Day 173: Evil

"People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."

-Gregory Maguire

Day 172: Problems

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

-Albert Einstein

Day 171: Homicide First. Nap Later.

"I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time."

Yes, I've sketched basically the exact same thing multiple times before. But I'm tired and had almost no time to draw anything, and this is my go-to sketch. It's hard to try to create something that will look good when all you really want to do is take a looooong nap!

The real work of art that I created today was a fake murder for my forensic serology class. I think it came out great! I didn't think to take a picture when our "victim" was still here (the "wound" on his head also looked great), but I did think to take some photos right before we cleaned up. 

The victim was struck with a hammer:

 

 And then crawled a little ways...

 

 And then died. The victim's head was lying right about where the hand print is in this picture:

Here's one picture that my professor took of us preparing the victim. You can't really see the wound we created in this picture though.

I'm so proud of our fake murder! (Is that weird?) 

Day 170: Yawn

"A yawn may not be polite, but at least it's an honest opinion."

Even looking at a picture of a yawn has been making me yawn. By the way, apparently yawning is contagious due to the ancient, deep, and subconscious roots of empathy and social bonding. 55% of people who witness a yawn will yawn within the next 5 minutes. Yawns don't become contagious until around the age of four. I thought it was interesting that autistic children are less likely to catch yawns than other children. The more severe the condition, the less common the behavior of catching yawns gets. 

Day 169: On Your Toes

"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk."

-Jean de la Bruyere

Day 168: Sitting

"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

-Chinese proverb

Day 167: House, M.D.

Some of my favorite "House-isms":

"Thing is, hope's for sissies."

"I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is probably the last person you should ask."

"There's no I in team. There is a me though, if you jumble it up."

"Humanity is overrated."

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is, in fact, a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate."

Day 166: Sneaky

"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

-Harold MacMillan

Yesterday's drawing...I swear I hit the publish button but apparently I did not...

Day 165: A Kiss

"A kiss with a fist is better than none."

-Florence and the Machine

I don't know why but nothing that I've been drawing has been working these last couple days. I keep starting new drawings but everying looks like garbage. Which is why I've just done boring, easy things.

Day 164: A Bicycle and a Willow

One bicycles (and other things in life): "It never gets easier, you just go faster."
-Greg LeMond

Today, I really just wanted to sketch anything but a person. Usually it's the opposite case. So, of course, I just did something overloaded with green (my favorite color)!

Day 163: Rainy Day

"I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms."
-Louise Erdrich

"One rainy Sunday when I was in third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
-Beverly Cleary

"Never count your friends on sunny days for they will all be around, count your friends on rainy days when the clouds are gray, and lightning shakes the ground, it is then you painfully see the kind of friend they really are, when life delivers a sharp blow do they stay and try to heal the scar?"

I love rainy Sundays! And I love quotes about rainy Sundays. The weather here is really making me wish I had the time to curl up in some sweatpants with a good book.

Day 162: Monoliths

 "Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."

-Randolph Bourne

I could have sworn that I hit the "publish" button before I closed the window for my post for yesterday. But obviously something went wrong because I went on this morning and it wasn't there. Oops. So the last post was done yesterday. And this is today's post, done completely in pastels. I really wanted to use some color.

Day 161

Day 160: The Way

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

-Buddah

Day 159: Another portrait

I wasn't feeling very inspired to draw anything creative today, so I just did another portrait. I realize it's boring...

Day 158: Crown of Flowers

"Earth laughs in flowers."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'd rather have diamonds on my table than diamonds on my neck."

-Emma Goldman

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

-Chinese Proverb

"Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

-Dr. Sunwolf

Drawing flowers with pastels is a lot of fun! And since it's spring I figure it's the perfect time to draw a lot of them. 

Day 157: Fountain

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."

-Barbara Kingsolver

Despite the fact that some of my favorite sketches are ones that I just scribble down in about 20 minutes, when I feel like I'm rushing, I'm never happy with what I draw. And Mondays are always super busy for me. And I'm not a huge fan of this sketch.

Day 156

I have a pretty busy day and just had time for a quick sketch today. I know this is boring, but it's all I have time for.

Day 155: Clown

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."

-Ben Hecht

Day 154: The Dawn

"A dreamer is one who only makes his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

-Oscar Wilde

Day 153: Braid

"You make me smile all over my face."

-Ian Hobson, age 5

My recent obsession with pastels continues...the only downside of them is that they're very messy. Messy pastels + messy person = double mess. A pretty, colorful mess, but a mess all the same. It's a good thing that the carpet of my room is a very dark color. (Also, the quote is just something I found on the internet that I thought was adorable, not by somebody I know.)

