Now

Illustrating

While visiting my Aunt in Charleston, we watched the CBS Sunday Morning program, and I decided I wanted to create sun art to add to their collection! Featuring lovely ladies, because that’s what I do.

I completed Heir of Fire this past month, and this scene when the FMC receives news of Endovier wouldn’t leave my head, so I had to draw it! I wanted to play with color a lot, but it was feeling too “peppy” before I messed with the saturation and different layer modes of colors above my initial color comp. I think I was able to capture the emotion of the scene well! I’m not quite done, but I’m getting close for sure.

Designing

We are officially done auditing the corporate website for accessibility at my job! It was a 13 month project, and there are only a few odds-and-ends to address by our developers before I can mark this DONE done, but my portion is complete. Now, I’ve begun auditing our microsites so we can remain compliant across the board. Also at work, my role has shifted to include designing for emails and being a part of an effort to consolidate the design and look of our content we put out into the world.

Animating

In mid-March I was obsessing over The Band CAMINO’s single “I Think I Like You” and felt it really captured the relationship between Feyre and Rhysand from Sarah J Maas’ ACOTAR series. I can proudly say I went “mini-viral” with my animatic (stills below) and I’ve begun work on creating a more finished-looking animation! Thank you to all my followers, both new followers and followers who’ve been around for a while, for your support!

Crafting

My friend is getting married, and asked me to be her maid of honor! As part of my MOH duties, I am crocheting corsages for all the bridesmaids to wear on our wrists the day-of. I’ve never worked with a crochet hook this small before (1.0mm), and I purchased the pattern from Lalafcrochet on Etsy. I’m almost done with the first sunflower, and I’m excited to start working on the band part of the corsages, and figuring out how to assemble everything! :)

Camera Roll

My vintage camera lens came in, and I LOVE the quality of photos it gives me - the photos look like they were taken with a disposable camera, and they’re completely digital! After playing around with some filters and lighting settings in Lightroom, the photos look SO COOL! I point-and-shoot so much now, and am proud to have captured this particular moments over the past month:

Reading

I’ve decided I can read exactly ONE (1) fiction book, and ONE (1) non-fiction book AT A TIME.

Given Fourth Wing’s popularity, yes it has taken me a while to read it, but here we are. I’m at the part where Violet is questioning Xaden’s motives, but is also warming up to him. I question Dain’s motives, personally, even if he seems like he’s looking out for Violet.

The Let Them Theory has been on my list for a while now, and I think it’s gonna help me out a lot with my control issues. Just remember: “let them…, and let me…”