Tag: drawing

Tilly / Lounge / Podcast / Receipts

Here is a bunch of updates on a variety of topics:

NEW CAT

Please meet Tilly, aka Ensign Sylvia Tilly. She’s about 6 months old and perfect in every way.

A small orange tabby standing on her hind legs in front of a mirror
a small orange tabby cat on a bad, turning around to look at you with her very big eyes
a small orange tabby cat relaxing on a towel on top of a bed
a small orange tabby kitten sleepin on a towel

OLD MUSIC

I got a really nice email the other day asking if I was the same person who used to post mp3s of lounge covers, and were they still on the internet somewhere. Yes I am and NO they were not. So I made a little website for them so they could download the one they wanted. Here is the whygodwhy lounge. I would like to give a shout-out to backing up one’s files, it’ll only took me about 10 minutes to go from “Jesus fuck, do I even have those files anymore” to “Yay let’s make a lil website for them.” I haven’t gone back and listened to any of these but I’m wondering if it might be fun to record new versions of a few of them, now that I have actual music recording ability.

NEW MUSIC

Speaking of which still uploading episodes of the podcast. Experimenting with not just uploading the music but also talking about my ~process in the episodes. Still tinkering with the format; not sure how successful it is. Still fun for me, in any case.

MORE RECEIPTS

Would you like to see some more recent drawings, OK here you go.

pencil drawings of two receipts
pencils drawings of two receipts
pencil drawings of 2 receipts, one of which is clearly Kohl's

The end.

Here are the receipts

jfc Kevin stop starting drafts of blog posts and then never actually pressing publish on them. it’s just the internet! who cares.

Plus I am getting deep into my next project and it would be nice to update/tie off the previous one first.

Anyways one of my things this year has been LEARN HOW TO DRAW. I decided I would draw something every day and hopefully at some point feel like I’m getting better at it. I watch youtube videos here and there. I just draw whatever is handy. bottles, silverware, the tv. At some point I started drawing receipts and I really liked the challenge of drawing them so I kept at it and that is what I mainly draw at this point. Here are some pictures.

drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores
drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores
drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores
drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores
drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores
drawings of crumbled eceipts from a variety of stores

I have always thought of myself as A Person Who Cannot Draw. I took a figure drawing class at Cambridge Adult Ed (charcoal) in my 20s and felt like a failure. So I just went on my way, identifying as a person who can’t draw. But forcing myself to draw every day immediately flooded me with memories from elementary school, lying on my bedroom floor, drawing guitars and the MTV and Van Halen logos over and over. Drawing was a huge part of my life, my identity, my free time. Why did I completely forget about that? I understand the idea of youth being braver/less terrified of creative failure, but at some point I completely mentally rewrote my history to fit this narrative of me not being able to draw. How did I learn to think that I can’t draw, and how do I learn to unlearn it?

One other random thing, not sure why drawing receipts appeals to me so much but recently I was visiting my mom’s house and noticed receipts everywhere. Every room I went into, every drawer I opened, she had receipts tucked away. Like anything she ever purchased may be subject to return at some distant point in the future. I’m not going to dig into that any deeper, just noting it and moving on.