Day 25- Anniversary Flowers revisited and a few guilty confessions

I may have cheated on my picture a day blog already. I have may have cheated more times than I have let on. Today I cheated. This week I cheated. A lot. I drew both shell pictures on the same day. I also drew yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and the next day all on the same day. :/ :) Why am I telling you this? I don't know, but I am, and I'm still dating them all with different days and pretending they were all drawn on each day. They are still a drawing a day, just not drawn on that day. And hey, it's my blog, I can do whatever I want right. Right? And you'll keep reading even though I am cheating sometimes? Right?
Today is another quick sketch of that pretty lilly from the anniversary flowers my sweet husband gave me almost 2 weeks ago... How's that for yet another confession on this post. The flowers have been nearly dead  for a week and sitting on the table still because I love them. Nothing to get you to clean up like having company over!

Day 24- Anniversary Lillies

My anniversary flowers are mostly dead, but they were so pretty I kept hanging on to them. We are having company over though, and it's a little embarrassing to have these dead flowers sitting on the table, so I took a few pictures of the dead flowers so I could draw them. All that's left now is a sprig of eucalyptus and some purple flowers that I'm not sure what they are. The stem on of the big beautiful lillies broke and the lilly was hanging upside down, but I thought it still looked very cool so here it is. Just a quick sketch, very quick, like less than 5 minutes, which compared to the 2+ hours others can take is, well, quick.

Day 16- Room design

Today Steve and I got to go out on a date for our anniversary. We ended up heading over to the Grand Sierra Hotel to play laser tag and then we were going to go to out to eat. Well no one else was there to play laser tag so we opted not to play in the huge arena with just the two of us. That would have been lame. So instead we went to eat at the buffet. The buffet is now called the Elements Buffet, and they had these really cool moss covered balls with flowers on them hanging everywhere and I thought they were super cool and whimsical looking, so I decided to use them as inspiration for a little girl nursery. This is a very rough sketch, I'm really not great at drawing things out of my head, but it was still fun. I want a little girl someday. Well sometimes I think I want a little girl, then I think about how little girls turn into teenage girls, and I think that I am fine if I only have boys. I'm planning on making a seperate post on one of my other blogs about the things I would put in this room and where to get them from, but I don't have all of that info right now. I will link to it though when I do.  The writing at the bottom that you probably can't read is my notes about things in the picture and where I would get them from. The moss/flower balls are hanging above the crib. Above the chest of drawers changing table is a painting by me, that is similar to one I did for my niece (but never quite finished) and a mobile with birds and owls that I have similar of on etsy. The chest of drawers will be blue, with a green flokati rug on the floor in front of it. The flower arrangement will be by me and feature led flower lights. There is also a changing pad, wipes warmer, and cool glo light thingy. The end table will have a rattan wrapped lamp and a few books. There is also a diaper pail for our cloth diapers, some solid curtains (not sure what color yet), I will change the lamp shade from the circles, but that's just what I happened to draw, and the rocker recliner would ideally be some fun color or design that goes with the whimsical natural feel of the room.

What do you think? I think it's very magical and fun, or at least the start of being that way, I think she would be need to be born in the spring.

Day 14- Break

Break day again! Thank goodness. There is no way I could make it through an entire year of this, it's really hard to find the time to do this and actual dedicate and apply myself to whatever it is I am drawing. That drawing of my dog earlier this week, it took me over 2 hours to work on, and it still wasn't quite perfect. Today's picture is another one from out of my high school art class sketchbook. It is some roses that were in my mom's garden. I think they were yellow roses.

Day 13- Nightstand

It's late, I'm tired. I don't want to come up with something to draw, but I'm carrying all my stuff in to my room to plop down into my bed  and draw something. So I set it all down on my nightstand, my sketchbook, my can of pencils and pens, and my phone. Why do I carry around the whole can? I almost always use the same pencil anyways. I think about doing a "gesture" of my lamp, but then decide to just sketch my nightstand and lamp area. I love this little vignette. A picture of my sisters and me from a long time ago, a vase of orchids, a sculpture my sister gave me (it was from a previous marriage of hers), a picture of the Reno temple, a painting I did for fun one day in college at that same sister's apartment, and my lamp. I made it, out of ribbon, fabric stiffener, and a large bouncy ball.

Day 12- Anniversary Flowers

Today is our 6th Anniversary of our Wedding! Married 6 years. Sometimes I think, 6 years, that's barely anything, and other times 6 years seems like quite a long time. Either way, I'm very happy to be married to Steve. I love him, and he really is my best friend, and quite attractive to boot, I feel pretty lucky to have him. This morning he brought me breakfast in bed when he got home from work (have I mentioned he works nights so he gets off work at 8ish am). He brought me two plain glazed donuts (my favorite) and some strawberry milk. He also gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and a very sweet card. I was lame and didn't do anything... I know, I know, I suck horribly. But we are finally going to go on a date on the 16th, I'm thinking to celebrate our anniversary, so I will have to have something special for him that night. In honor of the flowers he gave me, I chose to sketch one of the lillies from the arrangement. These lillies in the arrangement were orange and beautiful, sadly the boys end up destroying them on the 15th while I am in the bathroom. The entire contents of the vase (flowers and water) end up on the dining room table and floor. Not to mention all of my paints and some other stuff. Mom is very, very, angry. We also had lillies at our wedding, those ones were white and beautiful. My mom did the flowers for our wedding and they were so pretty.

I didn't *really* finish this one either, I had more I wanted to do but the boys walked in at this point, and came straight towards the flowers I was drawing and bumped the vase and moved them, and since so much of this one was dependent on the angle and lighting it couldn't really be replicated elsewhere in the house, and I am satisfied with this even though there is lots of white on the page still.

I snapped this photo of them after I was done sketching from a similar angle as when I was drawing.

Day 5- Daffodil

The night I did Day 1, my husband was at work, but I texted him a picture of the sketch and he thought it was awesome and different than anything I ever had done and requested a picture of a fire breathing Chinese dragon with a mane. Totally doable and easy right? Well I put it off for a few days, because I had a lot going on and wasn't feeling quite motivated to get started on the dragon and tonight I finally decided to start on it. I'm not really good at drawing things out of my imagination and having them turn out good so I did a google search for Chinese dragons, looked at the images, and got started drawing. About 45 minutes later and after much erasing and redoing, I almost had his head halfway done and a body outline sketched out. Since it was already past 1 o'clock I decided the dragon was not going to be ready today, so I kind of did a cop out and sketched out a quick little daffodil (my favorite flower) gave it a leaf, and then stuck a little bug on it. This one is not favorite, and definitely not my favorite daffodil sketch (I actually do have a favorite daffodil sketch in an old sketchbook from about 7 years ago and when I look at it I can still remember the way the daffodil smelled while I was drawing, maybe I will scan it and share it with you sometime), and I'm not happy with how dark the squiggles are around the center part of the flower (too outline-y), but I was tired, and kind of sad my dragon was taking much longer than expected and I did this in like 3 minutes. Keep watching for the dragon though, I think it may take a week or so of working on in addition to other things, but Steve is home for the next 5 days which may mean I have drawing time during the day too and not just at night! So excited! The dragon is going to be freaking awesome though, not just a quick 5 minute thing just so I can say I did my drawing for the day, so awesome, I'm telling you, just wait and see!

What do you think? I already said i'm not happy with it, too outlined and a little too flat. 

(P.S.- Am I using parenthesis too much?)

*Pencils used- Statetdler Mars Lumograph 2H (It's my favorite pencil to use, can you tell?)