Alex and I, I think, feel very lucky today. Yesterday, there was an apartment fire at the place we were going to live at. Unfortunately, someone lost their life–very tragic! God needed an angel by his side and unfortunately… however, the fire occurred at the apartments that Alex and I were originally going to live at! If we were there, we’d be dead or homeless right now. I’d say we are lucky. May God bless this girl’s family and I hope her family remembers recover from their injuries.

I’m suppose to be studying for a Linguistics quiz right now, but I’m very far behind on things. I have six articles I need to write for Demand Studios, two blogs for Divine Carol/Country Living, help Alex with some of his blogs (if he would ever sign online and let me know where he needs help at) and I need to come up with a ten page paper for my other job. Yes, for my tutoring job, we need to write papers to be reviewed. We also need community service. What is that? That place is ticking me off something horrible and I’m terribly close to quitting. If it wasn’t for the fact that I like working with the International students, I would leave. But, I guess I should be grateful for the fact that I have a job, that I’m not amongst the unemployed. But everything is looking desperate anymore. C’est la vie. However, yesterday, Alex and I developed a plan that would fix the economy for awhile… now if we could run for joint presidency…

On Valentine’s Day, the best possible thing happened. *Jumps around excitedly.* Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training! YES! The baseball season is right around the corner (Go Yankees! Go Cubs!)! Woohoo! And today is the Daytona 500! I hope my beloved Denny Hamlin wins! He’s my Sunday boyfriend, unless he races in the Nationwide Series on Saturday, then he’s my Saturday and Sunday boyfriend. All my boys of summer are back. Feel the speed, smell the green! Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let’s go racin’ boys! Play ball!

As mentioned, yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Alex and I went out to breakfast, went to the mall, took a long walk, had smoothies, went for dessert, went to Borders, and watched a movie called Towelhead (if you haven’t seen this movie or read the book, I recommend you do). It was a simple day, overall. I like simple, but I guess there’s a part of me that yearns for more romance. I guess I’m just a hopeless romantic at heart: always hoping for more.  I guess the romantic side of me is the side that wishes for “the next step,” even though it scares me at the same time. I’m very afraid of that “next step” because of the drama it will cause. I’m tired of drama, fearful of monster in-laws, and all the meddling. Thinking of that “next step” makes me anxious–good and bad. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t want a whole big shabang, instead, eloping sounds nice. Think of the money we’d save! But, taking that step is just a distant and frightening thought. I’m not going to bother with it any longer. But, I’d give up my heart for him, since he already owns it.

So what kind of tutorial shall we do today? I’m not exactly sure what I have to offer today. Since I haven’t had time to draw in awhile, I’m going to have to use a tutorial I did over the summer for another website. Let me see… how about how to draw elf ears? I promised an ear tutorial a long time ago, so I guess this counts. Click to read more …

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Hiya! Marisol here with another tutorial for you, oh mysterious viewers. As you may recall, I’ve shown y’all how to draw hair, how to draw eyes, how to color using Adobe Photoshop, but I’ve yet to show you how to shade… oh noes! I wonder why I haven’t yet, I mean, shading IS very important, especially since shading is needed to make a drawing have depth. Anyway, what good is a drawing if it just has eyes and good hair (which reminds me, I still need to do a lip tutorial and a nose tutorial)? So how about we learn to shade? Click to read more …

Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Celebrity Drawing, Pencil Sketching, Photoshop, shading, traditional Art, traditional drawing

WOO! Freedom! Alex and I are FINALLY finished with our semester, which means we’ll be able to contribute more often.  In addition, there’s Tala, who will be contributing more often, as well. So, the gang’s all here! Woohoo!
Well, the day has finally come to do that tutorial. First off, I must apologize for my lack of posts; since class let out for the semester, I’ve had a major mental block for many things, including drawing.  But now I’m back. From what I can see, we haven’t had a tutorial for a few days, so why don’t we get down to business and do a tutorial right now? A few posts back, I mentioned that I was going to do a tutorial on realistic eyes.
Over the summer, I worked for someone creating tutorials, so until I find my ability to draw once more, I’m going to use drawings from an old tutorial. I’m so sorry; I still love you guys. So, are you ready to begin with our realistic eyes tutorial? I am, so let’s begin!!! Click to read more …

Tags: Eyes, Photoshop, shading, traditional drawing, Tutorial