Yeah, you!
read me please!
Thanks!
A hint of what's to come tomorrow :P
--Amy Liz
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
30 Day Drawing Challenge: Days 1-5
Hello,
So I decided to take up the 30 Day Drawing Challenge that I mentioned in my last post.
The first challenge is for the artist to draw his/herself, so this is what I came up with while I was bored in my Psychology class.
So I'm not really happy with this first production because it's been drawn on the lined notebook paper, and I shaped my face kind of weird. Also, my eyes are a little narrow, so I look a little Asian, and my eyebrows are really high, like I was super surprised to find myself drawn on this paper.
As a bonus, those clothes are the exact outfit that I was wearing today! I was feeling really uncreative, so I didn't want to think up another one of my outfits, so I just drew the one I had on at the moment, even though I think the babydoll style makes me look a little chubby in the tummy.
So that's my drawing for today, January 31st, 2012.
Day Two: My Favorite Animal
I have loved horses pretty much my entire life. I have no idea where it started, or why, but they have been as much a part of my life as my favorite Disney movies. My bedroom is covered in horse puzzles glued together and framed, I've framed some of my paint-by-numbers (remember those?) of horses and put them up on my walls, I have too many pony plushies than I can fit on my bed at one time, and even my wallpaper is horse-themed.
When I was eight or nine my mom gave me a month's worth of horseback riding lessons and you would have thought she'd bought me the damn pony I was so excited! I kept going to these lessons every week until I was fourteen, when I decided I was "too cool" for public school and "just haaad" to go to private school. So we couldn't afford the lessons anymore, and it broke my heart, but I still love horses, and I hope to get back to riding again soon.
So anyway, I had a hard time with this drawing because every time I started drawing the body, the head looked too small, so I'd fix the head, then the leg would be too scrawny, and once I'd fixed that, SOMEHOW the head would be all wrong again! So this was the final product, and I'm decently happy with it, I guess. I haven't had much practice drawing them in a while (all I did as a kid was draw these things -serious, I could paper a whole house in all of the horse pictures I have from when I was little), so this didn't come out as FANTASTIC as I hoped it would. I just wish my scanner had been working, so I could have uploaded a better quality version of it.
Oh well.
Day Three: My Favorite Food
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!
I have always loved ice cream, and even when I worked at Cold Stone Creamery and got so freaking sick of smelling and scooping and mixing ice cream everyday, I still enjoyed going home with a bowl of Love It sized vanilla with chopped up cookie dough bits!
My current most favorite dessert (of my own making, not from any particular restaurant or anything) is a warm brownie with vanilla ice cream on top.
I couldn't think of any "real" food to put down as "my favorite" and I just kept going back to desserts, so that's what I finally decided to go with.
This drawing is okay, in my world, because I have never been very good at drawing foods and like daily inanimate objects and such. Incase the colors are weird or whatever, it's vanilla ice cream, with chocolate syrup, whipped cream and a cherry on top in a cute little glass bowl/cup thing.
Day Four: My Favorite Place
My favorite place in the world is some place warm, where I can completely forget about work and stress and any kind of issue that I am dealing with that day. Since Paradise has yet to be found, I picked the beach. I wish my beaches looked this tropical and beautiful, but I just have to work with what I get.
I originally started drawing the Disney Cinderella Castle, but it turned out the paper that I'm drawing these wasn't going to fit it to the proportions I was drawing on, and it's technically past "day four" so I just went with my second choice of a nameless beach because, as wonderful and amazing as DisneyWorld is, I can't always get there, so the beach on a sunny day is a fabulous second choice. I finally figured out my scanner, but my drawing pad is too small to fit right, so I might have to revert to using my precious computer paper for these drawings (I'll use both sides, don't worry -I love trees).
This picture is kind of rushed, but I think it came out all right. I like the way all of the blues in the ocean mix together like they do in the real sea.
Day Five [coming soon]
Thanks for reading!
Amy Liz
So I decided to take up the 30 Day Drawing Challenge that I mentioned in my last post.
The first challenge is for the artist to draw his/herself, so this is what I came up with while I was bored in my Psychology class.
So I'm not really happy with this first production because it's been drawn on the lined notebook paper, and I shaped my face kind of weird. Also, my eyes are a little narrow, so I look a little Asian, and my eyebrows are really high, like I was super surprised to find myself drawn on this paper.
