Nikki’s Blog

Well it’s not sprained, I don’t think. Danny, going around, pushing people out of trees, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! (He didn’t really push me out of a tree… I fell out, quite of my own accord)

Anyway, here it is, Sunday, and I’m supposed to be posting… lessee what I’ve got…

I’ve gotta scan some stuff in…

Okay, so… another one of those doodles… um… yeah. I really don’t know. Like… at all. I have no idea who ‘Angeline’ is, so don’t asked. And no, she’s not the fish. It all started with the teapot and cups and then they were flowers and then they were growing out of a fish, and then the fish was thinking about revenge… I think I need counseling.

So this is a charecter is a story that was inspired by a dream I had, and my insane paranoia that everything I own will one day vanish and I’ll never be able to find it again (And it’s a lot of fun to live with me when I can’t find something, just ask my parents)

So anyway, originally the main charecter was a guy, but I changed that… but anyway, she makes a watch with 29 hours on it, and then she looses it, and in the story there’s a place where everything that has ever been lost goes to. But there’s a prophesy about the 29th hour, and everything that is lost being found, so it’s all cool. I’m not sure about anything else in the story but this, but it’s a great set-up, no?

Anyhow, my friend Michaela (everybody say hi!) was helping me write it, and then I moved, and then I forgot about it, and so then like… a month ago I remembered, and drew this picture.

I’m not sure if I’m entirely digging the proportions, but if I’m not I just do another copy. I AM digging her pants however, seriously need a pair. Remind me to tell Michaela she’s posted, somebody.

The computer has decided, after our whole year or so of friendship, to hate my guts. So if the picture doesn’t show up or something, it’s not my fault.

On that note, let’s see what there is to show you today!

Okee pokee. I’m afraid this little lady is not as brilliant as my other doodles, but they come and they go. She’s cute, anyway. I think she’s like… Mother Earth, or something to that effect. I dunno. I’m feeling a little not-here right now, so… I’ll just go away now.

Just so you don’t think me disgustingly morbid or anything, I think I will take this moment to describe exactly how the idea for something so evil sounding as ‘Demon of the Week’ was conceived.

I got a book full of different demon-like things from all over the world, and wouldn’t you know, but a lot of them look PRETTY COOL!!! Like this week’s is a child with a beak and wings! Creepy, no? But I had forgotten all about the list of cool-looking things of darkness until I was flipping through my sketch book at Jo’s, and I told her about it, and she’s all like… “cool” and so I proposed that we draw one every week (2 weeks, now) so as to keep in touch, and be artistically active, and all that fun jazz.

SO HERE THEY ARE!!! This is Jo’s:

Yes, it was originally on lined paper. I did my best to get rid of the lines, so it would look nicer, but I’m not that good yet, so… As you can see, Jo’s demon is in a more adolescent stage of childhood… very cool, very cool… I like the shading particularly.

And here is mine (not the one I lost, by the way. I just drew one over the past half-hour/hour which I actually like better than the original, so we all win in the end.)

I was thinking about Hellboy when I drew him, and I hope that’s a little noticable… I do so like Hellboy… It’s a lot darker here than it was on Photoshop… I hope you can tell that those are supposed to be human hands, and not claws on his feet… My demon is still a little toddler type demon…

Anywho, you can look forward to seeing equally disturbing sights every 2 weeks or so, if Jo emails hers to me like a good little girl, and I don’t loose mine again…

IT’S YOUR DOLL, STEPH!!! RIGHT HERE!!! SO YOU CAN SEE HER BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR FLORIDA!!! I just hope you got my email in time…

THERE SHE IS, STEPH!!! YOUR LITTLE SCARLET-LYRIC!!! OH, ISN’T SHE SO SWEET?!?!?! AND JUST THINK, WHEN YOU GET BACK FROM FLORIDA, SHE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU!!!

For the rest of you that don’t really care about Stephanie’s Spring Break ventures, I would also like to use this blog as an introduction to a new… member-ish person on my blog! IT’S JOANNA ZARUBA!!! *applause, cheers* Because little Scarlet-Lyric would be so lonely if it weren’t for her ADORIBLE BOYFRIEND!!! WHO JO SEWED FOR ME!!! That’s right, not one, but TWO darling little emo ragdolls on today’s post. Here he is:

OH! He’s so cute.

