STAC LIVE mural.

Fun fun fun in the sun

Plague Doctor

Late

II started a new little thing in my sketch book! I'm very happy with how it's coming along so far. I was inspired by this fashion magazine I had lying around... 

And I came up with this:

I've started the hardest part already...the coloring. And surprisingly, I haven't messed up yet. Maybe I'm wearing my lucky underpants. Here goes nothing!

**EDIT**

I finished it! Eep!

Surgery

Surgery has made me extremely emotional..

I want to take some time out of my day to really thank and appreciate the amount of people in my life that are concerned for and care about me. It's unfortunate how the best always come out when the worst happens, but wow, I was truly overwhelmed and blown away by the amount of people that cared about my health and how I was doing. I don't know whether it was post-op emotions or the result of me being drugged up, but I was bawling to find out the amount of support I was recieving. 

Andrew surprised me with flowers on my doorstep, and another friend of mine showed up at my house unannounced with cheesecake. I am so lucky to have such incredibly nice and caring people in my life, especially the doctors who operated on me.

I can't even begin to express my gratitude.

Model

I've heard the whole "realism is boring" shpeal a bunch of times, but I can't help but somewhat enjoy it. 

I used pastels for the first time, and of course I wanted to draw a portrait using them. 

I'm quite pleased with how this turned out, and I'm eager to draw more things like this in the future. I need to work on the lips a little bit more on the final piece, because they look like they're drooping down a bit. The eyes are a little wonky too. But that's okay! I'll get better with practice.

The Power of Myth

I find this topic so interesting, but his voice just unbearably monotonous. Don't get me wrong- the man is a wonderfully phenomenal speaker - the tone of his voice just wants to put me to sleep. 

Anyway.

One thing he said that really intrigued me and blew my mind was when he mentioned how everyone has already experienced eternity, that this everlasting concept has been tangible this entire time. He described eternity as the now without the application of time. In other words, when you enter a Flow state. 

This statement really brang me back to when I worked on linocuts and printing last year; I could've printed for hours on end, and I did. 

It truly is fascinating to understand.