As a bonus, those clothes are the exact outfit that I was wearing today! I was feeling really uncreative, so I didn't want to think up another one of my outfits, so I just drew the one I had on at the moment, even though I think the babydoll style makes me look a little chubby in the tummy.
So that's my drawing for today, January 31st, 2012.
Day Two: My Favorite Animal
I have loved horses pretty much my entire life. I have no idea where it started, or why, but they have been as much a part of my life as my favorite Disney movies. My bedroom is covered in horse puzzles glued together and framed, I've framed some of my paint-by-numbers (remember those?) of horses and put them up on my walls, I have too many pony plushies than I can fit on my bed at one time, and even my wallpaper is horse-themed.
When I was eight or nine my mom gave me a month's worth of horseback riding lessons and you would have thought she'd bought me the damn pony I was so excited! I kept going to these lessons every week until I was fourteen, when I decided I was "too cool" for public school and "just haaad" to go to private school. So we couldn't afford the lessons anymore, and it broke my heart, but I still love horses, and I hope to get back to riding again soon.
So anyway, I had a hard time with this drawing because every time I started drawing the body, the head looked too small, so I'd fix the head, then the leg would be too scrawny, and once I'd fixed that, SOMEHOW the head would be all wrong again! So this was the final product, and I'm decently happy with it, I guess. I haven't had much practice drawing them in a while (all I did as a kid was draw these things -serious, I could paper a whole house in all of the horse pictures I have from when I was little), so this didn't come out as FANTASTIC as I hoped it would. I just wish my scanner had been working, so I could have uploaded a better quality version of it.
Oh well.
Day Three: My Favorite Food
I have always loved ice cream, and even when I worked at Cold Stone Creamery and got so freaking sick of smelling and scooping and mixing ice cream everyday, I still enjoyed going home with a bowl of Love It sized vanilla with chopped up cookie dough bits!
My current most favorite dessert (of my own making, not from any particular restaurant or anything) is a warm brownie with vanilla ice cream on top.
I couldn't think of any "real" food to put down as "my favorite" and I just kept going back to desserts, so that's what I finally decided to go with.
This drawing is okay, in my world, because I have never been very good at drawing foods and like daily inanimate objects and such. Incase the colors are weird or whatever, it's vanilla ice cream, with chocolate syrup, whipped cream and a cherry on top in a cute little glass bowl/cup thing.
Day Four: My Favorite Place
My favorite place in the world is some place warm, where I can completely forget about work and stress and any kind of issue that I am dealing with that day. Since Paradise has yet to be found, I picked the beach. I wish my beaches looked this tropical and beautiful, but I just have to work with what I get.
I originally started drawing the Disney Cinderella Castle, but it turned out the paper that I'm drawing these wasn't going to fit it to the proportions I was drawing on, and it's technically past "day four" so I just went with my second choice of a nameless beach because, as wonderful and amazing as DisneyWorld is, I can't always get there, so the beach on a sunny day is a fabulous second choice. I finally figured out my scanner, but my drawing pad is too small to fit right, so I might have to revert to using my precious computer paper for these drawings (I'll use both sides, don't worry -I love trees).
This picture is kind of rushed, but I think it came out all right. I like the way all of the blues in the ocean mix together like they do in the real sea.
Day Five [coming soon]
Thanks for reading!
Amy Liz
Friday, January 27, 2012
I have stuff I should be doing instead
Hello All,
Do you ever get into those kinds of moods when, you know you have a bunch of stuff you should be doing -like reading for class, or homework, or regular work, and all of the stuff that you do to avoid finishing these projects, like washing the dishes, doing your laundry or making to-do lists to pretend like you're actually getting some of this stuff done -but all you want to do is draw?
Yeah, me neither.
Haha, no that's not true. I'm not a very good artist, but recently all I've wanted to do instead of my homework and the other things I have to do is draw. Which is weird because, as I said, I'm not very good, and because when I purposefully sit down to start, I consistently have nothing to draw, sketch, paint, sculpt, carve or build. My mind's just a blank.
So naturally that's just as frustrating as not getting my work done when I need it to be done.
I found this 30 Day drawing challenge online that I think I might try to do next month. It might be fun. It might also be frustrating as hell, but at least it will be something, right?
Maybe I'll even put the pictures up on here!
Check back often, okay?
