“The Humument”: apology
your eyes
turned
you should
apologize
“Yes Ma’am”
I
agreed
so I turned
apologized
and
spent every minute
afraid
Red Highlights
red highlights
fresh bright blood
let him hurt me
Daddy yelled at me at dinner
Mama had said to be careful.
face unreadable eyes blank
no part of me was beautiful
I didn't have anything to be so proud of
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For class today
Detail from Making Comics by Scott McCloud
Here’s the first chapter of Rosalie Lightning, by Tom Hart.
11 Habits of Highly Creative People
From the web comic The Secret Knots by Juan Santapau, “11 Habits of Highly Creative People“:
Sunday Sketches roundup
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- Daniel
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- Fidan
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- Filip
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- Grace
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- Hailey
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- Henry
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- Isaac
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- Justin
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- Katherine
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- Maddie
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- Matt
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- Nate
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- Peter
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- Rebecca
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- Steve
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- Tony
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- Kate
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- Dan
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- Ilana
Don’t Q-tip your kayak!
I was home this weekend and took note of the ordinary objects I use on a daily basis and tried to associate those objects with an action. So I set my eyes on the q-tips and thought of different ways it could be used. My initial thought was someone bench pressing, but I figured the swabs on the end weren’t large enough. My next thought was hands on a clock but that wouldn’t work considering q-tips are all the same size. Then I started twiddling with the q-tip and gave it motion. That’s when I thought of an oar and then came the sketch. 
Mr. Coughdroppington
Last week, I was sick with a sore throat so I got some cough drops to ease my cough. This meant I got to spend a lot of time looking at the cough drops in their little wrappers. I noticed that they looked like little bow ties which inspired me to make a stereotypical gentleman that would benefit from a bow tie.
I’m blown away by my drawing skills ;)
In reality the process I took for drawing this was accepting the fact I have a fairly limited ability to draw, so I considered what I could draw and realized stick figures must be involved. Then it came to looking around for inspiration and I saw my wallet and took out the money I had inside. From there I just started thinking about how stick figures could interact with money in an off way and it seemed almost foolish to not have them holding on to it so they dont’ fly away. In the end well the quality may not be amazing I think it turned out well. Especially my stick figure which I believe are some of the best you will ever see.
Sketch 3: Conversion to Drill-ology
This was a long process. The final art may be simple and easy, but the actual thought process was really difficult. After hearing about this sketch, I immediately thought of a few ideas. But I went about it the wrong way. I thought about things that I had that I could use for this sketch, as well as what they could be drawn as. But the ideas just wouldn’t roll out. I would get something, but I couldn’t think of any item to use with it. So I began thinking the other way, I looked around my room and tried to find things I could use and how to incorporate them into something realistic that I could draw. Yet, I still wasn’t coming up with anything. All my ideas were too big, and I couldn’t think of everyday occurrences that I could use these items on. So I continued to mull over it day after day. I had to balance it with chemistry studying and other homework, but I kept it in the back of my mind. But it was becoming too close to the deadline.
Finally, something clicked today. I was listening to a podcast, and one of the guys was ranting about the construction they had to endure every time at an airport, as well as in their city in general. I loved the ranting, and it got me thinking about construction. It also just so happened that I was looking at a converter that I recently bought for my headphones to plug into my keyboard.
It looked strangely like a drill.
Now came the difficult part. Drawing the construction drill. Firstly, I had to get an idea of the scale of the actual drill relative to rest of the drill. It had to be relatively even, but not too much more thick or thin. The person was also a difficult assignment, one that I’m not completely happy with. Another difficulty is that I’ve become so accustomed to drawing digitally that I realized I “forgot” (temporarily) many of the techniques I had learned from my years of art lessons. Things such as pencil pressure and shading techniques were much easier on digital art, for I had so many more options for colors and such. However, in real life, I was stuck with 24 colored pencils instead of my typical 100 pencil arsenal. It turned out a lot more plain than I wanted it to. And my style noticeably changes from digital to paper.
However, I still think the idea was a lucky one, and I’m still somewhat satisfied with my sketch. However, can an artist really ever be satisfied with their work?
