Sad:
Anguished:
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Daily Drawing No. 65 (yes, 64 is currently MIA): Happy
Technically I am missing Sunday’s prompt, which is supposed to be a collection of assorted heads (which I basically already did for the Faces prompt), but while I catch up on that, I did do the others for this week, which are all facial expressions.
First up is Happy (and Ecstatic). I’ve included the neutral expression here for reference.
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The unbearable-ness of being
It’s been awhile since I actually just rambled about something on the blog, so here I am posting words and stuff.
I feel behind on the Making Art Everyday thing and have not, in fact, been making art every day. This month switched to people, and it started okay, with the different facial features. I missed Friday, which was bad, then I missed Saturday, which was worse. I caught up on Friday and Saturday, which is good, but then fell behind on Sunday, then Monday and now Tuesday.
I’m not sure if I’ll do anything tonight, which means I’ll have to catch up on three days:
- Heads
- Happy
- Sad
It is appropriate that it ends on sad. I am sad. This may change, we’ll see. But right now I am anti-inspired. And looking at the hair sketch still makes me weep. I may have to redo it even if I never do another drawing after that, just to know it’s been replaced.
I have no more thoughts on this so I’ll end here. Perhaps I will post again soon. Perhaps it will be an amusing cat.
Or maybe I’ll post an amusing cat RIGHT NOW.
Daily Drawing No. 63: Hair
I hate hair and hate this sketch. And I’m still a day behind. Onward!
UPDATE: I am still working on an alternate hair prompt, but went back and modified this one to make it more tolerable. The modified version is directly below, the original is below that.
Also, just for fun, here’s a slidey version to compare the two:
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Daily Drawing No. 62: Facial proportions
What it says on the tin. I followed the drawing guide, so I was able to make some (non-realistic) faces that aren’t hideously deformed. Hooray!
Once again, I decided to make some changes immediately after posting. Nothing too dramatic, see if you can spot the changes and win a fabulous nothing!
Current:
Original:
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Daily Drawing No. 61: Ears
Ears are clearly not my specialty, but I can see the problem areas I have and with problems come solutions! In theory, anyway.
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Daily Drawing No. 60: Mouths
Mouths and more mouths.
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Daily Drawing No. 59: Noses
A bunch of stylized noses done using black pencil.
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Daily Drawing No. 58: Eyes
This week’s prompts are all related to the face, with a different part each day, so it looks sort of like making a Frankenstein’s monster.
Today is Eyes, though technically I just drew one. Imagine its twin just off to the left.
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Daily Drawing No. 57: Devon Rex
A basic black and white drawing of the cat breed with the freaky big ears. Not great, but relatively quick.
EDIT: I decided to go back and add some gray shading to it and remove the lines. The original is #2 below.
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Daily Drawing No. 56: Calico
I tried a few different ways to color/apply fur before settling on a combination of the dry ink and 6B pencil brushes.
This is probably the most “realistic” cat I’ve done. And it flies!
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February 2021 weight loss report: Up 1.3 pounds
Fat fat fat.
Although I went up a not-terrible 1.3 pounds month over month, this does not tell the full calorie-rich tale.
The more interesting stat is that since the start of the year I have acquired three solid (or perhaps jelly-like) pounds of body fat. This is not good.
At one point I basically gave up and just started eating whatever. Except donuts, since none are convenient. Cookies? Yes. Crackers? Yep. Pop-Tarts? They want on sale and I laid claim to them.
The result is that I have now undone all but about 10 pounds of the weight I shed in my Big Year of Weight Loss back in 2008 (and remembering, too, that I actually dipped even lower in subsequent years).
Tomorrow is a new month and I will be going snack-free, except for fruit and vegetables. I will not eat giant, fatty meals. I will keep walking and resume running.
And hopefully my weight will finally trend back downward again.
We shall see.
Stats:
February 1: 176.5 pounds February 28: 177.8 pounds (up 1.3 pounds) Year to date: From 174.2 to 177.8 pounds (up 3.6 pounds) And the body fat (now year to date rather than just the past month): January 1: 22.4% (39.1 pounds of fat) February 28: 23.7% (42.1 pounds of fat) (up 3 pounds)