Day-to-Day: Interesting Tour Guide

For my friend Hannah's birthday last weekend we always go to the Folk Life Festival at the Seattle Center. Well she also wanted to be surprised so we added going to the Underground Tour of Seattle.

The tour was...interesting. I wish we got a different tour guide but it was an experience. I was hoping the tour would be a little longer also. Though this is what the gal was wearing no joke and looked a little haggard like maybe she normally does the night tours.

We did get a wonderful amount of innuendos about "seamstresses" to make it more kid friendly when talking about the prostitution industry.

Ooh and favorite thing at the Folk Life Festival....Shishkaberries!!!! Yuuum! It ain't summer till I get some!

My Art: Portrait of Nicole Cuvin

Thank you everyone for following my blog. As it leaves the realm of being a class assignment that was suppose to have 16 posts minimum, *gloating* I'm up to 65 with this one, I do intend on continuing it past this school year. I have enjoyed this weekly assignment and hope to keep the three day weekend posts going as I continue on with this blog.

For my last "official" class post here is a portrait I drew of Nicole Cuvin during my Typography 2 class. I think I've gotten much better with doing quick portraiture.

I will miss all my friends from Portland but hope you all keep in contact with me over my blog I can't wait to see where we all go from here!

Day-to-Day: Goose Hollow Classiness

Waiting for the Goose Hollow shuttle to school I heard this gal talking to her friend. She was using the words fuckin and like every other word! It was completely ridiculous. I think the English language was weeping.

Also I do not think it is too smart to talk about how ripped you got on weed everyday in public. And just because your doctor says that you shouldn't smoke cigarettes doesn't mean pot is a better substitute. Oh and I wasn't even trying to eavesdrop in on this conversation. She was louder than I usually am and for those who know me that is quite loud!

This is why I am glad I am leaving Goose Hollow that smells of refer down the hallways and is full of kids trying to figure out who they are going about it the wrong way. I am ready to graduate from college. I really look at these college freshmen and sophomores like I use to look at middle school kids in high school. So glad to be past that age group.

Day-to-Day: Focus Week Presentations

Of course there was more to Focus Week than just myself presenting. I got to see many of my friends do wonderful presentations and here's my little drawn snapshot of each!

Amanda did amazing artwork on fairy tales, but since all her figures were female she got the eevil questions on feminism. Those are not her words but my own.

I can't begin to tell you how many people were drawing octopus or nonnopus at Andrea's proposal. Must say I am looking forward to seeing where her comic goes.

Nicole's oral presentation was so much fun and her art very playful. Ooh but it was so early in the morning!

Jenn did an amazing job at her oral defense! I have to say she thought one step ahead of me on what she was going to say next! She did an amazing job not only with talking about her work but answering questions!

Day-to-Day: Thank You Self Portrait

For my illustration class we had to do a little thank you. I decided I wanted to finally draw myself in my glasses and with my now short haircut. I hadn't drawn more than a doodle of this new hair. It's not perfect but I do love it! By the way happy May Day! And thank you my readers for keeping up with my musings!

Day-to-Day: Print Shops

I cannot believe I have forgotten to update my blog until now! But that is what happens when Focus Week (the week Seniors present their final thesis) does. Missing two updates...*sigh*
In the last three weeks I have had more encounters with print shops than I wanted. At the top a few weeks ago we went to Pinball Publishing on a field trip. It was interesting because once we were out there that was when Kristen mentioned the trip was optional. There wasn't much said that interested me as I am not as interested in the printing process.
The following week in Typography 2 some people came from Stumptown Printers to talk with us. It was much the same conversation and another talk that was not within my area of interest. I wish these were spread out so I didn't have to hear very similar talks so close to each oh well.

Day-to-Day: Hair length

Something I surprisingly didn't mention with the wig post is the fact that I had to get a haircut preemptively. While I was working on the wig I discovered that my hair was too thick and almost like wearing a third wig underneath my skullcap. Soo here it is my before and after hair drawn!

I will say that I was a little sad about having to cut it earlier than I wanted. I have been getting tons of compliments over the new cut. One thing that's odd is I forget all the time that I got my haircut because it's still in my face a lot of the time. Hehe.
One thing I do miss is hair swooshing is harder to do. What I mean by that is flipping my hair in the wind, it doesn't weigh as much so it is harder to do and also doesn't look as dramatic when done.
Oh well onwards and upwards to my thesis! One benefit of this hair is that it does look awesome after being under two wigs for hours.

