Music Tag

I was going to do a Picture Saturday, but I haven't had time to draw more than like three things this week, and I feel like I ought to wait until I can give you guys a quality post. (Unless you guys would rather start seeing like... single pictures with more detail? I DON'T KNOW.)

So instead! I'm going to answer a bunch of questions about music, which ought to be fun and interesting. (Because I'm a very interesting person, dang it!)

I promise to have a fun Picture Saturday next week, just you wait! But until then, here we go!

1.) Do you play any instruments?

Well. I don't currently. I used to play French horn in middle school, and I was fairly good, but once I hit high school, that fell to the wayside while I started taking singing classes at the college.

I would really like to learn how to play guitar or piano... or both! So that I could sing and play at the same time, that would be freaking fantastic, am I right?

2.) What is your favorite music genre?

Ehe. I like a lot of different styles of music, depending on my mood. I mean I'll listen to whatever's popular on the radio, and then turn around and listen to full on opera.

But I would have to say that the music that I listen to and it... resonates in my soul... is classical crossover. I like music with full voices, and more skill than your average pop.

3.) Is there a music genre that you absolutely can't stand?

Uugh. I cannot listen to screaming heavy metal. Or rap. Rap is so obnoxious. 

But the kind of "music" where the singer is just screaming into the microphone, I get physically pained, like, "YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUR VOCAL CHORDS! YOU FOOL! NODULES, MAN! NODUUULES."

4.) What is your favorite way to listen to music? (CD, Vinyl, mp3, radio, etc..)

Ohh... either on CD or plugged into my phone. I like it when I can turn on the music and it just absorbs into my bloodstream and I can feel it pulsing inside me. Yassss.

5.) Top three favorite bands/singers?

*facepalm* Probably Il Volo, Josh Groban, and Anthony Warlow. They have this type of tone-quality that make my cold, cold heart go pitter-pat.

6.) What are your three favorite chords?

Ehm, seeing as I don't play any instrument that uses chords, I'm gonna just...

 

7.) What do you think about TV and Movie Soundtracks?

    

 *Pauses Magnificent Seven soundtrack* What?

8.) Ever made a mixed CD?

Hasn't everyone?

9.) The old days of music were the better ones. Do you agree?

I don't know. I think mostly yes? There was a lot more soul in old music than there is now... I mean...

Because you know I'm all about that bass,

'bout that bass, no treble

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 

no treble....
I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass..

AD NAUSEAM 

 

But I think some music now is better than music then. I don't know. I think there's good and bad in both ages. I'm kind of under the opinion that we need to stop comparing the different times. Like music changes. Get over it.

this is my new favorite gif.

10.) Have a ever covered a song and recorded it? Which one?

Ehem. Here is a handy-dandy link to my youtube channel where I sing covers. Sometimes. Intermittently. Rarely. But I do sing.

Handy-dandy link.

11.) The saddest love song is?

Oh. Ehm. I'm gonna be super cheesy and say "When I Look at You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel Musical, cause... IT HOLDS SPECIAL MEANING TO ME OKAY?

Honorable mentions:

*Happy in my Heartache

*Caruso

*Always Hate Me

I can't chose. There are lots. They are sad. 

12.) The happiest love song is?

*Crazed Treskie laughter* Right at this particular moment I'm going to say, "When You Say You Love Me." By Josh Groban because yes. 

Honorable Mentions:

Be My Forever

Still Fallin'

We Are Love

13.) What makes you like a song?

Typically it starts with the lyrics, then the voice, then the melody.

I can't like music if I don't like the lyrics.

I don't tend to like music if I don't like the singer's voice... like, I'll find a cover or something that is tolerable to my ears. lol. 

14.) What song best represents you?

I sat here and thought about this one for like...a whole three minutes. (That's a very long time, as I am easily distracted.)

Gonna have to say... Let Me In, from Rigoletto, is pretty much me. 

15.) What do you love about music?

Oh man.

Music is something else. Music is like seeing someone's heart and soul. Very few things are as personal and emotional as music.

