Metallic purple gel pen and dying fine-liner on 3×5 cardstock. (the slightly lighter bits in the border are where the tape took some stuff with it.)
Didn’t make it down to the office this week, however I was able to start on another project while pet sitting! I ended up with bits of scrap cardstock in various little sizes from making the 3x5s, so I’m using them to make little drawings that might work as stickers!
As for stuff and things… my week has been so busy with other things, I haven’t had the time to really make progress on anything. Hopefully next week goes better on that front.
Hope you all have a lovely Valentine’s Day whatever your relationship status is, and a wonderful week!
3 by 5 and sharpies again. Also, I was off on the size of sharpies last time, they were fine and ultra fine, which was the sizes used here as well.
Stuff and things!
Classes: still not signed up, which I should probably do soon, however I want to make sure I have enough to pay for this website and taxes first. I do have a little saved to cover things if need be, but I would rather it didn’t come to that.
Social: I’m not ready yet.
Paintings: finished another one… two?… I don’t know, my log book for that stuff isn’t at home. Same dilemma as last time though, and I felt the same as last time, so same result. My wonderful sister did give me the idea of getting a light box for taking pictures of them. It is a bit lower on the list of things to put money towards, but it also sparked a few more ideas, so we’ll see what happens.
YouTube: working on some art videos, not the best set up for them, but when is it ever. Also need better pictures of the end results.
Streaming: doing as I thought it would, with pretty much just me in there (although some family members and possible others decided to watch the first one, for which I’m very thankful), struggling with the game and premise I chose (Morrowind is so SLOW, and I made it even SLOWER). However I also think that it is helping me be more comfortable with the idea of live streaming, and working on that skill, which will hopefully transfer over a little to an art live stream later. (no live streams this weekend though, I’m pet sitting)
Vehicle: My older brother fixed the problem!!! It still has issues, however it can drive, and that’s the important thing!
Website: haven’t had much time to poke at it this week, will poke at it later.
Hope you all have a wonderful week, and see many cool bugs! (unless you don’t like them, in which case I hope you see none.)
I don’t have much to write about, especially since at the time of writing I should be asleep because I have to be up a LOT earlier than usual for me, as I am pet sitting in the morning, but this managed to slip from my mind until midnight, so here I am.
Classes: found one, have not signed up for it yet.
Social: Posting a little bit (less than once a day), however no link for it yet, because I’m like that.
Painting: Finished four so far, and it is very different for me.
That’s all I feel like elaborating on right now, as this has taken me about an hour from turning on my computer and I should have been asleep about four hours ago.
I hope you all have a wonderful week, sleep well, and enjoy the picture! I am going to bed!!
Not a quality image. Neither was the last one, as I took them with my phone. Because my computer and scanner are not at the little office, I didn’t think to bring them home, and I haven’t really had the ability to go get them since I made them, which was the 28th…
Which also means I haven’t really been able to make more, as most of my materials are down there now.
Thankfully I did find some index cards that were hiding, and there is no shortage of random pens and mechanical pencils here. So when life gets a little too busy for me to get to the office to make something, I will just have to return to the early days of black, white, and whatever colored materials I happen to find.
And it’s only been a year and a half. Yay for improvement!
It’s kind of been one thing after another. Figuring out medical things, a friend passing, pets passing, being down to one car in a house of five (all with places to be), and most recently not having a fridge for two months because the one that would fit where the last one died took that long to get (thankfully the weather had been cool enough to store some things outside). So by the time I was recovered from one thing, another had happened.
There’s still quite a bit on my plate, and I’m still recovering, however I’m getting better at making things work, and I hope to continue doing so (As my family likes to say “trend towards improvement!”)! I still want a nap and big cup of cocoa though.
ps: thanks to my mom for letting me use her little office while she’s doing other things, it helps a lot!!!
Do you think a monster would survive under this ‘bed’?
This one was inspired by my bed eating my phone, and it was quite a pain to get it back. I had to take it apart a little, which is not something you want to be doing when you were about to go to sleep. That being said, I’m really happy with how this turned out! Especially considering I didn’t have a reference in front of me, or get up to go look at it!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and sleep well!
My scanner evidently hates colored pencils, because the horns and eyes turned out pretty good, and the sky and grass lost some color and coverage.
On another note. A few weeks ago one of my aunts asked how much I make on Redbubble, and since I’ve only had one sale during covid to one of my brothers, I didn’t know. Since then, I have looked at it, and I figured I’d share my answer here. Everything I have on Redbubble is currently at a 20% markup/artists margin, and the prices you see on there are the base+20%, so I would make .45 on a 2.69 sticker and 57.49 on a 344.96 metal print. I even went and made myself a spread sheet with a lot of the numbers and if it rounded up or down by less than a cent.
I think I was pushing myself a little to hard when I started Redbubble, so it’s kinda on a back burner right now. However, if I make something and you would like to see or have it on something, let me know and you might see it there!
Hope you are all having a wonderful time, and stay safe out there!
It got really hot this week! We were in the hundreds since Sunday, went to 109°F on Wednesday, then dropped down to 93°F on Thursday. The week before that, the highest was a 91°F. So the weather threw me for a loop. Some people I know really enjoyed it, and I’m really happy they did. I think I handled it pretty well. It did cause a can of seltzer to pop in my dad’s car while I was driving it, which made it smell like a baked good for a while awhile.
I was also scared to make a drawing during this time, because I wasn’t sure how the heat would affect my pens, and had a hard time finding an answer to that. I have found some answers to related things, and it seems like it might ok… I suppose it’s one of those “try it and see” things that I’ll do at some point.
Hope you all have a wonderful week, stay cool, and remember to stay hydrated!
