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Friday, 25 June 2010 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseI can't find my mid-sized sketchbook and this bothers me. Mostly because I got hit with inspiration for a drawing, and my 10"x12" is too small but my 14"x17" is too big. It's just as well; I couldn't seem to snap a decent reference picture for the pose. (Taking pictures in a mirror is a lot harder than you would think.)
I kind of miss art class, now that I think about it; if I ever needed a reference picture, I could just drag Amanda or Melissa outside and take one. And we didn't have to think about things like what medium or what size paper would be best suited for what we were going to do, or even what sort of composition we should do; that was always given to us. But now I think about that kind of thing, and it only took three years of art, too!
(Also, I just found the sketchbook. "I can't find my middle-sized sketchbook," I said to mum, who just got home. "Isn't that it, or is that your big one?" she asks, pointing to a sketchbook sitting in a pile of my stuff. ...oops.)
Finally, I cannot talk enough about the cast recording of American Idiot. It's just really great and I think anyone who liked American Idiot the album should give it a listen. I still really really want to see it live ): I'll have to keep on top of if it'll be in town again. (And I really like some of the things they do to the songs. There's a nice round in American Idiot, and the way Last of the American Girls and She's A Rebel are blended together is really cool, and I love the way they do the last bit of Whatsername - which is what gave me inspiration for the drawing that I can now do properly, since I have the right size sketchbook for it now.)
And time to go run errands. Getting out of the house, yeah!
I kind of miss art class, now that I think about it; if I ever needed a reference picture, I could just drag Amanda or Melissa outside and take one. And we didn't have to think about things like what medium or what size paper would be best suited for what we were going to do, or even what sort of composition we should do; that was always given to us. But now I think about that kind of thing, and it only took three years of art, too!
(Also, I just found the sketchbook. "I can't find my middle-sized sketchbook," I said to mum, who just got home. "Isn't that it, or is that your big one?" she asks, pointing to a sketchbook sitting in a pile of my stuff. ...oops.)
Finally, I cannot talk enough about the cast recording of American Idiot. It's just really great and I think anyone who liked American Idiot the album should give it a listen. I still really really want to see it live ): I'll have to keep on top of if it'll be in town again. (And I really like some of the things they do to the songs. There's a nice round in American Idiot, and the way Last of the American Girls and She's A Rebel are blended together is really cool, and I love the way they do the last bit of Whatsername - which is what gave me inspiration for the drawing that I can now do properly, since I have the right size sketchbook for it now.)
And time to go run errands. Getting out of the house, yeah!
