Busy as a Bee

Due to time constraint, I haven't found the time to do some real crafting the last three days. I'm still on the sketching portion of my drawing lessons and I can't seem to get it right. When this happens I become bored with it and I just move on to other things like play with my drums and guitar. Hence, the lack of interesting updates here.

Oh, I recently learned the guitar chords of one of my fave songs by Katy Perry, Firework. The chords were kind of boring. G-Am-G-C over and over again. So I guess I'd just sing that rather than play the chords. Come to think of it, my other fave song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield also has super boring chords, mostly Fs if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, I digress...

I am pretty frustrated once again and I feel like history is repeating itself. I have to put an end to this! So, I have quit 2 out of 4 of my online projects, I told Peter that I won't be attending any more blog events (unless it has something to do with traveling which I genuinely love) as it eats up so much of my time, like, 8 hours for just one event the last time I checked, and I'll just be focusing on my work, my investments and small businesses, my crafts (including witchcraft), my travels and my personal life.

Okay, I feel much better now. I think by simply letting go of the unnecessary and toxic parts of my life, I can spend more time with the things I genuinely love.

Ciao for now!

Sketches Part I

I feel like it's happening again. I can't resist the urge to take on more work because I really want to earn a lot of money doing something very easy for me to do. As a result, the free time I have left which I can spend doing my crafts is lessened. Nevertheless, I still tried to draw. The next chapter on the book was discussing about making raw sketches so that's what I did. I was asked to do it a couple of times but since I was so tired already, I was only able to make two. I'll continue on this the next couple of days.

In the meantime, I am looking forward to attending a soap making seminar tomorrow.

Ciao for now!

Drawing from Photographs

I only had a few minutes available today to indulge myself in drawing. I proceeded with the next exercise, Working from Photographs, which asked me to use a grid to help me sketch the contours of the photograph's subject.

Negative Shapes and Composition Basics

After I finished 12.5 hours of work, I managed to squeeze in an hour of practicing drawing negative shapes then started with the composition basics.

Negative shapes are the spaces between and around objects. When sketching a group of a pitcher, mug and cup for instance, instead of looking at the shapes of the three objects, I look at the shapes of the spaces between them and start sketching those parts. This way, I can capture the objects and their relationship with each other more accurately, thereby creating more precise drawings.

Drawing Simple Shapes

How was your weekend, folks? Mine was pretty hectic, but rewarding nonetheless.

Since I'm still waiting to finish this soap making seminar I'll be attending on Saturday, I thought of opening my Drawing Book once again. It's a how-to book entitled YOU CAN DRAW by Sheila Coulson, which will take me one step at a time into rediscovering this old passion of mine.