January 2011
31 posts
Sexy Sunday: Post Coital..maybe - January 30th,...
Not terribly sexy this week, not even behind a cut. Thought there had been enough of that already. Still somewhat of a sexy image though, depending on how you interpret it. Could be post coital, they could have been playing nerf tag half naked.
We’ll never know.
Pipes for my love - January 29th, Day 29
Nick (my man love) has been working all weekend and had to go into work Sunday morning at 4am, ie he had to leave the house at 3:30am. Brutal. So I went to bed with him at around 9 but stayed up a little on my own and did my drawing and such. We just wanted to spend some time together even if he was technically sleeping. AWWWWLAMZORS
Anyway I was thinking about him and I drew him this awful pipe...
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Illustration Friday: Surrender - January 28th, Day...
I went a bit literal with Illustration Friday this week. My man friend’s Mom was staying over so I didn’t want to be rude and ignore everyone and draw some sort of emo surrender of will or whatever I was thinking earlier in the day.
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Tumblr Thursday: The NSFW Box - January 27th, Day...
@rozalita : “What your ask box would look like if it was a real box! (HA! BOX!) from: guess who! BOX!”
Now to all of you that seems really innocent but I basically drew which I thought Rozie wanted to see. Behind the cut :P
Terrifying.
Topless woman - January 26th, Day 26
Me and my naughty bits. Can’t get enough of them. There’s a scenario that goes with this one which is very sexy and exciting but I’m not going to tell it to you.
Make up your own story if you wish.
Twitter Tuesday: A girl sitting by herself on a...
From @nopicnic
Hey look! A post that’s happening on the actual date of the drawing! This must mean I’m reasonably recovered.
Anyway today was Twitter Tuesday and @nopicnic suggested “A girl sitting by herself on a log at Willows Beach”. Willows Beach is a local beach that I happen to work beside so I have a stupid amount of photos of it so a good suggestion it was.
Got...
Bath painting - January 24th, Day 24
I was feeling extra terrible yesterday, Nick called it Custer’s Last Stand for my cold. I took a bath for the first time in a super long time and decided to do this one in the bath.
It doesn’t look like normal pencil crayon because it isn’t! These are watercolour pencil crayons and for this project, they totally still count. I don’t really love using them though so you...
Sexy Sunday: A well-hung fat man - January 23rd,...
Inspired by a man my Mom was feeling sorry for at the skating. We didn’t see him naked so I guessed and gave him a fairly large penis because I felt bad. Also gave him a smaller stomach because of paper size.
Fun fact: January 23rd is my Grandma’s birthday. Happy Birthday Grandma.
Cityscape in non-glasses blur - January 22nd, Day...
I drew this, sick, on Saturday morning without my glasses on. Technically I was drawing what was out the window but you know…it was blurry.
Also this is the point I realized I need better travelling pencil crayons. Screw you crappy dollar store Crayolas.
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Illustration Friday: Dusty - January 21st, Day 21
H’okay. The first of a bunch of backlogged drawings.
They all kind of suck because from Friday to today I’ve been either feeling sick or drunk (Whisky fest this weekend) . There has been very little in between.
This is most definitely a drunk one with a bonus of TIRED. I really didn’t care.
I believe Nick’s comment was “Well…definitely not one of your...
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Tumblr Thursday: Doris stuck in my snowy driveway!...
As much as I love @ms_scientista and her numerous suggestions this wasn’t a winner (I can say that, we’re married). But I did it anyway because of the love thing. This is my dramatization of her car, Doris, stuck in the snow. Of course I forgot she wrote “in my driveway” and not “in your driveway” so my cat is there as well.
Hoping this is the end of sick...
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I'm sick and want to die - January 19th, Day 19
I’m such a baby when I get sick. A super baby. I didn’t even bother to use more than one colour here and the pencil tip broke off 5secs in, which they tend to do, so I just finished with the tip.
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Twitter Tuesday: Spring - January 18th, Day 18
This Twitter Tuesday brought to you by @amesly210 with her suggestion of Spring, something springy.
This is the first in a series of three (so far) “I’m sick and hate being sick and hate drawing and just want to sleep forever” drawings. To say that I phoned these in would be an understatment.
This one is particularly special because I was super high on drugs when I drew this...
Monster Haggis - January 17th, Day 17
Last night I went from work, to searching for my whisky guild pin to the whisky guild dinner where it was Robbie Burns day and we got haggis! I declared at dinner I was going to draw a sheep. So I did. But I wanted to do something kind of monstrous for my unofficial Monster Monday so I did a monster sheep.
He’s rotting. Enjoy!
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Sexy Sunday: Hot Snowboarding Chick - January...
I got this suggestion from Rozie, it was topical considering I had just gotten back from my non-skiing ski weekend. Also was fun and quick which was necessary last night.
Total cheese fest but I like cheese sometimes.
