This past month has just been insane. I'm finally poking my head out of the workload, and the end is in sight! We're getting ready for our end of the year exhibition and internships, which is super exciting!

Also spring weather: you can come out anytime now?? We had a random abnormal heatwave last week, let's just say I got to take out my flip flops out of the closet for a day or so - now I'm back to my winter coat and boots. :( waaahhh

I finally got to sit down and do a study, very speedy but HEY not my fault days only have 24 hours. I don't think I'll be able to go to life drawing for a little bit, so I'm totally going to kick myself into doing more studies on my own (I got lazy relying on it all the time!).

Approx. 2 hours

Study of woman with a quirky pose and a really long forehead. Also very detailed jewelry ahahaha

To finish off - I got tagged by Pauline @ Journal Illustrations and Musings to answer some questions! ;)

1. Favorite ice cream flavor?

Hmmmmmm. Cookie dough! 

2. Favorite book (or movie)?

Right now I'm really into the A Song of Ice and Fire book series. But Harry Potter will always have a special place in my heart. ;) Movies: pretty much anything classic Disney and... Mean Girls. hahaha

3. One thing that you love? (thing, not person) :-)

My laptop! C:

4. What makes you smile?

Many things! Funny cat videos, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and coffee, to name a few.

5. Where was your best vacation?

I loved my trips to Florida and Paris, but they were dance trips - not really a vacation. ;) So I'm going to say my backyard.

6. What color is your car (if you have one) or your bike?

I don't have my own car, but I drive my mom's a lot. It's black!

7. If money was no object, what is the ONE thing you would do?

Travel!

8. Where do you feel most at home or ‘connected’ to the world?

... Probably at home! 

9. high heels or flip flops?

Flip flops all the way. I love heels, but I love being comfortable a lot more.

10. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?

Hmmm, I wish I were more assertive sometimes... 

11.What are you most proud of?

Ahhh what a question! Actually, I'm really proud of my mom for kicking her smoking habit. 5 months and she's still going strong. :)

Wowwww what a long post. Next one will hopefully have more art. 

Life drawing this week (last week's was cancelled), I felt like it went really well for me (despite a few mishaps with the model), especially compared to last time I went where I felt like I just forgot how to draw or something ahaha ;_;

1 minute I believe

5s and 10s

Wish I could have finished this! Oh welllll

20 minutes - he moved a lot during this pose, the angle was very different at the end @w@

20 minutes - the color scheme on this reminds me of Rainbow Dash so bad

Another study, photo reference used of course! I'm trying to squeeze more of these in my schedule, not really aiming for perfect rendering just trying to get shapes and lighting down path. I think I will thoroughly study the crap out of everything this summer when I have more free time, though!

Finally HERE'S ME AS A PONY, I would be called Dreamtime and my cutie mark is a wacky clock over a moon because I'm so busy and I love sleep. And I would be a pegasus pony because of totally valid reasons not because I just like wings or anything. 

... and then I wonder why I'm still single

Smaller update today! I've decided to put original stuff and big paintings on the back burner for now, and focus on doing studies and prepping for the con. Gotta learn my stufffffff and improve!

Two studies I did this week:

A tiger! Animals totally elude me. So here we go. I'm kind of experimenting with new ways to paint and render, and different brushes and stuff. It's... supposed to be running but you can't really tell lololol

It looks nice if you squint I guess??

Also worked a lot on my Astrid cosplay this week! The shoulder armor is finally done :)

I'm sooooo proud of myself! I can actually be good at making things when it's for a hobby, it seems. 8D;

Nothing much this week! I've been pretty lazy in my time off. Finally finished my second Dragon Age 2 playthrough and I now totally want to play the DLC Legacy, but college is so soon, hnnnnnnnnng. D: I'd start a 3rd playthrough, but I finished pretty much all the quests available (other than two of them that were glitched), so there's not much point other than to romance the rest of the characters/try the warrior class.

Random sketches:

So I totally re-watched episodes of Card Captor Sakura in french to relive my childhood this week. It is ridiculously hard to find the episodes, but I found an amazing french site that streamed them all... too bad after ep20 the links are broken. ;_; I might re-read the manga, but it's not quite the same...

Life drawing has been moved to sunday afternoons, which means I may not be able to go to it anymore, I am saaaaaaaaaaad. It's all going to depend on what my schedule is going to be like! I've been trying to do more studies at home instead of always relying on going to the sessions. So have a Rihanna.

Finally, another reason I've been sketching less, is because I've been working on this! Basically what I posted in my last update, but actually painted. I'm unsure about her anatomy though... still a lot of tweaking left to do. 

College starts wednesday, heeeeere we go again...  but I'm actually starting to look forward to it now. C:

So... I pretty much spent all of today drawing. :) Life drawing tonight went awesomely, I bought a new sketchbook since I was starting to run low in my other one. Only drawback is that it's much bigger, so scanning is harder since my scanner is tiny. But the bigger size is awesome too, I can fit so much more on a page.

Anywho... here's what I got! (ugly shadows and missing heads/extremities are due to the aforementioned scanner issues! it would probably work better if I ripped the pages out, but then I'm left with a bunch of loose pages that are just going to end up all crumpled up in a corner somewhere)

I also did a quick still-life this afternoon on Photoshop:

It's a note! And a usb stick! ... I need to do way more of these. 

( I'm in super improvement mode these days, I feel like drawing everything I usually hate drawing.... weird foreshortening poses and boring still lifes here I come! Also, more detailed paintings with more than one person holy cow I'm gonna do ittttt )