I want to go over this with a thicker pen and add more shading but I’m hitting that zombie dead tired state so I’ll have to attack this later:

Can’t wait to get back to Seattle so I can have a scanner again :)

Having trouble getting these as detailed as I’d like. I’m trying to go through this part of a drawing tutorial during my lunch breaks and this particular part requires a lot of time drawing little tiny circular scribbles.

Yesterday:

Today:

It’s an interesting technique that at first I sort of scoffed at. It’s rather time consuming but the texture is much nicer than just rubbing a 6B pencil to get a shade. At least, if you spend the time to make the circles fine enough.

So, Lena read this article today about consumerism and ways of keeping your level of home owned crap down to a minimum. Since we moved out of the country 6 months ago and moved back last month, we’ve gone through 2 massive get-rid-of-everything-non-essential purges. Now that we are in a state of living out of two suitcases and two backpacks, I figured this would be a great time to join the 100 Things Challenge and begin tracking our crap.

Here’s my list of personal belongings:

Essentials

1. Laptop (macbook pro)
2. – External hard drives (x6 – 320GB Laptop Drives)
3. – Laptop Mouse
4. Phone (samsung vibrant) + charger
5. – Spare Phone Battery
6. Wallet (+ contents)
7. Passport Wallet (+ contents)
8. Glasses (Prescription)
9. Juggling balls (4 Jester Footbags)
10. Backpack (SwissGear IBEX Notbook Pack)
11. Suitcase
12. Headphones (BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro)
13. Shoes
14. Socks (7)
15. Underwear (7)
16. Pants (Jeans)
17. Belt
18. T-Shirt (Jolly Roger)
19. Wedding ring
20. Coat
21. Toothbrush (Sonicare FlexCare)
22. Razor (Electric)
    

    Extra Clothes

23. Hat
24. Pants (Jeans) + Belt (attached)
25. Pants (Jeans)
26. T-Shirt (Grey)
27. T-Shirt (Black)
28. T-Shirt (Grey Striped)
29. T-Shirt (Jolly Roger)
30. Shirt – Long Sleeve
31. Shirt – Long Sleeve
32. Shirt – Long Sleeve
33. Shirt – Fancy Striped Button-Up
34. Light Autumn Coat
    

    Drawing

35. Pen Tablet (Wacom Intuos4 Medium)
36. Sakura Pen Set (6)
37. Staedtler Pen Set (Mars Pigment Liner Set of 4)
38. Sketchbook (Moleskine – Large)
39. Drawing Pad (Strathmore)
40. Pencil Set – Tombow (8)
41. Eraser (Kneaded x2)
42. Pencil Sharpener
    

    Music

43. Accordion
44. Chromatic Harmonica (Velvet Voice 48 Hering Professional)
    

    Expendable Items

45. Mechanical Pencil
46. Red Pen
47. Black Pen
48. To-Go Ware 3 Tier Steel Lunchbox
49. LunchBots Uno Stainless Steel Lunch Container
50. Utility knife
51. Headphones (for phone)
52. Business card holder (with cards)
53. First aid kit
54. Deck of cards (minature)
55. Paracord (for knot tying practice)
56. Blipplace (toy–self assembled microcontroller electronic gadget)
57. Unassembled Blipplace
58. USB adapter (Belkin mini 4-port)
59. USB adapter (Buffalo Squid 4-port)
60. USB Extension Cable
61. Cat-5 Cable (short emergency cable)
62. Macbook Remote
    

    In Storage (@ Family’s House)

63. Hand Drum (from honeymoon in Thailand)
64. Unicycle
65. Books
66. Contact Juggling Ball
67. SmartNav 3
68. Sketchbook (Moleskine – Small)
    

    Temporary (getting rid of)

69. Old iPhone

I guess I’m too lazy to upload these each day so here are a few new ones:

Took a couple days off. Now experimenting with anime. Just a quick sketch from a YouTube tutorial

I started doing doodles again so I figured I would post them up here (since I’m not really updating this blog regularly with anything else). Here’s the backlog so far: