20 DHC Day 6

20 DHC Day 5

20 DHC Day 4

I know it is early but I had some extra time on 

my hands (PUN) and figured I'd draw the next set

20 DHC Day 3

Nothing like a cup of coffee and a sketch pad 

to start your day :D

20 DHC Day 2

getting there.... I think

20DHC Day 1

SO I decided to start my 20 Day

Hand Challenge Early.  I haven't 

had much to do lately and my last two 

weeks are relatively early and I just

couldn't see the point in waiting any 

more.  So here is day one :D

Flapper Self Portrait

Coffee Cups and C++

There is no denying that C++ is my least 

favorite class of all time.  I may even hate 

it more than math.  Because I dislike it so

my form of entertaining myself today was

seeing how many times I could draw my

coffee cup in 45 minutes. I'm sad to say I 

only got two done and was on my way to

finishing the third by the time class ended. 

the only question is what will I draw in my 

next class? 

The Gilgers' Take Bowling Green

 

It was sibs weekend at Bowling Green this 

weekend, my brother Ben came up to see me.  

He is 18 and I am 20 so there is only a two year 

age gap.  I am lucky we are so close.  It is shocking 

to me  to hear stories or people that don't get along 

with their sibs.  I don't know with out Ben he 

gives me someone  to draw with. He and I are 

both artists of sorts I'm more digital and he is a painter.  

It was so great to have him up to see me and him being here 

also motivated me to draw more.  We sat and sketched for 

hours and I never got bored.  We did stuff like that all the 

time back home and it was nice to be back at it again.  

So I owe a thank you to my baby brother for bringing me 

a reminder of home. 

My Summer Challenge

Whenever I am around people who draw all the time the first thought that comes to mind is "I WANT TO DO THAT!"  I feel like I can draw but I need to be better, I know there are defiantly a lot of things I have to work on and I know there even more that I need to learn.  So while looking at some other people character drawings I asked them how do you get that good?  The answer was lock yourself in a room with enough food to survive for a few days and do nothing but draw.  Now I'm not going to go that extreme but I may do something similar.  I designed a summer challenge to get better at drawing, my first challenge is called twenty days of hands.  I found some drawing tutorials on stumbleupon and deviant art and have a tutorial a day in my sketch book for twenty pages.  I'll do the same thing with feet, draw nothing but feet for twenty days.  It doesn't have to be long I could just take an hour a day to learn.  When I'm done with that I'll think of some more challenges but I plan on spending an hour a day this summer drawing something!

Grave of the Fireflies

   Ow my heart hurts!  I just saw "Grave of the Fireflies"

   for the first time.  That was the most painful movie I

   have ever seen.  No not painful like "this is a bad movie"

  painful like this is really sad but I can't stop watching.

 It was just such a powerful film, I loved the relationship

 between Seita and Setsuko.  Which made it even more

  horrible when they died.  I learned stuff about WWII

 I never knew before.  My heart is broken for all those

 people.  I respect this film for the impact it had on me

...but I don't think I'll rush to see it again anytime soon.

Tangled

So last night was the first time I've seen the movie 

Tangled.  I cannot remember the last Disney Movie 

I enjoyed this much!  It was entertaining and not overly

cliche.  Yea there were moments but I still liked them. 

Watching films like this give me a new found inspiration, 

I already love what I do but I want to do what they did in 

Tangled I want to speak to an audience like that, make them 

feel for characters that I created.  I want to create beautiful 

moving stories.  So thanks Tangled for reminding me why I 

am doing this.