Elephants and Practice

Elephant Fact #7: An elephant trunk has more than 40 000 muscles.

They say the number ‘seven’ is a lucky number—so here is the seventh and last blog post for the month of April. I’m actually surprised that I managed to get this far—most of my old diaries usually consisted of one or two entries before I gave in and started doodling rude pictures on the rest of the pages.

I’m blogging in between IOC practice right now, so this one will be short. It’s mostly more of my Drawing Wars again, which I’ll be updating on this post only—think of it as my electronic fridge, with me putting up my pretty pictures (ahem) using those alphabet magnets on its surface. I’ve never actually done that, so let’s pretend I’m making up for my lost childhood.

I found this in my Outlook Inbox:

…and so I sent her the following.

It was originally supposed to be a parody of the “Draw me like one of your French girls” scene from Titanic, but then a little The Birth of Venus and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the scarf) got into my head and messed it up. I also did this during a Biology lesson, while we were watching this video on childbirth.

Think about that for a moment.

“No way they’ll show the real thing,” I scoffed to my friend, eyes trained on the screen of my laptop.

Squinting at the video, he replied, “I think it’s real."

“Probably CGI. I mean, look at those graphics—OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!”

“I DON’T KNOW! I DON’T KNOW!”

“IS THAT HAIR? IS THAT HAIR? WHERE IS IT COMING FROM—WHY ARE THEY ZOOMING IN? WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! WHY—“

Not cool, man.

Next was this:

Since I was sick of drawing hot chicks, I settled for this instead:

Gotta love a dude in a skirt.

It annoys me so very, very much how I can’t draw people’s hands. I started this drawing of my friend in Psychology class nearly a year ago and it’s still unfinished because I couldn’t get her hands and feet right.

Yeah, that’s not my fault—you’re just funny-lookin’, girl.

So I thought I needed practice—a different friend (not the one who I usually have my Wars with) sent me this email:

And so I replied:

Getting better, hopefully.

Till next month,

The Unlucky Elephant