Music can make you happy, or sad, or wistful.

A single song can bring back a flood of memories from ages and ages ago.
Music can tell stories.
Music communicates things in ways ordinary words and actions can't.

Music connects people.

Music can be a window to someone's soul the same way eyes are.

Music is so powerful.

Music is like a piece of heaven on earth. It's magical and wonderful and absolutely necessary.

They say people who pray with song pray twice.

That's amazing.

Music is amazing.

Alrighty everyone, that's all I have for tonight.

Question Time
Have you heard any of my song suggestions already?
What do you think about music? 
Can you answer three of the tag questions for me? 

I love you all!

Picture Sunday || September {2}

Well hello!

Yes, yes, I'm late.

We know.

But I had a choice last night, to either do a blog post, or listen to Phantom of the Opera with someone who's never heard it before... Guess which one I chose?

I'm starting to feel like my blog needs an update again. I think it's just going to end up changing about once a year because yours truly has a very limited attention span and I get bored quickly.

Maybe New Years will bring a new design. YOU NEVER KNOW.

I'm considering chopping off my hair. This frightens me. But I want to! But I'm not much into change. It's very complicated, see.


Anyway! I actually drew this week, ladies and gents! (I know, crazy, right?) So buckle up, we have fanarts. Lots of fanarts.

1.) So first of all, look at this poofy Baymax and Hiro. (I've been in the mood to watch that movie again. I just love it so much.)

Next time I need to make Hiro's hair darker, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with this one. Because BAYMAX IS A GIANT MARSHMALLOW OF LOVE AND HUGS AND HAPPINESS.

2.) Ehem... I've been feeling particularly sappy lately, so deal with it.

3.) Attempted Briar Rose. (Which I always thought was a prettier name than Aurora, just saying.) Not 100% satisfied with how it turned out, but that aside I guess it's okay? I DON'T KNOW!

4.) So the Phantom really is a sad potato, and let me just say: Wow, Dave Willetts is one of the best Phantoms I've ever heard like sweet heavenly mercy me he is GOOD.

I'm thinking I might do a timelapse video of the coloring process on this one, with better lighting and a tripod. What do you guys think? Yes, no, maybe?

5.) Speaking of musicals, look at this completed one from last time!

6.) And there's this part in the musical where Sam's trying to get Molly to notice him and he says this line about, "I’m with you right beside you, I need you to believe it... Don’t stop now, you can feel me inside you-- don’t loose me in the rain!" And call me crazy, THAT LINE IS SUPER SAD.

7.) Sometimes I don't even know why I draw stuff. But here, look at this nerdy-looking girl holding a sword because that's going to turn out so well....

8.) Look, I drew a more detailed picture of Tyler. Tyler is the oldest of Tristan and Gang, and he's been through a lot. He's always tired, he's pretty humorless and sometimes he feels the greatest of needs to punch Tristan in his perfect face. I love him so much.

9.) Also, I drew Piero for Kat because his voice is gorgeous.

10.) So... There's a very real possibility that I may have binged Voltron: Legendary Defender on netflix, because... Because... It's literally like Zuko and Sokka from ATLA...in space. And... I... like it.

11.) THIS IS THE ZUKO CHARACTER. His name is Keith. He is awesome. We like him. *sips water*

12.) He has this cool spacey sword and he does ninja-like things with it and I approve. It has the Treskie Stamp of Approval. (Because... that's a thing. DO NOT DOUBT ME.) Please send help.

Yeeeep. 

Alright, people! 

Question Time!

Favorite overall?

Best fanart? 

Favorite with color?

Best black and white?

What would you like to see more of on this blog? Fanart? Tristan and Co? Originals? Let me know!

I love you all!

Picture Saturday-- April.2

Oh you guys...!

I just discovered toned paper.... AND.... IT IS THE MOST  GLORIOUS OF ALL THE INVENTIONS.

It is golden. It is wonderful.

Toned paper is life.

So this week's drawings are predominately on toned paper, because TONED PAPER IS LIFE. 


