Bane

I'm probably one of the few interested people on the face of this earth who has yet to see The Dark Knight Rises. But when Figure Drawing for Dummies (ahem) came in the mail today I put it to use.

Of course, he's not really the movie-version, but he needed to old-fashioned tubes. I took them off again after scanning.

Patriotism

There are days when this little corner of cyber-space should rightfully be called That Girl Who Scribbles. Today seems like one of those days, I was feeling rather patriotic and rather at a loss to draw a really good patriotic picture until my new drawing book arrives (yes, I'm attempting to use drawings books, I don't use them very often, but I've found a few that I actually really like), because honestly, my figure drawings stink. So, I sat and scribbled, and scribbled, and scribbled--with my little siblings' crayons, no less.

And I came up with this little horror--supposedly titled "The Saluting Soldier"--because obviously there is no way of telling what it is. But I can't wait for my new drawing book to arrive in the next few days so I can put my inspiration and patriotism to good use and get a mental image out of my head. The mental image of a young soldier saluting in front of a war memorial. 

The current novel, and I've to take my full name off there to protect my privacy, seeing as just about anyone out there can find my little corner of the cyber-world.

Portrait of a Sister

Just a little thing I drew up in ten or fifteen minutes, I may still edit it a bit.  

(Portrait of Lydia)

"Don't have a troll under *your* bridge? Call 1-800-TROLL today!"

Monicating |MonicātiNG|noun 

1.  the action or process of wasting time with none of the proper tools to properly color a drawing via computer, resulting in strange results and deriving from boredom. Drat it all.

Equivalent to the "Hello World" Post

While this blog is officially up and running, a few changes are stilling being made to the layout  and everything else to make it look more... professional. But as of right now, this design is what we have, I was hoping to create something a little more dashing, but am still getting the hang of this blasted HTML. So, we'll live with it for a while.

Oh... right... You're going to want to know about things, I suppose. Yes, you do deserve to know what you're in for, and it's going to be a pretty bumpy ride, I can assure you, I hope you enjoy it though. if you don't, you'll get your money back, but I'm afraid I can't recompense for time. But I'm getting off topic again, you want to know about me and this little corner of cyber-space which no one has ever seen before and probably won't be worth much. But I'm determined to keep it up.

For those who have strayed here by accident: My name is Monica. I'm a totally right-brained citizen of the USA and beyond that, you don't really need to know much besides the little interesting piece of information that I am a Roman Catholic. I have strict views on language, if you're a rough and tough Indiana Jones-esque character from a novel or movie, I might put up with it because you could very well be almsot as awesome as Indy and...ok, I won't go off on a rant now about noveling and movies, but I just think you should know that in a living and breathing human being language is unacceptable and comments containing such language will be deleted ASAP.


For those who may already know me: Hi, you found me! That's amazing! Or maybe it's just because of my post on G+...which is the reason for this blog. "A Point of view" on Typepad will remain in existence and I will continue posting on it the same as always, which means with various writing and perhaps even little snippets of life on occasion. But I have found the perfect outlet for all my drawings. So rather than cluttering up your feed and perhaps even getting on your nerves a tad, I've moved here and will continue posting them here if you're ever interested. Plus you might see a few goodies on occasion, one never knows. More book covers, my little web-design creations that I'm still fumbling to figure out, but hey! A header and background's easy enough to install. Not to mention that I've found out how to have a permanent signature and blog-button, but I won't bore you with details.


And so we begin. Hold on tight, fasten your seat-belts, and please keep all heads, arms, horns, and tails in while we are situated on this little roller coaster of mine.