After having a pretty terrible day yesterday I was absolutely cheered up by having super awesome friends! Mitsue from Create Magical Nails was one of the first people I ever met through my blog and she is so sweet! Please do go visit her blog, she makes the best nail art tutorials ever and it was her that encouraged me to make my first set of acrylic nails!
I’m getting off topic though, look what she drew for me!!
It even had my new pink hair!!! Super LOVE it! Thank you Mitsue you really brightened my day!!
Thank you so much for everyone who entered the Easy A competition! I really enjoyed reading your entries, a lot of them were really heart felt and had so much effort put in. I also now have a long list of books which I want to read too!
So the winners have all been contacted by email and here they are:
It’s weird, but I just got off the phone to my sister who mentioned this film to me.
Which film most resembled my life in high school?
I’d have to say Mean Girls. Quite often in school you forget who you really are and become someone you are not purely for popularity’s sake. I was quite like Cady. Before I became a “Queen Bee”, I was a person who did things because they excited me, not because it was something I should be seen doing. I had friends who made me laugh and not just people who made me look good. You learn a lot of hard lessons in high school and just after you finish it and I was no exception to that. Luckily I figured out who I was before I became a total “Mean Girl”.
Sounds silly, but I felt Ender’s Game reflected what high school was like for me. I was in a gifted student program, and dreaming that we were all being groomed for an epic space fighter program was what got me out of bed some days X
When I’m working next year my life will be like House of God, I’m sure…
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I’m still in highschool, just finishing this year. But this kinda struck a chord. In year five we read through Bridge to Terabithia, about a boy meeting a new girl in school who’s very unconventional and creating an imaginary world of their own until her untimely death. Now, this sounds childish, but from year four onwards I’ve always been put down and bullied for not following the crowd, being artistic or just simply being shy. What made it worse, was that I never said anything to anyone, instead I created in my head a world of my own filled with characters that interacted with me and so on. I then began to draw this world and honestly to this day it’s still growing and expanding because even now, in year twelve, I’m still shy, still different, still being bullied and still without many friends. Except, like Leslie, I have my own world.
I can imagine that it’s weird to clutch onto fantasies and imaginary friends at this age, and it probably just adds to my social failings, however, I’m so attached to this world it’s like a safety blanket and thanks to it I’m now generally unaffected by what any one says. I guess then, my life is my own, but somewhere it’s reflected in Bridge to Terabithia C:
Violet, I have thought long and hard about the book that reflects my life. And it’s not the nicest of stories, but I would have to say the Picture of Dorian Grey. This reflects the struggle I had with my mother and her Demons for so many years. I could see all that was happening to her, getting worse and worse (due to alcohol abuse) where to the outside world she was this pretty normal, loveable excentric mother, but behind closed doors she unfortunately had this demon brewing. It made school life and relationships hard for me. And she unfortunately like Dorian in the novel finally lost her fight with her demons. I have since been able to develop a relationship with an amazing guy, and although I have lost a mother and alot of time, I now am moving forward with a beautiful boy and learning from her lesson.
Now the second part of my post today is even more exciting for me! Writing this blog has allowed me to meet some lovely people over the last few years and one of the people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing is Shouri.
Shouri is an insanely talented artist who writes an adorable webcomic called Springiette. It’s been one of the blogs that I always read when I’m feeling down because it’s so sweet it cheers me up!
A long time ago she mentioned that she wanted to draw a picture of me… this is what arrived in my inbox this morning…
I LOVE IT! Seriously I couldn’t believe how much detail she went in to, I wish I could show you some of the tiny details but the original file is massive. Every single eyelash is in place 😀
So thank you so much Shou you completely made my day with this! I am so lucky!
Earlier in the week when I posted my latest artwork you guys enjoyed it so I thought today I would show you some of the work in progress shots of those ones and a few more so you can see how they were made ^_^
This one started out as a random drawing until James suggested it would look cool as a tattoo, lots of shading ensued!
The finished piece:
Then I had a brief idea to do a whole series of circus themed drawings but only got through one before I was bored of the idea…
By far your favorite was the girl caught in the wind, this is how she started out:
Then I penned the outline…
Then shadows and texture…
Copic markers and we’re all finished ^_^
I hope you enjoyed the very brief look into my studio! It’s been such a long week I’m about ready for a nap and a Bueno!
Not having the internet for so long gave me lots of time to do stuff I hadn’t done in a while… like drawing!
I used to be really into doing black and white charcoal portraits so I decided to give it another try. It’s not great but considering I haven’t done something like this for like 5 years I’m quite happy ^_^
I actually enjoyed doing it so much I’m thinking of doing a series of them or perhaps portraits of my favorite bloggers or something like that, what do you think?
I did quite a few drawings but I’ll just show you one more for now. It’s more of my regular style, frill and lace etc and done with pens and Copic markers.
I love doing pictures like this, they are really fun! This is totally something that would happen to me too XD
Sorry for the slight break in schedule over the last few weeks but I have good news now… WE HAVE THE INTERNET!!! It took a whole lot of time and money but we are now officially online again! I am catching up with everything and it’s been really fun, I read 6 weeks of blog posts all at once- it was almost 2000 posts! Anyway things are back on track now so prepare for lots of new posts and fun things <3
So when I asked you guys what you wanted for Sneaker Sundays one of the ideas was about where to find cute sneakers. Everyone has a different idea of what “cute” is so I thought I would tell you all about something that I’ve always wanted to do… design my *own* sneakers!
The fun part is that if you know what you want them to looks like, you can make pretty much anything! These are a pair I designed with candy and bows all over them:
So how did I do it? Well it’s easy! I have an account at Zazzle.com and basically all you need to do is make a design and upload it! You can buy the shoes yourself and make them exclusively for you or put them up for sale for other people to buy. When you place an order, Zazzle will print them and post them out to you, cool right? They are on the pricey side for sneakers but if they are your dream pair then who cares right?
You can choose from all different styles of shoes to use as a base and then make it exactly how you want it, hell even write your name on it if you want!
So now you have no excuse for not finding cute enough sneakers to join us next week ;P
Oh wow it’s Friday already?! This week has just flown by! This is a drawing I did a little while back, nothing special just some practicing ^_^
I’m a little swamped with work today but this weekend I’m going to be shooting the photos for a whole bunch of new posts. And even more exciting news is that next Thursday James and I will be flying to Melbourne for a week! I’ll try to update while I’m away but I might just schedule a couple of posts just in case!
We’ve been thinking of moving to Melbourne for a while so we’re taking the chance to catch up with lots of old friends and check out the city a bit. If you’re in Melbourne and want to catch up drop me a line! Or if you have any suggestions to were we should go and check out or any “can’t miss” shops let me know!
I’m really looking forward to a week of hanging out with lovely people in Melbourne and taking a little bit of a break!
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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