Day 4: Drawing Challenge

Here's two more drawings I did for the challenge. I hope you enjoy! Oh, and here's the list again, just in case you forgot. :)

4. The contents of your refrigerator. Okay, so I sorta got lazy and didn't want to draw all the details of the bags, sue me.

I don't have a medicine chest!! 5. Draw what's on your sink (not med chest...)

Oh, and here's a bonus shot of my butt, for all you guys out there, back off because I've got a boyfriend who can beat you up. Anyways, its a shot of my new shorts I just made. It was a lot of fun cutting them up and washing them because I couldn't wait to try them on! I hoped to have a pair already (store bought) but since I didn't have the cash, I just cut up an old pair of jeans and look what happened... :)

Yeah, this is MY life as Liz.... xD

Breakfast

This is my newest recipe for breakfast. Its really really really good! I think everyone should try this! Esp if you like Mexican food, its kinda spicy but mostly tasty.

Instructions:

Heat flour tortilla, with shredded mexican cheese mix on top in microwave.
Use Taco Bell's Fire Roasted sauce or mild salsa to mix with three eggs. Cook like an omelet.
As omelet finishes melt more of that tasty cheese on top.
Put on some of the most amazing bean and corn salsa, yeah you know what I'm talking about...
And dollop with Non-Daisy sour cream. Yeah, we don't do Daisy here...
Side with some seasoned waffle fries or toast or fruit or nothing. Add a glass of orange juice.
Then eat with a fork until you can eat the rest like a taco.
Enjoy!! :)

Day 3

The drawing challenge continues, and honestly today it wasn't as much of a challenge. I drew #3 my room just before it was cleaned, and no I have not cleaned it yet. I will after I post this... But my challenge was quite relaxing since its the afternoon and I don't really feel like cleaning.

3. Just before your room is clean,draw it. 

This is actually just a portion of dirtiness; I've got a lot piles of paper and art supplies as you can see. There is a frame, a coke painting, a binder of sketches, and a canvas. Can you spot them all? Also, there is a white bag of clothing not trash, just to clarify. I do have a trash can. :) 

Anyways until next time, 

~This is MY life as Liz.

Day 1 & 2 Drawings

Remember that list I posted of interesting things to draw way back when?  Well I've begun the challenge. These are the first two on the list and I plan to do either one or two a day, to the best of my ability. These are just sketches done in maybe 20-30 mins because I am too lazy to seriously sketch all the details to scale. I am a lazy artist sometimes. But I am hoping this quick sketching will keep me fresh this summer before college. Which reminds me: I graduated this weekend! I am so happy to have finished high school. We also had a rockin' awesome party on Saturday for me and my cousin! :)

1. Draw the contents of your closet.

2. Draw the inside of your desk drawer.

Also, hopefully if all goes according to plan, more interviews should be coming. Thanks ya'll!
~This is MY life as Liz.

Pillows and Coke

Okay two things that I love: HUGE Pillows and Coca Cola!

So, this week in art class I made a huge pillow. And today, I took pictures of it with me, and I took pictures of me and coke!

I also love sunglasses: the coke has sunglasses on it! Therefore, I put on my sunglasses because today was an awesome sunny day.

And here are the pictures!

 

I love Coca Cola! :) 

 

And sleeping... my inspiration for a cone pillow is from here and here....

I call it "The Cone Pillow"

 

I tried really hard to make it a) circular, and b) like the pillow poufs and c) HUGE! But I didn't quite make it a) circular or b) like the pillow poufs. But it is still HUGE! My sister says she likes it because it looks like a flower. I said I wish I had enough left over fabric to make the flower pattern continue, but since I was using recycled materials (yay!) I had to use what was available.  Its blue fabric on the bottom and in the middle, I bought for another project. The flower patterned cloth is from an old dress I used to wear. I used recycled jeans material, it'll stand up to lots of use. Finally, I used old, blue t-shirt material.

Yes! My cone pillow is perfect for lazy days in the sun-- your arms, face and neck are steer clear from the annoying itchy grass. I also think its perfect for reading a book outside-- it props your head up at just the right angle to read! 

 

As you can tell this is something completely new that I have never seen before. Please be nice and mention me in your post or blog so that I get credit. Like I mentioned my inspiration in the paragraphs above. 

Thanks~ this is MY life as Liz <3

 I am going to try to take this challenge this summer: to draw the 149 things on this list, maybe modified. 


