This Was The Face He Made...Right Before I Beat Him

Thanks for Making My Day Brighter.

Also, I just happened to stumble upon these on the same day:

GUISE, I JUST FOUND CAFFEINE ON BYU CAMPUS

Seriously, you can buy it in the Museum of Art gift shop. Ta-da.

Sorry it's been a month since I updated. I'll have more time to do this after graduation.

Draw Something, Star Wars Edition

So I haven't posted for a while. I'm not really going to apologize, since I know it'll happen again. But I did wan to put up some stuff I've done on Draw Something this last month.

So for the first part of the month, it's been business as usual with random characters and stupid puns.

Disco, as in "Disco Stu" from The Simpsons

Poker. I was trying to draw Poker-Face. Get it?
Yeah, I know it's a bit of a stretch.

Hamster. Remember those hip hop hamsters from the Kia commercials?

Pray. Threw a little bit of Mormonism in there too.

Puck. One of the funnier gags from Toy Story.

JLo. It's a self portrait because people call me J-Low around here. 

So then a friend named Elisabeth gave me the idea to do Fandom Draw Something. It's where you pick a fandom at the beginning of a game and make everything relate to that fandom. 

Thing is, I wasn't feeling social enough to actually ask everyone to do a fandom with me, so I just went ahead and sent everyone Star Wars related pictures for words that aren't related to star wars at all. I hope my friends didn't mind.

Here we have Luke Skywalker in Hoth gear riding a velociraptor for the word Dinosaur.

This is Darth Vader wearing a diaper.

Firework

Lobster. I think it would be kinda funny to watch a Jedi - Sith battle
where the lightsabers are replaced with lobsters.

Spock giving the bird to Yoda. I do try to keep things PG on here.

Hangman. Which Jar Jar Binks would be really bad at.

See, to me, Star Wars is the first thing I ever geeked out to. I remember watching the original trilogy at the age of five and falling in love with it, and then getting all excited for the new trilogy when I was in 4th grade. I'm old enough now to understand how awful the prequels are, but Star Wars holds a special place in my heart. 

What sort of theme would you like to see next? Let me know!

Taco Bell Makes Slutty Sauce

Also, it is really cold in Provo right now. How cold is it? Well....

It actually looks a little worse now. The ice is solid enough to support multiple people's body weights. I'm sure I just committed some sort of syntax sin with that last sentence. Whatevs.

I've Come Out of Draw Something Retirement

Yes, after leaving the game for almost 6 months, I'm back into Draw Something. And my pictures are getting more elaborate than ever.

I made some cutesy pics at the start:

Brains

Mozart

Sugar. As in Sugar Mama. Seriously, do you remember this show??

And then I decided to just go all out and throw in tons of stuff like anatomy, shading, backgrounds, etc...

Crossbow. In case you didn't guess from the 'brains' drawing,
 I watch "The Walking Dead." And if Daryl (or Glen) dies, I will riot.

Eminem. I was going for that iPod commercial look.

Slash

Speak. As in, "Speak Now," by Taylor Swift

Sphinx

Jack. "There should be a 'captain' in there somewhere."

And of course, I had to draw some Hitlers in my pictures.

Insect.

Pacman

Looking back on this picture, I just feel bad. The word is Japan, but I drew Korea. Which, coincidentally, has the exact same number of letters. I am not a nice person.

Japan

Another Les Mis Post

A Deleted Scene From Les Miserables

It's like she has ESPN or something.

I should note that the idea for this originally came from my brother Jon. If you're interested, check out his rather detailed review of the film.

The Problem With Using Big Name Actors in Les Miserables

This is the first thing that I thought of during this scene in the movie.

Edit: Apparently Ginger Haze put it on the internet first. Dang it. But you should check out her Tumblr, it's pretty good.

What I'm Thankful for This Thanksmas

Yeah, I normally do this on Thanksgiving, but I got pretty lazy this year. So let's just call this a Thanksgiving/Christmas list. A Thanksmas list. So without further ado, here's a list of some things I'm thankful for:

