Favorite Failings

About four years ago, I began sticking sketches/artsy things of mine to my bedroom wall. I started doing this because I felt like they were so incorrect but I was really determined to fix them because I really liked something about them. I just felt that technically, I was failing them. This wall became known as my 'Fail Wall' and only a select number of people were allowed to see it. I've decided to make it public.

The Fail Wall

I've also decided to sit myself down and finally fix them. I think this will be my project for about a week because I'm going to fly to Malaysia and I know I'll get distracted by another project. Hopefully I'll be able to make it through a few of them before I'm off.

First up, the mysterious red lady with red oozing out of her eyes:

This is maybe 4 years old. I did it with a red crayon on beige paper. It took like maybe 20 minutes then, or less (let's hope, hah). I actually drew faces more anatomically correct back then, but that was with pencil so I got to fix my mistakes. I did this when I was depressed, I think that's kinda obvious. I absolutely hated drawing noses back then. I forced myself to get over that though, however, most of my sketches still turn up with lined noses like this one.

And so one day, when Naima was sitting next to me, I decided to fix the drawing. I whipped out my tablet and began to work on Photoshop CS4:


I haven't finished it yet but I've decided that I've spent way too long on it. Without a deadline, I keep changing it over and over again and I have no idea when to stop. I have several versions of this now, but I've decided this is the one that I'll just settle on. I'm not too happy with the result, but to be honest, I never am so that's fine by me.

Hopefully I'll actually keep up with this project. It'll probably be an on-off one for as long as I live in this bedroom.

Until next time,
-Deena

P.S. Anyone else get insomnia during summer? Or holidays in general? I wonder if there's a term for it... Holisomnia...

New Macro Lens

So my mom recently gifted me a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro Lens and it's really beautiful. I have not been able to use it yet (been dead from an illness for two weeks now) and the snaps above are from my first car ride with the lens. They're not meant to be conceptual or elusive, I was just very excited to test it out a bit. I've gotta say, I'm a really weak and breakable person, so I felt like the lens is trying to crush my wrists with its weight (21.1 oz - 600g). I'll have to exercise a bit more, but at the moment I don't think I can last without a tripod if I'm gonna be shooting a long time. But yea, I'm really into backgrounds completely blurred to hell and decorated with bokeh, so I'm very much in love with this lens.

Coolness.
-Deena