100king to Improve 3/100

Here he is. The finished project. In the darkest spots I used charcoal but everything else was done with my handy-dandy mechanical pencil. He smells nice too! (I had to spray him with hair spray so the charcoal wouldn't all rub off)

100king to Improve 2.5/100

I love this man. I don't know who he is, but I love him. Most of all I love his face. This is the face that changed my opinion about wrinkles. I love them! I can't wait to get them! They give a face character and it's so much more fun to draw a face full of wrinkles and laugh lines than a smooth super model. If you draw one of each and set them next to each other, which one do you think that people are going to love? The most beautiful one, of course! The one full of wrinkles!

He's a WIP, I really need to get back to work on him. Actually, I think I'll go do that right about...now.

100king to Improve 2/100

Everybody, meet The Walrus Man. Every time I look at this picture I shake my head, not because I did such a bad job but because this is really what the man looked like. Like a walrus.

Meet my biggest fan

I've been studying a martial arts called Son Shield Kenpo for almost 4 years. Let's say 3 1/2 to be safe. After you get up into the intermediate ranks, you get to choose a weapon and mine is the Chinese fighting fan. I know it sounds super duper girly but I wouldn't want to fight anybody who knew how to use a pair 'a those.

Walk a mile in their shoes...

Do ya kinda get that it's a boot? Cuz that's what I was going for but I'm not sure if I really got that across...

Put on your glasses, Shades. Give'm what they want.

Have you ever seen "That Thing You Do"? One of my favorite movies of aaaaaaaaaaall time. So many good lines come from that movie! It's just so funny!!! Anyway, I think of the drummer, "Shades" everytime I put my sun glasses on.

Last minute trip

We were sitting on the couch, it's about 12:30 and it was Mom's last day off while Jordan was with us (we traded her for my brother for 2 weeks) and our plan to go to the pool fell through. So we started looking up things to do in Iowa that would be fun for a girl of 6. We found out that tickets bought after 5:00 were half off at the state fair so we packed a lunch and started out for our 3 hour drive.

We didn't get to see the art building which kinda bummed me out but we still went on two rides with the little girl (carousel and ferris wheel) and we ate deep-fat-fried twinkies, and snicker bars AND a twinkie log (frozen twinkie dipped in white chocolate, almonds and covered in whip cream).

This view is from the top of the ferris wheel. It was the first time I'd seen an amusement park lit up at night.

Ooops, went out of order!

Ooops, this page was supposed to come before the last one but oh well. Anyway, I still put Catalina Dressin' on my pizza.

Artichoke Boot?

This picture represents part 2 of my crazy summer (actually it's part 3 - no, 4 - cuz I had camps and VBS in between here somwhere). We took my niece Jordan to a nature park for the day and her favorite part was walking around the flower garden where we found this strange phenomenon. My drawing really doesn't do it's queerness justice.

Steve and Miss Millie

Real "southern hospitality" means that you let 11 sweaty, stinky, gross northerners who have been working on your house all day, into your home, cook them a good Cajun meal and even let them sit on your sofa.

Beautiful Biloxy Bag

I went on a mission trip this summer to M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. We helped rebuild houses for Katrina victims. I say "rebuild" cuz that's what we wanted to do, but what I really mean is "repaint". I had the best group a person could ask for and even though we worked in a heat index of 105, it felt good! I get to go again in January and I'm just countin down the months!

In the middle of the week we had a free day where we got to be tourists so we went to the beach, ate out, went sight seeing, and did a little shopping. That's when I set my eyes on this gorgeous bag. It was fifteen dollars, and I'm a bit of a penny-pincher since I don't earn a whole lot (10 dollars a week for mowing the lawn) but my mom told me that if I didn't get it, I would regret it for a long time.

I wish I could say that my bag held only the most romantic things: an old first-edition of Alice and Wonderland (I actually can't stand that story), love letters from my true love, a pair of cute reading glasses (I'm really near-sighted. Don't need reading glasses) and the like....Unfortunately all it holds right now is the school books I take to art while I wait for my class period.

It's been a while

So it's been a long time since I've last made a post on my blog, and I've actually missed it. We had some computer problems so I wasn't able to use my scanner and I've been crazy busy this summer. But not so much that I couldn't get a little drawing in. So here comes a whole slew of pictures, so get ready!