And here’s a picture of the emotional couple:

And I don’t know why that one is so much smaller than the other ones… huh. It’s really not my day today, I’m loosing things left and right. Which brings me to the bad news: Demon of the (2)Week is not coming for at least another week because I LOST THE *DERN* PICTURE!!! Not yours, Jo, but mine, and I don’t know where in hell the thing is (get it? Cuz it’s a demon? Ha ha… yeah) so that’s gonna be fun while I run around in a panic looking for him.

But I have to go do something soothing right now… bye bye.

I understand I have not been posting regularly like a good little girl, but I have not been home for the past three weekends, and I’ve also been really swamped with school and such and so I have many good excuses I could pull if I were going to make excuses

Anyway, next week will be the VERY FIRST DEMON OF THE (2) WEEK!!! Exciting, no? It would be this week, but… there’s the problem that Dad isn’t home, and I need to know how to get the picture out of my email and on to Photoshop and then on to here…

So here’s a picture that has nothing to do with anything!

Ain’t she purdy? Another random doodle, and no, I don’t know if she’s counting that sheep.

Somebody asked me if I ever draw animae. I told them RARELY. Like… once every 5 years or something like that. They said ‘I bet you’d be really good.’ I said I was, but that has not compelled me to actually draw animae or manga, or whatever it is those people that wish they were Japanese keep drawing.

But at the time I had this idea for a butchy chick with her boxers hanging out in my head, and I thought: What the hey.

So here she is. I will be revisiting her when there are no people bugging me about animae. Because she’s kinda cute… but Lord, I hate drawing animae.

See the arm? The one that looks unnaturally stiff. That’s what happens when I get out of my style. BAD THINGS!!!

I have been sick all week. I went to Batavia on Thursday, and I think I caught cold from either Jo or Michaela, and so I’ve been blowing my brains out of my nose, and coughing up all kinds of yuckiness, and not feeling like posting in general. And now to top that all off, my hips have decided they’d like to meet in the middle of my abdomen, and I think I understand how a collasping chair must feel.

BUT I’M POSTING!!! Even though I feel HORRIBLE I am posting. And not only that, but I’m trying to finish two sculpts, 4 drawings and an abstraction project for Art.  AND I’M DOING IT ALL FOR YOU!!! Feel the love.

So here’s that charcoal piece I told you about forever ago.

THERE IT IS!!! And I’m so incredibly proud of it. So that’s the most recent bit of Nikki art to be completed. I have like… a doodle, a sketch and a picture of a skirt that I sewed by hand (without a pattern) that should be coming up, so that should buy me time to finish the rest of these pieces.

Yeah…

On Friday I went to a highschool thing at Saint Francis University, where I went to a drawing workshop, and got a pretty smashing still life drawn, which I hope I will be posting at some point… although it’s MUCH to large to be scanned in. Anway, I had a good time. It was the first time I’d really gotten to WORK with charcoal. Mr. Wright had us use charcoal every so often, but not really like… charcoal. You know what I mean… it’s like: Look, you don’t want smudges, WE certainly don’t want smudges, so explain to us again why we’re using this INCREDIBLY SMUDGY MEDIUM? But whatever.

Enough bellyaching. On to whatever I have to post.

 So I drew this for my daddy… which should be blaringly apparent… for his birthday before last birthday? Over a year ago. And I have some WOE-OUS news… I’m running out of stuff to post! OH NO! Not only do I not have much scanned in, I just DON’T HAVE MUCH IN GENERAL!!! You’ve SAPPED the artistic endeavors right out of me! I hope you’re happy, reader.

That’s right people! I am seventeen! I got a lot of cool stuff to… no art supplies this year, oddly. But a cool tin lunchbox with Hindu gods and goddesses on it. And a Coatrack, that looks like a scary guy when you turn the lights off… and a jacket with fringes on it, so I can pretend I know how to ride a horse.

In honor of MY birthday, here’s a birthday card I drew for Jackie HIS birthday.

Ain’t he adorible? I think he looks vaguely different than my other faces, but I can’t seem to pin-point why… Oh well. I think Alfonzo looks adorible too. Although, it’s kinda hard not to look adorible when you’re a fluffy gray squirrel.

Anyway, I’m tired. Just watched Persepolis, the movie, which rocked crazy hard, and I demand all of you go watch it. NOW. And read the books too… But I’m going to bed now.