Day 73

I did today's craft at work today because I knew I would want to come home and relax.  I found this cute dragon online and decided to draw him.  I messed up his eyes though, and tried to erase them, and I couldn't get it to disappear enough so I used white out...so now I have two white out marks instead of erased eyes, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do! 

Isn't he cute, I named him Dennis, Dennis the Dragon...because I can! 

With flash:

Without flash:

Day 71

Today was a busy Sunday with chores, running out for groceries and getting ready for work tomorrow so when I sat down I wanted to do something relaxing and decided it was a good day to draw. It's usually a pretty relaxing thing for me to do, and today was no different, except for a certain kitty named Shitten (or Buttons if you are under the age of 16) who decided it would be a GREAAATTTT time to get some love (photographic evidence below).  Because of this the picture didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked, but Shitten was thrilled with all the love she received, so it wasn't too bad overall.

Here is the picture completed (click on pictures to make them bigger):

Here was my inspiration pictures, one of my favorite books and one of my favorite book covers:

Close up of the girl:

Another close up:

Here comes Shitten looking for her love, I enjoyed how she just flopped down on my arm while I was drawing:

And when I finished she decided to sit on it while I was trying to take pictures, that was her way of saying she didn't like it I think:

Day 18

I don't feel well today.  I know when I get home I'm not going to feel like doing any crafting.  This brought up a thought.  What if I get sick and don't want to craft, will I skip a day or just fight through it.  I guess it depends on how sick I am, hm?!  Well today, I thought ahead and drew a sloppy kitty while at lunch.  It's all I could think of before I put my head down and took a nap on the kitchen table in the break room! 

So please forgive the sloppy, pencil drawn kitty....he's sick too....

Day 14

Two weeks into the challenge and I'm a bit surprised I have stuck with this.  I think it has to do with the love of crafting and not so much the ability to follow through with stuff!  Anyone who knows me knows I get bored easily!  I see other people's blogs, who are doing this challenge and a lot of them stick with one craft theme.  I was thinking about doing that, but I know that would be the beginning of the end!  I need variety. 

Today's craft was more of a lesson for me then an actual craft project, but I feel it still counts!  I had picked up this book called "Drawing Lab: 52 Creative Exercises To Make Drawing Fun" and the first exercise in the book is called "Cats in Bed".  The book is fantastic, it basically takes the fear of a blank page away from you.  Anyone who has sat down to draw has felt that fear or anxiety, I'm sure.  The instructions for this exercise were simple.  Get a piece of white card stock, a pen and get into bed.  Once in bed, draw cats!  Simple, easy, nothing fancy cats.  Being a self described "crazy cat lady", this exercise was right up my alley.  And since one of our cats, Cody, was on the bed next to me kneading the blankets, I used him as my muse.  He was thrilled at the idea of being captured on paper, let me tell you.  Once I explained what I was doing to him, he quit kneading and proceeded to clean my forehead.  (See, I told you...crazy cat lady!)

Here is the book cover:

And the exercise I did:

And here are the cats I drew, sort of hard to see so making the picture bigger (yeah, they look insane, but they are cute if nothing else):

Day 13

I love to draw, but I'm not good at it.  Or maybe I should say that I am not good at coming up with my own drawings, from my own imagination, so I tend to draw things I'm looking at (not trace mind you, just look at whatever and draw it freehand).  I first realized I enjoyed doing this when I had to draw a tree outside our class window for school once upon a time.  Again, I'm not great at it, but I enjoy doing it.

For today's craft I decided to draw the Artist Zombie from the book "How to Draw Killer Zombies".  He has a step by step way of doing it, but I suck at that whole process, and he says to use tracing paper, stencils, etc...and I don't have all that.  So I grabbed the book, a sheet of white copy paper and my trusty #2 pencil and set to work.  The image on the top is my drawing and the image on the bottom is the picture in the book that I looked at while doing my drawing.

Because it was in pencil, and I scanned it, it's hard to see, but I made it bigger in the hope you can see it!