My friend Veronica and I are having a drawing challenge that hopefully will help me become a better artist.
Fingers crossed!
Today’s challenge was to draw our (drawing) utensils.
Just Doodlin’
Mermaids with Style: Elisa Edition
I have been trying to improve my drawing abilities… because why the heck not.
And to combine that with my penchant for drawings Mermaids… and you get…
Well, you get more mermaids… just drawing with eyes instead of my signature beady-eyes
This one is a shout out to my homie Elisa and her uncanny ability to always be on vacation or planning one!
Right now she’s planning our vacation to Greece! We are going there this spring and it’s going to be amazing. And we are going to do what we do best, drink, laugh and look at buildings and stuff. I feel like I should put that on my resume…. so someday I can be professional looker at buildings, with an emphasis in laughing and drinking.
♥Lauren
Looking Shark
I forgot to post this one sooner.
I’ll keep is short and sweet.
♫ Every girls crazy ’bout a shark dressed man ♫*
Have a great day!
♥Lauren
p.s. Thanks to Alex for learning how to talk, and then my sister for letting me secretly doodle the funny things her baby tells us
p.p.s. thanks to Jen of Jen and Tonic for making that comment on my instagram
The New Fashion
I feel like since I have been working in retail design that now I have an official opinion about fashion.
And because I saw seasons of fashion just thrown into a junky room full of screens for like 9 hours a day for like… every weekday I can say things with an authority or something.
- I will never wear a see through skirt to work. I am not Bridget Jones. And I do not work with Hugh Grant. See through skirts = creepy notes on linkedin… from guys who don’t look like Hugh Grant… or Colin Firth for that matter.
courteesy of :tumblr - And I don’t want to wear overalls. I get really bad flashbacks of all the clothes on “Full House” that DJ Tanner used to wear because I can’t chance my loose drapey overalls falling off showing that I own an embarrassing amount of polka dot underpants:
courtesy of ABC - I don’t want to look like I mugged Indiana Jones on my way to spend a night out on the town
- And I definitely don’t want to look like a snake:
courtesy of :F21
Because then Indiana Jones will never ask me out to the Spring Fling Dance.
Happy 2016,
Lauren
You better watch out!
When I was a kid my sister made up all sorts of stories.
One of my favorites was how all holiday and religious entities want you to keep your prayers and wishlists short because they have millions of people to listen to.
She always told me that Santa was a busy guy.
He had to make toys, supervise elves, make sure the reindeers ate a balanced diet of candy canes and fruit cake, watching every child in the whole entire world… and that you had to be quick in asking him for anything because he was really, really busy.
So with just vital hours left to Christmas… I say get it together for Santa’s sake:
♥Lauren
Who do you love?
Christmas season is literally the most stressful time of the year.
I think it’s scientifically proven… or something like that.
It’s the time of year where all I want to do is decorate and hide from the world of people who will stab you for a cashmere scarf.
So as you can imagine that means I’ve been watching a lot of tv and decorating… Between that and snapchat… that’s like 87% of my day.
But I’ve been watching totally classy old TV shows like “That Girl” “Golden Girls” and more shows that have “girl” in the title.
And I’ve lost days watching repeats of “I love Lucy” and so I was inspired to draw her in all her technicolor glory:
I wish all my collars were popped like a proper gangster
Anyways…
Happy 9 days till Christmas
♥Lauren
When Breakthru Radio calls…
I am really excited to post this.
Although I should have posted this last week… late is still okay!
A few weeks ago I was very luckily found by a really cool internet radio station called Breakthru Radio, with the very sweet and really great interviewer Jess Goulart the host of “Biology of the Blog”!
She talks about blogs, and plays cool music! And I make a blog and I love cool music…. so we were meant to be together.
I feel really lucky to share my drawings and my odd little stories, and I’m really glad that all these doodles led me to Jess and this great station!
You should totally listen to Jess and if you have sometime you should even listen to my interview… where I mention a few people I draw about on this very radio station!
The link to hear me talk about drawings and internetting here.
And I almost feel like apologizing for my voice… it sounds like I’m a 14 year old girl, who only watches “Clueless” on loop. I’m sorry, I’m from LA County and I do watch only “Clueless” on loop . This may be the reason why I draw my stories instead of being a news anchor!
Thanks again Jess!!!
♥Lauren
ps. now you can listen to it Jimmy! And I totally mentioned you!!!
Rock & Roll
There are always those songs that bring a smile to your face no matter what is going on… or how old you’ve gotten.
I always remember the first time I heard the Velvet Underground.
I was 15, and this really cool boy with the perfect blue hair made me a mixtape, that was just the right amount of suburban rebellion. And it had this song on it… it sounded nothing like the N*SYNC and Britney Spears on the radio… it was completely different.
It sounded like… joy.
And I never looked back, I searched for my own sounds, found my own soundtracks.
I played that CD until it skipped in like 3 different parts and later succumbed to the heart-breaking ending of melting in my car. #livingincaliforniaproblems.
Anyways:
and you can listen to the song here:
I should go to sleep.
♥Lauren
Tom Hanks Syndrome
I feel like this title sounds a lot more serious than any of this post really could be…
Today I watch like my 12th Tom Hanks Movie of the year.
Which really takes up the movie time between me watching “Scream Queens” and 80s Brat-pack movies.
So I found my well watched dvd of “Sleepless in Seattle” while I started to draw… and what I was really surprised with is how really charming Meg Ryan makes stalking look…
Like if you think about it, she was really stalking him. She flew across the country and watched him and his son playing on the beach.
He didn’t know who she was… like at all. He was just trying to chill with his son.
But anyways, she was charming and cute, and she peeled apples in a very unusual way… and it worked out for all of them.
And, all in all, the movie is still really cute.
So that is really nice.
One thing about the movie that is also super cute is the music.
My sister was like really concerned that I knew the lyrics to “A WInk and Smile”… but I’m pretty sure it’s on a list of like the most adorable tunes of all time.
Thanks Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan for being so super cute. I’m going to go watch Scream Queens now.
♥Lauren
Viciously Sweet 