Happy Sunday :)

It is the first Sunday of Lent, craziness, but it is.  I’d like to share what I have given up.  

Firstly, I’m going to try extra, extra hard to not eat meat and to fast on Fridays.  I always screw it up, so  I’m being extra careful.  

Secondly, I gave up Youtube and Twitter.  Recently, I have gotten really Twitter happy, and Youtube is like a time trap.  Youtube has been harder because if someone posts something on Facebook that looks interesting, I have to add it to my watch list.  I always want to just click on it, so tough!  

Lastly, I am not buying anything for myself, especially online!  Today I bought something from a party my aunt hosted, but that is it! Haha don’t judge me!  She told me she was having a Thirty-One party last month, and I knew what I wanted as soon as she told me.  It doesn’t really count.

The two black and white sketches I increased the contrast
and made them a little more textured.
On the one of the male model to the left, I used a
colored pencil stroke filter and also saturated the color
to get it multi-colored like that.
For not drawing in pretty much forever, I think these
turned out decent.  I rarely draw guys, so that
was a challenge in itself.  My favorite is
definitely the one below, which ironically was
the first one I did.
I think I put the most into it.
It looks very finished.
I think the not buying myself anything is going to be tough.  I just started getting my paycheck from work again, and those first few paychecks are the worst because I want to go shopping all the time. 

**Lent is good for self-control 🙂

Also, I sketched this weekend! It was on my to-do list, and I DID IT! 😛