating the mail system
learning 'bing bang' a la lazy town
salmon sashimi + spicy tuna roll
osthmanthus oolong iced latte
unsure of my dress size
sure of my bra size
wikipedia
listening to a mom complaining about her daughter
hanging out by edmunds/joyce skytrain
two for one coupons = score.
the ludvico treatment
allergic to everything
sometimes 'it takes time' but i'm an impatient person. i hope to hear stories from you while you sit on a couch not directly in front of me. whip out the parrot jokes when i've had a sip of alcohol and i will die of laughter. ♥
xx melissa.
Illustration Friday - Which do you think the Albi family are expecting?? A bouncing baby boy or girl?
Meet the family
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Here's a "compilation" of the "best hits" of the margins of my notebooks in college. (And probably high school too.) What I can't ever stop drawing is the eye on the right page at the top. I can NEVER shake that habit. I can draw that eye with my eyes closed. I've been drawing it the same way since grade 3. I can remember vividly when I drew that eye on a whole sheet of paper and a girl in my class asked, "why do you draw the eyebrow so bushy?"... To be honest, I don't think it's bushy at all and I don't really think that there's anything wrong with that proportion. Then again, after grade three, that same girl went to have these pencil thin eyebrows with no shape. So yeah, I guess it was bushy.
I drew this while waiting for a video to render in uncompressed format, also while watching the Canucks lose to LA in the season opener in Vancouver. Multitasking, I'm that good.
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First, I want to say how I had no idea how EXPLOSIVE the support is for X JAPAN. I uploaded close to 60 photos of my experience at the X JAPAN concert in Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, thinking they would just be looked at by a couple of my friends, and irritating all the contacts who follow me. But instead, these photos exploded. I hate talking about numbers and statistics but I just want to show you an idea of how the support for X JAPAN is global. Typically, I get about 500 hits on my photos. I had an all-time high when I uploaded my "My Day, Yesterday" video recorded on the Nikon D90 and when Lady Gaga reached #1 on last.fm in December, reaching about 3500-4000 hits for those events.... But for X JAPAN, I reached 13,000 hits. That is phenomenal. I rarely meet anyone who has even heard of X JAPAN, so I am so happy that fans from all over the world, from New York to the UK to Japan are all looking at my photos, seeing one of our favourite bands and their experience in North America for the first time. Thank you for looking.
Going back to my 30 Day Drawing Challenge after X was rough because I am still so bewildered by their performance. (Still singing "Endless Rain" in my head.) Today is Day 13 where the concept is "Comic". Here's mine. It's not very funny because I have a really poor sense of humour.
It is based on a true story, but maybe not entirely from my perspective.
I'm finally getting around to it - The 30 Day Drawing Challenge. I came across this silly challenge in the summer on Ian's blog. A long time ago before I even started taking my event photography seriously, I created a "Moleskine" set on Flickr... A set that hasn't really been used. Well, now folks - I get to use it!!!
I drew myself in the mirror for 30 minutes from different angles. The first one I drew is on the right where I tried to improvise my lips. Too bad it didn't work. I was actually drawing with my mouth open so I decided to draw it that way for the other angles. Drawn on the Moleskine Sketchbook with a new Sharpie pen. Fancy schmancy!
For the 30-Day Drawing Challenge
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Please DO NOT copy my illustrations. DO NOT use without permission, don't become a plagiarist. If you want to use it, ask me and I will gladly send you the high quality version :-)
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¨Ya sé que vivo en la luna o cerca del sol♫¨
Musicalizan | Entre Rios - La Luna
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I thought I was going to stay fairly consistent with how I executed these drawings but I went sort of... aloof here... This is Sailor Mars, who, apparently, has one breast. But whatever. I started drawing faces when I was a kid and then all of a sudden one day I discovered SailorMoon which then tainted my drawing style forever. I've been trying to escape it ever since and now that I actually WANT to draw anime, I can't! So I used pencil where I could erase things if need be.
Sailor Mars is my favourite because she is a tough bitch. She spends a lot of time in solitude and I admire that. Being satisfied with your alone time and solitude is important to me. It is also a work in progress. Kind of like my drawing.
Alright, so my favourite book is "Slaughterhouse-Five" (aka "The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", though I've never heard it referred to that) by Kurt Vonnegut. Typical, I know.
Let me tell you the saddest thing, though... I haven't read this book in about 7 years and I can't remember a lot of visuals. I remember a lot of literary notions and the language, oh the language! But I really can't remember what anything looked like... So I had to read the Wikipedia page on 'Slaughterhouse-Five' which made me feel kind of pathetic. Apparently Billy Pilgrim was an optometrist and the Tralfamadorian alien guys looked like "upright toilet plungers with a hand atop, in which is set a single, green eye". So that's sort of what I tried drawing here... And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the narrator and the classic phrase that I use so much in my life...
So it goes...
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A part that really hit me when my family was forced to sell our house that we've lived in for the past 25 years is when my mom had to take down our family photos in the hallway. It was a part that made the house ours. It took me a really long time getting over this, and I am still in the process of getting over it (I still live here for now). A lot of my friends who lived down the street have already sold their houses and moved either to upgrade to downsize. One of my friends in particular told me that she cried so much but after her family had moved out all their stuff, she could barely recognize the house she grew up in and realized that it was just a house. One day I will have the same realization. A home is where you make it.
