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I made my boyfriend a Valentine’s day card that revolves around the fact that my bunny keeps peeing on him. This is why we can’t have nice things. Literally.

2//52. (I started this last night so it counts as being drawn during the second week of 2012 shh shhhh it’s all good.) Mila! Because I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of drawing pretty faces, and she clearly qualifies. Okay, so I seem to have some sort of aversion to the concept of ‘easing’ back into drawing. My drawing modes are ‘ten minute scribble then I cry because it’s horrible and I assume I can’t draw anymore’, or ‘six hours of neurotic perfectionist attention to detail’ (even when I intended this to only be a rough sketch??). I guess it could be worse? On an artisty note, while this isn’t quite fully realistically coloured, I consider it a huge personal improvement that I painted it this way in Photoshop and not in grayscale and I didn’t have to edit the fuck out of my original colours to get it like this or anything. I just had a decent palette from the start which is rare for me. Yay! View high resolution

2//52.

(I started this last night so it counts as being drawn during the second week of 2012 shh shhhh it’s all good.)

Mila! Because I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of drawing pretty faces, and she clearly qualifies.

Okay, so I seem to have some sort of aversion to the concept of ‘easing’ back into drawing. My drawing modes are ‘ten minute scribble then I cry because it’s horrible and I assume I can’t draw anymore’, or ‘six hours of neurotic perfectionist attention to detail’ (even when I intended this to only be a rough sketch??). I guess it could be worse?

On an artisty note, while this isn’t quite fully realistically coloured, I consider it a huge personal improvement that I painted it this way in Photoshop and not in grayscale and I didn’t have to edit the fuck out of my original colours to get it like this or anything. I just had a decent palette from the start which is rare for me. Yay!

1//52. Because you all seem to really like my face. You all know I’m really neurotic right? So I can just skip the part where I type a block of text describing my creative process (i.e. “oh shit oh shit what am I doing I can’t draw anymore this is the worst aaaaaaaah hey this isn’t so bad”) and get straight to the part where I say that I drew something! And I don’t totally hate it! And that’s pretty cool! Okay good. View high resolution

1//52. Because you all seem to really like my face.

You all know I’m really neurotic right? So I can just skip the part where I type a block of text describing my creative process (i.e. “oh shit oh shit what am I doing I can’t draw anymore this is the worst aaaaaaaah hey this isn’t so bad”) and get straight to the part where I say that I drew something! And I don’t totally hate it! And that’s pretty cool! Okay good.

(Source: thatartzygirl)

Aand here’re some random post its from my little failed “drawing every day” initiative earlier this year. I think my favourite’s the bottom left, but I’m kind of ambivalent towards the set as a whole. View high resolution

Aand here’re some random post its from my little failed “drawing every day” initiative earlier this year.

I think my favourite’s the bottom left, but I’m kind of ambivalent towards the set as a whole.

(Source: thatartzygirl)

Hey look I drew a thing. Attempting to colour but apparently colours are haard sigh. View high resolution

Hey look I drew a thing.

Attempting to colour but apparently colours are haard sigh.

Guess who got moo cards again? I don’t even care that I’ll probably never use them and they have a moo logo. They’re so pretty and were practically free (5 bucks as opposed to the usual 25 - thank you photojojo newsletter!)  You should all buy some, if you’re in need of business cards or whatever, they’re super nice and well done, and if you do actually feel like doing so, may as well use my referral link, right? (I’m basically a big cheerleader for the internet.) View high resolution

Guess who got moo cards again? I don’t even care that I’ll probably never use them and they have a moo logo. They’re so pretty and were practically free (5 bucks as opposed to the usual 25 - thank you photojojo newsletter!) 

You should all buy some, if you’re in need of business cards or whatever, they’re super nice and well done, and if you do actually feel like doing so, may as well use my referral link, right? (I’m basically a big cheerleader for the internet.)

Oh look I drew half a face. I’m out of practice with charcoal. And lazy. And um this is just very half-assed, it probably could be nice, but I don’t particularly care about this anymore. I will stop my commentary now because it could go on forever. Charcoal, 1.5hrs. I’ll probably never work on this again. View high resolution

Oh look I drew half a face.

I’m out of practice with charcoal. And lazy. And um this is just very half-assed, it probably could be nice, but I don’t particularly care about this anymore. I will stop my commentary now because it could go on forever.

Charcoal, 1.5hrs. I’ll probably never work on this again.

So, I drew this today, and it was the first time I’ve drawn since this and that was the first thing I’d drawn since… I don’t even know when. I literally drew this because I had a piece of paper and a ballpoint pen and my options were do nothing but stare at the wall or draw. So I drew. And it was fun! Though this is terrible. I mean, no offence if you happen to like it - yay! But this looks like something I would find in an agenda from five years ago, which just brings up a whole bunch of feelings that basically amount to “oh god what am I doing”. My problem being that I do like drawing, it probably makes me feel better than anything else, but I am so neurotic I can never bring myself to actually start work unless I do this - which is to say doodle something that gets me nothing but, maybe fifteen minutes of enjoyment followed by regret that I couldn’t commit to actually doing something nice. So basically my point is I suck and have too many feelings and don’t know what to do about anything. View high resolution

So, I drew this today, and it was the first time I’ve drawn since this and that was the first thing I’d drawn since… I don’t even know when. I literally drew this because I had a piece of paper and a ballpoint pen and my options were do nothing but stare at the wall or draw. So I drew. And it was fun! Though this is terrible. I mean, no offence if you happen to like it - yay! But this looks like something I would find in an agenda from five years ago, which just brings up a whole bunch of feelings that basically amount to “oh god what am I doing”. My problem being that I do like drawing, it probably makes me feel better than anything else, but I am so neurotic I can never bring myself to actually start work unless I do this - which is to say doodle something that gets me nothing but, maybe fifteen minutes of enjoyment followed by regret that I couldn’t commit to actually doing something nice.

So basically my point is I suck and have too many feelings and don’t know what to do about anything.

I also once drew Jessica Alba as a stripper and put it in my portfolio at the time (2009). Also, this is apparently my 800th post on tumblr. How about that. View high resolution

I also once drew Jessica Alba as a stripper and put it in my portfolio at the time (2009).

Also, this is apparently my 800th post on tumblr. How about that.

I drew this in a sketchbook for tenth grade art (2007). Huh. Funny, I actually kind of still like it for a change. View high resolution

I drew this in a sketchbook for tenth grade art (2007). Huh.

Funny, I actually kind of still like it for a change.