Thanks for reading,
Amy Liz
Do you ever get into those kinds of moods when, you know you have a bunch of stuff you should be doing -like reading for class, or homework, or regular work, and all of the stuff that you do to avoid finishing these projects, like washing the dishes, doing your laundry or making to-do lists to pretend like you're actually getting some of this stuff done -but all you want to do is draw?
Yeah, me neither.
Haha, no that's not true. I'm not a very good artist, but recently all I've wanted to do instead of my homework and the other things I have to do is draw. Which is weird because, as I said, I'm not very good, and because when I purposefully sit down to start, I consistently have nothing to draw, sketch, paint, sculpt, carve or build. My mind's just a blank.
So naturally that's just as frustrating as not getting my work done when I need it to be done.
I found this 30 Day drawing challenge online that I think I might try to do next month. It might be fun. It might also be frustrating as hell, but at least it will be something, right?
Check back often, okay?
Thanks for reading,
Amy Liz
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Things that I really Wish I could do
Hello All,
I'm bored, so I'm going to tell you all of the things I wish I could do, or at least, wish I could do well:
ballet.
swim really fast.
math.
manage my time productively.
resist the call of chocolate and other sweets.
I'm bored, so I'm going to tell you all of the things I wish I could do, or at least, wish I could do well:
not spend so much time and energy here ^
Know how to navigate this thing without getting it virus-ed and sick.
curl my hair.
photoshop.
keep my mouth shut when all i want to do is bitch someone out.
talk to boys.
save money.
I'm sure I can go on for hours and hours and hours but, I'll leave it at these things that just came off the top of my head.
Enjoy being better than me at one, more or all of these things.
I hate you.
jk
Thanks for reading!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Momentary Judgements on my New Classes
Hello All,
So you're probably wondering why you should care about what I think my classes are going to be like this year -I'll tell you why!
Because reading about this keeps you away from your work for another 5 minutes, that's why! And isn't that why we're all here? To not do work, together?
Okay, so my first class of the semester was my Intro to Magazine Writing course, and the workload had me RUNNING for the doors! Omigoodness, there is so much research and active participation involved in this class that I just don't know if I'll have time for all of it. I immediately began searching for alternatives that would fit my schedule, but everything that had openings in it would either mess with one or more of my other activities and classes, or it wouldn't help me at all with my requirements and be a waste of time. So I decided I'd just have to stick it out and see where this class takes me. Hopefully not below a B, so I can keep my financial aide and scholarships, but we'll see.
UPDATE:
It's been a week and only four classes, but I think this is actually going to be a good class -I'm glad (for now) that I didn't drop out. I really like the teacher, especially compared to the other Magazine Writing teacher I could have had. My roommate has her, and apparently she's um, well lets just say she's a newspaper short of a few headlines. My professor is thankfully not INSANE and she really seems like she actually wants to help get us published, which is awesome! My first piece for that class is an article about procrastination.
Story of my life.
My second class is an Intro to Psychology class, and I knew it was going to be a lecture-based class because it has so many students in it, and the teacher seems very nice and incredibly qualified, but he's also very strict. I can tell he's the type to be annoyed if anyone moves around too much near the end of class, and he'll keep us to the very last second every day. I just hope that the topics will be interesting enough to keep me awake for two hours after a long shift at work... and just in case I'm trying to remember to bring Coca-Cola every class ;P
The next class that I have is a history class, and not even something cool like ancient civilizations or something. No, this is a class we've all had since 3rd grade -History of the United States. I can tell this will be a frustrating class because there's a LOT of reading to do for every class, and we have to post comments about each reading an hour BEFORE class starts so he can call us out on something we said. We absolutely 100% canNOT have our laptops in this class, so there's no chance of salvation, either. The thing is though -the teacher seems really cool. Well, dorky actually, but funny, too. I just hope he's more realistic about the readings than he acted yesterday.
My last class is a fiction writing class, and I haven't had it yet because it's only on Mondays. I'm not sure what to expect from it, but I hope it's more than what I've gotten in the past, particularly last Spring.
UPDATE:
I had my first fiction class, and the teacher is so chill and cool about life. My roommate had him last semester and she says he's really relaxed and doesn't really care all that much about deadlines and stuff. And even though it's a four hour class, it went by really quickly because the professor's cool and funny and we've got some pretty cool students in the class as well. There's even some of my friends from my writing class last semester!
