...And that is a cardinal. [/semi obvious.] I really don't feel like writing a description for this thing. :/ Because I'm pretty good at coming up with some lame descriptions. ;) hehehe.

Anyways, colored paper & charcoal on newsprint, ~456456 hours. Or so. (i'm slow! D:)
And stock credits go to http://sharp-stock.deviantart.com/
Yup.

Yosemite is nice. D:

Charcoal -> newsprint, ~3 hrs.
(I'm so slow. D:)

Squawk. Kind of.

G. delicata. :D Also known as Wilson's Snipe. Also known as those birds on the beach that will eat everything and anything.

~4hr, colored pencils on newsprint.
(Damn, that stuff is great. xD)

Reference picture found here: http://tinyurl.com/y92uzwd
Licensed under this license,: http://tinyurl.com/2dkzmd
which basically provides that I may adapt the work as long as I properly attribute it and provide it under a similar license. ;]

28 things you should know, especially if you care enough to read them.

Just need to vent or something.

1. I don't like you.
2. ittt annnoyyysss meeee whenn peoplleeee tyyyyppe liiiikee thisssssss
3. I have way too many pets. :P
4. Spelling things the English way is more interesting.
5. My grammatical correctness seems to be a function of my mood. Directly or inversely, though, I don't know.
6. I'm probably smarter than I look, that is if I don't look smart. ;)
7. I still don't like you.
8. That doesn't mean I don't think you're a perfectly good person, I just don't like you. :)
9. I once thought of 50 uses for a tin can. Surprisingly, this is more difficult.
10. I'm amused at how many negative things I'm typing. Shows a lot about me, eh?
11. I say ain't even though I ain't from Georgia.
12. This must be really boring. :D
13. i think if i 'forget' to capitalize it'll be more interesting for you. (that was a reflection of my views on society)
14. And yet, I'm going to capitalize this anyways.
15. I read books that I only halfway understand. To make up for that, I skip half of the chapters.
16. I wear hats indoors because I'd never dare to wear them outdoors.
17. Whenever I forget what I was planning on Googling, I actually Google 'I forgot what I was going to Google'.
18. ARE YOU BORED? (Comment!)
19. The Killers are like my freaking lifeblood. (deathblood?)
20. I really hate those amateur manga 'artists' who think they don't need to learn any drop of realism first. They do.
    
21. There are a lot of those kinds of people.
22. I seem to have a lot of harmless addictions that come and go: truffles, cheez-its, goldfish, tic-tacs, cough drops...
23. I actually have a favorite kind of paper; it's newsprint. :D
24. White chocolate isn't actually chocolate! D:
25. Poke wars are amusing.
26. I set my personal expectations way too high. I think.
    
27. Facebook: yet another one of my addictions. I swear, I should just delete my account.
28. Okay, I only got to 28. Maybe I'll add more later.
    

Wheee.

Oh, the places you can go when you have a parachute. ;]

Like off the side of planes. I'd imagine parachutes are very useful there. :)

Picture taken from Wikipedia's public domain, I believe it got there because it was taken by the U.S. Army. Killing people to prevent more deaths. Whee-hee. :/ Anyways, ~2347234 hours, charcoal +tiny bit of pastel on newsprint.

indonesia, pre-tsunami :)

So I was going through Wikipedia one day about a month ago, looking for things to draw, when I came across this HUGE multitude of pictures of Indonesia. They're all from somewhere around the 1910's-30's, and they're all amazingly vintage. :D So great. Even better, there's about 35,000 of them! I guess I'm going to be drawing for a long time, ne? Haha x]


Pictures taken from here: Un! Deux! Trois!
The pictures were donated by the Tropenmuseum to Wikipedia, under this license which basically provides that I may share/remix the image as long as I attribute it and provide it under a similar license.

Teehee. :]

Pot! :D

Pots, actually.
Ceramic. Not leaf.
Not illegal. :)

I actually really like this one. :D It took forever, though, so much detail. Worth it. :)

Hope you like it too, as always. :)

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• Picture was taken from here: Wikipedia!
  The picture was donated by the Tropenmuseum (whatever that is :]) to Wikipedia, under this license which basically provides that I may share/remix the image as long as I attribute it and provide it under a similar license.

'Tis a face....

Image credits go to a-t-i-s of deviantart.com, wonderful picture :) I was given permission to use it.

So this is the second time I've tried coloring the paper black and then erasing the picture. I really like it! owo; Heh. Hope you do too :)

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Some old art :)

Stuff that's a few weeks or so old, forgotten to upload it. Hope you like, as always :)
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'Tis a tree.

'Tis a tree. 'Tis a tree in my backyard. Wonderful, no?

Actually, I'm getting sick of it. So no, the actual tree isn't wonderful. It's on the border of annoying, really, drawing that tree.

I swear, I must be some kind of tree-drawing master by now. Eek, what a lame title. x]

So that's it for today, peeps. Sorry about the lack of TLDR-worthy text, my inner ramblings are occupied being poured into a journal of sorts.
Don't ask. ;)

Hope you liike it! :D
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wheee.

