PS Consider putting each leaf of the agave on a different layer yes I do understand this is kind of absurd
Note to self: work on digital agave, test out coloring with better rendered piece to see if that helps my digital painting look better
Test out agave painting in Manga Studio 5 since its painting system almost makes sense to me
Sleep, eventually
Shit I actually really like that sketch I feel like lately I’ve been impressed with my art
I feel like maybe that’s being full of myself but I don’t feel guilty in saying that my art is slowly improving because I honestly think it is
That or I’m getting more delusional guess we’ll find out
But I think it’s the improvement thing
I need something to do this evening
Games?
Work?
Going to bed early?
I don’t even know
PPS part of me wants to make a “Guide to the Edible Plants of New Vegas and Surrounding Area” thing for Fallout New Vegas because I really love the kind of fanart that’s about the world and not specifics but I haven’t yet because I’m lame
Also I thought about doing an agave in Illustrator and it was way more work than I felt like doing so I guess I’m lame and lazy
I need to play that game some more, as well as Fallout 3
Someday I will again
My tiny baby agaves <3
Both will grow larger once I get the repotted and once they have time to grow, but the Agave harvardiana is destined to be a much larger agave in the end, though at the moment it is quite small and probably half the size of the Agave utahensis var. eborispina
I got so many new succulents at the plant sale I can’t wait until I get some new pots and repot them all into nice new homes I love my plants
I still haven’t worked on my watercolor, partially because I didn’t know what plant I wanted to do and partially because I’ve had other classes to do stuff for and frankly today I feel terrible for reasons I can’t quite identify
Maybe I should go back to sleep
I think my bee just might be the humble honey bee, Apis mellifera
Will still probably send off some pictures for identification from the expert just to make sure
I have bought more ice cream for ice cream mochi which I want to try and make again sometime this weekend
Tomorrow I need to work on watercolor stuff and maybe trace lineart of some of my old traditional art for use this weekend
Need to e-mail a few folks as well
About beeeees and also about other stuff
Maybe I just need to e-mail one person about bees
I can’t remember I’m rather tired
I’m stuck in a field camp loop of self-loathing I should go to bed
So in field camp one I accidentally put my hand on a cactus
My partner and I were scrambling up a somewhat steep hill and I slipped and as I reached out to grab a ledge I landed on a cactus instead (it was a little barrel cactus and of all the cacti I saw during my stay in Utah probably the one I would rather plant my hand on, comparitively)
So the top left side of my left wand was covered in short, stout spines
And the funny thing is I don’t really remember feeling pain
So I was just looking at my hand trying to comprehend what I should be feeling right now
And my partner calls down like “hey why aren’t you following me?” and I just hold up my hand and point to it and he’s like “whoa okay don’t panic”
Which I wasn’t doing because I still couldn’t figure out what to feel
But I’m prepared so I had my first aid kit on me and I asked him if he could pull it out because I didn’t want to risk taking off my backpack with all these spines in my hand
And then I started to pull them out
And that’s when the pain started
Also when the blood started, oddly enough
That day was a shit day, the cactus was like the second or third thing to happen that day and also not the last
A week later I noticed that my hand had a few pimples on it so I decided to pop one and out popped a spine because apparently I’d missed a few or they had been buried deeply enough that I didn’t know they were there
I think those few might have left scars, or at least one did I’m pretty sure
It’s one of those really weird memories to me, I don’t know how to explain it
PS never ask me about the train wreck that was field camp 2 it made field camp 1 seem like a fucking picnic
And I put my hand in a cactus on accident in field camp 1
One of my fondest memories of field camp 1 is all of us huddled around the prof’s laptop watching Galaxy Quest after we had been to the hoodoos where the rock monster scene was filmed
Also seeing signs for Barsoom though then it got sad because no on else knew about John Carter which was a series I grew up with
Oh field camp
I loathe you with every fibre of my being
But still
We made some memories
I haven’t really done anything today
I’ll probably just leave soon and get dinner and arrive to class early just to get out of the house
I think I’ve got all my chores and stuff done
I should maybe refine the sketches a bit but otherwise I think I’m allowed to do whatever I want sweet
