Drachenray

Corruptober Day 7: Gift

@zrex-utau

Running from hunters, the child stumbles across a party. She hides behind stacks of gifts and tries to shut out the sounds of bullets ripping through the humans. She silences her cries and hides her face from the destruction. Holding her breath, she waits for the hunters to move on.

“And then she spoke, and reality became clear, as all my world came from her lips.”

~ my friend Zack

I LOVE YOUR WRITING!!! ONLY WROTE ONE WORD? BEAUTIFUL. WROTE TEN PAGES? AWESOME. HAVENT WRITTEN IN MONTHS? YOURE STILL DOING GREAT SWEETIE

As someone who loves soccer and working with kids, it's really bittersweet at the end of a season. On the one hand I lose my current team. On the other, I get to know a new group of players and see my past players grow and learn as they have other coaches and play more competitively.

These kids went through so much this past year. It's said a lot. But it's true. I work with 3 to 8 year old children, and the younger the kid, the more clueless they are at interacting with children and other people. This year I taught not only soccer, but how to make friends and interact in more positive ways. And so I wanted to make them something to remember this crazy but fun soccer season.

I cut and sanded down scrap wood, cut out stencils for the team name, season, and each players name and number. I used a pencil to lightly outline my letters for burning and went at it. The backs all had the team name and season, and the other side was personalized for each player with their name and number.

also people should keep in mind that sometimes when an artist says “doodle” what they mean is “stress-free art”. that doesn’t necessarily mean that the “doodle” they made is something that they didn’t work hard at or didn’t spend a long time on. some people get really out of control when they see impressive works and the artist write “just a doodle” and they think, this is it, this is the end, im no longer going to be an artist, how can i possibly compare myself.

sometimes “just a doodle” means “not working on commissions or something work-based”, so don’t fret yourselves. plus not everyone who posts art plans on a bunch of people seeing it. you don’t really expect your stupid poorly written artist caption to be seen by a lot of people via reblogs,

It’s difficult to do space colors in colored pencils. Especially when you cannot think about colors. But this is what I got for today.

Flowers and gems. Started it yesterday. Finished it today. Days like this remind me why I started doing art again. Thinking is hard. School is hard. But drawing means I can sometimes put all of that to the side and do something I enjoy. It helps me focus. It helps me reboot. Life is hard. But that’s why we have art.