We started drawing with each other on Skype. Here are some of our drawings:
We started off by practicing our spherical shading skills
And the rest of what happened are in the previous posts.
-Deena
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
First Wacom Tablets
So Naima and I recently purchased our first Wacom tablets ever. They're Bamboos and so far it's going great. They were really hard to get a handle on at the start, it was quite odd for me to keep staring at the screen while I was drawing. And the surface on the tablet is very different to paper. Also, the pen is a very odd thing for me to hold because I usually have very skinny pens.
We started drawing with each other on Skype. Here are some of our drawings:
And the rest of what happened are in the previous posts.
-Deena
We started drawing with each other on Skype. Here are some of our drawings:
And the rest of what happened are in the previous posts.
-Deena
Three heads better than none.
EDIT: Deena beat me to it. DAAAAAMMMNN ITTTTT....
And yes, I can't get the lips right! I'll get it. Eventually. I did for a second but I'm stupid I dont know when to stop and ruined it.
LIPS
I beat Naima hahahaha. She can't draw lips all of a sudden, so I'm donating these babies to her first wacom illustration!
xox
-Deena
Monday, June 13, 2011
Being the Person You Want to Be
Yesterday was our school's awards day. I got a certificate for being on the Dean's list in Spring semester last year. That was the start of me being the person that I want to be.
One of my favorite profs and I (he wears a bow tie!)
One of my favorite profs and I (he wears a bow tie!)
I'll admit though, I wasn't into academics before. In my last years of high school, I'd procrastinate a lot. I'd never do homework, I'd always skip school, and I'd never pay attention in class. And I played a crap ton of computer games at home. In my senior year I did manage to attend school more, but that was only for the social part of it because I finally had a large group of friends, and we were all very close. They were very driven, and would study a lot and talk about classes. I never really had friends like this, so seeing other people work so hard made me feel like the odd one out. Exams rolled around and I hadn't even studied for them.
When results came out after the summer, it turned out I had failed English lit and gotten more C's than I should have. I could no longer qualify to go to the school that I wanted to attend for university. I messed up my own chances due to my lack of motivation and self-respect. I spent the next three months bumming around at home, doing nothing expect for wallowing in self-hate and playing computer games.
And then one day, my mom came home and announced that she had enrolled me in studying Advertising at her university. I hated the idea. I hated it so much. I desperately wanted to get out once I started school. My peers in Advertising were awful, all they ever did was make fun of me and say things like "You need friends", "you need to wear more makeup", "you need to get a tan." None of them really cared about Advertising and were there because they "couldn't think of another major". I felt myself slipping back to my high school ways because I started to stop caring, and that horrified me.
I began to really work my ass off. I cut down the amount of parties I threw, I held back on some weekends with friends, and I stopped using MSN. I could concentrate a lot more, and I started seeing my professors in their office hours frequently. I got over my self-consciousness and began answering and asking questions in class. I'd take any chance for extra-credit and I'd throw in extra work even if it wasn't required. This got me on really great standing with my professors, and with myself.
When grades came out at the end of the semester, I was incredibly happy because I did better than I thought I would, and I was the first kid in my family to get on the Dean's list.
This is when I realized that you don't actually have to be smart, you don't need to have always done well in academics. Hell, I even repeated fifth grade. You just have to genuinely care and try really hard, put tons and tons of effort in, and I guarantee you, you WILL see results. Good ones hopefully at least, hahah.
Anyways, thought I'd make a post on that. This post is quite student-orientated to me, but I think that it applies to anything you want to aim for, not only grades and school.
I was talking to one of my professors the other day, and I said something that he told me to write down immediately. This is also what kinda got me to thinking about making the blog in the first place.
"If I never push myself or never stop procrastinating, I'll never be the person that I want to be."
-Deena
When results came out after the summer, it turned out I had failed English lit and gotten more C's than I should have. I could no longer qualify to go to the school that I wanted to attend for university. I messed up my own chances due to my lack of motivation and self-respect. I spent the next three months bumming around at home, doing nothing expect for wallowing in self-hate and playing computer games.
And then one day, my mom came home and announced that she had enrolled me in studying Advertising at her university. I hated the idea. I hated it so much. I desperately wanted to get out once I started school. My peers in Advertising were awful, all they ever did was make fun of me and say things like "You need friends", "you need to wear more makeup", "you need to get a tan." None of them really cared about Advertising and were there because they "couldn't think of another major". I felt myself slipping back to my high school ways because I started to stop caring, and that horrified me.
