meow...

i'm thankful for all my best friends i've had throughout the years... but i'm so glad i've been friends with alissa this last year. seriously, what a good time to meet a super encouraging inspiring artist friend. and it's often hard to make good friends, and then some people you just click with...and that's awesome. and getting to know all her other inspiring friends...that's super rad too... hooray!

my grandma still hangs out with friends from kindergarten, and college. and this weekend my dad's sailing with his two best friends from high school/college... so yeah... most of my friends i've had the longest i met in high school, and then just in the last few years...

but i want to have friends for a long time, and i was glad this year that i ran into and reconnected with two best friends where we'd had weird break-ups sort of (mostly my fault..eep). the awkwardness was worth it, just to know we don't hate each other. and it's not like we've hung out much yet, but at least that huge weight is gone, and our friendships are opened back up, so whether we hang out a lot or never, everything just feels better.

and then there's friends i still think of every day, but we just got busy with school and life and never hang out. but i hope we'll be able to hang out eventually...rollerskating. or something. cuz friends are really important... and part of why i'm who i am right now is cuz of being good friends with certain people in my life. they changed what music i listened to, what hobbies i was into....

and a year ago i wouldn't've been posting drawings online... cuz last summer i was like "i suck at drawing." so who knows, maybe next summer, i'll be riding bikes to the IPRC. hehe!

telephones

so in drawing class today, we had to bring a small sketchbook and a photo. and then we passed the sketchbook (with the photo taped inside) to the person to our right. and they got 1 minute to look at the photo, and then they flipped the page and got 30 seconds to draw it. the next person just looked at the drawing, and then had 30 seconds to draw from that, and we kept going.
it was super fun, some of them turned out so crazy. the first few people had the hard job. i felt bad cuz i got a random picture of some little boy for the first one, and i did a really bad job on it.

but anyways, here's my sketchbook. and here's the photo. i chose it because it's an awesome picture. abbi got a cool lens for her b-day once.

this is jason, hi jason!

i love the expression on the last one. and it's pretty funny that it ends up being a girl in the end, and mainly that it looks nothing like the first photo.

yeah! try it with your friends!