Merry Christmas everybody!!Things have calmed down quite a bit here at home, we're now all sitting off doing our own things after greedily tearing into all of our presents.
A very lovely Christmas! My parents actually managed to find me a deer stalker hat and coat at a vintage store in Guelph, which makes me insanely squeaky and happy in adoration.
I realize I'm a large geek, but I don't particularly mind.
Mom and dad also gave me a starter set of prisma colour markers, as I asked, and a wee set of coloured .5 micron pens.
I got a few new quilts this year, one of which was my mothers first art quilt she ever made, dedicated to her favourite art student in the lowest corner. I also got a new snuggle rug from my nanny and grampa, which was made with my favourite colours... Green and purple. I got a whole load of socks, underwear, leg warmers, and arm warmers that I'm thrilled over.
My sister gave me a House M.D. calendar, as well as a hand knitted pair of armwarmers that I'm wearing right now, and that match in colour to my new deerstalker coat. James found me a small carved pig from Chinatown that I love to bits and cannot wait to make a pendant to hang around my neck.
So yes, a very very lovely Christmas. I'm happy to be home; I'm realizing that I missed my family, and slightly regretting that I'm going to be heading home Monday morning. Damn portfolio.
I've been drawing a lot this break. I brought home my watercolours because I knew there was no photoshop at home. Even if there WAS photoshop, E-Tab was going to be staying at home. So, I decided that I would bring my watercolours; that way, if I wanted to colour anything, I'd have to practice!
I wound up drawing quite a few things, two of which I can't put up until I give them to the people they are meant for, and one I can't put up because it's too large to scan. So until then, I present the fairy I painted for my friend Meagan. I painted her in my favourite colours, and did my best to make her look tiny and frail and lightwieght.
I do believe I failed.
Oh well, I have to better practice the distortion of female anatomy. Her rib cage is far too big for her waist. I was happy with it anyways, as I realized that watercolours are actually an amazing medium, and I wanted to do more. So, I proceded to do more. By the end of Christmas Eve eve, I had drawn, inked, and painted an 11x14 picture of two of my characters doing ab it of adventuring.
The reasoning is because I found an 11x14 frame at the dollar store that day. As I lay in bed that night, I decided I wanted to buy that frame. But what would I put in it? I have 11x17 bristol board here at home with me, and I had my watercolours. Well then, all I needed was something to draw! So, I turned on the lights, scribbled some thumbnails and started to blow up my thumbnails into full sized drawings. I fell asleep, woke up the next morning, and continued. On and off through the day I worked, and when I finished, around ten o'clock that night, I was satisfied. There's so much more I could do, but for this current project, it's alright.
I'm still drawing, preparing to set up two character age meme's as soon as I get home. I've drawn Suka, and I've drawn Tinette. Tinette looks like a little boy when she was five. I highly enjoyed drawing Tina in different age brackets! She changes in each one.
Alright, I think I'm done typing on a computer on Christmas.
~Annie
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