Yo! It's been a while since I last posted but I have valid reasons for my negligence. Since I last posted I have had...hmmm...150+170...about 320 sketches to do for art and I kid you not. Most were five minute contour sketches done on an A5 piece of paper while some are slow contour...or even worse blind contour.
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Contour sketches are done by not lifting your pencil/pen from the paper to create a drawing made from one continuous line and blind is that plus not being allowed to look at your paper while you draw
See what I mean?
Oh! I have this awesome joke to tell! It was first told in Afrikaans so excuse the bad translation:
George Bush and Mandela meet up and Mandela notices Bush is chewing gum which really starts to annoy him.
Bush: (suddenly) Do you have jelly in South Africa?
Mandela: Of course, we call it jam
Bush: Well, we make our jam from cast off fruit peels and export it to South Africa
Mandela: :I
I can't remember how the rest goes but basically bush keeps on tuning Mandela about how South Africa gets America's cast off products.And all this time Bush is still chewing on his gum, chewing chewing chewing. Suddenly Mandela can't take it anymore.
Mandela: Do you use condoms in America?
Bush: Of course!
Mandela: Well we use ours twice, clean them off and then make them into chewing gum which we export to America.
Bush: :I
Ah! A bit of a rude joke but it's still funny :D Way to go Mandela!
I used a few stock pictures on Deviantart to do these with my wacom tablet. :3 They didn't come out too shabbily if I must say so myself.
Well, tonight a friend of mine is picking me after she's done with her lifesaving at the beach then we're going to this one street near campus where the whole street will be closed off since bands are going to play there till late FOR FREE and then we might go dancing at one of the clubs nearby. My friend and I are both nondrinkers so when I say dancing I mean it. I want to be like that police man in that movie Hot Fuzz who walks into a bar.
Barman: (looks up cheerfully) What can I get you?
Policeman (he's wearing casual clothes by the way) Cranberry juice please.
I also went to the entomology department on campus to get a specimen to draw for my final art project of the term. There were moths and butterflies bigger than my hand! Beautiful scarab beetles, huuuge prey mantis's (how do you spell that?) and really really creepy bugs with spikes and wings. I was so relived that they had pins through them. I took a common brown moth which the lady told me I could keep while my friend took this rare species of moth with the shape of a skull on its back and it's one of the most poisonous moths in the world! I also learned that some are found not only in South America but here as well! :0 But what scared me more was the fact that my friend knew exactly what it was and what its called!
Anyhoo's we passed a few rooms on the way and in this display cabinet were stick insects half my size and a scorpion longer than my hand. Erp! Another girl in my class went to the zoology department and got the skeleton of a kiwi bird that is apparently hundreds of years old. Now she's so paranoid about it getting harmed that she can't relax and get down to drawing.
Have a nice weekend dear readers!
I want a Merlino dagger!
