An amusing conversation I had over the weekend

Flipping through the channels, my mother stopped at a documentary about turkeys. Upon seeing this, she asked, "Are they hunting them?"

My sister quickly replied, "No, they just have long, pointy cameras."

At this point, the hunters in the documentary were attempting to lure a turkey into range with a turkey call. After seeing them shoot the bird my mother said, "That's mean. They shot him while he was looking for a girlfriend."

"Um, that was the hunters' turkey call," my sister answered, "It's good to know that they work."

"Yes," I replied, "whether turkey calls actually function has always been one of the lingering questions of the universe."

Well, it's a start...

Work has become more stressful for me lately, and it's manifested as a desire to draw.

I am definitely lacking in ability, but I can hopefully improve with time, patience, and practice. ("Time and patience, John." - Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan)

My sister is to blame, thank, blame thank for the first image. My deranged mind merged her favorite Muppet with her favorite character from Futurama once I noticed that they had a connection. There are several things that I need to work on, but you can't learn without trying.

The second thing I tried to draw was the view from my front window during a thunderstorm. I ended up not drawing almost nothing in the background because I realized that I would need a reference, and I gave up trying to draw the lamps because their shapes are too complex for my present abilities.

http://pics.livejournal.com/exatron/gallery/00001gz0

Lastly, I tried to draw the human figure a few times, but they turned out embarrassingly bad, so there is no point in uploading them. There's enough to laugh at in my gallery as it is.

What I've learned is that my mind can see how an image is constructed- I just need practice telling my hands what to do. I'm thinking it would help to have someone teach me, but I have no idea whom to ask. It also feels weird to admit that I need assistance since I am usually fiercely independent.

I've also developed a penchant for oldies, probably because Dick Purtain's show is on an oldies station and there's no way I'd listen to anything else in the morning.