Day Nine - Favorite TV Show

Day 9 of the 30-day drawing challenge, and my favorite TV show of all time is definitely glee! I'm lazy (as usual) to draw any characters out or anything, so I merely took a photo of an album artwork of glee and tweaked it a little in the Photoshop Express app! I know it's not exactly drawing, but frankly, HECK IT! 

The original artwork!

"You can't punch the gay out of me any more than I can punch the ignoramus out of you."

- Kurt Hummel (Glee)

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Day Eight - Favorite Animated Character

Hurrah it's finally a Saturday -- and Day 8 of my 30-day Drawing Challenge! My favorite animated character of all time is definitely Bugs Bunny! Check out the "uncanny resemblance" of my sketch of Bugs! 

It doesn't really look like at all. Pooh.

After my music lesson (It completely slipped my mind my teacher changed it to Saturday so I winded up not being prepped with the left-hand part for the piece and all - though I never really get the left-hand parts for any pieces down pat), my mother and aunt and uncle picked me up (and then my aunt's friend) and we headed to the central business district area! They went into a beauty store and I hung around at the entrance playing Oven Break on the iPad. 

They took some time buying their beauty products, but we finally left the place and headed for town! We got lunch at a soup place - I got mushroom stroganoff! Yummers. Not before I got my beautiful macarons at Canele though! They were pretty expensive - 2 bucks fifty each - I got a box of 6! But I'm definitely gonna try going to France and get a taste of their macarons! They've probably got the most expensive and exquisite ones the world over!

We wove in and out of shops like kate spade (my aunt's friend got a handbag from there - and I'm totally in love with the red trenchcoat and leather gloves in there!), Mango, Esprit. Only managed to get a 29 bucks shirt from Mango (the saleswoman thought I was eleven or thirteen.. actual age=18!) and black swimming skorts from a departmental store! Couldn't find a swimming top suitable for me - no way am I wearing one that actually reveals. Sure, so what if I'm conservative? *getting defensive* 

All right, I've def blogged enough for one day. I'm really getting sick of this whole blogging-daily promise - I can't keep up any longer. I know I've gone for quite a few months now (close to a year!) - but really, I ain't a patient person all that much. Ciao! xx

"What an embezzle! What an ultramaroon!" 

- Bugs Bunny

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Day Seven - Favorite Movie

All right, so I carried on with this 30-day drawing challenge thingy even though I'd been complaining about all the work following up to this challenge in the previous few posts! Perhaps I'll stop at day 8. I'm far too lazy to go on with this.

My favorite movie is definitely Hotel for Dogs! Drawing the movie poster is too much of a hard work, so I'll just draw some characters in it (like Andie, played by Emma Roberts! Or the dogs).

Friday was the cutest dog I'd ever seen in the movie! But I made it look like an old geezer...

Anyways, it was a pretty unnerving day at school today. We had to read out our assignment on radio station thoughts, record a one-minute capsule on Akon and do some vox-poppin' (meaning short interviewing strangers, or known as 'voice of the people'!) for radio. And then, for Speech Communication, we had to read out the speech - anything about ourselves - for two minutes! I wrote about animal cruelty. It's truly a sad thing really - that people throw puppies into rivers, stomp on kittens or shoot koala bears for no reason at all. What has the world come to?

Raccoon: " If you dare to get near my kitty, you're dead meat!"

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." 

- Alfred Hitchcock

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Day Six - Favorite Book

Gosh this is progressing too slowly for my taste - I might just drop this whole drawing challenge thingy. Anyways, day 6 for the 30-day drawing challenge! My favorite book (or book series, more like) of all time is definitely Harry Potter! I'm so excited to watch Part I of the Deathly Hallows! Wish I could have been at the premiere that night. Anyways, this is my feeble attempt trying to duplicate a manga version of Harry Potter and his two friends (Ron and Hermione of course!)... (My drawing of Harry particularly made him look like a total crackpot.) And it beats me why Harry turned out the smallest too. haha.

