Picture Saturday-- So. Many. Drawings.

Ugh what do I blog about again?

What is blogging?

What IS?

What?

Ah, such intelligence from my mind.


Anyway, hello!

I'm still working on that Raoul Defense post, but see, I have so much I want to say, that when I sit down to type it all out, I get stuck. There's a part in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the book), where Reepicheep gets angry, and he wants to yell so many things, that everything clogs up his brain and he just stays silent, because he can't pick which thing to say first. That is me with the Raoul post.

So I'll get there when I get there, and when I publish it, the post will be gold.

What have I been drawing lately? You will wish you'd never asked.

1.) Baseball. I love baseball. I've been teaching my nieces to play catch and to not be afraid of the ball, and it's really fun.

I'm going to color these cute kidlets in when I have time, and I'm not lazy.

2.) Baseball is life.

3.) Also guitars are fun. I want to learn to play. Amy's currently teaching herself, and we've been jamming a little when we're both off.

4.) Random person, because reasons. NEW SKETCHBOOK YAAAASSSSSSS.

5.) The finished Winchester boys fanart that I did for Cait. When I finally sent it to her, we carried on a lengthy conversation using only gifs, and it was great fun.

6.) Really quick Christine sketch from POTO. When the Phantom comes lurking out after Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again. Not sure where her left hand is supposed to go, but whatever, I'll figure it out.

7.) Angry Jack Frost brother guy. I dunno, he's cute.

8.) Penderwick fanaaaaaaaaart! Yass! Because it took me like five years to get to the point where I could even draw the Penderwick girls so that they looked okay, and now that I've figured out what they look like, they're actually pretty easy.

So here we have the colored in Skye from last week. Blue sky blue eyes....

9.) Black and white version of Rosalind telling Batty a bedtime story.

10.) And then the colored in one, because I'm a drawing fiend when I'm in the zone.

11.) This one was inspired by the story that Rosalind tells Batty in book one... I don't know, something about the, "And then daddy got sad." makes me really upset every time I read it.

12.) JEFFERY, who I maintain for all eternity, would have been portrayed most excellently by Jeremy Sumpter.

13.) This very bright one....

14.)  Jane being Mick Hart, because who doesn't like Jane being Mick Hart?

15.) And then in book two, after everything goes down, and Rosalind is sitting at the soccer game, holding Ben... that scene just transferred so vividly into my head that my artist brain went "draw it." and I went, "Yes, master."

16.) Finally I drew a baby that didn't look like a demented alien.

 17.) Yep, I'm a freaking sap, and drawing kissing people is fun. Shut up, don't look at me.

 18.) None of my posts are every complete anymore without something in regards to Phantom of the Opera. And since the above sketch of Christine barely counts as art, I think there needs to be something else.

TURN YOUR FACE AWAAAAAAY FROM THE GARISH LIGHT OF DAAAAAAAY.....!

 19.) Since I usually have to draw The End when I finish a sketchbook, here. I finished a sketchbook, and now I get to start on a new one, and it's ridiculous how happy it makes me. #artistproblems.

 No, I'm not weird, I'm eccentric, and believe it or not, there is a difference.

Yeah, okay, no there isn't.

Whatever!


Treskie out.

It's totally Saturday.

Shut up, it's Saturday, in my universe.

It is!


In any case, it's been a long time since Picture Saturday, because drawing funk.

But whatever, here we go, I think the funk is over, which is nice, because when I don't draw I get sad.

1.) Soooooo..... here's the page of stuff I was working on when I decided to take a break.... because crap! Haha.

2.) Here's a elven warrior maid! (Drumroll for epic heroine.)

3.) NATHANIAL FROM BARTIMAEUS!!!!!!! Because Bartimaeus and and Nathanial!

4.) Random smiley girl!

5.) Penderwicks fanart because THERE IS NO FANART FOR THAT SERIES ANYWHERE, WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK. You'd think with a series that is that good, and that well written, there would be some sort of fanart. I had to remedy this grievous mistake.

So here we go, Batty from book 4.

6.)  Also, Skye from book 4.

7.) And then, since book four (Penderwicks in Spring) made me cry like a little baby, I decided, what the heck, I shall re-read the series. YOLO!

This brought on me drawing the girls.

8.) Skye. Who irritates me, but I like her. I think it's because she vaguely reminds me of me, if I was... you know. Outgoing.

9.) Jane, who is Bella. No really. She is Bella.

10.) And little baby Batty from book one. (Batty is the cutest.)

11.) There's this description in the book, where she describes it as someone's legs growing wings because Batty's hiding behind them, and it's adorable.

12.) And that scene where Skye loses it and yells at Mrs. Tifton? Gold.

I plan to color them all in sometime in the near future. :)

13.) Raoul and Christine are just meant to be!

