Steemit Saves the Day~ Arting around with Snook~ Ulog 37
There is a new user on Steemit called @Eveningart.
I was very, very lucky when she found my Steemit page.
Why?
Why what?
Why. Are. You. Lucky?
Oh, because......
Really? that's your answer?
No, but you are bugging me and turn around if fair play!
Sigh.....
I'm very, very lucky because @Eveningart is this bundle of happiness, joy, and good-heartedness. She leaves you comments that come from her heart on your posts.
With this last month being as busy? crappy? weird? or my 'real life world' hasn't been playing nice with me, she was this beacon of light when her comments kept popping up on my posts.
One day I had some free time. Okay, that was a lie. One day I made time to go to Eveningart's blog and find out who this sweet person was that had been leaving wonderful and insightful comments on my posts.
Once on her Steemit page, I found out that she had only been on here one week!!! I was floored. Eveningart was writing comments better than any I could ever make. I would never have guessed she had only been here a week.
I started reading the seven posts she had made during her first week on Steemit. Her posts were all a joy to read. I think I left a comment on each of her 7 posts that day. I felt like a Paparazzi stalker because each post was better than the last one.
Eveningart draws, in pencil, absolutely stunning artwork you can see in her post: My Pet and Portrait Pencil Drawings. In this same post, she asks the question below. I, of course, said Yes!!!! please!!!! WHEN!!! Are they Ready yet???
How-to posts?
So, here’s a question for my fellow artsy Steemians - would you be interested in some how-to posts here? I’d love to share the bits and bobs I learn as I go - and I’ve experimented with so many bits of equipment and different pencils and props over the past 3 years- I’d love to share this knowledge if there’s a desire here for that kind of content? Let me know what you think in the comments!~@eveningart
As life happens, this evening I was in need of a distraction badly. Let's just say God decided to throw everything at me this afternoon, even death (Mom's fine but still very sick). Off to go read @Eveningart's blog I went and what did I find?
How To Draw: Beginner's Guide to Shading (and everyone else too!)
I read the whole post up until I watched her cool drawing video of the circle thingy we were to make so we could start learning how to shade. I had already bought new pencils and a sharpener so I was all set. I was eagerly waiting for this post to come out. Uhmmm......I forgot to get paper but I think I have a long way to go before I need to worry about that as you will see below. 😏
Being the perfect follower of directions that I am, I decided that going to look for a compass was a waste of my time. A circle is a circle, right? Squiggly lines are squiggly lines, right?
Yeah.....No....... and then I got bored.
I mean it's a circle. How exciting is that?
Except if you read her directions she does go on to explain how important this exercise is in learning to shade correctly but let's face it when have I ever followed directions?
Though the end drawing looks nothing like any kind of animal I have ever seen and leaves a lot of room for improvement, it was just what I needed to focus on at the end of my day.
It was so relaxing and fun. I made up stories in my head why he has a scar on his back leg......You don't want to know....it's a painful story. He had to get stitches and everything! Really!
Thank You @Eveningart for all you did for me tonight. Without even knowing it, you gave me the perfect end to my day!
Love,
Snook
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Morning my lovely @snook - and thank you for the best Sunday morning gift I could ever wish for! I'm sorry- but I'm going to gush at you...
I literally had tears in my eyes reading your lovely post. What an honour- thank you so much. I've loved getting to know you a bit over the last 3 weeks and reading your posts- and the day you marathon-read my first 7 was really special- waking up to all these gorgeous comments from someone I admire so much was... well, it gave me a massive lift just when I needed it.
Okay- time to talk about your mouse. I LOVE him. He is glorious. This is the joy of this exercise- it sits you down with a paper and pencil and you're off :) I love you for being the creative rebel you are :)
Sending you love, and ease for the week ahead. And thank you and sending you the biggest cuddle.
Gush over. E xxx
oh that sums it up perfectly ... snook the creative rebel ... she'll own that you know and the tag #snookmademedoit will become like child's play to what she will come up with now. Pray for what you may have unleashed LOL
You do lovely work though @eveningart .. snook is dead right on that
Mwahahaha! Unleashing Snook's creative mayhem? That's a legacy I would be proud of ;) (though I've got a feeling it was all there long before I turned up!!) But I can't imagine anyone owning that particular title better than her.
Thank you so much @shadowspub, that's really kind of you. E x
hmmmmmm..........we will see about the first part LOLL
Of course I am! when have I ever been not right.......'cept that one time you yelled at me LOLLLL
tears returned. You could not have given me a great compliment than that!
This cracked me up!! Thank YOU! for that LOLL!
I'm hoping so. Thursday we go camping. No internet for 4 days...... at this beautiful campground where we usually are the only ones there. but now...........after typing that...........I think I need to get a good pad of paper to go along with me LOLLLLLLLLLL
Naughty!! You are very naughty! and wonderful :D <3 Hope your day kept getting better today!
