Drawing for 10th September

I couldn't focus on much for long tonight so I kind of doodled instead. Might have been the beer? I like the clowny person at top left. Also the eye on the far right. That was fun to draw, but pen can be so unforgiving if you make a boo-boo. Ah well.

Daily Drawing for 9-9-9

I couldn't find my scanner yesterday because it was hiding under a mound of clothes. Here it is for you now! Whee!

First daily drawing!

I drew this in class today - well, I drew the Quail in Space in my lectures and then came home and made it into a show poster... and then photoshop crashed cos it was a mega file (can print 300dpi A2 size suckas!) and I had to start from the raw scanned image AGAIN.

Every time I get lax about saving files, the universe kicks me in the reproductives.

Don't expect stuff to be this polished every day, cos it's most probable it'll be a lot more doodle-like.

Woo! Sleep time!

Life modelling

Not life modelling as in getting nakey and letting people draw you, but life modelling meaning looking at a nakey person and making a 3D representation of them.

I'm not very good at it, but it was fun. Given time I could get better maybe. I think making a bust would be more my style because I like faces way more than bodies (and by like, I mean that I find it easier to make visual representations of faces)

I'm going to start doing a daily drawing from Monday - I was going to start tomorrow but remembered that I have a twin-flavoured 7th birthday party to attend at my dad's house tomorrow. I can't believe they're 7 already!!


Seems like yesterday they were just babies! Sigh. I'm getting old.

Daily Drawing?

Seeing I'm at Art School this year, and endeavoring to push myself into being more creative and drawing more frequently, I've been thinking about doing a daily drawing and posting them on my blog.

Sounds like a good idea?

Cos I know I love it when Liz and Gi at the friendly teacake post theirs, as well as Lauren Nassef's drawings, and Chris Piascik's typographic treats are wondrous to receive in my reader too.

So do you reckon I ought to? Yeah? I think I'll stick to doing the drawings more often if I know someone out there is interested in seeing them.

But no pressure.

My flat is awesome

The other night our flat decided to have an evening of drinking. We drank gin and rum and absinthe (hoorah for Samdrub!), played drinking games and singstar, and then fancied ourselves up to head to town. The result is the above photo.

We walked to town through the gardens and this happened:



The result of this was a lost wallet and cellphone in the middle of the botanical gardens in the pitch black. Nice work. Luckily, my wonderful man (pictured below) was able to find the missing items which allowed us to continue on to town:

Good work Champ! In town, cigarettes were smoked, dances were danced, and burgers were eaten. I think we ought to do this more often.

Knives at Noon

Tim Couch, Radio1 Friday drive host extraordinaire, and drummer for local lads Knives at Noon got me to take some photos for them a wee while back and I realised today I never popped them on here! If you're interested, you can see them here, otherwise just enjoy the family photo nostalgia in this post.

Haunted Love Tour Poster

This was about the only other thing I did during the holidays of much consequence. I finished it up about two minutes ago (there were some date changes that needed made due to double bookings) and now that everything's all A-OK, I thought I'd share it with you guys.

It's nice putting hand-drawn elements into posters, and having them feel quite sparse, letting the main image draw you in rather than bucketloads of text. Huzzah! Here's hoping the Haunted Lovelies get me to do more things for them in future, also hoping you go check them out if you haven't heard them before. Their new EP, Darkness in Diamond City is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, just like their darling faces. It's boppy and sweet and dark and harmonious and rocking and so bloody good.

GO LISTEN NOW!

Sunley

One of the things I did over the holiday was to do the album artwork and layout for the new Sunley album, Apologies. You can listen to bits here.

Evan pretty much gave me free reign which was wonderful, and it was really nice doing some design work again. Seriously, I love it in small doses and frequently. So long as I don't have a huge workload from school or other projects, doing design is one of my favourite things. Yeah!

Five Weeks

I'm feeling a bit shamefaced about admitting why I haven't posted on my blog for over FIVE WEEKS. I mean, something big must have been going on right? Wrong. I've been on holiday for the past five weeks.

Oh, so you've been out of town? Away somewhere awesome and removed from technology? Umm, actually no. I've been in Dunedin. At my flat for the first two weeks, then cat-sitting for my Mum who WAS in some remote awesome location (Niue) but still had the interwebs and skyped me fairly frequently.

I've just been playing the Sims and hanging out with the cats and it has been THE BEST holiday I've had in ages. Mum and Paul have a lovely big warm house, four radpants cats, a high-def tv, fast broadband (I know, no excuse) , and CONTINUOUS HOT WATER making taking a shower easily one of the high points of my day.

I think the real reason I haven't blogged is cos there's been very little to blog about. I'm going to do one or two posts of the few things I did manage to do on my ridiculously long mid-year break, so there is that right?

In any case, this posting drought is pretty much over as the holidays have finished, and I've been back at school since Monday - Mum and Paul get back on Sunday and I'll be back in the coldness of a student flat once more. Yay for ten layers of clothing indoors!

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