What I hope will happen this semester:
I want to be the associate producer for Good Morning Emerson again.
I want to have a crew position on Speechless.
I want to be more than halfway through a manuscript.
I want all A's this semester.
I want to apply for a publishing internship.
I want to apply for a tv studio internship.
I want to meet a nice, straight boy.
I NEED to find an apartment in Boston, comfortably fitting at least 3 people with a rent less than $700.
I NEED to see my best friend Kimberly.
I NEED to save money to a) see Kimberly, and b) rent an apartment.
If anyone can help me with any of these things, let me know haha.
I guess that's it for now. Maybe I'll make a small update on how my fiction writing class is, I don't know yet.
Thank you for reading!
Go back to work now.
Amy Liz
P.S.
I just noticed how boring this post is to look at, so here!
Isn't he ADORABLE?
So you're probably wondering why you should care about what I think my classes are going to be like this year -I'll tell you why!
Because reading about this keeps you away from your work for another 5 minutes, that's why! And isn't that why we're all here? To not do work, together?
Okay, so my first class of the semester was my Intro to Magazine Writing course, and the workload had me RUNNING for the doors! Omigoodness, there is so much research and active participation involved in this class that I just don't know if I'll have time for all of it. I immediately began searching for alternatives that would fit my schedule, but everything that had openings in it would either mess with one or more of my other activities and classes, or it wouldn't help me at all with my requirements and be a waste of time. So I decided I'd just have to stick it out and see where this class takes me. Hopefully not below a B, so I can keep my financial aide and scholarships, but we'll see.
UPDATE:
It's been a week and only four classes, but I think this is actually going to be a good class -I'm glad (for now) that I didn't drop out. I really like the teacher, especially compared to the other Magazine Writing teacher I could have had. My roommate has her, and apparently she's um, well lets just say she's a newspaper short of a few headlines. My professor is thankfully not INSANE and she really seems like she actually wants to help get us published, which is awesome! My first piece for that class is an article about procrastination.
Story of my life.
My second class is an Intro to Psychology class, and I knew it was going to be a lecture-based class because it has so many students in it, and the teacher seems very nice and incredibly qualified, but he's also very strict. I can tell he's the type to be annoyed if anyone moves around too much near the end of class, and he'll keep us to the very last second every day. I just hope that the topics will be interesting enough to keep me awake for two hours after a long shift at work... and just in case I'm trying to remember to bring Coca-Cola every class ;P
The next class that I have is a history class, and not even something cool like ancient civilizations or something. No, this is a class we've all had since 3rd grade -History of the United States. I can tell this will be a frustrating class because there's a LOT of reading to do for every class, and we have to post comments about each reading an hour BEFORE class starts so he can call us out on something we said. We absolutely 100% canNOT have our laptops in this class, so there's no chance of salvation, either. The thing is though -the teacher seems really cool. Well, dorky actually, but funny, too. I just hope he's more realistic about the readings than he acted yesterday.
My last class is a fiction writing class, and I haven't had it yet because it's only on Mondays. I'm not sure what to expect from it, but I hope it's more than what I've gotten in the past, particularly last Spring.
UPDATE:
I had my first fiction class, and the teacher is so chill and cool about life. My roommate had him last semester and she says he's really relaxed and doesn't really care all that much about deadlines and stuff. And even though it's a four hour class, it went by really quickly because the professor's cool and funny and we've got some pretty cool students in the class as well. There's even some of my friends from my writing class last semester!
What I hope will happen this semester:
I want to be the associate producer for Good Morning Emerson again.
I want to have a crew position on Speechless.
I want to be more than halfway through a manuscript.
I want all A's this semester.
I want to apply for a publishing internship.
I want to apply for a tv studio internship.
I want to meet a nice, straight boy.
I NEED to find an apartment in Boston, comfortably fitting at least 3 people with a rent less than $700.
I NEED to see my best friend Kimberly.
I NEED to save money to a) see Kimberly, and b) rent an apartment.
If anyone can help me with any of these things, let me know haha.
I guess that's it for now. Maybe I'll make a small update on how my fiction writing class is, I don't know yet.
Thank you for reading!
Go back to work now.
Amy Liz
P.S.
I just noticed how boring this post is to look at, so here!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Uneventful Day
Hello All,
Today was completely uneventful and has me begging for the fast-paced lifestyle of my Boston school life. I don't even care that I will obviously need to do homework and classwork and lots of boring textbook readings while I'm at school, at least I'll be working, and I'll have my friends back with me, and I'll be doing SOMETHING productive!
