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NaNoDrawMo 2011

corriespondent — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:37:37 +0000

NaNoDrawMo 2011 is over! I ended one day late, inking in my last drawing early this morning.

This year I did 30 “My Day” drawings – sort of like tiny daily journals, in picture form, in my 3.5×4.5 Moleskine notebook. It’s fun for me to look over them and see the many milestones that have occurred – from the demolition starting on the outside of our house for our upcoming house addition, to Matthew being completely weaned, learning to push himself on the toy car, and starting to walk a lot. It’s also interesting to have proof of how poor my sleep quality is, thanks to children waking up at odd hours and my own messed-up biorhythms, and other work-at-home parents can relate with that tough balance between being productive and being there for your kids.

To my surprise, I didn’t hardly create any of the realistic pencil sketches that I’m most comfortable with, but I ended up doing a lot of sermon notes and writing/illustrating quotes that I wanted to ponder. Below are some of my favorite ones, but you can see the entire set on Flickr.

My one pencil sketch:

My one non-Moleskine drawing:

I had one recipe:

All of my Moleskine ink drawings were done freehand – no pencil sketching beforehand.

Some of the “My Day” drawings:

Example of sermon notes:

My favorite drawings from this year have been the quotes.

And, I had a few random comics and drawings here and there.

Finally, this is my favorite drawing from this month, and maybe one of my top favorite comics of all time that I’ve created.

Now that NaNoDrawMo is over, I can reclaim my early mornings and late nights of scribbling furiously in my Moleskine. Steve can heave a sigh of relief that I’m not asking him constantly “what time did we go to bed last night?” and “hm… what else did we do yesterday?” I didn’t feel like I was able to put quite as much effort this year into exploring different art forms, but I’m very happy with this body of work, as they all ended up fitting an overall theme of documenting my life and thoughts.

Heather at home

corriespondent — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:59:43 +0000

Heather sent me some pictures of her cat sprawled out on her keyboard and of her two dogs laying beneath her feet at her desk. Which, of course, meant that I had to draw a comic…

But more background first – at the SharePoint conference (2011), Heather became known as “SharePoint Conference Mom” because of her self-described mobile pharmacy. She had neosporin, band-aids, advil, tylenol, and much, much more, and took care of everyone around her.

We use a lot of bandaids around here.

corriespondent — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:37:16 +0000

Maybe this doesn’t really happen with a magnifying glass, but Steven is in the phase where he minutely examines every part of his body for an “owie.”

Comics: New medical codes

corriespondent — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:09:04 +0000

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the new medical codes coming out, which expand the codes used by hospitals and doctors to detail items on invoices to insurance companies from about 18,000 to 140,000. They allow for almost absurd fine detail in describing how the injury occurred, where the injury occurred, or other causes of the injury. Some of the smirk-worthy examples from the article include a code for “walked into lampost, subsequent encounter,” or a code for “very low level of personal hygiene.” (You can run keyword search using this tool here.)

These, of course, inspired some comics when I couldn’t sleep last night…

(see chicken codes)

(see bucket-related codes)

(see bedroom codes)

Comic: Car seat nap

corriespondent — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:38:59 +0000

Two boys. One room.

corriespondent — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:21:01 +0000

I drew this one early this morning. Based on real life.

Supermommy

corriespondent — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:19:53 +0000

I forgot to post this – drew this one a few days ago. I was on a phone call with some of the Synteractive ladies – Heather, Petra, and Diane – and they started embarrassing me by calling me “Superwoman.” Heather said I needed to draw a comic about me ripping off my shirt because the baby spit up on it. I let it percolate and this is what came out…

Matthew, standing

corriespondent — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:23:57 +0000

Matthew is now seven months old and sort of simultaneously figured out how to crawl and pull himself up to his feet at the same time. This scene below happens a lot at our house these days…

Matthew

corriespondent — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:31 +0000

NaNoDrawMo is over!

corriespondent — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:19:34 +0000

Here are some of my favorites (not already posted) — you can view the whole Flickr set if you’re interested.

18/50 – Another sketch of Steven. I cheated on this one and snapped a quick picture with my iPhone, then sketched from that. It’s way too hard trying to capture him when he’s moving around!

35/50 – Drawing inspired by an actual tweet and photo that I posted the previous evening. Freehanded with pen – no pencil sketching ahead of time.

36/50 – Another straight-from-pen comic, colored in with colored pencil. This scene happens pretty much every morning.

37/50 – I drew this throughout the day.

38/50 – This is probably one of my favorite drawings to come out of NaNoDrawMo. This was done as a sketch using ink while watching Steven at the park.

49/50 – Although I’ve used this concept already, Steven has picked up a lot more words in the past few weeks so I decided to make another vocab cloud.

50/50 – I drew this from a Matrix poster. I started doing it in only marker because I wanted a posterized look, but stopped partway to sketch out a light pencil outline to make sure I got the proportions right. I thought it was fitting to end NaNoDrawMo with one of my sources of inspiration; secretly, I’ve always wanted to stride around in a long leather jacket like Trinity.