Life drawing at the VHS

Dr Sketchy's totally got me hooked on life drawing. Not too surprising I guess. I mean: looking at naked people and drawing - two awesome things combined. How can one not enjoy that. Therefore, I signed up for a life drawing class at the VHS (dict.leo says "adult education center"?). It's not really a class in the sense of that there's someone teaching us things. It's different models to draw plus an artist who provides us with his (very straight forward) opinion (and I like that system). So, that's where I'm gonna be every Thursday night after work now.

These are a little to big to fit on my scanner, so here are some crappy night-time photos (in anti-drawing-cronological order):

I hope my brain will get better at combining its areas dealing with eye-received information and hand coordination soon. It's weird how you can look at a thing (or human that is) and think you see it and at the same time not really seeing it. Or at least not being able to see it in individual drawable parts. A bit like when you try to look closer at somebody's face in a dream or memory. Or... I don't know how to put this. Brains are strange.

Hello sexism

I made this (the original is a wallpaper) for one of my beloved roommates who happens to be (on the way to become) a welder. And really into Hello Kitty. And tattoos. She also happens to be a woman which led to her applying for 200 job offers and always being rejected. For reasons such as "we don't have a women's toilet/changing facility" and the like. So much for post-feminism-what-else-do-you-want-in-our-times-of-oh-so-equal-opportunities?! I don't know what makes me more angry and scared: that there's still such an abundance of sexism in our society or that it's widely not even being recognized as such.

Vegan superfluff pancakes FTW!

Risking my life for science and putting myself under the most extreme conditions (which means, uh, into our kitchen), I recently discovered the secret ingredient that makes your yummy vegan pancakes even more awesome and perfectly superfluffy. It is... the almighty custard powder! Nomnomnomnom... enjoy!

Ingredients:
(For about 8 pancakes)

+ 1 cup flour (I use wholemeal)
+ baking powder
+ 1-2 Tbsp custard powder (I recommend: caramel flavor)
+ a little bit of salt
+ sugar (amount after your fancy)
+ 1 cup soy milk

+ cinnamon/Xmassy spice mix (optional (a very nice option I must say))