I began to really work my ass off. I cut down the amount of parties I threw, I held back on some weekends with friends, and I stopped using MSN. I could concentrate a lot more, and I started seeing my professors in their office hours frequently. I got over my self-consciousness and began answering and asking questions in class. I'd take any chance for extra-credit and I'd throw in extra work even if it wasn't required. This got me on really great standing with my professors, and with myself.
When grades came out at the end of the semester, I was incredibly happy because I did better than I thought I would, and I was the first kid in my family to get on the Dean's list.
This is when I realized that you don't actually have to be smart, you don't need to have always done well in academics. Hell, I even repeated fifth grade. You just have to genuinely care and try really hard, put tons and tons of effort in, and I guarantee you, you WILL see results. Good ones hopefully at least, hahah.
Anyways, thought I'd make a post on that. This post is quite student-orientated to me, but I think that it applies to anything you want to aim for, not only grades and school.
I was talking to one of my professors the other day, and I said something that he told me to write down immediately. This is also what kinda got me to thinking about making the blog in the first place.
"If I never push myself or never stop procrastinating, I'll never be the person that I want to be."
-Deena
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
More hands
The scanner started before I could place the picture I was scanning so I just threw my hand onto it. Seen some cool stuff before, but YES pretty interesting stuff could be discovered here.
So... I have an obsession with hands, which is kinda weird because I remember as a kid I avoided drawing hands. They were so difficult to draw so I used to draw characters with hands in their pockets, holding stuff, etc. But now.. I LOVE DRAWING THEM.
I think I should actually make some kinda of series. A video or smthing. We shall see.
n.aw
Monday, June 6, 2011
Arabic Heritage
So I'm slacking off in the creative world due to studying for an upcoming final on Arabic Heritage. I wanted to take an elective in humanities (I love the humanz) and this course is seriously not what I expected. I've never studied anything on Arabic heritage, so a lot of what I've learned is completely new to me and sometimes shocking.
One of the first questions my professor had asked was, "What is the most important monument of the Arabs?"
I thought the answer was obvious. I put my hand up to answer with this:
One of the first questions my professor had asked was, "What is the most important monument of the Arabs?"
I thought the answer was obvious. I put my hand up to answer with this:
Burj Al Arab (Tower of the Arabs)
Before my hand was fully raised, the whole class sang in chorus, "The ka'aba!"
It makes sense now...
It makes sense now...
This class changed a lot of my views on the East (probably corrected), and showed me how little I really knew.
Here are some of the many interesting things that I've learned from this class:
During Europe's 'Dark Ages', where they were the most religious and scientifically behind, the East was flourishing because of their most religious time. They also made huge strides in scientific discoveries and medicine. Ibn al-Haytham introduced the idea of the camera, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote the first medical encyclopedia (and it went on to be a medical textbook in Europe for the next 600something years). The first hospitals were built, public baths were set up, and hygiene was emphasized. They had accepted Greek philosophy (Europe hadn't yet), and their translations and commentaries had traveled to Andalusia (Muslim Spain, modern Spain today). Through Muslim Spain, the works of the Greek philosophers were introduced to the rest of Europe. Essentially, this is how the European Renaissance was born.
Pretty neat stuff.
-Deena
Edit: Please read the comments for emphasis and further explanation.
Here are some of the many interesting things that I've learned from this class:
During Europe's 'Dark Ages', where they were the most religious and scientifically behind, the East was flourishing because of their most religious time. They also made huge strides in scientific discoveries and medicine. Ibn al-Haytham introduced the idea of the camera, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote the first medical encyclopedia (and it went on to be a medical textbook in Europe for the next 600something years). The first hospitals were built, public baths were set up, and hygiene was emphasized. They had accepted Greek philosophy (Europe hadn't yet), and their translations and commentaries had traveled to Andalusia (Muslim Spain, modern Spain today). Through Muslim Spain, the works of the Greek philosophers were introduced to the rest of Europe. Essentially, this is how the European Renaissance was born.
Pretty neat stuff.
-Deena
Edit: Please read the comments for emphasis and further explanation.