Chalk Drawings

Like I promised... I will upload the chalk drawings I did! They were a lot of fun and I wound up spending about 4 hours outside. My fingers hurt so much from blending I should have found a towel to do the dirty business.

 This one above took me the most amount of time. I also went through like 3 sticks of chalk. I had fun just randomly coming up with a design though, allowed for a lot of creative thinking when it came to how I was going to complete the designs and make it interesting. (Also, I swear the Starbucks plug wasn't intentional but my friends say it would make for a good commercial/advertising campaign. Lol!)

This was the first one that I did. Simple and didn't take too long. I think I started out a little hesitantly because I didn't have a plan and over thought it...however once I loosened up it just came naturally to me.

Also, Threadless.com is having a contest that involves the cartoon Adventure Time! So, I thought I would give it a try. I have a few designs that I really like and one that I need to add stuff to, to make a good tee-shirt design. Hopefully I'll not loose steam on it and submit it. Even if I don't win...it's a good way to prove to myself that I can follow through with things.

Mission accomplished this week. I posted and I created!

Brainstorming...

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "

Scott Adams

Well then, summer has finally settled into my bones and I've become lazy. I am a little upset at myself because I've had plenty of time to keep up with my goal of updating once a week and here I am, almost a month later, not having posted for 3 weeks.

What have I been doing then, if not drawing?
Well, I have been brainstorming. I have been analyzing who I am and what I want to do and how to accomplish it. I have been feeling scared to death that I am not good enough to get into the work I want to. I've been dying at the sight of how much graduate school costs (roughly $68,000 without tax or supplies) and contemplating forgoing the experience. I have also been writing and creating in my head, brewing ideas that will hopefully soon come out into this blog and stop tormenting me!

To make a paragraph short, I've been gathering information over the past few weeks. I think that I've finally gotten enough to begin to create again. The other night, I worked on a piece that might be starting a series. It's more like a prototype because it's not at all how I want the rest to look like and in that I discovered a little better how I want it to work. With all this free time, I want to do finished drawings. I want to build up my portfolio with things outside of my schooling so I can feel better about my own skills and my own creativity.

Thus, this series I want to start is what I'm calling my Cosmic series. I want to anthropomorphize our Sun, Moon, Planets, Major Stars, and maybe even Galaxies. I'm starting with the Sun and the Moon. They'll probably look the most different from the rest of the series, but I think it'll be good.


On a side note, I'm very excited for Anime Expo! It's the one weekend out of the year where me and my boyfriend can geek out together. This will be the first time I'll be participating in a big group "cosplay" (Costume play, or dressing up like a character) and it's going to be great! We don't have any roommates this year so we only have to worry about ourselves. What a nice change.This bout of sewing has sparked a new sense of wanting to do crafts so I have been creating fabric flowers and other hair accessories. Everyone says I should make a bunch and sell them. Maybe. I have to make a bunch first.

I think I'm going to do some chalk drawings today(found a whole bunch of sidewalk chalk yesterday while cleaning the backyard), I'll take pictures and update it by the end of the week. Hopefully Sunday.