Week 32 of Sketches: Road Not Taken
I don't have too much of a story behind this week's sketch; it's just something I ended up with after playing around with my fine-line drawing pens this morning:
I drew this in black pen on white paper, then brought it into photoshop and started playing with the blending modes to get the orange-and-white coloring. I'm not sure why I chose orange, but it seemed to fit :-)
After the conference was over on Friday, I took the bus back to Boston and spent the day with a couple friends who are grad students at Harvard and MIT before my evening flight back to the midwest. I really enjoyed it, but I was pretty wiped out after our party on Thursday (uh, yeah, I might have not gotten any sleep that night), so I'm not sure how much fun I was to hang out with. Needless to say, I was really glad to get back to my apartment and crash in my comfy bed and not have to get up early on Saturday morning!
Yesterday was a pretty laid-back day, though by no means boring - I messed around at home all morning, went to the Yale alumni association picnic for a few hours in the afternoon, and then headed over to Joe and Rachel's apartment to say hi to them now that they're back from France. While they were there, Joe asked Rachel to marry him, so we were also kind of celebrating their engagement... I love them both to death, so I'm super happy for them, but I guess this means that I'm now at the stage in life where my (close) friends are actually starting to pair off and get married, and that's a bit of a weird feeling, especially since my life is nowhere near that place right now! But I guess that's just how life goes. In any case, I'm thrilled for Joe and Rachel... can't imagine two friends I'm happier to see take this step right now :-)
I drew this in black pen on white paper, then brought it into photoshop and started playing with the blending modes to get the orange-and-white coloring. I'm not sure why I chose orange, but it seemed to fit :-)
After the conference was over on Friday, I took the bus back to Boston and spent the day with a couple friends who are grad students at Harvard and MIT before my evening flight back to the midwest. I really enjoyed it, but I was pretty wiped out after our party on Thursday (uh, yeah, I might have not gotten any sleep that night), so I'm not sure how much fun I was to hang out with. Needless to say, I was really glad to get back to my apartment and crash in my comfy bed and not have to get up early on Saturday morning!
Yesterday was a pretty laid-back day, though by no means boring - I messed around at home all morning, went to the Yale alumni association picnic for a few hours in the afternoon, and then headed over to Joe and Rachel's apartment to say hi to them now that they're back from France. While they were there, Joe asked Rachel to marry him, so we were also kind of celebrating their engagement... I love them both to death, so I'm super happy for them, but I guess this means that I'm now at the stage in life where my (close) friends are actually starting to pair off and get married, and that's a bit of a weird feeling, especially since my life is nowhere near that place right now! But I guess that's just how life goes. In any case, I'm thrilled for Joe and Rachel... can't imagine two friends I'm happier to see take this step right now :-)