#7

This reminds me, I need to eat today out of the advent calendar! The pieces of chocolate in the Minions calendar are always so misshapen I can barely make out what the shapes are supposed to represent. The taste of "calendar chocolate" has never been very appealing to me, either, but I'll make do.

We had a half-day lecture on some viewpoints and facets of the Old Testament, and then two consequent Bible study groups before leaving. Now all the school I have this week is just two more Bible study groups - that's basically it! I'm not sure if I have a stay-at-home/online exam on Thursday or if it's just the OT assignment we're doing anyway, that's due on Sunday. The assignment descriptions seemed very similar. I hope it's the same one, plowing through what is essentially one assignment twice in the same week hardly seems like a productive use of my time.

I did manage to be productive today, though! My Bible study group was kind of meh since I barely even read the text ahead of time, but we have a good group and the conversation went well. (Leviathan is clearly our favorite subject, though. We also discussed consuming food through hands and I went a bit tumblr. I think at least one person in our group thought I was maybe a little crazy. But I digress.) Also, during the morning's lecture, I managed to color in the outline of Tom I made on Monday! It looks so nice and everything worked well - I even found a more alive color to use for his "ruddy Scottish farmer-like complexion" than the yellowy, often slightly sick-seeming tone I used for Ewan. I know that being able to mix colors from any colored pencil colors is a skill that's vital to drawing with the tool but it's very difficult when there's nothing even vaguely peachy to use. The range in the black wood colored pencils I like to use has very few useful variations in the skintone palette. Basically, there're a couple of yellows, orange, pink, red and magenta. Hardly very useful. Also, for my personal use, as I like to draw portraits of humans, a mid-tone brown would be a great thing to have. As of now, the kit includes a beigey light brown/yellow pencil and then the dark, almost-black brown pencil.

Next up when it comes to the portraits is Tyler Hoechlin! I feel like I'm really challenging myself with this one. His stubble makes it very difficult to get his divine jawline right. Even in the picture I used of Tom (wherein he had stubble), the facial hair is much less dark and opaque, and it also covers less of Tom's face than Tyler's award-winning scruff does his.

My plan for the book goes somewhat thusly:

Today (Tuesday):
- printing of at least 12 pages with chosen, cropped pictures
- possibly cutting the pictures down and preparing them to be glued onto the book
(do I need photograph corners? tape?)
- printing out the ab & butt pages
- possibly starting on the outline for the THoech portrait

Wednesday:
- more printing
- definitely some cutting and glueing
- hopefully finishing the THoech portrait
- maybe some more if schoolwork lets me (depending on how that exam thing is going to play out)

So there! Right now, I can hardly concentrate on other things, the book is kind of a major project. I hope I'm not too dead to start working on our group assignment on Sunday! Based on how not diligent I've been about finishing assignments on time so far, I'm guessing a lot of my capacity for schoolwork will be consumed by the Bible study assignment. Hopefully this pile of projects will turn out to be an example in ongoing improvement of my study habits!