TCC Does Art: The One Month Challenge
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This week’s crafty submission is a baby bonnet and bloomer set. The bonnet was already done, but I started and finished the bloomers this week. I can provide the pattern if anyone wants it. My additional entry is a seven strand kumihimo-style braid. I’ve been thinking about making a “masklace” with this kind of cord. My beaded one broke so I switched to a crocheted one.
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This concept has been plaguing me for a long time so finally kicked myself to write a little snippet. So here is my very timely entry for the week:
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It’s Tuesday.
Our scheduled coffee date. Post lunch rush the café is practically deserted barring the handful of other patrons enjoying their mid-afternoon coffee breaks. I like it here, like this, embraced by the afternoon lull before the rush hour strikes. For moment I can drift away from my responsibilities and sensibilities.
I’m cradling a cup of warm black coffee in my hands. You opted for an iced tea, which perhaps is the more weather appropriate pick between the two us considering the sweltering heat beating sidewalk on the other side of the glass windows. You pointed this out, twice, as I was making my order but the sense of calm that tides over after the first sip is enough to wash away all your snarky comments and the lick of sweat trickling down my shoulder blades. The coffee here is something else, nothing like the stale hastily brewed coffee sitting in its pot in the office break room. I’ve been itching for this the entire day.
After we sat down you haven’t said a word. I haven’t either but I like it like this. Being swaddled by delicate silence as I wait for the pin to drop.
You tap the side of your glass. Thoughtful. Impatient. Unsure.
I know why you called. And I wonder how now it’s so hard for you to find the right words to break the silence because I’m sure you’ve been here a thousand times before. It’s all in your file. The one I’ve read from cover to cover more times that I’d like to admit. The one that I’ve practically memorized by heart at this point. The one that says that you swindle hearts for fun and recreation. Maybe professionally too, sometimes.
That’s your gift. To be someone other people love. To be just what they want. And I, I don’t want very much. So, I’m trying to figure out if I love you or if I love you because that’s just what people do. Love you because they can’t help themselves. And you can’t help but to be loved by them.
“Listen-“
“Just rip it off like a band aid, okay?”
My voice is bland and professional. I can see the chasm between us stretching a bit farther away. We’re drifting, away from each other, like pieces of wood caught in a current. Pulled into other directions by something more powerful and mysterious that both of us. You look startled. Like I caught you off guard.
You compose yourself, then hesitate, but you make the leap.
“Okay. So, here’s a deal”, you say as you pull a single coin out of your pocket and hold it out in your hand like and offering, “Heads, and I walk away from here and we’ll never speak to each other again. Tails, and I’m taking you to a nice dinner tonight.”
My brow crinkles. A crack in my perfectly bland mask. You’re serious. You really are. And it’s not what I expected, what I prepared for. A million thoughts race through my head in a span of a second. I really don’t have time for this. These games. I have work to do, places to be, files to file. If I lie for myself just a little bit, I might be able to say that I came for the coffee. But I know I came for you. Because you asked. So, I here I am.
“Fine.”
You flip the coin into the air, and I can see it spinning in slow motion. You offer me two choices. Two open palms with a coin in each. One heads and one tails.
The coin keeps spinning and spinning and falling. And I’m stuck in this moment of indecision. What do I believe? That you love me? That you care? can see the strands of possibility stretching out from this moment. A split in the road as I stand in the pass wondering which way I should take. But really, it’s no choice at all.
The coin spins and falls. And you pluck it out of the air back into your palm covering it with your other hand.
I already know.
Backstory time, I was doing renovation cleaning back in my old family house and found an old drawing of mine from around 2005 maybe? Might be from a year or two earlier. Damned be my past self for not writing down dates on my drawings. Something I've always enjoyed drawing are animals so here I am now redrawing my olde piece. My guess is it's some wolf fennec fox hybrid aka long ear boyo.
2005??
2021
cut off point is here
I’ll be back later 👀
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My thing was getting back into making cws!! And I did :> is now on-site hehe
Week Four: And Something Just For You Jan 25th - Jan 31st
This week's prompt is to do something you love. We all have our comfort zones. Sometimes art is hard so now and then it's nice to take a step back and indulge in something that brings you joy. If drawing cats or folding paper planes is the art you love, this week is the celebration of that.
Additional challenge: choose a different medium from your first submissions and tackle the prompt in another way!
Hello and welcome to the final week of our challenge! Y’all have worked hard and done some really cool stuff, from writing to crochet to art! Everything I’ve seen has been super inspiring, especially seeing everyone push themselves to work on stuff they haven’t before.
And so, we return to something we love doing - what’s your comfort thing? Doodling, painting, singing, cooking? Share your passion with us <3
As for our small weekly gifts: is going to and to - hope you guys enjoy!
don’t forget to do the thing this week here. do art!!!!
Dragon, curly frame, and butterflies. My favorite comfy things to draw.
Item 1 drew a flyingkat one of my favorite things to draw
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Something I love.... well that has to be a combination of modern calligraphy and drawing - particularly cartoon characters (usually either The Simpsons or Disney characters) :D
Clickie
I tend to use prompts for the calligraphy from instagram as otherwise I'd spend all my time trying to decide what to write, and never actually getting on with it!
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These are a few of my favourite things to doodle:
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Ok here's a doodle-I just like to doodle random weird stuff. xD
Doodle
For my second entry, I have something that I baked.
Full Moon Cornbread
Here's an icon of my OC that I've been loving recently~! LMAO entering in the last week hehe
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Animal faces are my comfort food. Specifically cheshire cat type grins. I got about this far on the new one before my graphics card shit the bed... But I included a few more examples I've done over the years as therapeutic me-time type art.
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Well, poems are my comfort. c:
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Midnight and the cold settles in
As I sleep in my bed, just like the rest of my kin
The rain pounding on the roof turns to snow
As I dream of fairies and sugar plums, I do not know
Early morning light fills my room
As the dream ends with my doom
I open my eyes and slide out of bed
All whispers of the dream having fled
Out the window, a world of white
From snow having fallen in the night
Gone as quickly as it came
But not without its few hours of fame
I also like to draw eyes when I get bored...though I usually don't do so on the computer...but here's an eye. xP
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hnn i haven't draw in months but i want to get back into it so i did a left-facing headshot because like............. that's big drawing comfort food right there haha
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https://imgur.com/a/um9iXJt">imgur album first is a random oc beginning of a ref sheet second is a sketch :’)
heresss the last week entry~~ something i like to draw: girls. my own girls, that is, those are all my fem characters of my first story! just sketchy cause if i colored i probably wouldnt finish LMAO
Comforting makes just for me include these hearts that I crocheted while my boyfriend worked on pizza dough in our kitchen, and this tassel. I really enjoyed this event, thank you so much for hosting it! ❤️
Hearts
Tassel
I like dem animals, especially floofy canines. They're the most comforting thing to draw for me. I haven't drawn much since my teenage years, but I'm learning to draw other stuff too and to be more confident with the pen. Tried to experiment with more furious expression and did some soft coloring with colored pencils for this one. Maybe I'll try to paint something next, who knows. (⚆ﻌ⚆)''
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