 I noticed I made Harry Potter look like the sullen one among the pretty happy Ron and Hermione. 

The inspiration photo of the manga versions of Harry Potter and friends.

We had to do a scavenger hunt of sorts for Psychology today. I absolutely hate doing stuff like that, especially when you've got to go up to people (particularly this part - or anything activities which require confronting strangers to get your job done) to ask them for their timetables or to take a photo of their tees. My group came in last though - since we left the room last. We had to finish an IQ test or something like that before we embarked on our hunt. There were questions like 'what's the missing number' or 'which of the following is not a boy's name'. Lol.

"A library is a hospital for the mind."

- Anonymous

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Day Five - Best Friend

 On to Day Five of the 30-day Drawing Challenge! Even though it's only the fifth day, I'm already sick of this. I might just abandon this whole thing! Anyways, I'm supposed to draw my best friend (they didn't make any restriction indications so my best friend(s) are Mochi and Pudding! They're my dead hamsters - not that I still communicate with them or anything, except by prayer, perhaps! I still miss them dreadfully. 
I know it's pretty impractical to not draw a human as a best friend - still, it's hard to draw humans for me! And who says hamsters can't be your best friend?

Drew Pudding with the Paintbrush application again! I'm seriously too lazy to pick up a pencil and draw. Gah. Took inspiration from the photo of Pudding and a rather odd imitation has evolved!

Sketched Mochi (it doesn't really look like her, more like a porcupine darn it. But this was supposed to show Mochi scratching herself), but that doesn't mean I'd put in lesser amount of time for her than I had for Pudding! I love them both equally to bits. Goshers, I'm talking as though they are still alive, God forbid.

Anyways, had a really short day at school day! Thank goodness. It was just a 2-hour lecture for Social Psychology! Problem is, I forgot to save the second half of the lecture notes when it was time to leave (I was obvs too ecstatic to get home and get on with Sims 3) so bummer!

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out" 

- Walter Winchell

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Day Four - Favorite Place

EGI'm finally on to day 4 of my 30-day drawing challenge! Gosh it's starting to irritate me a lot for having to go through all that trouble coming up with something to draw that fits that category for the day! Maybe I'll pause for a bit after Day Five - and resume when the Christmas season is here (which means another school break, phew)! But I might forget by then. Blame my poor memory.

Back to the challenge (I'm always straying away from my topic!!), my favorite place of all time is no doubt, Disneyland! I mean, who doesn't love Disneyland? It's where all THAT MAGIC happens! Fireworks at the end of the night, kiddy rides you won't be humiliated when caught sitting in 'em, all the Disney characters strolling in Main Street USA whom you can snap a photograph with, Disney souvenirs... 

Anyways, I was lazy (as usual) to draw Disneyland (the Cinderella castle which represents Disneyland!) so I simply took a photo of the castle off the Internet (and now, I sound like a plagiarist) and edited it with the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app called Old Photo PRO. It's free for you app lovers out there, or those who simply love vintage photos (it even creates jagged edges around the photo for ya!). It has one minor (okay, probably major) drawback - it leaves behind a watermark in ALL the photos you edit with it... And they still call this app a 'PRO'. They should create another without leaving behind aN unsightly watermark (see photo below), then charge it, perhaps for 0.99c or summat. That would be so much fairer to us! 

UPDATE!!!!!

Well, it appears just today (12 November '10!) that Old Photo Pro has finally gave us all an update that absolutely REMOVES the annoying watermark from all photos you load on that app! Hallelujah! Guess they do listen to our complaints after all...

I know this wouldn't exactly consider as a drawing - but whatever, I'm too bummed about school and generally, life to care. I mean, I did do something to the photo, so that counts for something, right?

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland." 