I found this list from this website. So thank you to who ever posted this. I found it on Stumble Upon and decided this would be a good idea when I bored. Honestly-- it'd be fun to draw these in order in one sketch book, but I think I'm going to have to draw them out of order based on where I am and what I'm doing at the time.


1.    Draw the inside of your closet
2.    Draw the contents of your desk drawer
3.    Just before your room is cleaned, draw it
4.    Draw the contents of your refrigerator
5.    Draw the contents of your medicine chest
6.    Draw the contents of your garage
7.    Draw your dad’s work table after he’s worked on a project
8.    Before the dishes are washed, draw them
9.    Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed
10.    If you have an octopus for a furnace, draw it
11.    Draw a pile of bicycles on the sidewalk
12.    Draw the guests at your parents dinner party
13.    Draw yourself in a mirror
14.    Draw your brother/sister practicing his/her instrument
15.    Draw your friend shooting hoops in the driveway
16.    Draw yourself painting your toenails (if you do)
17.    Draw your hand in multiple positions
18.    Draw your hand holding a variety of objects
19.    Draw your hand against other parts of anatomy (chin, knee, etc.)
20.    Draw your bird, cat, dog, fish, snake, leopard, lobster doing something strange
21.    Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car
22.    Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape
23.    Draw a flower growing next to a turned over garbage can
24.    Draw raw chicken parts; cooked parts; after eaten parts
25.    Draw a piece of cake and make it look delicious
26.    Draw 2 eggs in the shell, fried, over easy
27.    Draw one popcorn kernel, draw a bag of popcorn
28.    Draw a raw steak, steak bones
29.    Draw moving water, still water
30.    Draw a wet object, make it look wet
31.    Draw an object when looking through a tube (microscope)
32.    Draw an object seen through glass (how does the glass make a difference)
33.    Draw something floating
34.    Draw a dark object in a light environment
35.    Draw a dark object in a dark environment
36.    Draw the contents of a light room when sitting in a dark room
37.    Climb a ladder, draw what is below
38.    Climb a mountain (hill), draw what is below
39.    Lie on the floor, draw what is eye level
40.    Dig a hole, put a whole in the hole, draw what is in the hole
41.    Fill in the hole, cover up the whole, draw the covered hole
42.    Find a quiet place in a crowd, draw the crowd
43.    Find a quiet place, draw the quiet
44.    Find a noisy place, draw noise
45.    On the school bus, draw your friends on the way to school, draw your friends on the way home.  Is there a difference?
46.    Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast shadow
47.    Draw an object that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds
48.    Draw a portrait that is lit by the light coming through mini blinds
49.    Draw an object that is lit by a candle
50.    Draw a figure that is lit by a candle
51.    Draw your sister/brother by the light cast by the TV or computer screen
52.    Draw your father/mother by the light cast from the TV or computer screen
53.    Draw an apple, pear, banana
54.    Draw an apple, banana, and a wrench
55.    Draw a scoop of ice cream and an old shoe
56.    Draw an apple, a vacation photo, a hammer and a gold fish
57.    Tighten a C clamp on a banana, draw it
58.    Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in aluminum foil, plastic wrap
59.    Draw an apple, pear, and a banana that is tightly wrapped in string
60.    Copy the Mona Lisa
61.    Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit yourself
62.    Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit your art teacher
63.    Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting
64.    Copy any work of art older than you
65.    Remake the above work of art in your way
66.    Make a drawing that says something about the environment
67.    Make a drawing that says something about the world situation
68.    Make a drawing that is pure propaganda about any issue you feel strongly about
69.    Make a drawing that is totally truthful
70.    Make a drawing that lies all over the place
71.    Make a drawing that is completely impossible
72.    Draw a portrait inside out
73.    Draw an apple, pear, banana inside out
74.    Look out your bedroom window, draw what you see
75.    Look out your bedroom window, draw what you would like to see
76.    Draw an apple, pear, banana that is wrapped in an apple, pear, banana
77.    Draw a form fitting case made of steel that would fit an apple, pear, banana
78.    Draw two squares of a sidewalk and make it look interesting
79.    Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of grass
80.    Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of hair
81.    Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a feather
82.    Make a detailed drawing of five square inches of a dollar bill
83.    Make a drawing of grass, hair, feathers and a dollar bill
84.    Draw an insect under a magnifying glass
85.    Rearrange, redesign the insect
86.    Change the size relationship (scale) of the insect and something else (i.e. building, ships, cars)
87.    Draw a portrait of your best friend as an insect
88.    Draw a self portrait of you as a beautiful insect
89.    Draw a family insect portrait
90.    Copy Copley’s Watson and Shark
91.    Change the figures depicted in the Copley painting to people you know
92.    Rearrange Copley’s painting Watson and the Shark to work on dry land
93.    Crumple a magazine ad, draw it
94.    Crumple a photograph, draw it
95.    Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled
96.    Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some other order, draw it
97.    Make a drawing that looks sticky
98.    Make a drawing that oozes
99.    Make a drawing of a mechanical structure or machine
100.    Make a drawing of a machine that oozes
101.    Make a drawing of a machine so that the parts are sticky
102.    Make a drawing of a fine mechanical instrument (camera) under water (use your imagination)
103.    Draw the Brooklyn Bridge
104.    Draw the Brooklyn Bridge over a small body of water i.e. bathtub
105.    Draw a form fitted case made of wood and lined with velvet for an apple, pear, and a banana
106.    Draw a chair
107.    Draw the concept of the uses of a chair (sitting) without the chair
108.    Draw a bed
109.    Draw the concept of the uses of a bed without a bed without the bed
110.    Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “I have come to a juncture in my life”
111.    Make a drawing that illustrates the phrase “There is an insufficiency of intellect”
112.    Make a careful drawing that illustrates the word “Haste”
113.    Draw the imaginary skeleton of an apple, pear, and banana
114.    Draw a monument for a bagel
115.    Draw a photograph of an apple, pear, and banana at an angle tilted away from you
116.    Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king, and jack of spades
117.    Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen
118.    Make a drawing of all your drawing materials
119.    Make a detailed drawing of a rock
120.    Make a drawing at McDonalds
121.    Draw the reflection from light bouncing off a motorcycle
122.    Draw your portrait from the reflection of a shiny chrome object i.e. toaster, bowl, spoon
123.    Draw the reflection from a body of water
124.    Draw the reflection from a store window
125.    Draw the reflection of reflection
126.    Reflect on your drawing of reflection, draw your retrospection
127.    Draw an aerial view of your back yard
128.    Draw a transparent object
129.    Draw a translucent object
130.    Draw a translucent object that is inside a transparent object
131.    Draw a translucent apple, pear, and banana
132.    Draw a building in which you would like to live
133.    Make a drawing using a map of the USA as a motif
134.    Make a portrait of yourself as you see yourself in twenty years
135.    Make a pastoral drawing
136.    Draw life in the city
137.    Draw a mysterious doorway or staircase
138.    Drape a mysterious object in cloth, draw it
139.    Draw a moving object
140.    Draw an empty room, make it interesting
141.    Draw a woman wearing a big hat
142.    Draw a masked man (not a super hero)
143.    Draw a sleeping person
144.    Draw a flower, make it appear dangerous
145.    Draw a person looking out a window
146.    Draw a person looking in a window
147.    Draw a person reading a letter
148.    Draw an apple, pear, and banana in outer space
149.    Draw a detailed drawing of a nut and bolt

