illustrating fruits

I've been working on really simple illustrations of fruits. I've always been a Photoshop person, and have been slowly easing my way into Illustrator. It's extremely frustrating because I haven't worked out the kinks, and I much too impatient to read through the various tutorials. 

It's strange, fruits are easy to draw, but vegetables are deceivingly hard!

home

I'm home! Technically, I don't consider America my home, but if I'll be here for the next decade, it'll do. The best thing about coming home is...well, there's too many to count. A proper bed that doesn't require me to exert any abdominal or bicep energy to get into, a puppy, and an annoying brother. An annoying brother is better than not having an annoying brother. And finally reunited with my camera.

Too bad I left the cold of Nashville to come home to rain. Where's my spring?

chaotic

Helped Gabriel with one of his photography projects last weekend, and used a Zeiss Super Ikonta. The quality of these are amazing, and would love to get more chances to work with film.

winter over?

Does this mean winter is finally over?

Can I finally stop wearing stuffy jeans, and sweaters that cause me to get shocked every time I try to open a door? As much as I hate how out of shape, and how terribly not in summer mode my body is in, I prefer loose, breezy clothing than the death that is suffocating wool.

officially

So I've officially had a really great weekend at Vanderbilt. I mean, most weekends go by pretty whatever. Gabriel comes over, we hang out, watch some TV, get take-out pizza, take-out Chinese, whatever our unhealthy hearts (and stomachs) desire.

But this Friday, Alpha Phi Omega, the service fraternity I'm in, held an event for the kids at the Youth Encouragement Services. It was such a last minute idea and planning started around two weeks ago. Two weeks of me never going to bed. But it was so amazing, and although there was transportation issues (what kind of school lends out a car with a dead battery?), it pulled through. And I got to meet the cutest kids! I never realized how much I loved spontaneous hugs from little children, as much as I hate hugs from regular beings.

Additionally, I got to try out a Zeiss. The boy has been taking photos for one of his classes, and he let me take his portraits. I'm really scared I mucked them up, and he's going to have a roll of unfocused photos that are under-exposed. Oops.

And the best news is, I finally got to watch Spring Awakening. I had a friend back in China who kept telling me to watch it, watch it. And really, I'm the type of person who judges a book by its cover, and was really put off by the name "Spring Awakening." But I guess all musicals just have terrible titles, and I end up loving them all: "Phantom of the Opera," "Cats," "Wicked." So on and so forth. Really, though. 

But the apartment search continues. I never knew how hard it was to find something in a proper price range, although I do understand my price range is a bit low, but still. Fingers crossed.