This may look like some forest in the wilderness...

Ah but it's not.
It's the pond by my house.

It is a nice pond, though. Lush. Green. I think it's been frozen over a few times this year. ANYWAYS, I did this today. (See? I'm not being lazy about posting it!) It was about the one time I got off my computer. I actually went outside. (Write this down, somebody!) Anyways, it took about an hour, and in the process of making it my right hand went numb, I knocked my pastels off the chair, I freaked out three birds, and I think my toenail turned purple.

Creating art is just so peaceful, you know?

Pastels on pastel paper, ~1 hour.
Hope you like it. Took long enough xD
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:)

Bliss.

The beach.

Exactly where I've wanted to be these past weeks.

Just seems so much easier than the daily grind of school & stress.

Know what I mean?

pastels and charcoal on pastel paper, 9"x9".
About 2 hours.

Hope you like it. :)
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shiny building, eh? :D

Actually physically it's probably quite dull. Well designed, but non-reflective. (Sniff.) heh :) Well, this is my latest picture, this one took me about a week, but I probably could have gotten it done sooner. I'm lazy as heck. ;P

Oh and this is the Chapel of St. Ignatius up at Seattle U. I want to live there so badly. D:

Pastel and some charcoal on construction paper.
Hope you like it :)
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Brie :)

This is based off of a picture taken a while back, 1990's-ish. It's Brie, my family's cat at the time. Beautiful kitty. :) (ALL my family's cats are adorable, duh!) At first I thought this was going to turn out really bad, based on the half completed version of it, but I surprised myself and now I love it. :)

Commentsquestionsconcerns? :O

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Greece! :)

My family and I were looking through some old photos on the web, and turns out my mom and dad went to Greece sometime ago. (Before kids. Obviously.) And they took this really pretty picture of these three windmills, too! :) So I was like HEY! I should draw/paint that! And I did, and this is the result. Voila~! :)

I also happened to draw/paint this right after I was looking through a book of World Art, a book that happened to have a lot of Impressionist (Van Gogh, Monet) paintings that I really liked. As you *might* or might not have noticed, I used that technique that they have (had?) and made the painting/drawing with a bunch of tiny little strokes. :) Yep. I like it, it has that kind of airy, light feel to it that Impressionist paintings had.

SO I hope you like it. :) It's one of my favorites that I've done so far.

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Yosemiteee. :)

Ah, yes, the week away from civilization that all eighth graders are forced to endure. Yosemite. :) Is a week from civilization a good or bad thing? Tell me. :D heh

SO. For once, I decided that instead of being a borderline semicriminal that I would use a picture that wasn't copyrighted by anyone and that somebody I know took. Heh. :) (As in my mom.) So yeah, that's about it... tell me what you think :)

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Salt water tastes bad. :)

It's..... Diamond Head! yepyep.:) That's a beach in Hawaii. (I think it's famous, but I don't know much about beaches.) Sure is pretty. :D

SO I was feeling nice. And my mom happened to grow up in Hawaii, and I *think* she went to Diamond Head a lot, so I made her this picture. :) I think it's really pretty, and I ALSO think that I'm much better at landscapes than I am at that flower down in the previous post. :)

(For those who don't understand thumbnails: click on the small picture to get a bigger, better picture. -u-;)

So once again, I got the picture from Wikipedia. :/ Probably not the best idea.... But don't worry, law! I'm going to start using my OWN pictures soon! Yep! So.... stay around and such. :)

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Hmm-mm. :o

Another one of my pastel paintings x] These are so fun! Anyways, I don't know if I like this one as much as I should. It just doesn't seem as realistic as I should, ya know? I dunno. xD I shouldn't criticize my own work, just be happy for the bit of talent I DO have, I guess. meh. :]

Anyways, I've been on Pandora, listening to my channel of Death Cab For Cutie-esque stuff. And mannn, there are some really good artists out there. Joshua Radin, Postal Service,.... and a buncha others that I didn't catch the name of. o_o; Anyways, if you by any slim chance like meaningful soft music checkitout. [/advertising]

:) Anyways, tell me what you think of the flowerr. Leave some comments for once! :D
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yummy!:]

So, here's the second pastel 'painting'. This one took SIGNIFICANTLY less time (like 1/7th the time) than the other one, because on the other I procrastinated a lot on the tomatoes. (Never doing something that repetitive again.) Plus on this one, I used a lot less of that whole 'opposite color shadows' thing, so I THINK it also looks a bit cleaner as a whole. I may be wrong. :)

Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, I didn't get this out of my head, I drew from a picture, like most sane people. ;) The picture I drew off of came from Wikipedia, and that picture is NOT MINE and copyright legal issues are not intended. Don't need any of that. o3o

ANYWAYS, I'm really not sure if the -real- picture, the physicalonpaper one, is fixative'd enough. o___o; It seems a bit smudgy to me. Hope that isn't an issue.

Sooo. TTYL, internet. ;D That's probably it for today.
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