christmas miracle!!

i taught myself how to knit! (santa brought me a sock-monkey-makin kit)

i could crochet already, but i've always wanted to learn how to knit. i have tried and tried to learn but it took a kit meant for 8-year-olds for it to finally click.
so here he is!!

sock monkey!!!

he has a bird's eye view!

and a worms-eye!

he has a butt, too!!

and also a face!!!

here he is at rest

i also made him a tiny hat

in other news, i had my wisdom teeths taken out yesterday. dragsville.

look how puffsy!! don't laugh

ar rar raaar

what i have so far with the cassander piece:

its kind of wobblyyyy!! and backwards (thanks photobooth). i like it. i'll get a better picture up here once i'm done (i hope). i'm using the chain stitch! first time ever (casa taught me). totally fun and looks real purt.

"its an arrum to be sure, yer honour!"

it makes my heart hurt

oh man. oh kt. oh geeze.

peaceful warrior in training

this is a preliminary drawering of my good friend casa which i am embroidering on a stretched canvas. ima do the contour outline of her body in purple and her shirt and hair in an indigo. i think her glasses (which are baller, basically) are going to be this bright blue, which she likes more than me but then again this is a drawing of cassandra and not maggie.
i drew this in the art lab while she was working on her final fibers project. her last fibers project for her last fibers class ever!! (alas!) she's at the sewing machine, but i decided to leave out the machine and the piece she was working on. she says it reminds her of her dance moves. i think so, too. in a way, she is dancing. when she is sewing and making art, she doesn't have to think about what she is doing; she just experiences the moment in the present. thats what i like about this drawing because it really is all about her. the project she is working on and the action of her working on it are, in essence, cassandra, so leaving out the tools made sense. everything else is inconsequential.
that's just what i think, anyway.
plus im super-stoked about making something that intimidates me, and this project definitely has the potential to become really overwhelming. we'll see. i have the tendency to quit challenging projects and blame it on laziness.

reggio-emilia approach

cranes shmanes

i messed up and drew a couple steps upside down but i also drew a flippy arrow for you so you don't get lost.

still lifes

this one reminds me of roald dahl a little bit. the left hand does at least.

my shelf

laura's shelf

technically the first one wasn't a still life since my hands were still moving when i was drawing it. can you deal with that?

my favorite food:

(grapefruit)

lo-rez doodoo dont look

hey. i wanted to post some more drawings but i also did not want to waste two hours of my life scanning them. (sorry laura.)
i think they're tolerable.

broken home

this comic by dina kelberman basically sums it up for me:

i love this artist. she makes these tiny comic books...tiny as in the size of a quarter...and they are so great!! most of her characters are stick-figures or simple shapes that convey more emotion and less pretention than most other webcomix i know. check out that little yellow dude...he is just hangin out with his mom, totally casual. i like that she used colored pencil and i like how she overlays lines on top of one another, and also i like her speech bubbles because the words don't always fit. a lot of times the dialogue is discontinuous but that is okay!! in fact, it is wonderful! she has this one comic about a bear that learns how to feel good about herself. she tries superficial beauty, fulfillment in a relationship, the internet... nothing helps! then she decides to just go with her flow. i can dig that.

do the Hustle!!

embroidery???

both of them side by side, so determined

race for the prize!!!!

this was featured in The Peel last semester, but i thought i would put it up here because i sure like it a whole lot.

bugz, handz, phonez

golgogy nootles

i misspelled "geology" and wrote "golgogy" instead. Oooooooh weeeellll!!

sunshine, flowers, and phillip

promo poster for my friend, phil

FO' REEEAL?

im bummed out that these are all backwards, but i can't fix them (thanks a lot photobooth BOOOO!!). it is, however, waay faster and less stressful than scanning. weeeeeeee!!!

BUHBUH BUH BUH BUUUH

fo' reeeeeal???

"no!" "no!" "nonononooooo!!!" "NO." "uuuuuuuughhh"
death of a cloud
???
(i think we were talking about climate change)

geology prof

reverse nootles

notes + doodles = nootles

assassin bug!!! and this other crazy bug i found.

dumpster hand

failed wheatpasting attempt. at least i recovered it!!

this is how i take notes:

its been a while since i have posted anything!! what the heck did i even make this blog fer?? i forgot how annoying scanning things is. are. were. will be. anyway, here are some doodles i did in the margins of class notes. this is what i do to pay attention, sometimes they pertain to the material, sometimes not. but i like'em!! i like them a lot better than most of the things in my journals or stuff i've done in art classes. they look nice to me and i hope they look nice to you, too.

portrait of dr. ray

josh's fall league application

yoshimi battling the pink robits!! robit fisticuffs!!! geologies!!!!

lots more to come. my scanner is doo-doo and i cant find some of the other doodles that i liked the best, which also makes me worry since the best ones are usually on the most important class notes. dang!!

foto by jess, arrangement by fate

i really really REALLY needed to look at all of them.
(thanks, jess)