It took me all week, but I finally finished my dress for the Renaissance Festival. We’re going on Sunday, so I barely made it in time! It looks much better than the pictures show, as always. And I did run into a couple of problems. I messed up on the skirt and didn’t cut out [...]
I just don’t seem to have the time I used to for posting here these days. Thalia, AL and I keep very busy. Every week we have our mom groups, music lessons, yoga, weights or running at the gym, weekly 5k at Salsa Brava, dog training, MAJOR gardening, hiking groups, swimming lessons… I’ll be adding [...]
I think you know this guy. This took me about an hour and a half to complete. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I’m not very good with details yet. But it does look like him at least.
My first digital artwork. I was just following a tutorial, so it really isn’t very impressive at all. But it was SO MUCH FUN. I’m very fond of this little guy now. I think I may use that tutorial to make AL an ALapeño soon. Anyway, what was so impressive is how dynamic the character [...]
I’m starting on portraits next. First up is the side portrait. As a “warm-up” exercise, the book had me copy a painting called Madame Pierre Gautreau by John Singer Sargent (1883). It is just a “simple” line drawing with no colors, lights or shadows. The main point is to teach the proper location of facial [...]
This next drawing was really a pain. It took me two days. Since I can only devote about and hour a day, this must have taken about 2 hours. I can NOT get the facial features right. But the book says I need to stop obsessing over my mistakes and just do it and learn [...]
Got a new book a couple days ago. It teaches complete beginners how to draw. Since I never really formally learned how to draw, I figured this might be a good way to work on my tablet drawing and learn how to actually draw in the process. I’ve already learned a lot. I’m almost halfway [...]
New year! So time for me to pick up a new hobby, right? Hahaha… yeah. Like I need another hobby. But I’m doing it anyway. In fact, I started today. AL got me a Dragon Art book for Christmas. I’ve been sketching some dragons these past couple years and wanted to make more to hang [...]
I’ve been sick the past few days. Not terribly so, but I’m pretty much worthless. Yesterday, however, I was determined to make a nice meal. I’ve been into cooking lately, and we’re taking full advantage of that. I found a recipe last week for Chicken and Dumplings… completely homemade and from scratch. Well, I was [...]