I was really sore from the gym the last two days, so I took a day off today, and I think it really messed with my day's motivation, because I told myself that I was going to write at least 10 pages of one of my stories, but I got down maybe two pages of one story, and then I started to switch to another but I got distracted by a twitter video from Disney and from the fast-fading light of the day outside, and it's difficult to write in bad lighting.
Also, am I the only person in the world who still writes their stories in a notebook? I realize this probably makes finishing something that much longer to accomplish, but I just feel like it's more personal and more a part of me and my mind and my soul if I take the time and energy to carve it out on lined paper and pen ink. Don't you? Or am I just being a sentimental, tree-killing fool? Even if I am, it will probably take a long time for me to change my ways, anyway. Probably the only that could give me a motivation to do such a thing is a VERY high paycheck, and even then I'll probably still try to write as much as possible down in my favorite college-ruled notebooks.
I've also learned something today:
Writing while watching movies/tv is not very productive, writing-wise. Its just plain distracting, and it throws off your focus and makes it difficult to concentrate on either project, the story or the movie, and you just waste time. Music has a similar affect on me, unless it's wordless background music. If there are words, and I know them, I won't be writing, I'll be singing, and I can't do both.
I'm watching Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" right now and it's SUPAH cute! Love this movie so much.
also, just saw this commercial when I signed on to YouTube to look for the "Spirited Away" commercial. Cute and it gets right down to the point, plus I LOVE FUNIMATION Studios!
That's all, I guess.
Oh! Also, I finished "Clockwork Prince", by Cassandra Clare, and I think it's my favorite. I am in love with Jem. I'm only very scared that he won't get a very happy ending in the last book, "Clockwork Princess," but I hope to God he does -he's my favorite character right now, and I really think that if Tessa could man up and give him a chance, she and Jem could be very happy together.
But anyway, you should read the series. Start with "City of Bones" and go on from there.
It's an AMAZING series.
That's all,
Thanks for reading!
Amy Liz
Today was completely uneventful and has me begging for the fast-paced lifestyle of my Boston school life. I don't even care that I will obviously need to do homework and classwork and lots of boring textbook readings while I'm at school, at least I'll be working, and I'll have my friends back with me, and I'll be doing SOMETHING productive!
I was really sore from the gym the last two days, so I took a day off today, and I think it really messed with my day's motivation, because I told myself that I was going to write at least 10 pages of one of my stories, but I got down maybe two pages of one story, and then I started to switch to another but I got distracted by a twitter video from Disney and from the fast-fading light of the day outside, and it's difficult to write in bad lighting.
Also, am I the only person in the world who still writes their stories in a notebook? I realize this probably makes finishing something that much longer to accomplish, but I just feel like it's more personal and more a part of me and my mind and my soul if I take the time and energy to carve it out on lined paper and pen ink. Don't you? Or am I just being a sentimental, tree-killing fool? Even if I am, it will probably take a long time for me to change my ways, anyway. Probably the only that could give me a motivation to do such a thing is a VERY high paycheck, and even then I'll probably still try to write as much as possible down in my favorite college-ruled notebooks.
I've also learned something today:
Writing while watching movies/tv is not very productive, writing-wise. Its just plain distracting, and it throws off your focus and makes it difficult to concentrate on either project, the story or the movie, and you just waste time. Music has a similar affect on me, unless it's wordless background music. If there are words, and I know them, I won't be writing, I'll be singing, and I can't do both.
I'm watching Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" right now and it's SUPAH cute! Love this movie so much.
also, just saw this commercial when I signed on to YouTube to look for the "Spirited Away" commercial. Cute and it gets right down to the point, plus I LOVE FUNIMATION Studios!
That's all, I guess.
Oh! Also, I finished "Clockwork Prince", by Cassandra Clare, and I think it's my favorite. I am in love with Jem. I'm only very scared that he won't get a very happy ending in the last book, "Clockwork Princess," but I hope to God he does -he's my favorite character right now, and I really think that if Tessa could man up and give him a chance, she and Jem could be very happy together.
But anyway, you should read the series. Start with "City of Bones" and go on from there.
It's an AMAZING series.
That's all,
Thanks for reading!
Amy Liz
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