Day 204

"We must be our own before we can be another's."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This sketch started out based off of a photo, but I ended up changing the eyes a lot, so it's not really a drawing of the person that I set out to draw at first. Thus, this drawing really has no theme.

Day 203

Why is it that it's summer and I still feel like I have no time to draw anything on a lot of days, and thus hate everything I draw? Grrrrr.

Day 202: Peace

Day 201: Platinum Blonde

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know that I am not dumb... and I also know that I am not a blonde."

-Dolly Parton

I'm a big fan of the platinum blonde hair with dark eyebrows look. I think it's so chic and modern looking. If I weren't a redhead and thus at risk of making a significant number of people legitimately angry by dying my hair, and if I wasn't so freckled, and if my hair wasn't so thick, I would love to wear my hair in a platinum pixie cut, like this picture:

Day 200: Chic

Another super busy day with time for just a quick sketch. 

Day 199: Pouty

Day 198: Beach Dolls

"The cure for anything is the salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea."

-Isak Dinesen

I'm not a big fan or the beach myself (unless it happens to have a good amount of shade on it) but it's summer vacation, and I feel the need to draw something beach-related anyhow. 

I wanted to do something really fast, so I did a couple of the dolls that I've been doodling a lot lately. I can't really draw realistic looking people without looking at a photo yet, but cartoonish doll-like things are really easy.

Day 197: Ballerina

"In life, as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet."

Ballerinas fascinate me. They're artists and athletes at the same time, and probably one of the most disciplines groups of people in the world. The amount of time and physical discomfort that ballerinas must put into what they do is quite amazing.

Day 196: Ballet

"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery."

-Robert Caro

Day 195: Clothes

"The finest clothing made is a persons' skin, but, of course, society demands something more of this."

-Mark Twain

During my three hour long calculus class today, I had a little bit of time to do some doodling. I ended up sketching a couple outfits that I wish I owned/ could pull off (and added color when I got home).

Day 194: Green Dress

"Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

Day 193: Gotye

"I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that."

-Gotye

Day 192

Day 191

Once again, no access to a scanner...

Day 190: More Marilyn

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

-Marilyn Monroe

Day 189: Sunflower

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

-Helen Keller

Day 188

I hate having to blog when I don't have a scanner. Taking a picture of a 2D picture with a camera always makes it look weird and distorted.

Day 187: Valley

"Ever crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."

-Douglas Hyde

There's something about this quote that I really like. I'm not sure why; I think I just like the idea behind it.

Anyways, I finally had time to draw today, so I decided to go fully pastel, which usually takes me a bit longer.

Day 186: Lips

"Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war. and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."

-Jonathan Safran Foer

4th Quarter

This is just an extra sketch from last almost a week ago. On our last day of orgo lecture, my professor had us all trace or hands holding up four fingers, symbolizing something about the 4th quarter being ours (I can't remember what that was a reference to...) and, not surprisingly, but the end of the lecture, my hand tracing turned into this.