Moleskine Review #3

Moleskine Review #3

August 1st to August 28th

I fell in love with the cover the instant I laid eyes on it. I am a girl that loves Batman.

The pages are a filled with ink drawings, watercolors and colored pencils. Some of my favorite drawings I made with these cheap old colored pencils that I bought at Michael's ages ago. I am really happy with what I was able to accomplish with just the yellow, brown, pink pencil.

I think I am improving but my portraits have a long way to go.

 

Moleskine Review #2

Moleskine Review #2

July 1st to August 1st, 2015

This was a moleskine that I already had. Rather than tear out the first two pages, I covered over them.

L'il Gotham is one of my all time favorite comic books. I love the aesthetic of his work. I did a few studies of his work in this book.

I also started really experimenting and exploring with different ideas.

My little Whosum shows up several times in my this notebook.

Moleskine Review #1

I have never been completely satisfied with my skills as an artist. I have always found it hard to see myself making any progress. That's why I started with moleskines. I can look through each book and see my development as an artist.

I carry my moleskine everywhere. Currently, I'm on my fifth.

This is a review of my first set to music.

A Mythical End to a Weird Week

Sketchbook Weirdness and the Wheel of Mythicality

I discovered Rhett and Link about a month ago. After a frustrating week, catching up on the mythicality that happened before I discovered the show is a nice way to relax.

I can't say that any specific thing went wrong this week. Stress, stress and more stress put fractures in my already fractured psyche. I filled the fractures with Mythicality and drawings.

Thank you Rhett and Link for inspiring me to new levels of surreality.

Moleskine Doodles

Pages from My Moleskine 

 I've been in a weird mood for the last few days. Today the result of this mood was an emo Pepe, an annoyed Courage and a blue bomba.

The bomba's blue because I didn't have any grey on hand when I was drawing him.

I was trying to draw my way out of the mood. It hasn't quite worked.

Pepe the King Prawn

A photo posted by Kit (@surreallykit) on Sep 20, 2015 at 3:37pm PDT

Courage the Cowardly Dog

A photo posted by Kit (@surreallykit) on Sep 20, 2015 at 3:34pm PDT

Blue Bomba

A photo posted by Kit (@surreallykit) on Sep 20, 2015 at 3:42pm PDT

Whosum #4 - If you're Afraid of the Dark...

Growing up my favorite book was Remember the Night Rainbow. The other inspiration is obvious.

Whosum #3 - The Door

Whosum #3 - The Door

I didn't like how the strip came out the first so I redid it in Photoshop.

Whosum #2 - Rainy Day

This is the second Whosum comic. I'm really enjoying working on him.

Whosum #1

Whosum

About Whosum

Whosum is a rag doll exploring an often strange and interesting world. This is the first strip I've created with him but not the last.

Comic Strip

15 Quotes to Make You More Positive

Uplifting and Inspiring Quotes

1. "Keep your fact to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller
2. "Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." - Dr. Seuss
3. "Everything's impossible until somebody does it." - Batman
4. "My hope is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." - Jim Henson
5. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." - Fred Rogers
6. "Bad days happen to everyone, but when one happens to you, just keep doing your best and never let a bad day make you feel bad about yourself." - Big Bird
7. "Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing! Because nobody in the universe can do what we're doing." - Doctor Who
8. "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - Kurt Vonnegut
9. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
10. "It's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." Richard Feynman
11. "You have to hold onto your fantasy." - Betsey Johnson
12. "Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." - Albert Einstein
13. "Dreams save us Dreams lift us up and transform us and on my soul, I swear until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice become the reality we all share. I'll never stop fighting. Ever." - Superman
14. "Every scar one day will heal. Every tear one day will dry." - Icon for Hire
15. "I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hand around until you get used to it." - Charles Schulz

Interesting German Words for Psychological Concepts

Interesting German Words for
Psychological Concepts

(some things just sound cooler in German)

aberglaube - superstition

alpdrücken - nightmare

anstrengung - mental effort

beachtungswahn - delusion of being noticed

beruhigendes gefühl - quiescent feeling, very long way to say resting

beschwörung - exorcism

bewusstheit - 'thought' as a mental element

blickfeld - field of regard

blickpunkt - point of regard

dressurmethode - method of training, drill

ebenmerklich - just noticeable, liminal

eifersuchtswahn - delusion of jealousy

fratzentraum - a form of 'fear' dream

freisteigende - spontaneous (idea)

fühlersprache - language of the antennae

tagtraum - day dream

tanzmaus - dancing mouse (or party animal)

traum - dream

traumerei - revery

wunschtraum - wish dream