Truths

And by that, I mean they read a few lines out loud, look up at one another and go, “…WOW,” before reading some more.

Guys, I appreciate your awe, it’s a crazy book, but you need to pull out something a LITTLE deeper than that in order to call it a Bible study.

Seriously, it’s uncanny.

Guess whose school unblocked Tumblr?

Guess whose thrilled?

Like these are even hard questions.

Dear roommate,

Contrary to what you might think, baby talk is not a cute way to speak to your boyfriend, so if you would kindly cut it out, it would be greatly appreciated by all parties directly and indirectly involved. Seriously.

Love,
Me

STOP

MESSING

WITH

THE THERMOSTAT.

I’d like to not die of heat stroke in my own room while it’s 50 degrees outside.

The very first paragraph of my philosophy reading is Descartes confessing to his procrastination of writing these meditations.

I love it already.

Don’t BS, you know we all look the same.

“PLNU campus… has the dangerous reputation in the CotN [Church of the Nazarene] of being the denomination’s most liberal campus.”

So, so nervous ._.

You remember that church I mentioned a few days ago. Basically, I spent the ENTIRE class time Tuesday through Thursday working on it (a total of 24 hours.) Tuesday was spent just getting the general structure of the building down. Wednesday and Thursday were dedicated entirely to creating the illusion of depth, via shading. Thursday afternoon my professor and I declared it to be “done for now,” as in, let’s leave it alone for a while, focus on some 3D projects, and come back to it in a few weeks.

This is what I’ve done thus far, drawn on 18”x24” Strathmore paper, with a variety of graphite pencils.

The shading is a little hard to see on here, one, because of the camera, and two, because I’ve always been kind of tentative with shading things, but ah well. There are a couple of glaring mistakes I’ve made on this as well, which I am not going to point out because I don’t want anyone else to see them :P Then again, you probably can anyway…

Overall, though, this has been a very rewarding project. There were a few firsts made on this drawing, such as shading in a large plane (the sky,) and paying attention to shadows, their many gradients, and how they affect the appearance of the drawing as a whole. Plus, I never draw buildings, so it was a lot of fun trying something new :)

I can’t believe I’m already 2/5ths of the way through the semester… O___o

This week we’re looking a perspective. Did basic exercises on it for most of Monday, and since today was a blessedly beautiful day, my professor sent me outside to find a building to draw so that I could apply it.

Ended up drawing this really pretty church that’s catty corner from the building where the studio is located. Spent approximately 6 hours total sitting on the concrete sketching this, and it was glorious. Got a pretty mean sunburn on my arms and face, not to mention a TOMS tan line on my feet xD But I really like how the drawing came out. I’m going back tomorrow to do the shading :)