#ponderizingchallenge2016?

Yep, two weeks in a row talking about this. . . the reason is that I'm thinking about making one of these every week to use as a background for my phone to go along with my "ponderizing"! It always makes it easier to memorize and consistently ponder the scripture if it's there for me to read every time I open my phone. And for me it's a lot more difficult to ignore if it's in a cute font and pretty colors! :) I don't know if I'll be able to do it every single week, but I'm going to try to get as many weeks as I can and see how it goes. This week I didn't end up doing any of the scriptures I was thinking about last week, but I came across this one and felt like it would be a good choice. This is one of my favorites:) If you have a suggestion for next week, let me know in the comments! And if you're ponderizing, what scripture are you studying? See you next week, lovely readers!

2016

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I posted, because I've been visiting family out of state. It was basically the best vacation ever. . . I love my family :D

Today I'm excited about 2016. I love the start of the new year-it's a great time to recommit myself to becoming better and changing! One of the things that I love about the new year is that my church's youth program picks a scripture that will be the theme for the things we do throughout the year. To celebrate, I made a design of the scripture in Inkscape. I'm learning how to use Inkscape on my own time, and I figured a good way to practice various features would be creating images for quotes and scriptures. Something we've been challenged to do is "ponderize" (ponder + memorize) a scripture each week, so I'm tentatively going to try making a picture of my weekly scripture. (Check out the talk about ponderizing HERE.) I like to set the scripture as my phone background throughout the week, so doing it in Inkscape will be useful for that as well as being good practice. And I'm starting with the theme scripture this week! I hope you all have a lovely week and if you want to join me and choose a scripture you want to learn better for a bit of "ponderizing" . . . the more the merrier! Welcome aboard! No pressure, of course, but I will say it's a really good habit that has greatly blessed my life-it's definitely worth a try. Meanwhile, I'm trying to decide on my next scripture. . . Probably either Psalms 24:3-4, Isaiah 53:3-5, or 1 Samuel 16:7. Gotta get ahead on my scripture mastery :) If you have a suggestion, let me know in the comments!

"he's not a tame lion"

Hello everyone! This is a snippet from a WIP from my design class which I'll hopefully be able to share soon. Adobe Illustrator and I are becoming fast friends, despite my earlier frustration:)

Let me know which background color you like best! I'm kind of feeling the first one but I included the others because I'm trying to get comfortable with creating gradients.) Have a lovely week, wonderful readers!

mitt hjerte allteid vanker

It might be a little early for Christmas stuff (JUST KIDDING NO IT'S NOT) but today I was at an event we call the Nativity Exhibit where we display hundreds of nativity scenes from around the world at our church building. It's a very special and sacred way to start off the Christmas season for me and one of my favorite things is that you can volunteer to "host" a room (basically you sit in one of the rooms with the nativities and are just available to answer questions, talk to people, etc.) One of my favorite rooms is called the Gallery and it features paintings and other 2-d representations of the Savior's birth. 
This is one of my favorite, She Shall Bring Forth A Son by Liz Lemon Swindle. Isn't it perfect? and I love it-check out her website here to see more of her beautiful artwork Anyway, there is always a different Christmas song playing in each room and the one in the Gallery is this absolutely gorgeous version of Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker by Sissel. I never ever get tired of it. So while I was listening to it I drew this sort-of study of His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful by Simon Dewey.

[the latest ever] sketches & stats: october 2015

Hello all, I'm back! Just a few sketches from October. This is a very very late indeed sketches & stats, (I don't think I could be much later. . . merp) for which I apologize. But I do have good news: I plan to start posting every week now instead of every other week. Yay! And I have a very fun tag to do for next week because I figure I can use it as practice illustrating :) So here are some of my sketches from last month! I did much better on my goals, fortunately. Thanks Inktober! :)

So, here you go. Very very random scribbles from my sketchbook--enjoy!

sketchbook pages: 80
sketchbooks completed: .8. (SO CLOSE)
finished projects: 2

scorpion

I did this waaayyy back in September but I'm still excited to share it with you guys! It was my first project in my design class, and the first finished piece I ever made with Adobe Illustrator! The assignment was to create an insect or arachnid using only letters and type characters, with several other requirements about variety of typefaces, no overlapping of letterforms, etc. I learned a lot about the program and feel much more confident with it. A really fun and challenging project!

#inktober day 31: more inkPOEber

Thinking about Annabel Lee. . . some Sharpie sketches. I can't believe I did it! Inktober is done! I'm exhausted, but it was so worth it. I already miss it :) Sketches and Stats post coming in the next few days and a project I finished last month but haven't posted yet. Thanks so much to all of you for coming on this crazy Inktober journey with me! :)