• Not having much snow this year. I know, it's bad for global warming and the Utah economy, but I got to walk to school in that crap.
• Also, having NO snow last year for the same reason.
• But having enough snow in the mountains right now to go skiing
• My calling in church. Seriously, Ward Prayer Co-Chair is the best thing ever. It's a ward leadership calling in my ward, but I have to do next to nothing. And it's a pretty social calling too.
• The Wendy's near the Tanner Building. I've been eating there 2-3 times a week. The cashier knows me.
• The free Frosty key chain I have. I think I've gotten about 100 free Frosty's this year.
• The fact that I can get about 2,000 calories off the dollar menu for $5 at Wendy's.
• Group members who do good group work (evil stare at one group member from this last year).
• The fact that I survived spending 16 straight hours on campus one day late in November.
• Getting a 97% on an Art History final and beating the art majors at their own game. Suck on that, liberal arts majors!
• Lists. 
• That my major does not require me to write giant research papers for classes like certain Art History classes do.
• That I have a job offer. Related to my major.
• Facebook friends that tag me in photos (my parents are grateful for that too, beeteedubs. It lets them know that I actually have friends).
• Disneyland.
• That we don't live in a zombie apocalypse,
• but that I'm prepared for one in case I ever have to. Thanks, Walking Dead.
• People who are engaged, but don't feel the need to be constantly touching each other.
• Chester the Molester.
• Chester the Molester not dying this year.
• Surviving my first car accident in TLC, the other car I drove this summer.
• As well as the time TLC somehow had one of its tires impaled by a set of pliers while on I-15. Literally impaled.
• And the time the hood on TLC decided to flip open while driving on I-15.
• That I don't have to repent for hating a car.
• My bishop.
• My ward.
• Not getting hit by cars while riding my bike in Provo. . .Yet.
• The friend who convinced me to run a half marathon.
• The friend who introduced me to Doctor Who.
• The friends who didn't get all political on Facebook this last election.
• The friend who always invites me to dance parties.
• The friend who says she loves my laugh, in spite of how obnoxious it is.
• The friend that was willing to be dragged through the BYU Art Museum and look at all the works of art with me.
• The friend that always lights up when people she knows enter the room.
• The friend who introduced me to frappes.
• Friends in general. Good grief I'm blessed.
• The roommate who did my cleaning check for me.
• The roommates who are willing to listen to my dating stories and gripes.
• My roommates in general.  Seriously, they're great.
• Sunlight
• That time late at night when everything becomes hilarious.
• Sunday dinners.
• Stargazing.
• Frozen food.
• Family.
• Kittens.
• The fact that I can list this many things to be Thankful for.
• The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thanks for the great year everybody!

 

Christmas + Thanksgiving Wrap Up

So I'm still fairly behind with blogging since I did such a crummy job at it for a good six weeks, so here's a bit of a quick update of what's been going on lately.

First off, our family once again did a lot of pies on Thanksgiving. It was amazingly delicious. We usually get tiny slices of each pie so we can sample them all. In the future, we may have to vomit the pies halfway through so that we have enough stomach space for all of them. Sort of like the spitting up whine thing you do when you go whine testing.

Also, my grades just came back, and I received my all time lowest grades ever in all of history. A C+ and a B-. And you know what? I don't even care anymore. I graduate in four months, I have a job offer, and I don't have to worry about keeping my GPA up for scholarship anymore. So why worry, right?

In related news, my brother who just returned from a mission in Japan has informed me that I'm taking a giant dump on every last vestige of Asian left in my blood. I should note that my other younger brother, who I've been living with for the last semester, has just barely received his mission call to Japan. For those keeping score at home, here's where we stand:

• Dad: served in Hokkaido, Japan
• Mom: from Tokyo, Japan
• Younger brother 1: served in Kobe, Japan
• Younger brother 2: going to serve in Fukuoka, Japan
• Younger brothers 3 & 4: almost certainly going to serve in Japan. Probably the Nagoya and Sedai missions, so that we end up covering the whole country with Low family shenanigans.
• Me: Little Rock, Arkansas.

Am I ashamed? Of course not. I learned how to deep fry stuff. And as any stateside missionary will tell you, "stateside is the best side."

Now, for Christmas, I got a graphics tablet. I'm really excited about it, but I'm still learning how to draw things. You might think that art skills would translate to drawing on a tablet super quick, but it doesn't. You have to look at a computer screen instead of your hand, and you still have to learn how to do Photoshop and stuff. I'll probably be illustrating this blog using the tablet from here on out. Even though I'm fairly slow with it, it's still faster than MS Paint or using the sketch app on the iPad. Hey, here's a picture I drew earlier for practice!

"I AM ZIIIMMMM!!!"

As you can see, my drawing on the left is kinda sloppy when compared to the source material on the right. So we'll see what happens from here on out.

Finally, I think I would be remiss if I didn't put up a list of what I was grateful for this last Thanksgiving. I've done it for the last two Thanksgivings, and I feel like it's a good tradition. I know it's super late, so maybe we'll just call it a Christmas List of Thankfulness. A Christfulness? Thankmas?

I'll figure it out. It will be its own post though.