Art Journal

( Revisiting an old creature design I came up with in either jr high or high school, a what if birds never developed wings sort of deal. Not very original, I know, but they were fun. )

This was done a little differently than usual, I started with the darkest blue you see on the piece. The far inner calf and it's beak were what I put down as my solids first and then worked my way up with whites using various brushes. There are no other colors on this at all. And because my muse hates me, I kept everything but the line-art on one layer.

Now I just need to do my make up picture tomorrow from when I took a Day, and I'm done. It doesn't help that about a third of the way from being done with today's pic my eyes started to hurt bad enough that I had to put a cool pack on them while I rested them in the dark. Give me a migraine I can power through over this, at least I can work then.

*sighs* Just one more day, just one more day, just one more day, just one more daaa~aahahay.... *wants to be ded but has to wait*

I stand corrected, they were barred owls. Such gorgeous birds, and possessing such gorgeous voices too.



There were smart people in line with me today! *bounces* Went into town with my mom to get photos and a little bit of shopping done, and there were actually two of them! The photo line was very slow and I got bored. We got into a discussion about elements and I started naming off the abbreviations for all the ones my mom could think of. The guy behind us then challenged me to do them alphabetically, and because I thought I could I tried my hand at it. Part way through I got stuck (my last chem class was six years ago), so he named a couple, THEN the guy behind him joins in and it turns out that his sister actually keeps the periodic table in her wallet because she's this accomplished chemist or something. And, and... it was simply awesome that there was even one person who knew what I was talking about much less TWO.

I am going to remember this for years.