This is the reason why I shouldn't read stuff or watch stuff, because then you people are inundated with my current obsessions.

It's a problem.

I would have posted the finished product of the SPN fanart, but I'm doing a border of quotes around the edge and someone wouldn't email me back for forever... *coughcaitcough*

Whatever, you'll see it next week! (It's so awesome, I can't even.)

And.... that's all my brain can think of to say at the moment.

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!


Treskie out.

*Angry Treskie Noises*

It's been ages!

You guys are so Treskie deprived! (I know, such a loss.)


Here's the thing:

I am in a drawing funk. 

And it's the worst kind of drawing funk, because I want to draw. I want to draw all the things. I want to draw more Phantom fanart, because, believe it or not, I'm still in love with that musical. I want to draw fanart for books I've been reading. I want to finish that Supernatural fanart that I promised Cait forever ago. I want to draw Hannah's character. I want to illustrated songs! (Particularly Right Field and And Then He Kissed Me.) I want to draw and draw and draw!

And I can't.

Because for some reason, my brain and my hand aren't speaking to each other. (I think they had a fight or something.) And they aren't communicating. My brain goes, "Do this!" and my hand shrieks "NEVAH!" and it's all very irritating.

.... And by irritating I mean infuriating.

I'm sure anyone who does any form of art can understand this. Writers, artists, poets... whatever. There are just times when, even when you have the best of intentions, the art does not come.

I plan to watch this very soon.

I have tried to do art.

And after a good long while of sadness and wasted paper,* I resort to tears** and netflix.

*expensive wasted paper.
**not really.


In the meantime, since drawing is apparently not going to happen, I've been doing other stuff.*

*new stuff, old stuff, shiny stuff.

Mostly this other stuff is reading.

A.) THE NEW PENDERWICKS BOOK!!! Aaaah! It's so good! Definitely one of my favorites in the series. But I will admit, it has been a long time since I cried that hard over a book. So many tears. (And I'm not joking there, I was a wet mess.)

Ugh, just read the whole series.

THIS IS ANOTHER CAUSE FOR ANGRY TRESKIE NOISES! I want to fanart about the Penderwicks, and helloooo, drawing funk.


B.) I re-read the first Bartimaeus book, because Jonathan Stroud is basically an awesome author. I guffawed again, because Bartimaeus is a dork.

I want to draw fanart for that too. *Angry Treskie noises*

C.) Kat found a new series by the aforementioned Jonathan Stroud. How he wrote it without my knowledge is beyond me, but I am reading book one with voracious vigor, and I'm loving every moment of it. It's about Ghost Hunters and I feel creeped out sometimes, and it's delicious. (No, Cait, it's not a Supernatural rip-off, cool your jets.)

*Angry Treskie noises commence with angst, because the fanart that could be is not coming*


I lost my old kneaded eraser, which meant I had to open the new one that I've had since Christmas. AND THIS IS HOW WEIRD I AM. I COULDN'T USE IT. See, kneaded erasers are supposed to be squished and yanked and... well kneaded. They're like clay. You need to manipulate them, and work them in, so they erase beautifully. But they come in such perfect little squares that I couldn't make myself ruin the beauty of this symmetry. I posted on tumblr about it.

Yep. It took me three days to actually use it, and in the end, I had to get my friend to do the initial kneading of it, because I couldn't make myself. I AM A DORK.


We have started re-watching Monk. Monk is a dork.


I am working on a Defense of Raoul post. I was planning to decorate it with drawings. That won't happen. (See above for reasons.)

We've been listening to a lot of oldies at work, and it's really put me in an oldies mood, and I've listened to this song a ridiculous amount. (And this clip is hilarious.)

It's cute!

Well, he walked up to me
And he asked me if I wanted to dance
He looked kinda nice
And so I said, "I might take a chance"
When he danced, he held me tight
And when he walked me home that night
All the stars were shinin' bright
And then he kissed me

I took this picture today and it made me really happy.

I have to sing two solos for my voice class final on Tuesday!!! If all goes well, and I remember the camera, I might post videos of them later..... But until then, pray that my cold/allergies go away and I can actually sing.

Because I'm not sure if I have a cold or really bad allergies. All I know is that the air is pretty much green with pollen and I have a weird voice thing going on at the moment.

It's finally warm enough to go swimming, which we did. I'm very proud of being a mountain lake girl, I can swim in coooold water and it's not that big of a deal. Well let me tell you. IT WAS A COLD FIRST SWIM, OKAY?? FREEZING. My wrists were so numb my hands wouldn't stand up. Aaah good times.

We rewatched the Princess Bride and quoted the whole movie along with the actors.

We listened to this really awesome sermon.

I broke my favorite sandals.

I'm going now.

Baii.*

*I apologize for any typos in this post. I'm tired and I don't feel like proofing it.