Twenty-One.

Some days I find it easier to draw than others, and other days I find it rather quite impossible to create anything at all.  Recently though I've felt the urge to paint.  Something I haven't done in a long while.  I have found myself  rather happy just playing with my markers, but I recently find myself staring off at all the few pieces of Gesso and canvas boards I have lying around.  They seamed to be screaming at me, please play with us.  Well that and I finally got new Fixatif, which makes painting so much easier and I really just wanted to play with that.  That and I got this new transfer spray that I wanted to try out too, but I ended up not using that and just sticking to good ole transfer paper.  Anyway, so as I was saying... So I picked up a Gesso board, rid it of its plastic covering, placed it on my desk and then continued to just stare at it for a good long while.

What the hell was I going to paint?  Well I didn't know.  So I just sat there and stared for a good while.  Then I started just dicking around on the interwebz and then I found inspiration in this picture.

Okay so I know what yer thinking, a gas mask?  Really?  Well yes, really.  I've been busy playing, Alice: Madness Returns (I'll have to write another blog about that at another time) and I just love all the Steampunk elements in the game and I'm also just a huge fan of Steampunk in general.  So then I was like hey, How about we do something Alice related?  And so I did.

Twenty.

Being an artist is expensive.  When I say expensive I mean expensive, like draining your life savings in order to replace your favorite markers kind of expensive.  I myself just needed to replace a few things in my arsenal and ended up paying over $200.  Now I bought a lot of stuff, and say if I was to go into a crafting store I would have payed almost double that.   Maybe even triple.  My secret? Blick.  I also just found that they have a store not that far from my house! I'll be traveling there from now on.  Squee!

I bought a whole bunch of really neat things.  Like I bought a new grey marker sets, I had to replace my colored pencils since a bunch of them just decided to up and runaway, I also had to replace about twelve of my  colored Prismas.  I also bought a couple of new things to mess around with.  A new skin hue marker set so I can try out some marker portraits with those (I'm super excited about that) and I really, really love my grey Faber-Castell PITT pens, so I bought a colored set of those.  I really like the PITT pens because they're waterproof, and it's like of more like painting than using a marker.  The only downside is that they set extremely fast, almost immediately so if you work fast you can get them to smudge a bit.  When working with them or my Prisma markers I usually also use my colored pencils to aid with the blending, etc.

If you are an artist and have never visited this magical world of discounted art supplies do yourself a favor and do so.  Especially if you're a student, they have even more discounts available to you.

My shopping venture with them today was my first ever and I have to say I was supper satisfied with the sitemap, it was easy to navigate and find exactly what I was looking for and I'll  definitely be buying more things from this site in the future.  The only downfall of buying art supplies online is that you need to wait a little while for them to get to you, it's not like just going down to the store and leaving with it instantly. I just really hate going into stores like you know those two craft stores that everyone has to go to because they have the market cornered.  People are always just so rude to me when I'm in those places and nothing is really organized and I have to go all over the place looking for the things that I need.

In other news this helped to cheer me up some.  
/end nerdy art supply blog.

Nineteen.

 Let's talk Hunger Games!

Two of the youtubers that I'm subscribed to game up with a Hunger Games tag.  I was going to make a video response but then I got lazy and decided that I would just answer the questions.  If you'd like to make a video response then you can check out the tag videos!

Here are the links for:  Part One & Part Two 

There are spoilers in my answers to these questions so if you haven't read the books then walk away now, if you don't give a flying fuck then continue on.

Eighteen.

I am so excited for the Hunger Games.  True story.

Seventeen.

Drawing, art, creation; that is what makes me happy.  It's also one of the only things I can do currently without being in excruciating pain, so I guess that's one good thing that's going for me right now.  My back/spine is in a 'C'.  It's pretty messed up.  I have to get an MRI on my back now, which makes me super nervous.  Meh.

Anyway new video, of this drawing being put together.   Check it out.  Like it, favorite it, subscribe to my channel.  You know all that good stuff.

Sixteen.

I love to draw.  I really do.  It makes me happy.  It also makes me happy that my injuries currently do not affect my drawing too much.  I really would be even more out of my mind if I couldn't draw.  Anyway, did you know that I draw?  Oh no?  Well I do.  You should check out my deviantART.

You should also check out this video; it's a composite of the drawing above.  While you're there watching you should go on ahead and subscribe too!  You know you want to. ;]

Fifteen.

Oh weekends.  Really, I don't feel like I have weekends.  Sure the week ends, and Friday night comes around and what do I do?  Well normally I just sit at home and watch Dexter while stuffing my face with all sorts of junk food.  Since I can't walk or stand or do anything for more than ten minuets at a time and that's on a good day.  

What about this Friday? Well I ended up with my brother and his friend and I catch this gem on video.  Now what kind of sister would I be if I didn't put this on the internet?  Psshh, not a good one that's for sure.  Haha. [To be fair I did warn them that this was going to happen so meh.]

Oh I really need to get out, well if only I could walk around; then I could get out.  I guess I'm stuck in this chair until then.