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I'm trying to start a club on campus to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur. I spoke with one of my professors who essentially told me good luck, that he'd been trying to get students to care with little success. Why is that? I refuse to believe there would be absolutely no one interested in joining a club and trying to make a difference, and maybe save lives. 

A few of my classmates expressed interest, but mainly in a way that said, "Oh, that's interesting, but just don't ask me to do anything." *headdesk*

I'm going to keep trying, and will talk to a few classes about starting a club. There is a lot that we can do, from lobbying politicians, telling others on campus, trying to get companies to divest in Sudan, and the old stand-by fundraising.

I know there are a lot of students and academics in the fandom, so maybe you could tell me if students are as apathetic there as they are at my university. 

Here are some links to visit about what's going on in Darfur:
standnow.org
genocideintervention.org

I can't say how relieved I am to be finished with this. I started painting this probably about nine months ago, and frequently left it for the never-to-be-done pile. The color's a bit off, but I'm going to have it scanned soon instead of only taking a picture of it. This is my cousin, who I lived with for almost a year back in '04. She's going to be five this year, but she's two here. Hope you like it!

Title: Whimsy
Medium: Watercolor pencils and watercolor
Rating: G

Long time no see, huh?

After I read joanwilder's awesome fic Unnatural Selection, I had to draw something. If you're a Snarry fan, and even if you aren't, go read it.

Title: He Had to Try
Rating: G
Characters: Harry Potter
Medium: colored pencil, pastel, charcoal, and marker. Yeah. 

Well, for those on my flist who don't know or care about QaF, I apologize because you will probably be seeing a fair bit of art from me based on it. :D
I've seen half of season 1 from Netflix, and then most of seasons 2, 3, and 4 on YouTube. Bless those people who took the time to upload them.

This is a small sketch of Gale Harold as Brian. I wanted to try out my colored pencils on the colored paper, and I really like the technique. With this particular one, because it was a quick trial run I drew it fairly small, about 4 x 5 in, where it's usually four times that size, it's not as defined as I usually like. I was trying out the colors, not getting his face exactly correct, so I know some proportions are off. *takes calming breaths*  I still like the look of it, however. It reminds me of those minatures in Jane Austen novels or something. :)

Enjoy!



So, can anyone point me in the direction of some good QaF LJ communities?

Title: The Price of Loyalty
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Voldemort, other DE's.
Rating: PGish
Warning: Character death
Medium: ink

My oh my, where has October gone? I've lifted my nose from the grind long enough to realize I drew a Snarry a while ago I never posted, silly me. This was for joanwilder, who is a wonderful friend, not to mention a fantastically talented writer. I love you hon!!! And because this is hers, please don't take it. Not that anyone would, but still.  

It was done with charcoal and white pastel on grey charcoal paper, which I really like for skin tones. The white gives a great highlight. Note: also from a photo ref on manpaper.com.

Rating: PG
Characters: SS/HP
Warning: pretty!Snape

Art: Fancy a snog? (it's 2am, you come up with something. Sheesh.)
Mediums: pencil
Time: hour-ish
Characters: Snarry
Rating: PG for snogging 
Warning: greasy hair

 

Oh, and one more thing: check out lemouse 's LJ. She has the best YouTube vid that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. *glomps flist*

Because freaking out about my two midterms tomorrow almost made me forget how good it is just to laugh. Can you really resist not one, but four laughing babies? I think not.

Hello my wonderful flist.  I hope you're all doing well, and aren't nearly as stressed as I. School's been quite relentless, and I feel horribly unartistic. I haven't drawn anything in over a week. *cries* But I do bring cookies! Unfortunately the recipe wasn't my own idea, and you've probably seen it before yourself, but I couldn't get over how hilarious it was, so I had to try it out and share it with you all!

I bring you:

Apparently I have no control, and couldn't wait until your actual birthday before I posted it, but oh well. It's only a few hours early. :D

So...

HAPPY early BIRTHDAY byronyraven!!

Because "Toys" had always been one of my favorite fics of yours, I drew a little picture of one of the scenes that stood out to me. This is the first time I've drawn something so racy, so I hope you like it! *wibbles* 

Title: Anything He Wants
Tools: pencil
Characters: Remus Lupin, Neville Longbottom
Rating: NC-17, this is NWS, folks. 

excerpt inspired by: 

There are days where the garden is neglected completely in favour of the bedroom. For such a quiet, introverted man, Neville is quite vocal when caught in passion’s throes; and Remus enjoys taking every opportunity to make him whimper, gasp, cry out and plead.

