Why procrastination is stupid.

So I'm a hopeless facebook addict. Not so much for the social networking (who are these people again?), but for the games. Games like the highly addictive Restaurant City, which recently had a contest for Halloween-themed recipes. Which I slaved over all day Sunday, making four totally awesome recipes, the last of which I finished several hours before the deadline. Not thinking to check just how much earlier midnight happens in Greenwich Mean time as compared to when midnight happens in my time before proceeding to dick around for a couple of hours afterward instead of just posting the damn things to the forum. So when I finally went to submit my long-since finished work, I found that I had missed the deadline by an hour and a half and the forum was now closed. Thus demonstrating why procrastination is incredibly, painfully stupid. But just because Restaurant City is denied my Adobe Illustrator-driven "genius" doesn't mean you should be! Enjoy my spooooooky, delicious-looking efforts.

Illustration Friday - Slither

Something a little different this week.

Illustration Friday - Early

Appropriately enough, I'm getting this one in early. Well, early for me. Frankly, posting one of these any sooner than Thursday around 11pm is early for me. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any black ink on hand, so rather than risking butchering the drawing with a mixed black or with pen, I've temporarily added the blacks using Photoshop. I'll do it properly when I buy some black.

I'm still kicking myself for last week's adventure. I poured everything I could into Fearless, pushed dinner back to 11, was just about to post it to Illustration Friday... and then realized that somehow I had gotten the weeks mixed up, missed the deadline for Fearless, and finished Fearless just in time to meet the deadline for Equipment. Sadly, there was no equipment in my fearless drawing, so I just posted it to my blog and sat on my hands... I'm still glad I made it, though, because it's a million times better than any equipment drawing I could have done. And I did it in tribute to my little lion, and you know everything I do for him is a labor of love. Even when it involves getting up at four in the morning because he's decided he needs wet food immediately.

Illustration Friday - Fearless

In honor of my own little lion. He is, incidentally, still with us and is responding well to his new meds. And he still has the most kissable nose in the world.

subterranean - Illustration Friday

They used a word I submitted this week, so I kind of felt obliged to submit a drawing to go with it. Not my best effort, but more than I've been doing lately.

http://illustrationfriday.com/

Illustration Friday - Undone

This week's Illustration Friday word is "undone." My response is inspired by the jackassery of my neighbor, who has recently decided to raze dozens of beautiful trees along the property line to build himself a driveway to the creepy little barn he lives in (in the middle of a vast, empty field which he can easily drive over and in which he has never grown anything). (see my previous post below for further ranting) The whole thing is senseless and repulsive, and the damage sadly cannot be undone. Hence my sketch.

I feel like I'm going to be drawing a lot of trees for a while...

Illustration Friday - Entangled

Been a while since I've had time to draw anything. It shows, unfortunately. Work is eating my life. I think that shows, too.

Illustration Friday - Pattern

I haven't really felt much up to doing the art thing lately, between the car accident and the new job that gives me such little time and has me clicking a mouse seven hours a day... My hands have been hurting and I've just been too tired and dissatisfied with my ideas. But I did happen to check out illustration friday (illustrationfriday.com) this week, and the word of the week was "pattern," which instantly made me think of this drawing I made a ways back. Although I guess most of my drawings I've done for Illustration Friday involve patterns, this drawing is specifically *about* patterns. It's based off a picture I took of one of my old roommates with a classmate's painting.

At any rate... it's a way to feel productive without having to actually draw anything new.

"Drifting"

My entry for this week's Illustration Friday (http://www.illustrationfriday.com/). I actually finished it really early this week, but for some reason I'm still posting it on Thursday... Lazy.

At any rate. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Everything just sort of came together really quickly and easily. The only thing that really bothers me is that I didn't know how much I would like it, so I drew it on a sheet of paper that tore wrong, so now I'm stuck with this awkward tear in the corner (I photoshopped it out, but believe me, you'd notice it if you saw it in person). Another life's lesson learned: treat every drawing like it's going to be a masterpiece.

You can get a larger view or see other drawings of mine (warning: not everything is PG, so if you're under 18 you might want to stick to the Illustration Friday section) at my website: http://sites.google.com/site/altheakeaton/Home/drawings