30DDC: Day 1 - Yourself

Welcome to Day 1 of my 30 Day Drawing Challenge!  The first prompt was yourself.  At first, I tired to do an actual portrait, I really did.  But it turned out horribly and looked absolutely nothing like me, so I decided to do this instead.  That's me with the book, in case you got lost in my horrible rambling.  I'm surrounded by all the things that make me who I am.  Oh, and no, my hair does not really have cool streaks and stuff.

On a completely separate note, here are two photo's of the sunrise from my dorm room this morning.  I took them half hanging out the window, so I hope that you like/appreciate them!

Challenge Yourself

Happy Hump Day, everyone.  I am well into the swing of things back on campus, and am loving it.  Either I'm being more efficient than last semester, or I have a lot less work, because I've been finding myself with a lot more extra time than I've ever had before while going to school.  Don't get me wrong, I do plenty.  I have at least two classes every weekday, I work two days a week, sing in one of the student choirs every week, and am continuing rehab on my knee.  Never the less, I still find myself wondering if I should pick up another hobby or something.

Now, I've posted a bit of my art over the past year and a half.  I've recently met someone who's challenged me to think about taking it from simply a hobby to an actual business.  Before I do that, I feel like I need to change it up a bit, use more variety, things like that.  So when I Stumbled (yes, I did just use the website as a verb) across this yesterday, I couldn't have been more thrilled with the idea.

I am going to do this 30 Day Drawing Challenge.  And yes, today technically would have been the best day to start, seeing as it's the first of the month and all.  Oh well.  You should know me well enough by now to know that I'm a bit of a procrastinator.  Anyways, I'll be posting my daily drawings, so keep checking back!

Of Baguettes and Art

For my first weekend back, it has been fairly relaxing so far.  Justine and I have early classes on Friday, and after we decided to go out for our first lunch back in the city.  We went to this little restaurant called Food Inc. Trattoria.  

Now, I've personally heard mixed reviews about this place.  My roommate Christine, our resident foodie, was not really impressed with their dinner.  I personally thought they had good food, but I went for lunch, so take away from this what you will.  Maybe it's more of a lunch place.

I got their Italian Panini, with mozarella, tomato, basil, olive oil and vinegar. It was amazing!

Justine got their pear and brie sandwich, which she loved and absolutely devoured.

All in all, it was a good meal.  We were in the neighborhood to visit a cute little yarn shop called Atelier Yarns.  I'm getting back into knitting, as I discovered over break that it was a good replacement for chewing my nails while watching TV.  Hopefully I will get enough of my scarf done to post pictures of soon!

And in keeping with my New Year's resolution to finish projects before starting new ones, I did a new large drawing last night.  It's a little bit different than anything I've ever done, inspired by some of the mythological pictures I'm studying in my Impressionism class.  I like it a lot, although I'm not sure how I feel about subjects like this for future work.

Happy Weekend, everyone.

The Quiet Days Are Gone

I can hardly believe that break is finally over, but it's true.  The five weeks flew by so quickly!  I fly back to San Fran tomorrow (today?) and before I do I wanted to post some pictures from a few weeks ago.  They were all taken on a photo-exploration with my brother and dad, at the Upper Newport Bay.

The Upper Newport Bay Interpretive Center has many different trails that you can follow, though sometimes it's more fun to just forge your own.  The hills and weird gaps that required jumping over were not my favorite, however, because I've been having some knee troubles.  I've spent the last two weeks of break in physical therapy to treat my irritated and inflamed IT Band, so hopefully the hills and stairs of San Francisco will not be an issue.  Keep your fingers crossed!

The next time I post, it will be from my home in the rainy city.