1.) First of all, here: I drew a dance, because even though I dance with the agility of a hammer, I really like it.

2.) More dance.... *Whistles forties music*

3.) All dis hair.

4.) Toned paper.......!!

5.) TONED PAPER.....!

6.) BROWN TONED PAPER. (This was actually my first attempt, but whatever, she looks like the girl from the Hillywood Show.)

7.) GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY.

8.) I freaking love this stuff, it is amazing.

9.) It thrills me. So it had to be paired with someone who thrills me, and so... Gianluca.

10.) Also, Piero.

11.) I don't even know, guys. Toned paper has a way of making even just average art look good. And it's really really addictive....

Yeah.... I'm not a weirdo at all.

There are burnt cookies in the oven, and we just finished watching the third Ip Man movie and I'm on a little bit of a high, because seriously.... Ip Man is SO GOOD. All three of the movies! So good, so martial arty, so... deliciously violent.

What? Sometimes you just need a little violence in your life.

Ehm. It's awesome.

Anyway, question time!

Favorite overall?
Favorite toned paper?

Favorite colored?

Have you seen Ip Man?

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY TONED PAPER?

Alrighty all! I love you guys! 

Picture Saturday {Febuary}

So it's technically Friday.

But it's late and it's practically Saturday, so I'm going to post this tonight because I'm going to be running around screaming tomorrow because reasons.

Speaking of this weekend, it's Valentine's Day on Sunday, and so Amy and I recorded Can't Help Falling In Love as a tribute to.... I dunno. Love? Anyway, here it is. Let me know what you think, yeah?

A friend asked me how it was going at the flower shop this week..... I sent her this picture.

It's actually less frantic than last year, which I'm super grateful for, but it's still the mad rush of guys going, "Valentine's Day is when!?"

This is currently what our walk-in cooler looks like at the shop. (Amy is for size comparison.)

So fun, so fun.

This Picture Saturday is going to be an odd assortment, because this week has made me feel gooey and romantic, and irritated and sad at the same time. (Gooey and romantic because love is in the air, and irritated and sad becaus love is in the freaking air all the time.)


1.) Here, have an Italian lady... sleeping? I don't know, but she's pretty.

2.) Sometimes I think I should draw Kate with her hair down, and then I think "mmmm better not."

3.) Random guy who looks like someone and I can't place it. But I know he looks like someone....

4.) Le me during Valentine's week.

5.) I drew Ignazio from memory on a piece of scrap paper (in pen, no less!) and thought he turned out pretty good. I want to retry with a reference picture.

6.) Le me: I wonder if I can draw Piero..... Oh look it actually looks like him. Better leave it unfinished.

7.) Le me: Contemplates drawing Gianluca.
Le me: Better not attempt. Draw Tristan and Kate doing something romantic. Like shooting stuff together.

8.) People: You're so funny and pretty and smart, why are you still single?

me: 

9.) Le me: Oh oh, Tristan should tell Kate that he loves her when they're in the middle of a shoot-out. That's so him!

Yep, that is a coffee stain on the left. I had it on my hand, and I rubbed the paper and it was sad.

10.) Le me: Contemplates drawing Gianluca some more.
Le me: Mmmm. No. Draw Tristan making Kate stop yelling by planting one on her.

11.) Le me: Abort! Abort! Too much love.

Literally me this whole week.

12.) Le me: Contemplates drawing Gianluca.
Le me: Pssshhh you'd have better luck with a terrible self-portrait.
Le me: Apparently I look up and to the left a lot.

13.) Le me: Gianluuuuuuca.

And I need to stop.... Like seriously.

There's this song called Big Deal by Leann Rimes, and it goes,

Don't wanna hear another word about candlelight, 

and long-stemmed roses, 

or how you're falling head-over-heels in love. 

So what?

Big deal!

And I can relate to it. Ha!

Okay lovelies, question time!

Favorite drawing?

What are you doing for Valentine's Day?

 What's your favorite love song? 

What did you think of our cover?

I love you all! And happy, early, Valentine's Day!