That is my new challenge. I'm still writing interviews, but its been a few Sundays since I have been home. So maybe this Sunday? Until then, here's a formal picture from Saturday night. I'm the one on the right. :P

 ~This is MY life as Liz.

A Real Craft!

Finally! Its been ages since I've been able to post an actual craft, not just photography of something random. But I've got a really cool creation for you. Its a wallet, but not only is it a wallet but its a WALLET! I stitched and sewed myself, with the machine and my hand and for me, its pretty amazing. My friends really like it because it is recycled out of jeans and an old dress. I really didn't know how it was going to turn out: I didn't use a pattern at all. I at first was just going to make it a folding wallet, with no pockets, buttons etc. But in the course of a day it evolved into what I call a real wallet. The jeans on the outside, blue flowery lining. It features a coin slot with a zipper (yay!), a license or debit card slot and two sides for receipts, dollar bills etc. Any ways, let me share with you (dun dun dun) my wallet! 

 

It has a snap-closer on the outside.

 It can be folded up two different ways: one smaller like this...

 ...and one bigger like this. Usually I have to do this when the cards are in it.

I turned it inside out, so you can see the pattern and pockets.

 

I hope you enjoyed that. Its my first really detailed sewing project, so I'm mighty proud! Comment please and visit again! This is MY life as Liz.