Day 7

and here he is! the mostly finished Quetalcoatl!



I say mostly because I still feel like some finish work needs to be done, but I've worked on it long enough today and I need to take a step away from it and look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes. I'm really happy with the result. I'm very much enjoying this whole drawing a day thing... time for bed!

Day 6

Okay, day 6 is going to be part one of a 2 part drawing. I don't know why but earlier today at work we were talking about 2012 and the end of days that everyone thinks is going to happen. oddly enough I was the only one slightly excited that something like this would happen in my life time. sure it will suck when it finally comes if it does actually come. but I mean, how many people will be able to say they lived during the apocalypse? I'm weird though...anyway, so I started reading about the Mayan calendar and I came across this fancy guy named Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god. so I used a photo reference I taken from a mayan temple and came up with something pretty cool I think...here you go



clearly it isn't done yet but that's where part two comes in. I want to do some fancy color work but I want to do it when I have some more energy and can do some research on mayan colors that would look good. I'm planning on using gouache on this one. so look out for this in color tomorrow! yay!

Day 5

I keep cutting it very close as far as getting these drawings up each day goes...don't let the time update on the blog fool you, it's actually 11:40pm not whatever it says...I shouldn't tell you that, that would give me what, about a two hour leeway? *shrug*

So here's the drawing for the day, it's the bottle of wine Kristi gave me last night for Christmas. it's in a pretty kitty bottle! I can't wait to try this! and I'm not sharing either...it's all mine!!! I have to say I'm pretty proud of how I made it look glass-like and shiny. and the cute little cat boa! hehe.



My days have been pretty uneventful. I'm having people over on saturday so I'm excited for that...I took a three hour "half hour" nap, you know, one of those where you tell yourself you're just going to lay down for a bit and end up killing your alarm when it goes off only to sleep for entirely too long...yeah...one of those... after my nap, bryce and I went out to ghetto cub and got some food, when we got home we made tuna sandwiches and tomato bisque soup...(yes debbie, you should be very jealous...hahaha!) quite tasty...But now I think its time for bed...since it's almost midnight and all...

Third day in a row that I haven't worked out...bad bad katie...*sigh*

Day 4

Nothing terribly good today since I spent most of the day curled up with my book. Then around 4 or so I went to get my mother and take her out to Jasmine 26 for her Christmas. After that I gave her a tour of my place and then headed over to the theater where we watched Marley & Me...Honestly, everyone says it's such a great movie and I feel like I've seen it before...like all the other supposed "tear-jerkers" out there involving a man, a woman and their dog...No surprises, point-blank morals and only half-way decent acting. It got no tears from me, although my mother more than made up for my dry eyes.

meh, whatever, didn't spend any money on is so at least I have that going for me...

oh, here's the drawing for the day, sorry it kinda sucks...just the sauce trays at Jasmine...



After the movie, I dropped mom off and ran over to Kristi and Alex's place where they were having a gathering of peoples. spent about an hour there but I'm afraid my mood we set poorly after spending too much time with my mother. But it was good seeing people again, I think I shall have my own gathering of peoples this coming saturday, before everyone goes back to school. sounds like a good plan to me.

Okay, off to bed now. I was going to work out with boyfriend but I'm too drained to move and I have to work in the morning...yay pay day!!! Toodles all

Day 3

Okay, here it is for Day 3. I did go to the MIA today and did a lot of sketching but unfortunately I had to use pencil and not pen like I usually prefer. so I'm not posting those sketches because I'm not a fan of them yet. perhaps I'll use them or redo them for something else


but here's what I did for the day...


Took the pose from a magazine add. Really I just wanted to play with the color pencils my coworker gave me for christmas. I did a sketch with no-photo blue to see if it was indeed no-photo...seemed to work rather well! then I layered on the colors, and then finally I threw in some pen work to tie it all together.

Now I'm going to get ready for celebrating Bryce's army buddy's 23rd birthday at a pub! I love pubs...so toodles all!

Day 2

Okay, another day, another drawing! 2 for 2 so far. that makes me happy. although when school starts I think I'll have a rough time keeping up...but I will do my best!

This next one is also from the Arboretum and while I'm not as pleased with it as I am with the previous one, it was fun.



and the original photo...



That's all for now, boyfriend and I are going to go work out!

oh and by the way, finished The Subtle Knife just a bit ago... it was amazing!!!

Day 1

Happy New Year everyone! yay for 2009 and here's the start to my attempt at a drawing a day!


Bryce and I went to the Arboretum today and explored a bit. I love that place and it's a lot less busy in the winter so it's typically nice and quite. They have a display up right now of fairy dwellings and this was one of them. I didn't have a lot of time to spend there so this was reproduced from a photo...but that's okay...still looks fun. the poem that's scralled in my horrible handwriting is as follows..

"Love can be measured in different ways. Some count months and some count days. I measure our love in a different way, it's the little things like a kiss goodbye or when I come home and you say hi, there are many more things I would love to say that make me love you more each day."

--Unknown

I found it on a website with a bunch of poems that relate to fairies...not quite sure how this one related to fairies but I liked it the best and it mentions home...so yeah...whatevs

I took a bunch of pictures but I think I'll be using them for drawings so I may or may not post them later...but hopefully from now on you shall get a new drawing every day from me! *crosses fingers*

(edit, here's the photo as per my friend's request)