My Week in Sketches

This is me drawing stuff on a Magna Doodle with my friend. Sometimes it's hard to explain the nonsense that's actually taking place in these drawings...she was coming up with what I should draw, and I was doing the doodling.

At work I'm designing some large wooden signs (that I'll show you eventually) and it's always a little comical as I traipse through the office with them. 

At my parents' house this weekend, I repainted my childhood bathroom. The bunny rabbit tile is still there...but the walls got a nice facelift.

I was happy to be able to celebrate my wonderful mom on Mother's Day!

...And sometimes my mom sends me home with a cooler full of groceries. This is one of many reasons why I think she's fabulous.

My second roommate returned home after a two-week vacation. The three of us are together so rarely, it's always a joy when we can spend an evening together.

I work in the mountains, and sometimes we see bears running around our office. I still get excited about it every time I see one!

Hand Lettering

I've been practicing my hand-lettering. I'd like to be a better hand-letterer. 

It seems to be getting "trendier" these days, and I notice beautiful, flowy phrases written out on shirts and chalkboards and advertisements wherever I look. So I wanted to play. I just started drawing out whatever letters I felt like, and then once I had an "H" drawn, I'd be like "What word starts with H?" Oh, Han does. Next I'll draw Leia. J is for James and B is for Bond. And so on. I of course had to throw a few Annies in there as well. And I drew most of these while I was watching Tuesday's episode of "New Girl," which is why "Schmidt" was the name that came to mind starting with S. That show deserves its own drawing, it made me laugh so hard this week.

They Grow Up So Fast...

I was going through my old desk drawers in my room at my parents' house, and I found a small green memo pad that I haven't touched in years. I opened it up to find the beginning of a cartoon I drew when I was about ten years old. I was trying to figure out how to animate. It's so bad, it's good. I took pictures of each page and put them together so you can get the full effect:

I'm happy to say my drawing skills have improved some since then...

But sadly, my animation skills are at about the same level.

MAKE.

This is a quote by Joss Whedon, which has now become one of my favorite quotes. I probably should have included his name in the word-drawing, but that didn't occur to me until just now...It actually really bugs me that you can never find quotes without  the quoter listed beneath it. If I'm going to buy a journal or something with some great inspirational quote on the front, I want that to be all that's on the front - I don't need the name of the quoter on there, too. Somehow I feel like that ruins it. But, you know, I don't support copyright infringement or whatever, so I guess we can continue to give quoters credit.

Joss Whedon is the creator of the TV shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and  "Firefly," and he was the director of the movie "The Avengers." I love this guy. I love this quote from him, because it reminds me never to let myself get bored. There is always something to create, something to build, something to begin. Cook, craft, crochet, whatever. Make!

Doodle Day

This is the latest page of doodles out of my sketchbook. I'm particularly fond of the dude with the mustache in the center. And yes, I enjoyed drawing the "Life is ruff" puppy in the upper right. I'm still marveling at how many women these days wear tights or leggings as pants, without a dress or skirt over them. So yes, I guess you could say I'm still trying to figure out if "tights = pants". But my favorite of the doodles are the sketches at the bottom of my mom and dad...appropriately timed as yesterday was Mother's Day and tomorrow is my mom's birthday! Love, love, love. 

My Week in Sketches

My friends are so funny. They're really funny. Witty-funny. Last Thursday we just sat around talking and laughing for hours and I was just so happy.

 

 

On Friday I spent my entire workday in a woodshop cutting big shapes out of plywood. I felt really accomplished at the end of the day, but I couldn't hold a pen in my hand for two days after that because my hand was so sore.

 

On Saturday night, I went over to a friend's house and showed her pictures of my Spain trip.

 

This is me going for a walk in my neighborhood, which I don't do often enough.

 

Back in the woodshop (when did my life suddenly become like 30% woodworking?!) sanding/painting some wooden stars. I can hardly wait to show you the finished project.

 

Dinner with a (very pregnant!) friend. Excited to see her through this phase of life.

 

My roommate was out of town for four days, so we were eager to catch up after she returned (she filled me in on her recent adventures, and I told her about all my woodworking projects.)

Not All Conversation Topics Are Created Equal

Here's how I know I'm not quite a grown-up:

I could talk for hours about superheroes and superpowers and the pros and cons of having different superhuman abilities, but I can't hold a conversation about politics for, like, ten seconds. It's not that I don't care, but I just can't pretend I'm interested when I'm not. And politics do not interest me. Unless we're talking about the mayor of Gotham City, or when Beast becomes Secretary of Mutant Affairs in X-Men 3. Then you have my attention.