The day after my butterfly shoot, I decided to study their patterns and I sketched them from life. This was difficult because they hardly sit still. It was very interesting to watch them get nectar. They use their proboscis in a very interesting way that relates the flower. While they get nectar, the flower sprinkles them with pollen. I want to sketch more bugs in life and I hope spring brings more!
The bush outside of my front door is very fragrant and butterflies love it. There were at least 5 different butterfly species that I could count and oddly they gathered by species on the bush. I decided to do a short butterfly photoshoot and these two pictures are my favorite from the shoot. I love springtime; it is so inspiring!
This is an evil stepmother that I made up in my art history class. We were studying gothic architecture and I think she is inspired by this.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1zgknH/:1ajXIwl1-:OEnljxji/hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/xhtml-chunked/ch02s05.html/
This website rules if you are trying to draw, sketch, recreate a hand. Super useful.
I drew two friends from work in the way I think of them. One girl I work with is gorgeous and she sort of looks like an avatar without being striped and blue. The other is a friend from work that reminds me of a sweet chipmunk with glasses. He is always peppy and excited to be wherever he is. He really reminds me of a cartoon chipmunk.
I baked banana nut bread from scratch! with organic bananas! and from memory! I didn’t use a cookbook or anything. I kind of tried to add some extra things like cinnamon and cardamom to change it up and I’m very pleased with the way it turned out. I knew it was good when one of the chefs from work named Condelarrio took a bite and and exclaimed that it was the best thing he had ever eaten (probably not true but still).
I had a moment this week to do planting again (thank god)! I think everyone should have a plant. It’s so rewarding to watch them grow and use them. I even planted one of my plants in a pot that I threw and glazed myself (top picture). I can’t wait to use the herbs in the last picture. I planted pineapple sage, mint, and cinnamon basil. I’ve never cooked with any of these but I’m really excited to use them.
I stumbled upon how to make this sketch online. It was a really cool concept. First you make the vertical lines and then add one horizontal that acts as the axis for all the others to go off of. I like this sketch a lot because it’s interesting to look at. I want to recreate it in illustrator.
This band, Ails and Remedies, put their band poster up at one of my jobs to announce that they were playing there on Saturday. Their band poster looked like it could use some help so I tried to think of others ways they could represent themselves. This is just playing with font ideas.