Ahh - you know, I'll take naughty and wonderful any day of the week - thank you :) :)
Your camping trip sounds perfect, and just what the doctor ordered. I hope you have a wonderful time!
My day was awesome, thank you. It was super hot and uncomfortable so me and OH went up to the river in the evening and had a long, cold swim to cool right down. Ahhhhhh :) And then we came home to 2 massive slices of chocolate cake from our 5 year old neighbour's birthday party. Spot on :) E x
Yessssss. Hahahhahaai told a few people about this how to!!! And I'll be using my circle as an entry in that doodle contest from Phantom!!! Lololol
Cuz I cannot draw a mouse.i need to stick to the circle.its the perfect thing to zone out to...lololol
And @eveningart.
Sigh. I don't want her to ever ever ever leave the Welcome Wagon.
@bluefinstudios, @saffisara and I absolutely fell in love with her. We refuse to let her go.
She is exactly as you described....a shining light of joy and love!!! Our lives became that much brighter with her in it.
I'm so glad that she's "back" on the wagon this week for Senior Week hehehehe
♥️
and I'm so happy that even though God sent trials.... He also sent @eveningart to bring comfort! Hehhee
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I am too <3
and she is going to be blushing by the time she reads all these great comments about her LOLL but she is British and needed to get her blood moving faster.......
hmmm. that was funnier in my head LOLLL but leaving it there anyway HA!
hugs @dreemsteem
Hahahahhahaa she's used to it 😉 we can't stop loving her. sooner or later she's gonna get sick of our presence lolol
Snook!!!!! Dreemsteem has no A's!!!! Lololol
Gahhhh why did I choose such a hard name to spell 😂😂😂😂😂
Okay @dreemsteem, @snook, I've now gone past pink and have hit peony in the facial-colouring-department. YOU GUYS! Yes... you're right, I am a staid British maid and need my "blood moving faster"...
Finding the Welcome Wagon (or should I say, having them find me?) has been like finding home - and finding you both, and @saffisara and @bluefinstudios who I completely love, and so many others here is like finding a family I didn't even know I'd ever be lucky enough to be a part of.
Now- I have to go and get my stiff upper lip back on and join the real world... sigh.
Love you all.
P.S Leave the WW? You'll be lucky!! ;)
Thank goodness you got the joke :D LOLLLLLLLLLL
Bwahaha! I laughed so much my friend came over to check I hadn't lost the plot!
We were talking about it at lunchtime- not being able to let loose and "get over ourselves" (or get past ourselves) can be a massive failing... and I do wonder if it's a British thing! Everything is so judgemental and proper - shudder! E xx
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I love the comments section.lolol
Always have. Always will. It's where the magic and fun happens!
So true! It's become my favourite haunt :)
Seen em around a bit. Thoughtful comments. She'd fit in the fam well.
she would!! hear that @eveningart? LOLL
Oh wow - thank you @enginewitty & @snook - this makes my heart sing... I was just picking the brains of @dreemsteem, @bluefinstudios and @saffisara last night about the best time to put an application together for you... Your ears must have been burning :) E x
I only have three words....
Tee hee heeeeeee!!!!!!!!
What a LOVELY post, shoutout and creative process all in one! This @eveningart sounds awesome and will be visited by me once I close the tab in which your post now houses :D Did you know I arrived at the Castle finally? So here I am as your newest family member! Whoohoooo! #snookmademedoit
Congratulations!!!!!! Hehehehhee welcome to the Castle♥️
And @eveningart IS amazing!!!!
Hahaha, thanks for the welcome @dreemsteem! <3
Mwah!
Such a lovely post- and thank you, it was lovely to have you visit my place too - I really appreciate you coming by :) x
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! on the Castle!!! and I'm so sorry I have not been in the castle much ...life.......so somehow I missed you stepping in the door!!
Thanks for stopping and yes, @eveningart is awesome!!
There is the picture, now tell the story of the scar, ( with before and after drawings),
Have you got a kindergarten, pre-school handy?
I know the ones here love somebody coming in and reading a story to the kids.
Add your artwork to your story, try it on a live audience, see what happens.
You could reinvent yourself and have fun doing it.
:D slow but sure with the help of all I will get there. We, as a family, are going Camping with No internet :D On wednesday night for 4 or 5 days so going to practice drawing there and then will have lots of new stories, I hope to tell when I get back home.
but I need to do things slowly or I get too worn out......
it's hard but I tried the fast way and then I do nothing for too long.
But Love your input ALWAYS and that is a great idea!!
I will think on it.
I love that your little mouse has a heart and you made it look very cute and special, adorable 💚
Thank you so much @zen-art!!!
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