Greetings Commrades! Thanks to you all for the fun of this month! I have loved doing this, and thanks to Michelle for the idea/link to TAD! It’s been great for the FLOW. 
Following on yesterday’s theme, Russian poster style mashup with aquatic life…
Last post! Unfortunately…. don’t remember what some things are/don’t have pictures for past things. Maybe later, afterwards. Cutting it close!
Think I left off at the twenty-fourth…? So:
Feb 25
3D linear sculpture thing for Design II class (no pic as of now; still needs to be fixed, too)
Feb 26
Feb 27
Feb 28
Color swatches for Design I (lame). First time using gouache, though.
Feb 29
Working on icons for my icon journal, of which there will be more as the night progresses into March…:
(I mostly mess around with the colors & stuff. Nothing too special, I guess.)
Well, that’s it… If anyone cares, here are some links of mine:
DeviantArt
Blog where I put Thing a Day stuff
Aforementioned icon journal
Next year I’ll do better. ._. With pictures & stuff.
(waves) Byee all. ;_;/ Come visit my URLs (and give me yours! (Please?))
For a friend. She drew me something that was really nice, so I thought I should return the favor. I’m not gonna attempt to explain further than that.
Learned how to fold a note into a heart today. I might use it as stationery, or something.
Well, it’s the end. I’ve made enough things for 27 days, I think, which isn’t really bad considering my work ethic issues. I can’t wait to participate next year. Maybe I’ll actually do something for all 28 days! But of course, next year my homework load will be worse. We shall see…
It was awesome creating with you guys. See you next year!
I almost wimped out. I thought about letting my final work of the month be this crocheted zipper thing.
Instead, vanity prevailed.
Finally! Figured out how to print nicely and cut in a straight line 
Not-so-shameless plug (hey, you’ve been asking!): These are freshly posted in my etsy, if you’re interested.
(molliefabric.etsy.com)
I can’t believe this is the last day! I’ll post one more thing tonight (this post is for yesterday).
Thing-a-day really got me goin! I’m feeling so… useful haha
Seriously though, is there a year round community for this? I want to keep going. I guess I could start my own blog, but having a community to interact with would be way better! Does anyone know? I cant find any info about it on the thing-a-day site.
This is dated the 29th, but it is actually my thing for the 28th (it was just after midnight when I put the date in I guess). We get one more last one tomorrow.
again concert after work, so not much for today:
and a concert sketch
i like russian poster style, and lately i’ve been wanting to draw a giant squid, because someone at work had a cool sweatshirt with some on it. but i opted for an octopus, and decided to mash it up with the russian poster thing. i’m not sure if the green takes away from the russian feeling, but i like the result anyway. long live the sharpie! i also like that octopusses have so many legs, and the russian text on the drawing translates into “Our strengths are uncountable.”
and so they are…
Wow, apologies… I fell behind a lot. I have been working, as I’ve said, but with all the homework, the shifts at the library, the running to and fro getting course packets and supplies, going to gallery shows… I haven’t had time to scan or post anything. Even now I can’t scan enough to make up for the lost days, but, I’ll show you some of what I’ve been doing anyway! I feel bad about not being able to keep to the schedule — I wish this took place over the summer! — but more than anything I’ve loved looking at everyone else’s work. It’s inspiring and all that cheesy stuff. But really, it’s fun! So I guess what I mean is that overall I don’t feel bad, even though I couldn’t keep up.
Anyway, my first illustration assignment. We were supposed to do something entitled “Our Little Secret” and my violent brain went instantly to domestic violence. I tried out a style I’ve never done before — I went into detail about this on my personal journal so I will spare you the tirade of excuses! Anyway this took a while, about 15 to 20 hours, over the course of a week…
I will tell you the comedy option though, which is that he’s just making fun of her because she’s too stupid to put makeup on correctly :C So she like. Smeared her forehead with lip gloss and overdid the eyeshadow. Hurr.
Aaand here’s some of Monday’s figure drawing, in vine charcoal on 18×24 biggie sketch paper.
Tomorrow I get to see Adrian Tomine! WOOO
My least favorite haircut ever, especially on corporate dudes who thinks it heps up their suit.
Here’s the latest.
Monday I watched an art video called Works by Women: From the Heart. It was from 1982 and featured nine women artists and it was awesome.
Tuesday I made an abstract graphite drawing.
Yesterday I read a section of The Artist’s Way. I think I’m going to start the course March 1.
And today I went to the art museum to see an exhibit called The Dancer, with works by Degas, Forain and Toulouse-Lautrec. Photography wasn’t allowed inside the museum, so here’s a picture of one of the banners hanging on the building.
That statue was my favorite piece in the exhibit. It’s a Degas called Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer and it is bronze with a real tutu and hair ribbon. Apparently the original scandalized the Impressionist art world in Paris because it was so realistically detailed and the subject was a bit risque.
I’m posting my last item today since I’m going on vacation tomorrow. This is a sneak peak into some of my future work, which will involve adapting some of my illustrations into digitized form. Adios!
I love Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha characters. I created the illustration on the left based on an episode where Kagura falls wounded in a stream and Sesshoumaru is nearby. Something they leave up for the imagination is how he actually gets her out of the water. I’m such a fan girl! You can see some of the progress here. Enjoy!
I don’t own Inuyasha, but Rumiko Takahashi does.
What a great way to end Thing-a-day (see my last post above)! It was fun while it lasted, but now I have to update my own blog
This one is dedicated to Maria Eugenia Castellanos Cruz. Most everything I know came from mi Mama!
Doodling a character for an animation. Little Indian girl, still needs a name.
(I’m rusty with people and faces, so this was a good exercise)
Other doodles:
<– Mole men in the office
<– Large owls
<–Small owls
<– Gerbil powered solar system model
And this is my 3d assignment for tomorrow, playing with dynamics. It’s nothin’ special, but it’s not a big assignment:
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I think I was looking at Craft’s blog when I stumbled upon a great tutorial on how to make beads from recycled newspaper. Today I decided to give that tutorial a try and I’m partially through the process. The beads take several days to dry so it’ll be a while before I can paint them, hopefully by the 29th! Yikes! Anyway, I boiled the water with the newspapers inside and waited for about an hour and then rolled the beads, which took about twenty minutes or so.
While I waited I made some more shrinky dinks:
a black cat with big yellow eyes (in honor of my ever-so-curious feline companion Phoebe who modeled for me), an owl and a friendly heart.