Neville’s breathless moans excite him, licking at the bite marks on his throat, body arching beneath him as he pinches Neville’s nipples between his fingers. He can do anything he wants, and Neville allows it.

There are certain things I'm not all that comfortable talking about in person, being a fairly reserved and shy person. Thankfully we have the Internet! Due to a recent experience you can read all about below the cut, I'd like to know how other people deal with the ever reappearing problem of leg hair. :D So, join me for a little poll and hopefully some fun. ;)

( Read more here... )

Are you ever so sure of yourself, proud of what you're accomplishing only to find out something that completely ruins all your work? Specifically something rather vital and trivial at the same time, and fairly obvious that most people probably would've checked?

I feel like an ass. I'm so embarrassed, I can't even say what it was.

To partly make up for my stupidity here's a sketch of an angry Pansy yelling at who I would imagine to be frightened little first years. She sort of shows what I feel like doing not just because of the thing I mentioned, but at least 10 other incidents piled on top that have made this a pretty shitty week. [/bitching]

Has anyone drawn while someone they didn't know was watching you? One of the other students in class watched as I drew this, and it's almost like when someone is standing behind you while you're playing piano (for those who don't know --- don't do that!! It's so unnerving, and I don't know about anyone else, but I can never concentrate.) but not quite as bad.

Mmm...

It must be that time of the month, because I was craving chocolate all day. Not that it's much different from any other day, but moreso than usual. So tonight, I experimented with a sugar cookie recipe and came up with delicious chocolate cookies. So if, like me, you too crave chocolate and are in the mood to bake from scratch, here's the recipe:

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Martha.

Edit: hope you like my new icon! It was a tie between Cookie Monster and Grover who was my favorite as a kid. Must've been the blue. :)

This is my art dump post of a few sketches. Enjoy!

Title: Bad Day in the Dungeons (although when is there a good day for our snarky Potions Master?)
Tools: Ink
Time: 10 minutes, lol
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: G



After posting the previous, fillequill (because she is that awesome) inspired this:
Title: Oh no...
Time: half hour
Tools: Ink and colored pencils
Characters: Charlie Brown as Harry Potter
Rating: G 


And finally, a very quick sketch I did of eeyore9990's fantabulous PWP, Newt Toes, which now has three chapters, yay! I sadly drew it in public, so I couldn't exactly do the pr0n justice. The story is NC-17, just for warning.

Title: Wet Spot
Time: 1/2 hour
Tools: Pencil
Characters: Snape/Harry
Rating:  PG

This semester is gearing up to be another from hell but only because of my own poor class choices. It appears my aspirations of International Studies being the major for me are officially dead, because I can't stand the pre-requisite classes, which are essentially politics and economics, I'm taking for it. Grr.

So to cheer myself up, I found this Snarry vid, "Toxic":



And yes, it's to the music of Britney Spears, but this might be the only instance where I actually like it. Enjoy!

Title: Veela (I know, I need to actually put some effort into the titles, but I'm too lazy)
Time: hour
Tools: colored pencil
Character: A Veela
Warnings: none

Title: Flight of the Prince
Tools: Markers, pens, and pencil
Time: 2 hours?
Characters: Severus Snape
Rating: G
Warnings: Possible HPB spoilers?

Title: A Visit
Tools: ink
Time: not long
Characters: Draco Malfoy
Rating: G
Warnings: angsty boy

I'm really too lazy at the moment to make a preview pic, so you'll just have to trust me it's worth seeing. ;)

*SQUEE!!*

alisanne wrote me a wonderful Bill/Snape, (go read!) and appledoodle made me gorgeous icons for my birthday, both of which I couldn't adore more. *hugs again* Thank you!!

En total, I believe I spent my first day as a non-teenager... productively, I guess. :)

I saw on my nifty little b-day calender thing appledoodle's birthday is tomorrow, and I thought I hadn't posted anything in a very long time, especially Snarry, for which I know she has a fondness as well. ;) 

I wish I knew how to do the sparkly text that moved, but I'm sure all on my flist know I'm not exactly computer savvy. *g* So let's just pretend it's there. ;)

So appledoodle, I sketched this out just for you! I hope you like it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! *hugs* 

Title: ... (any suggestions?)
Tools: pencil with slight coloring done on computer
Time: couple hours
Rating: G
Characters: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Warnings: Er, implied slash?