I've been trying to draw more from life now, to get back into that sketching habit that I, truth be told, never really had.
I was much more of a set up in front of a nice landscape and sit there for hours kind of girl. Once I drew a mansion with gel pens and sat in the sun for 6 hours. My dad got sunburnt waiting for me. Another time my family went on a hike around a lake and I sat and painted the lake.
I work in the Rotch library at MIT, and I thought it might be fun to start documenting all the things behind the desk. Not that there's really anything super interesting, but I do sit at that desk for many hours per week, so why not?
This is one of our trusty bar code scanners. Sometimes it fails at its job. We love it anyways.
Recently I've been on a handlettering kick. I've always looked at beautiful brush calligraphy and lusted over the skill, and I've finally decided to kick myself in the butt and start trying to learn the skill as well. I found some Instagram handlettering + doodling challenges and I picked two to combine (just to see how creative I could get, I guess?). The challenges are #hobonichichallenge by @penguincreative and #surelysimplelettering / #surelysimpleart by @surelysimpleblog.
The prompts for this one are favorite fruit (#hobonichichallenge) and Cinderella (#surelysimplelettering).
I just started out so my strokes are still pretty unsure and a bit wobbly. Hopefully this will improve as I continue to practice! Also, I want to try doing different fonts - my writing tends to be commanded by the pen in general anyway (my handwriting changes wildly from pen to pen, and I don't really know why) so that'll be a challenge in itself.
Tried out some handlettering to remind myself to look forward. And also, to not feel so bad about my lipstick obsession.
It was very cold in NYC, so I doodled it.
I'm a tad behind on this drawing thing, but I'll catch up over the weekend. Hopefully. For now - this is part of the #DNDChallenge that I found on Instagram! I wanted to try doing something really detailed, but I feel like this is a bit busy. Next time I might try to break things up with thicker lines and more white space.
I've started trying to doodle and draw more often (mostly because I've realized that I don't draw anymore and that's sad), and I figured I'd start posting one every week.
I know that the Paris attacks have been over for a while now, but we talked about them and the refugee crisis in my French class on Tuesday. Talking about it reminded me of the video where a reporter asked a little boy if he was scared, and when he said yes his dad made him feel feel better by telling him that the flowers would protect them. That memory inspired this doodle.
