It's the One Year Anniversary of my First Post!

One year ago, on May 20, 2014, I created a post on this blog for the first time. 

Link to first post: http://miriamsketchbook.blogspot.com/2014/05/first-post-first-video.html

       I promised to show readers what was not shown on camera in my YouTube videos. I think that goal was met, considering two posts had to do with artwork not shown in videos. Other posts showed water damage to my lace drawing, and part of the process of creating the fake food that had to be cut out of the video. I do not know if this blog has inspired anyone, though it has gotten more views than I expected. 

       For the second year of this blog, I hope to engage with my readers more. This does depend on you to comment, or share on social media. I would like to know what you think of posts, and what you would like to see me make next. I have redesigned my blog recently so the links to my social media pages are more easily view-able. The part that depends on me is the posts themselves. I have only made five posts in the past year. I want to start posting at least once a month, if not once a week. This will encourage me to draw more.

       I know I have not uploaded YouTube videos in a while either. It was November 2014 when I last uploaded. I was having trouble with the editing software. I was using two programs that came with my computer; Windows Movie Maker and Cyberlink Powerdirector10. I liked both programs at first, and had made my first sixteen YouTube videos with them, as well as videos for school projects. Lately, the programs have constantly crashed when I was using them, as well as blur footage that was not blurry before editing. This may be due to them being older versions. The other day, I purchased Adobe Creative Cloud. I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro at school, and have two videos half edited. As soon as I download the program to my computer, I will be able to edit videos at home again. Now I can edit over this summer as well. New videos are coming soon. The pictures below show three pieces of artwork I am currently editing videos based on:

How to Draw a Daisy:

How to Draw a Knitted Scarf:

How to Draw Realistic Eyes:

How to Draw a Jack-o-lantern:

(I will probably upload this one closer to Halloween.)

A Not Very Fancy Street Scene

    In one of my classes, I needed to make a backdrop for a play. Seeing as the play is comical, I decided to not make the drawing of the street scene I needed too formal. I looked at a street view on google maps that was similar to the scene I wanted to draw. I made a quick sketch in pencil, went over it in marker, and added color with colored pencil and crayons. It took less than an hour to make this drawing.