Day-to-Day: Portrait: Myself

These are some last semester portraits I did of myself that I love quite a bit. They were both drawn looking at my reflection on the Mac desktop computers at the school when they're turned off. I love the reflection on the black background of the blank screen.


Obviously this last one was drawn during the time I was putting together my Keynote (for non Mac friends the apple version of Powerpoint) for my proposal of my thesis. Boy has time flown by!

My Art: Marie Antoinette

We got our second art direct each other assignment. I paired up this time with Amanda and gave her the task of making something a little more typography centric. I will either post a link to what she did or put it up here on my blog later.
As for myself she gave me the assignment of doing a bust of Marie Antoinette with more detail in it than some of my other pieces. I of course had to get the likeness of someone and decided to choose her. Hehe she was a little embarrassed when she learned I picked her as my model. Below are my sketches and under that the final. I will spare Amanda the embarrassment and not put up the stock photo I got of her for the final.


I did enjoy all of my sketches but sadly only one had time to go foreword so the hat won out. I did enjoy doing a piece that was more painting than the other art I do. It was relaxing to sit down and get in the zone.

And now the final...the scan is not as good as the original sadly...

Day-to-Day: Lady at the Train Station

When I went back for Spring Break waiting at the train station I saw this lady knitting across from me. I decided to draw her. I loved her interesting face and how intent she was in her task.

My Art: Non Portrait of Nicole Cuvin

Two weeks ago in my Illustration class we got the in class assignment of doing a non portrait. That is doing a portrait of someone without drawing their face to show who they are. My good friend Nicole and I decided to do each other and here are the results!


For her I drew the interior of her car a Prius. One time I joked about all the water bottles she had in there so I drew a bunch inside. There is also a bottle of Sweet Leaf Lemonade that she gets a drink during break time. Of course her PNCA portfolio which thankfully with use of the car and having a studio she doesn't have to tote around anymore. There are parking stickers on the window and parking slips for the REI parking near the school on the dash. Her I assume favorite though for certain most used bag that is always full is in the passenger seat. In the side and rear view mirrors are cute little monsters reflecting the topic of her thesis about the monstrous perceptions we have of ourselves when looking in the mirror. And last my favorite touch is the gear shift that shifts into PANIC!


I absolutely loove the portrait she did of me! Having the Diet Coke as the centerpiece. I am hopelessly addicted and in love with my Diet Coke. Of course behind me are the Elmers Paintastic brush pens that I love to use! And to top it off my Lady Blush wig on top of the Diet Coke the symbol of my thesis! So simple and so perfect! I love Nicole's art! It is now my background on my computer!

Day-to-Day: Portrait: Trevor Dodge

This is my Literature Seminar teacher. I took last semester his Graphic Autobiography class and this semester am taking his Aesthetics of Ugliness class. Behind him is the whiteboard that he was writing on for the class that day. I didn't realize how hard it was to try and copy his handwriting!

Day-to-Day: Portrait: Bob Martin

Here is the drawing I did of my teacher, Bob Martin, in my Thesis Research and Writing class last Monday. It was so fun to draw him. He's quite the sweet curmudgeon. And yes that is a compliment. I love how much he dislikes the Chicago Style we have to use for our paper and wishes we got to write it in MLA.

Day-to-Day: Traffic Games

While heading back to Portland last weekend with my sisters we got stuck in heavy traffic coming into Seattle. We started a game. First me drawing (yes I was the driver but the car was stopped in traffic when I quickly drew), then Tobi would draw next and finally my little sister Chase.


We loved the people in the car behind us. They were such quirky characters I just had to draw them! Soo this is where the game started. At the top is my drawing then Tobi, and finally Chase. I moved the rear view mirror so each one of us could use that to look back at them.













I next did a faaast sketch of the truck in front of us. Tobi is to the left and Chase's to the right...not sure if it's alright to have the license plate number on this but Chase did love the license plate number.








This is the Calgary Christian Assembly I believe...this one was harder cause after I drew traffic got moving more. Tobi and Chase ended up with different angles.















This last one was our attempts to each do the Seattle skyline as it finally came into view. These are most assuredly more impressionistic. Mine is on the top with the skyline, road sign, and roads leading into Seattle. Tobi's is the lighter one in the middle. And Chase got quite stressed as now we were moving too much as she tried to draw what she mostly remembered of the short view she got of the skyline. And yes that is an arrow pointing the Space Needle to it's proper side. She just ran out of space.

All in all this was a great game and made us miss the traffic when it was over!