Day 152: Mime

"'I don't think...' 'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter."

-Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

Day 151

Day 150

"Contentment is the only real wealth."

-Alfred Nobel

Day 149: Lips

"Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

-Judy Garland

Day 148: Happy Easter

"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."

-S.D. Gordon

I know Easter isn't until tomorrow, but I wanted to draw this today and I felt it fit into the atmosphere of Easter.

Day 147: Zooey Deschanel

"Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling."

"Certain aspect of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me- if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring."

"I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where it takes me."

"I'm always trying to do things I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think."

"You can't expect to make to effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding."

-Zooey Deschanel

Day 146: View

"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up."

-Friedrich Neitzche

I was looking around on the internet recently for photos that inspire me, and this is one of the photos that I found that I really liked. I usually feel like my drawing come out better when I have some sort of inspiration, not just sketching for the sake of it. I like the way this one came out. I used pastels for the color in the glasses.

Day 145: Morning

"If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters."

-Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

"I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time."

-Emily Dickinson

Day 144: Forgot Again

Here's the drawing I did yesterday...which I forgot to post AGAIN! Recently I forgot to post once, and then almost forgot a second time until my mom reminded me. I've been so forgetful lately! I really need to sleep more. Today's drawing has not been drawn yet...but once it is I will not forget to post again.

Day 143: Poem

 "Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."

-Walt Whitman

I've been feeling pretty sick all day and wasn't feeling terribly creative. It was nice to actually have a little bit of time to do something at least slightly more than a scribble, however.

Day 142

No time for a real drawing today...just a fast sketch.

Day 141: Plotting Evil

"So far as we are human, what we do must either be evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

-T.S. Eliot

On days like today I kind of regret committing to drawing something every day. I didn't have time to do anything good, so now I have to post this drawing...and it's just kind of embarrassing since I know it's terrible.

Day 140: You Picked Me

"You got me, searched the sand

And climed the tree

And pulled me back down.

And all I can say

is you blow me away."

-A Fine Frenzy, "You Picked Me"

My drawing today is based on the album cover that this song is on (One Cell in the Sea).

Day 139: Love and Laughter

"Laugh as much a your breathe and love as long as you live."

I realize this is pretty similar to what I drew yesterday....but I figured it was okay considering this week's theme is love.

Day 138: Cuddle

"Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, 

Your head like the golden-rod,

And we will go sailing away from here,

To the beautiful land of Nod."

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

II finally drew a picture that fit this week's theme (love)!

Day 137: Love

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

-St. Aurelius Augustine

This quote doesn't really go the with drawing, it's just to match this week's theme (love...which I haven't been sticking to so far).

I'm a little frustrated that I forgot to publish this post before midnight...I had it ready by about 8pm but I guess I never actually pressed the publish post button. But I promise, I did draw it yesterday, I just forgot to post it. oops.

Day 136: Blue Eye Shadow

 

"The first rule of makeup is that you can never have enough blue eye shadow."

-Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly in My Girl

Day 135: Old Hollywood Glamour

"Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker."

-Lilly Dache

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

-Amanda Cross

Day 134: Just some lame doodles

I didn't have time to really draw anything today, so I just doodled for a bit. I also didn't want to go all the way back to my room to use the scanner, so I just used my phone to take a picture. Totally boring... I know.

Day 133

Day 132: First Flower

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

-Max Muller

My mom sent me a picture today of the first flower to bloom in the garden at home...hence this drawing. It's done entirely in pastels this time. 

Day 131:

"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love."

-David Leithan

Today's sketch is a little different because I drew it completely out of my head. Usually I search around for a photo that inspires me, and base my sketch off of that. But today I just drew something that I had in my head. Usually when I try that it's pretty miserable, but it came out mostly as I imagined it today, so I guess that's a plus!

Day 130: Sleeping

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."

-Charles Caleb Colton

This quote could not be more true! I think this is the reason that I dread sleeping so much; the whole process is such a tease! Anyways, I only spent a few minutes drawing a quick sketch of something that I sketch all the time...but at least I've done something.

Day 129: Standing Still

"All I want is to stand in a field

and to smell green,

to taste air,

to feel the earth want me,

Without all this concrete

hating me."

-Phillip Pulfrey

I can't remember if I've said it yet this week, but this week's theme is standing still. I used pencil and pastlels for today's drawing. I've been trying to practice with drawing entire bodies rather than just faces lately.

Day 128: Eyes Open

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

-Albert Einstein

I guess I just felt like playing with the pastels today...