Driving Miss Nessa
Okay, so everyone that has talked to me knows how much of a (dare I say it) nervous wreck I am behind the wheel. It terrifies me to no end, knowing that by pushing this little pedal, that I can crank an engine into going speeds of imaginable magnitudes. Well, today, I've faced a massive fear. I once again got behind the wheel and took control. That was a massive motivator. If anything happened, I was the one in control. I controlled how fast or slow I was going, I controlled whether or not I turned left or right. I controlled whether or not I stalled... which was quite frequently until I learned that I need to have gas to spin the engine so I won't kill. That took some getting used to. The clutch is still a bit shaky, but I'm managing. I'm getting better with it. Left turns are weird. I don't know if it's because the steering has too much play in it or if it's because I just can't do left turns. right turns aren't a real problem. I was able to at least stay in my turning area. Here is the clincher: I GOT UP TO 3RD GEAR!!! Holy MOLY, Batman! It wasn't that bad. Thank goodness there wasn't a lot of houses on the back streets where I went. There were only a few people I had to dodge. And that concludes my amazing driving experience for the weekend. Maybe next weekend will be the highway with actual stop lights and traffic. OH MY GOD! I'm getting nervous already.
My main focus and "drive" haha to learn how is so that I can hang out with one of my new friends. He's an amazing person and a wonderful artist. When I was in school, I really pushed myself to do my best artistically. I felt that there was competition. Now, people who know me know that I'm VERY competitive. Once I got out of the school environment, I had nobody to compete with. My only outlet for art was dolling and showing them for friends on the internet. I got to a point to where I didn't feel the need to compete with anyone because these people I was displaying them for were all my friends and... who wants to try and best their friends? It's no fun. However, if you have a friend who is sickeningly so much better than you are at art, then yeah, you DO tend to try and push yourself to limits to see if you can (not top them but at least) match them. So, it has spawned me to try and dig up all my old art projects that I've been working on and actually finish them. I want so bad to start new and more creative things, but I want to finish what I've already started. here are a few things that I've been working on:
This is a series I've been working on it's 6 different parts to it, each a different pattern. They were old set-ups for some graph/chart thing that we had to print. I wanted to try something with it and see how the pattern distorted the drawn pattern. Here are some of the patterns I started doing so far:(click for larger picture)
And this is a re-painting of a painting I've done that the flood took:
And this is a collaborative project I drew for Omar. It's Amalia, my inner elf.
