I never was much of an illustrator. I used to sit behind my friend Kaitlin in a class that will not be named to protect the guilty (Kaitlin), and watch as she would draw intricate characters in Flash or Illustrator and flip away when the instructor would come toward the back of the class. Her work, even her doodles, were always gorgeous and so detailed. My style is more quick and easy, due largely to the fact that I am a horrible procrastinator, and I would rather sit around whining about having to do something for 8 hours than actually doing it for 2. As such, I never really got into fine intricate details when drawing. In fact, I hardly ever draw. I’ve never taken an art class apart from the mandatory ones in elementary school.

At the end of my second year in New Media, I got a bit more into drawing using Adobe Illustrator and started to incorporate my creations into a few projects, building up to my favourite project: my Soviet Cupcakes poster, featuring a drawing I did of everyone’s favourite Marxist Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin.

Vlad and I made our love pretty well known for a while. But I essentially stopped drawing again once I graduated. Recently, however, I decided to make the commitment to try and improve in a few aspects of graphic design, which brought me back to my old friend, Illustrator. A few weeks ago, I dedicated 1-2 hours per night over a span of 3 nights to draw this:

It is slightly more detailed than what I usually do, and I’m hoping will be the catalyst to a trend of increasingly detailed illustrations that I would like to complete every two weeks or so.

I’m also hoping to get back into the swing of weekly blog entries on a topic separate from “this is what I did today,” while still including small life updates at the end of the entry.

So, life update for this week is that so far the scheduling has gone well (although I will wait another week or so to give a detailed analysis of how it’s worked). It is 24 days until I leave for my trip to the UK, which is actually kind of terrifying. Friends have been giving me lots of tips on what to see and do while I am there, and a bit on how stuff works, which is nice. But I also still have to book a hotel in Newcastle and kind of sort out my transportation to/from the airport, not to mention between cities. Still a lot of planning yet. The one area I’m not having troubles in is with what to wear as my rate of shopping, both online and off, is at a high. I really need to stop so I actually have money to spend in London (and room in my suitcase to bring stuff home).

Sunday January 29th 2012 — 8 Comments
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