Eden M. Kennedy's Blog, page 4

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At some point before Thanksgiving, Jack asked me to run to the store. “Would you pick up some dry cranberries?” he asked. Huh, I thought to myself, dry cranberries. I wonder what...



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He was the patron saint of quality footwear

I stole the idea for this drawing from a seventh-grade boy’s school art project and I don’t even want to show you the original, it’s so much cuter than this. But if you’re...



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And books about war. The elderly LOVE war.

Here we have my first likeness of an actual dog. His name is Bowie and he lives in Texas, and one of his human housemates requested that I please draw his handsome his face.

In the photo she sent me it appeared that Bowie’s right eye (his right, your left) was kind of milky white, an effect I managed to achieve only by emboldening the other (your right, his left) eye. I don’t know why I made his nose look like the front end of a GTO, it’s just something I needed to express through my ART. Yes, Bowie has the classic lines, rugged good looks, and boss leather interior of a drag-race era muscle car. Bowie also comes factory equipped with a warm, beating heart made of 100% love.

This one is for someone in New York who requested a drawing of something she wouldn’t normally see on her weather-battered side of the continent. I give you: Palm trees with strings of lights wrapped around them, with mid-century flagstone wall across the street, via another lunch hour where I sat in my car looking like a pervert.

Actually, that’s not true, I spent the first half of lunch sitting on a bench outside of Pierre Lafond’s trying not to listen to two guys in running gear talk about annuities or whatever, while reading a Joshlyn Jackson book with a cover that yells PICK ME FOR YOUR NEXT BOOK CLUB, and has so far turned out to be an unexpected blend of girly and abusive/creepy/murderously girly. This is normally not my genre (oy, Gone Girl), but I feel like I ought to keep a broad range of reading just for work’s sake, otherwise I’d spend my days thrusting dog-eared bestsellers and Monk DVDs into elderly patrons’ hands.

 

Problem solved!

Well, this was truly a waste of a day off, I didn’t get enough sleep last night and now I’m all graggy and unfocused. I did manage to do this: Want to avoid drawing human legs and feet?...



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You know who else wears Kleenex boxes on his feet? Vin Diesel.

I’m doing my drawing assignments in the order in which they were received, which means the fates decree that I now do like seven California-themed drawings in a row. You people are starved for...



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These things evolve

Well, it was a busy weekend! It was nice and rainy and cozy and I got some drawing done. I have about 56 more drawings to do before Xmas arrives, so I hope this eye strain doesn’t sent me to my...



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This one makes me happy

This was for someone who said I could draw “whatever strikes my fancy.” I was on Faceblob this morning and saw a photo a friend had posted of a pig figurine she’d just purchased off...



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And now we are done

Well, thank you for joining me this November, I’m sorry I blew it and didn’t post every day but honestly, I have nothing to prove anymore. I’ve finished NaBlo a whole bunch of...



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Twenty-nine!

The Hodgman-Bamford illustration drama continues, and I’m throwing in the towel. I need to spend some time learning to draw faces and I think that can only be done with a pencil, I am really...



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Twenty-seven

I was exiled from the living room the other day because Jack and Jackson were in the midst of a Game of Thrones marathon, so I sat at my little desk in the kitchen and copied the bear from a...



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