Day 126

Day 125: Dress-up

"The finest clothing is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."

-Mark Twain

Day 124: Capturing Time

"Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective, and selective. Camera vision is total and non-objective."

-Andreas Feininger

Day 123: Blow a Kiss

Blow a kiss into the air, for it will find the lips that care.

I had some fun playing with pastels again today!

Day 122: Colors of the Wind

"Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

-Disney's Pocahontas

It seem that I've basically turned the theme for this week into just plain "wind". I tried using my pastels for the first time today. It was really fun, they blend so easily!

Day 121: Wind

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

This week's theme (it started yesterday) is whirlwind speed. I got frustrated with today's because I couldn't get the eyes to focus for some reason, so I just rushed through the rest of it...although I guess that fits with the theme at least!

Day 120: Black Hole

"Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos- novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes- you are beyond a doubt the strangest?"

-Walter Percy

Day 119: Glory of the Stars

"There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory."

-1 Corinthians 15:41

Today, I just really wanted to use some color in my sketch. So I sketched the woman in the center first, and then just played with some kids' Crayola, washable watercolors on the outside of the image. I haven't used watercolors in such a long time! I have real artists' watercolors, but I have yet to actually learn how to use those. I want to practice with those at some time when I have the amount of time available that's necessary for that task. 

Day 118: Janis Joplin

"I'm one of those regular weird people."

-Janis Joplin

I drew this drawing as a project for requested by my dad, he wanted me to draw a picture of Janis Joplin with Monique, a woman that he works with, as if they're friends. 

Day 117: Kiss

"How I miss you and I just wanna kiss you,

And I'm gonna love you till my dying day."

-Brandi Carlile, "Dying Day"

Day 116: Neus

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

-Ernst Fischer

Day 115: Fortune

"To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his names on the wings of a dragon."

-Proverb

Day 114: Anther Mask

"Although I know it's not fair, I reveal myself one mask at a time."

-Stephen Dunn

Day 113: Hat

"I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself?"

-Margaret Atwood

Day 112

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

-Pablo Picasso

Day 111: Wink

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

-Jack Keroac

Day 110: Self-Doubt

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Day 109: Protector

"If you've got a talent, protect it."

-Jim Carrey

I started this sketch when I didn't have my sketchpad or pencils with me, so I just drew this one on regular printer paper, mostly with a mechanical pencil. I did finish it bu doing the hair and clothes with one of my sketching pencils, however. A mechanical pencil is so thin that doing something like hair takes sooooo long! 

Day 108: Warrior

"When life is victorious, there is birth. When life is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for peace."

-Morihei Ueshiba

Day 107: Tears

"I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship, and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon."

-Anais Nin

Day 106: Smoke

"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."

-Dorothea Brande

This week's theme is destruction. So today I drew something that everybody knows is self destructive: smoking a cigarette.

Day 105: Angry

I'm not all too happy with this one...but it'll have to do.

Day 104:

"We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us."

-David Seamans

Day 103:

"The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

Day 102: Relfection

"It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity."

-Thomas Moore

Day 101: Stare

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

-Jeremy Irons

I know the drawing today has nothing to do with they week's theme...but at least the quote does!

Day 100: Marilyn

"I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

-Marilyn Monroe

I don't know much about Marilyn Monroe, besides the fact that she's an American icon, but I stumbled up this quote (on StumbleUpon) and I know I said this about the quote I used yesterday, but I really really love this quote! I've been reading other quotes by Marilyn, and she said some really great things! I had no idea! It makes me want to read more about her.

Here are some other Marilyn Monroe quotes that I love:

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"If you're gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty."

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world."

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." (I love this one!)

...and I don't have time to type any more right now, but there are soooo many! I never knew she was so witty and wise and clever!

Day 99: Memories

"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December."

-J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922

Today is the first day of a new week, and this week's theme is memory. I didn't choose a picture that really fit into that category, but I did choose a quote that fit the theme. I think this is one of my favorite quotes that I've found so far; I think it's very beautiful.

Day 98: Flower

"Give me a flower without a name

Give me an unknown, too tall untamed

I'll give you the tree that I finally found

Roots, roots in the air, branches in the ground."

-Lia Ices, "Grown Unknown"

I wasn't sure what I wanted to draw today, but then I saw this photo when I was searching around online and loved it so much I decided I needed to draw it today! (The model's name is Andrej Pejic...and is actually a very androgynous male!) The photo immediately reminded me of the song "Grown Unknown" by Lia Ices, probably because on last season of So You Think You Can Dance, Justin Giles choreographed a group dance to this song featuring a huge flower as a prop. The mood of the song also reminds me a lot of the mood of the photo (which I hope I at least somewhat captured in the drawing). 

I've never been able to tell exactly what the lyrics to the song are, though. They're pretty difficult to understand. And when I looked up the lyrics, I noticed that the cover of the album with this song on it is Lia Ices with a flower in her mouth, very similar to the photo I drew! 

It must be fate :)

Day 97: Nightmare

"Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear."

-Stephen King

Day 96: Flying

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it do it so it goes flying anyway."

