So I do use my sketchbooks. They’re a mess of course as I mostly just doodle stuff like practice cartoon’y eyes and half faces. Tons of stuff like that, multiple things like that one one page. Often overlapping each other on a page. I’m a freak. But I figured I’d take pics of a few of those things that you can still identify in those messes and post them here.

I could swear I posted this guy before, maybe I just planned to because I had been digitizing him. Maybe I’ll post that wip version too. Just some random BatBoy that also looked kind of Werewolf’y to me. I dunno wtf he is really, I just drew and that’s what he became.

Yeah, here he is. Still in progress though he has been forever, so maybe he’ll never be done, can’t figure out what to do with him.

No, I can’t draw from reference pics yet, obviously. And I should use a ruler or something instead of trying to draw lines on my own But this is based on one of the CA missions. LaPurisma maybe? I forget now.

This was going to be a faerie but as usual I just used the page to draw all kinds of random eyes, half faces, etc. So this is really all I have of her.

Woah. They’re calling this the biggest art theft in the history of LA. Set of Warhol paintings stolen. On the local LA news they said that just one similar Warhol painting sold for $9 million recently and the collection is “priceless” and really is the kind of thing that you’d never sell and can’t put a price on.

1. Who the hell steals such a thing? It’s not like you can ever do anything with it, not even show it off.
2. How to I develop the kind of talent to paint such paintings?
3. Never mind question #2 because don’t you have to die before they’re ever worth that kind of money?

Her look is similar to Close your Eyes, but I was bored so I drew another girl with the same look. Just no background for this one and done in colour. Made in TwistedBrush.

Still need to finish the straps but it was shot night and got to be too late, so I’ll do that tomorrow. Then need to iron the top since a certain kitty decided to lay on it… That’s why it looks all funky on the right side. I’ve discovered I can semi sew a straight line… semi… usually. Kinda. Sewing a straight line is about as natural as drawing one though. Brian said he could get away with a purse using this fabric and thinks he needs a laptop case made out of it.

Chick Purse

When I decided I’d attempt to teach myself to sew with nothing but a sewing machine, fabric, thread, zippers, a few questionable patterns, and the internet I told mom I was scared of zippers. I had seen a few posts of people saying zippers scared them. Even people who seem to sew a bit had mentioned online that putting zippers in purses scared them, eek. So I figured I’d be in BIG trouble. Therefore I am posting this picture that is half-fail and half-not-fail.

It’s a fail only because I wasn’t taking it very seriously. I have the crappy scissors and didn’t want to wait the rotary cutter to practice. So I just cut a piece of fabric from old pants with no real guide and not so straight, in fact it didn’t turn out perfectly square. But I didn’t care, I figured I’d be tearing it apart when I screwed up the zipper. And aha! I can, in fact, sew a zipper without making a mess of it, I think. It’s not ironed because I didn’t care and figured I’d be tearing it all apart 1,000 times, so it sticks up here and there and looks even less straight than actually is — oddly enough, while the fabric is a mess, the stitching is almost perfectly straight which is amazing for me, considering… It’s actually not puckered up, etc, just needs a good ironing and I’m lazy and need to re-stitch one of the corners first, if I care that much, I didn’t even care enough to use matching thread after all. But I sewed a zipper pretty darn well, on my first try of putting one IN something (I’d tried just sewing it to fabric but not actually hooking it all together before). Ha!

So far –
I figured out how to thread the machine even though I decided to skip the manual as it’s a joint manual for multiple models so all of the this may not apply to your model but this might = I might not want to figure out which does and which doesn’t. Decided to just go for online videos but videos are for machines nothing like mine as mine as a feature that auto feeds the bobbin in and me never having thread a machine in my life and really never having seen one that auto does it? I was confused. But I figured it out anyway.

So then I figure well I should practice sewing a straight line and forgot to buy practice material. Ooopsie.. So I tore apart one of the few pairs of pants I still had that hadn’t been given away but that look like one of those weight loss commercials if I put them on. But Dutchie the cat thought she’d help by sitting on the chair (better than the machine I’ll give her that) and wouldn’t move. So I sat around her best I could since if I moved her she just came right back, and found I could basically sew a straight line — oddly enough this impressed me because I found that when I tore the pants apart it seems that not so cheap clothes actually aren’t sewn with uber straight lines anyway, fairly straight sure, but perfectionist me would have thought it has to be PERFECTLY straight, guess not. I need to practice more goes back over the same spot — don’t get that straight every time.

Then I tried sewing the zipper from those pants onto the torn up material and think I can probably do that. So am getting the basics down. Fear me.

The new material arrives tomorrow. Not sure I’m ready to try the patterns yet, but getting there. Still not sure I NEED a pattern except for the wallet.

Besides a ton of zippers and some batting, I also needed an iron. They were out of all but a craft iron which my bf was sure was fine soooo, I was a little leery or it but since it was cheap we got it. It’s just like this one.

Then I needed a replacement fabric since the cute skull fabric was sold out at Fabric Depot. Brian found a more traditional skull one. And then he picked out these for himself to hang on his wall or whatever:

And I just had to get this adorable kitty fabric. It says cuddle a kitty, meow, etc. And has fishbones, etc all over it. Brian says it’s ugly. I say he just doesn’t know cute. heh. The pink is because I needed something to go with it and Brian thought that pink was the only thing that MIGHT help it.

I apologize for the bad pics, bit shaky and off today.