Now I’m all caught up! Yay!
Narnia - January 15th, Day 15
I did this drawing on the busiest day, the Saturday. I was at a ski resort, Silverstar by Vernon and everything was snow and pretty trees and the streets had random lampposts sticking out of the snow. It was pretty cool.
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Illustration Friday: Chicken - January 14th, Day...
One of three posts that I’ll be making today to make up for my absences this weekend. It was my first vacation weekend away while doing this project and I managed to make it happen. I brought my handy Crayolas so the quality is obviously down but the point is that I did it.
Thankfully the illustration topic for this week was chicken, something I can figure out, even after a full work day,...
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Tumblr Thursday: Otter-ver 0.5 beta - January...
The first Tumblr Thursday! Otter-ver by @emilyamily.
“I want you to draw me a little baby sea otter rolling around on its back but it has to be Awwwliver coloured.” (Awwwliver is her kitty)
I had two suggestions in my ask box by Thursday this week (see how close you could have come to winning?) and I decided to go with the one I could immediately picture in my head since I was...
Emo Drawing is Emo - January 11th, Day 11
I’m a bit bummed out this evening for several reasons, none of them good ones.
So I drew this. Another reminder that tomorrow is Tumblr Thursday, suggest something, help me out!
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Twitter Tuesday: A penguin hula hooping - January...
Today’s the first Twitter Tuesday was from @emilyamily! Exciting!
I got two suggestions that weren’t made by assholes. Something to do with snow, which was a bit vague and a hula hooping penguin which was the obvious winner.
It’s just that easy! Don’t forget to throw something in my ask box for Tumblr Thursday!
Update: I forgot that I did get another good suggestion...
Monster Monday? - January 10th, Day 10
I was going to do a special day, Monster Monday but I decided against it. I drew a monster today anyway. He’s kind of sweet and furry and is awkwardly holding a ball. That’s all I have to say about that.
Drawing everyday at day 10 is actually getting easier, which is odd. I would have thought it would be getting harder but there you go. The task seems less daunting now. I’m...
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Sexy Sunday : Crotch - January 9th, Day 9
Here we are on the first Sexy Sunday. It’s not ridiculously risqué but it’s the first day.
Not much to say about this one. I’m happy with it? It’s done early? Her legs shouldn’t be separated like that but I did it anyway?
Anyway, enjoy!
Oysters! - January 8th, Day 8
I should probably make note of the fact that I’m doing a drawing everyday, that’s the project, not necessarily a posting everyday. For instance last night I got this done last minute but didn’t want to post it. Next weekend I’m going away so I’ll be hopefully somehow working in the drawings but the posting won’t happen until Sunday night or Monday morning.
Ask...
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Illustration Friday: Deja Vue - January 7th, Day 7
I promise when we get past a month having the date and the day won’t seem so redundant.
Today was the first Illustration Friday. Yay! The topic was Deja Vue and for some reason deja vue always makes me think of cats, thank you The Matrix. These particular cats look familiar to me, I think I might have unintentionally stolen somebody else’s cats but it was unintentional....
Keep me from using my creativity potions!
Optimism and Broken Pencils is about to get a lot more interactive, why? Because it’s hard to come up with subjects by myself, I like structure and it’s day seven and I’m worried about getting bored.
So dun, dun, dun, I’m introducing four special days a week in my line up of seven.
Twitter Tuesday: I’ll be taking suggestions from twitter on what to draw.
To suggest...
B00Bs - January 6th, Day 6
I says to Ally, I says, “I’m going to draw some green boobs tonight.” She probably said something like “That’s nice dear” or something and went on her merry way.
Anyway that’s what I did, I’m putting them behind the cut because I said I would but it’s not graphic, it’s a little abstract and they aren’t really very realistic...
??? - January 5th, Day 5
There are only three people that have a chance of guessing what this is and even then. I’ll post my source tomorrow, I don’t want to spoil it for you.
Inspired by Whip it - January 4th, Day 4
Not really but that’s what I was watching when I made it happen. Felt like using some crazy, non-natural colours and an ambiguous pose.
Ugh - January 3rd, Day 3
Ever have one of those periods of time where nothing goes right and your strokes are harsh and don’t blend and your pencil leads keep breaking like..something that breaks a lot?
I guess that’s being very specific but I’m having one of those periods of time. Conveniently. I guess I should be happy that I got this one done at all. It’s my lovely boyfriend’s birthday...
A Bit of a Mess - January 2nd, Day 2
This one had great potential, maybe I’ll revisit it when I feel like I can suck less.
In my defense it’s much better in person but still, blah. Oh well. Only day 2. I have 363 days to be awesomer.
Happy New Year! - January 1st, Day 1
Here we are, day one, the easy day. Of course I wanted to do a super inspirational, appropriate fore-ray into my year of pencil paintings. I thought long and hard and finally decided on this.
It has stars, it counts right?