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.