- Doug Coupland

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Day Three - Favorite Food

Before I start rambling about the boring stuff that's been going on in my life, here's Day 3 of my 30-day Drawing Challenge! So below's another hand drawn (mouse-drawn really) picture of my favourite food - macarons! Yummers, they're the sweetest things you can ever have for dessert, or tea for that matter! I used a Paintbrush application software on my Mac to draw it out! This was the best I could do, god darn it

Anyways, for class today, we had a museum field trip instead. Of course, there was a catch - a graded presentation on the 22th of November! Darn. 

Been to that museum during another school field trip years ago. Today wasn't any better than then. It would have been just a li'l fun if we didn't have to find artifacts pertaining to traditions and modernity (my group chose 'Power and Status'!) I was scribbling away in my notebook in bad lighting for the most part. Damn this. 

Headed to Billy Bombers for lunch with a bunch of my classmates. Retro red seats they have there - totally old school drive-thru diners style! Plus we were the only crew patroning at the restaurant at that time! I ordered a Dr. Pepper and nachos with jalapeno sauce and  chicken and cheese! Yummy stuff!

Managed to get a ride back to school in time for Spanish class too! We learnt all about español numeros today. Let me try recalling one to ten... uno, dos, tres (okay, this part is easy), cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez! I'm liking Spanish more and more each week, gah.

On the downside, there was an irritating & insensitive addition to our class today. That person asked me if I knew some names he brought up when I told what course I was in (biggest mistake of my life), and I said I didn't know them, he asked if I was sure I was in that course and claimed I was "quiet". For God's sake. What a complete prune. There was no possible way I'd know the entire population taking my course. I turned away and rolled my eyes (obvs).

Annoying, and rude. Goshers today's just not my day (since when is it ever?) 

"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." 

- Voltaire

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Day Two - Favorite Animal

Today's Day 2 for my 30-day drawing challenge! I was a tad lazy to draw... not when I'd saved my sketch back from Art class when I was 15! It's apparently a poodle. Not exactly my favorite species of dogs, but they're all right! 

Changed the color from the photo below - vast difference, no?

Landscape view!

Darn it, it's the final day of the weekends yet again. Needless to say, I'm so not prepared for another boring week at school!

"No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink." 

- Murray Banks

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30 Day Drawing Challenge

Just like how I've been faithfully keeping to my promise to blog DAILY, I'm gonna keep to this next one too - I'll dutifully complete the following '30 Day Drawing Challenge'! No idea how that's ever gonna happen what with the piling amount of homework and readings for my Psychology textbook and daily blogging. Ugh. 

Anyways, ranting aside, I'll try my utmost best to use different mediums to complete this challenge! Paints, color pencils, sketching, pastel colors... Whatever goes! And so begins...!!

Day 1 - Using the MyPaint app from the AppStore on my iPad, drawn purely with my stubby fingers... I added a background to distract from my horrific drawing. Drawing with your fingers is so much harder than it looks.

Just got home from dinner with my mother and brother! We went to  the Japanese restaurant Hoshi! Never tried the place before, but I was already missing Japanese cuisine! There was a cheaper Japanese restaurant (probably quasi Japanese, unlike Hoshi!) but thank God that place had a long line! 

So here's what I ordered from Hoshi... Their food made me reminisce the days I went to Tokyo, Japan (which was only early this year, really)! :x

 Got an Italian soda - it tasted like ice cream soda. Delish!

 Got seasoned baby Tako (octopus) for the sides! Double Yummers!

 Zaru Udon (Cold noodles)! Just as nice as cold soba! My brother kept intercepting his annoying chopsticks in the front of my camera phone as I was trying to snap photos, God darn it.

And I finally got a copy of Late Night for Sims 3!!! Been waiting forever for this new EP to be released! I'll put up a review of the latest Sims 3 EP once I'm all 'round familiar with the game! 

And my brother got a new white keyboard, a pretty comfy red and black laser gaming mouse and gold headphones. Lucky him. At least the keyboard and mouse work on Macintosh so I can snag it when he ain't home...

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." 

- Martha Grimes

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