On vacation

Hello to anyone who is reading this. I have been taking a little break from drawing, because I am on vacation. Yay! I am in California visiting one of my very good friends, and her family. She has an adorable almost 2-year-old daughter, and a 2 week old baby boy. He is so sweet and he just sleeps in my arms all the time. They are so cute, but wow, are they a lot of work! I have some great ideas for Spacegirl though, so I will be back to drawing very soon.

Feminism in Art

Here is my latest picture that I did last night. Originally, I was thinking that it would be Spacegirl that was captured by the aliens and Spaceman would rescue her, but I decided that that was a little cliche. I want Spacegirl to be strong and capable. Not that Spaceman isn't strong and capable (he most definitely is! ;) ) but I just wanted to show that Spacegirl is too. My favorite part of this picture is the ray gun. It was really fun to draw and fun to do the neat blur effects. Here it is:

Etsy

So I put my pictures on etsy.com today, which is a website kind of like ebay where you can sell art, clothing, pottery, and other creative type projects. So far, I only have them as prints. I would like to have notecards also, but I need to get some made first. I want some for myself anyway. And I want to get enough pictures done that I could make a calendar. I think that would be really fun. :)

New Drawing

Moons and Moon Zombies

This picture I drew along time ago, but now with my cool new software I can color it in all pretty.

Here is the picture to which I was referring in the previous post, so that if anyone is actually reading this, you can see what I was talking about.

Running vs. Dancing

I am feeling a little frusterated. I have never taken any drawing classes, and I only draw for fun. So I suppose that my drawings don't have to be perfect. But being the perfectionist that I am, I really want them to be. I am having trouble drawing figures in action, because usually I draw stationary figures. It is just so discouraging to spend so much time working on something and have it be not quite right. I knew that Spaceman and Spacegirl didn't really look like they were running, but I was hoping no one else would notice. :) Silly me. Spaceman says it looks like they are dancing, and he is right. They look like they are doing the twist or something. Remember how in Scooby Do, when they ran they ran straight upright. Hehe.

Spacegirl

Here she is! So far anyway. . . I love the pink hair. I am still not sure about the silver. Spaceman says it should be silver, but it just looks so gray.

Redesigning Spacegirl

I decided I want to try to redesign Spacegirl a little bit. Originally she was designed to look like me, because she kind of is me. But I think I want her to be her own person if I am going to try to develop her further. I want her to be brave and daring in a way that I am not. And I think I want her to have pink hair. Because pink hair is cool. Or maybe black hair with a pink streak! That would be awesome!

I really need a scanner. My parents have one, but I don't want to have to run over there every time I need to scan a picture. The good news is though that I found this really awesome program called PhotoFiltre that is a freeware image editing program. It isn't maybe as good as the non-free ones, in that it doesn't do filters, but it is free! And good enough for me for now.

In other news, I am have been knitting a blanket for my friend's new baby Caleb. I am nowhere near finished, but I decided to start making one for his sister Ella too. I got size 19(!) circular needles so that it will go more quickly, and fuzzy pink yarn. I think she will love it.

The History of Spaceman and Spacegirl

I used to have this really terrible cordless phone that would make all of these fuzzy, crackly noises whenever the microwave was in use. My boyfriend thought it sounded like we were astronauts in space, thus the nicknames Spaceman and Spacegirl were born. The rest is history. Or maybe I should say, "the future."