Anyway, here is my family. I am truly blessed to have such loving and supportive parents, and also with the rare opportunity to witness a solid marriage that will last forever. I have a brother who looks more like my mum, and I look more like my dad. (Kind of coincidental because I screwed up my dad's and my face in the 1992 drawing, hahha.) This doesn't give justice to how good looking my parents are. (Observe.) My dad actually looked like Bruce Lee when he was young and my mum was (still is) this Asian bombshell. I can only hope that I can age as well as these two.
La Familia Es Todo.
It's kind of cruel to say "best friend". I don't like picking out favourites, I call a few people my "best friend" but in all fairness, this is my core group. On the left is my friend Jess who I met in college in a creative writing class. I'm not even sure how we started talking because I was so intimidated by her. She's really so cool and so talented. Her drawings would tear my drawings a new asshole. So to speak! Felicity is on the right side, my longest friend - we've known each other for over a decade now and hopefully more to come. She's also so cool and extremely talented too. Man, it's so great to surround yourself with such inspiring people and these two definitely inspire me to do better for myself and be a better person.
My best friends.
I've also been using a bit of a fade correction rather than boosting the brightness and contrast. It preserves the Moleskine dyed page colour at the same time of making my Sharpie pen a little more black!
On another note, I did have a little bit of a break between the other 30 Day Drawing Challenge scans and this one because I saw Rich Aucoin(!) last night. Check out some of the photos I managed to take. I had a bit of a fangirl moment as Rich came down to me near the end of the set and made me jump up and down with him. Usually I definitely maintain my cool when I photograph bands but I suppose he could sense my excitement as I was definitely singing along to "Push". /me is nerdy.
Alright so I had to break my awesome streak of not using a pencil but with good cause - I used colour! I should have actually tilted the book a little closer to me, the proportions are a little fucked up, but overall I am pretty happy with this image. Good enough for a 15 minute drawing anyway.
Conan O'Brien is one of my heroes. Sounds a little stupid to have a television talk show host as a hero but this man worked hard in his career. I hope his new show on TBS succeeds. I always enjoy drawing Conan's hair. Here's the sign I drew of him as Hello Kitty. (Yes, I am showing you AGAIN!)
Also - I didn't use an eraser. IMPRESSED?!?!
"I wanna kiss you but if I do then I might miss you, babe."
So today's theme is "anything you'd like"... Wow. Anything I'd like? Really? Ah, if only life worked the same way, ANYTHING I LIKE! Well, here you go... I take my best shot at Lady Gaga in her telephone hat from the official music video.
I think it looks like her. I got the big nose and the mouth right but once I got to the hair, it was just a disasteraster. Apparently I can only draw anime hair.
Anyway, here you go. Lady Gaga. :)
I am inspired by a lot of things. I'm inspired by my family, but I drew them yesterday. Some of my friends, but I drew them earlier in the challenge. Instead I'm drawing one of my earliest inspirations. When I was 12, I was introduced to "The Maxx" by Sam Kieth and it changed my view on storytelling forever. If I went back and undid what the Maxx did, I don't think I would write the same, or take the same photos. Before I took photos, I made videos, and before I made videos, I drew. Sam Kieth isn't the greatest artist but his imagination is one of a kind. He published the Maxx around the age of 30 - I just hope that one day I can publish a book of my photography and words at the same time.
Anyway, here's Julie Winters and the Maxx hanging out in the outback. I was always fascinated by Kieth's fetish on drawing all his female characters with large bellies. I guess that's because I am a fatty and I relate to it, ha!
Tystnad. Andningen. Stegen. Fågelsång. Harmoni.
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Silence. Breathing. Steps. Birds singing. Harmony.
Nowadays it's been a bit tough choosing what's really my favorite animal. It's always been between giraffes and jellyfish, in spite having only a stuffed giraffe collection. I just decided to choose the giraffe for this one, but I love both really. I am, in all honesty!, bad at drawing giraffes. And the color orange on here is terrible, and that's what I get for not testing it out first. I used Prismacolor Premier pens, Staedtler Triplus Fineliners, and a pink highlighter. (Obviously, I don't have a mind-blowing variety of pens and markers anymore. Mom lost my Sharpie color pack.)
One big reason why I did this 30 Day Drawing Challenge is to rediscover my camera. This year it seems like I've done a lot of work with my camera, but not a lot of my art. Doing almost 30 days of drawing has made me lust for my camera, moreso than ever before. Especially for a ridiculous theme of "scenery", the thing I loathe drawing the most.... I could take a photo of scenery but I can't draw it. Never.
I've got a lot of photos queued up to upload and blog or whatever including hanging out at the pumpkin patch with some dogs in costumes (this happened, I'm serious) but for now... 5 more to go... Almost done.
Here's some scenery. Right now, I just want more fields and trees and mountains and sun and water views... But I can't draw those at all, so I settled for my other love: cobblestone roads.
Ljumma vindar. Ljummet hav. Barfota. Sommarlöpning.
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Warm wind. Warm ocean. Barefoot. Summer running.
Snakes on a Plane is NOT actually my favorite movie-- it just happened to be the last one I watched and I wanted to draw it :3
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Project365: Create Something 2011 is a personal project to do something creative every day for 365 days. See what I've done so far here.
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