Owl Be There For You

Not much new going on - back to school and work for everyone but me! I'm still on vacation until next Monday. Tonight I'm trying some different brushes and effects on a quick little owl.

Yes, I know the head looks a little like a cat. Whoooo cares?

Plus, I just discovered a new feature! This program I'm using automatically saves everything I do while drawing and then can play it back as a time lapse video! Wanna see how Mr. Owl was created? Of course you do!

Doodle Worms

Today was much better for me than yesterday - most of my problems have been resolved (or at least dealt with in some way). One problem that remained, as always, was deciding what to draw. I resorted to the old trick of drawing a random squiggle and then trying to figure out what it looked like. Needless to say, when I started this drawing I was not expecting to end up with two hat-wearing worms hugging a hot pepper at a fiesta, but there you go...

Plus, for extra fun, I recorded it as another time lapse drawing video!

Love Walruses

Tonight, by request from my youngest daughter, a pair of pink love walruses, giving each other Valentine's hearts while sitting on a heart-shaped iceberg.

As an added bonus, I tried something new with this picture. Instead of drawing it on the Samsung tablet like normal, I used the same app on my iPad from work. This version has some different features. On the down side, it doesn't offer stylus support, so I had to draw with my finger which is far less precise. But on the upside, it has another feature where you can record a time lapse video of your drawing in progress. Here's the video:

A Trip To The Mall

“Let’s go to the mall,” my wife said

(That phrase always fills me with dread)

But the scene got more dire

When the Mall caught on fire!

So we all went to Target instead

(True story - we were there when the alarms went off, we smelled the smoke and saw the workers locking up the stores and we were walking out the door as the firefighters were stretching the yellow tape across. We're all fine and nobody was hurt, but it was a more exciting day than I had anticipated.)

Here's one news report: http://www.wane.com/news/local/fire-breaks-out-at-glenbrook-mall

Here's another: http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Fire-Breaks-Out-at-Glenbrook-Mall-225654451.html


Bonus! Here's a little video I shot as we were driving away: