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!