-Mary Kay Ash

Today, I did a drawing about my dream superpower: the ability to fly. I've had dreams where I can pump my arms and start flying. I really wish I could do that while I was awake as well!

Day 95: Dreaming in Color

"Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming in color, black and white is not my friend.

Candy coated figures hold me in my bed."

-Erin McCarley, "Gotta Figure this Out"

Day 94: Daydream

"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly, and with little relish."

-W.H. Auden

"I was sitting to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."

-Steven Wright

"I live my daydreams in music."

-Albert Einstein

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

-Victor Hugo

Day 93: Dream Job

"Go humanity!"

-Dr. Camille Saroyan, "Bones"

This week's theme is dream, so today I decided to draw the character on Bones with my dream job (a forensic pathologist), Dr. Camille (Cam) Saroyan. 

Day 92: Dream Week

I almost forgot to do a blog post today! And I just threw this sketch together super fast, and I am not happy with it as a completed piece (at all!) but it's just a quick sketch so I'm not too upset that it's terrible. I also don't have the time to find a quote I like for today. At least I have something though!

Day 91: Belle

"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell."

-Belle, Beauty and the Beast

For the last day of comic/cartoon week, I un-cartoonized another Disney character. Today, I drew Belle as I think she may look in real life.

Day 90: Untitled

"An artist's sphere of influence is the world."

-Carl Maria von Weber

Obviously, I decided to draw something that doesn't fit in with the week's theme again today. Tomorrow I will, though. It's the last day of the theme, after all.

Day 89: Smize

"Think of something that makes you happy but not enough to make you smile with your lips."

-Tyra Banks, on smizing ("smiling with your eyes")

Obviously this drawing doesn't fit into this week's theme. I just saw this photo and wanted to draw it, so I did.

Day 88: Superhero

"You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in time of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle."

-Timothy Dalton

Because the theme this week is comic, I tried to draw a superhero in a comic-book style today. 

Day 87: Cruella de Ville

"We lose more women to marriage than way, famine, and disease."

-Cruella de Ville, 101 Dalmatians

Today, I did something similar to yesterday's by turning another cartoon character into what I imagine them to look like as a real person (even though there is movies that depict her as a real person, this is my own version of what the cartoon Cruella looks like). 

Day 86: The Little Mermaid

"I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things can be bad."

-Ariel, "The Little Mermaid"

Today, I tried to take a cartoon character (Ariel) and turn her into a more realistic person. 

Day 85: Inner Cartoon

"All cartoon characters and fables must be an exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."

-Walt Disney

This week's theme is comic. Today, I attempted to turn myself into a comic character. I mostly did this by making the eyes disproportionately large, which tends to make things look cartoonish. I didn't make it a complete cartoon or comic because that's not as fun as trying to make something look real. The goal was to make it look just a little bit animated.

Day 84: Big Hat

"And all your future lies beneath your hat."

-John Oldham

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Blog under construction! I'm changing the formatting around, and I know some parts are hard to read/look messy now, but that'll be fixed soon (hopefully!)

Day 83: Looking Down

"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out."

-Anton Chekov

Day 82: Sia

"I'm biting the lighting, the good thing.

I'm minding what to see, the good things."

-Sia, "Clap your Hands"

I know I haven't really been trying to stick to my theme at all this week (the theme is supposed to be day), but when I think of something/ someone that I want to draw and feel inspired, I've got to go with it. Today, I got the urge to draw Sia, one of my favorite singer/songwriters, so I did. She's such an interesting person! And although I chose a very normal photo of hers to draw, she's very fashionably crazy at times, in an almost Gaga way (she's not a Gaga wanna be or anything, her career was established before Gaga was big). I was just afraid that because she also has semi-similar facial features to Gaga that if I drew a picture of her being a little zanier, people think I was attempting to draw Lady Gaga.

Day 81: Random Sketching

"The essence of drawing is the line exploring space."

-Andy Goldsworthy

I wasn't inspired to draw anything in particular today. And I've found that when that is the case, whatever I try to draw comes out pretty terrible. So today I just decided to practice sketching some random features.

Day 80: Mika

"Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today!

Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,

love, love me. Love, love me."

-Mika, "Love Today"

Day 79: Regina Spektor

"Outside the cars are beeping out a song just in your honor,

and though they do not know it, all mankind are now your brothers."

-Regina Spektor, "Human of the Year"

This doesn't have anything to do with day, but the idea to draw Regina Spektor occurred to be last week, and I've really wanted to draw her face since then. Her eyes are so interesting, I had to try drawing them! And because I had time today, I decided to attempt a sketch of Regina. 

Day 78: Sunrise

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness."

-Unknown

I'd never heard this quote before I found it when I was searching for quotes for today, but this one really touched me. It just feels so hopeful, and I think that it could apply to a lot of people in a variety of different situations. I think it may be one of my new favorite quotes.

I was just going to practice drawing random things, eyes, noses, mouths and such, but ended up building around the first eye I drew into one picture. This week's theme is dar, and I figured since the day starts with a sunrise it made since to start this week with a sunrise.