Vein Trees

(I apologies for the terrible quality photo. 3DS, not meant to be for A level stuff. Not that this is, but...)
So this is one of the two big things I'm drawing at the moment, vein trees, as well as peacocks. I've been washing them off every day, and I thought I should blog about it because i'm weird.

So yes, vein trees. It's literally trees I draw over my veins. I don't like looking at veins, especially on my wrist, because I use to self harm, and, ok, sometimes I do get very tempted (arguments, exam pressure, revision pressure, etc.) and when I see veins, I see blood and self harming. And feel kind of sick. Because, i don't know, I just do .It's especially my veins. And recently in lessons, we're constantly revising, and I find myself colouring in/ drawing on my veins. And they look a lot like trees. I went over this one in eye-liner because it makes it look a bit more Japaneses I think.
So this got me thinking about veins and trees, and this song popped into my head.

Yep, the Lion King. Amazing movie, and especially this song. Because everything is linked. Trees look like veins because they're both alive, and they both grow and we need both. Without trees, this planet would be a mess. Without veins we couldn't live. Then we die, and rot, and our atoms go into the trees, then the tree grows fruit and our atoms go into the fruit, then someone else comes and eat the fruit, and we become part of someone else. So our veins become a tree, which becomes another person, which could become a tree, and so on. It's a never ending circle.

Being arty

I finish my art GCSE, and now I want to get arty. No, this actually came from spending way too much time looking at all the amazing body art on Deviant Art. I was especially interested in the Hunger Games stuff, and became a little bit disappointed. Yes, the eyes were amazing, but a lot of the nail art is quite boring and uninspired. But basically, it was book covers over and over again, and I think with nails (especially if you can use the official Hunger Games nail polishes), you could do something a bit more artistic. Fire patterns are too obvious, but (here's my idea) an arrow going across all the nails one one hand (excluding the thumb) in gold, on a coal black background with little hints of flames, then a mockingjay on the thumb= awesome. But I can't do that yet. Stay tuned.
No, but I wanted to incorporate this idea onto my hand art. This is actually using black, cream and a hint of pink eye shadow with my gold gel pen. Originally I was going to blog on Egypt today, but then I had a sudden urge to do this. The coal dust black is obviously district 12 (the coal mining district), and the cream and pink is the closest I could get to fire colours.


But yes, I am still obsessed with the Hunger Games. I know it's not that good, but I consider this vital course work in my procrastination GCSE.

(edit)
After I wanted a Peeta one to match (by after I mean 1 minute later), so it's on a black background again for 12, with green smudges to represent camouflage as Peeta's a boss at camo “Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.” And bread for the boy with bread, and I thought it needed a bit more, so I put real or not real. What do you think?

Harry, Hunger Games & Hillywood

I had this done in America, right outside Harry Potter World. Isn't she a beauty? And, to be fair to Universal, Harry Potter world was amazing. Except they had Olivanders in Hogsmeade. And butter-beer is just... not good. But I freaking love Pumpkin Juice, it's so nice, especially when not frozen, like when you get it from the store, not in the 3 Broomsticks (I have been, and eaten, twice in the three broomsticks. And drank in the Hogshead. Where they don't sell muggle drinks). Yes, I love it (present tense intended).

Yes, so I drew this the other day. It was partly inspired by the henna from Hogwarts (been there too. My god-mother went on Harry Potters forbidden journey 20 times! I went on 4. My god-sister and I district 12 saluted Fred & George), and partly inspired by Cinna (and my art gcse stuff). It took about 2 hours to do, and is done entirely in gold gel pen (this is the Cinna bit, his famous gold eyeliner). It was really relaxing to do, especially since I've been revising so hard for my exams (first ones up tomorrow, if you don't include art. Which took 2 days, but we got to talk and eat biscuits and listen to radio 2).

(yes, I have loads of images of this). My favorite thing about the Hunger Games at the moment is the fashion. I have a fashion thing at the moment, but I still love books, and action and sci-fi, and the Hunger Games combines all these loves so perfectly. I'm still disappointed at the fire dress in the movie, I mean, seriously? I was imagining loads and loads of gems, or at least some on the dress. In my imagination it is just encrusted all over with gems, mainly red, but going to yellow then a bit of white and purple at the bottom, like in the book. Or at least have some in a flame pattern. Admittedly, what they did in the movie was quite clever, but it's no way near as good as the book. But the opening ceremony outfit was just perfect. Didn't like Katniss' hair, but the costume... Pure amazingness. I only just noticed the absence of any crowns, but I think with the hair, it would have spotlit it. The little bit on the shoulders, much better than in the book. Furthermore, whilst the candle dress was nothing like I was imagining, (I was thinking candle yellow shade of Luna Lovegood's dress for Bill and Fleurs wedding kind of thing), it is exactly what they said in the book, she does look very innocent and girly, and it's defiantly a candle colour. I think I just went for Luna's dress because the material would reflect the light well, and I think the material should defiantly be reflecty. Also, Ruth was so cute, but when looking through some of the opening ceremony costumes in the official tribute book, I fail to get how they're related to the district.

Finally, I got a mockingjay pin for £10. Oh, and one more thing I'm really obsessed with regarding Hunger Games, is Hunger Games parodies, especially song ones. If you haven't seen the Hillywood Hunger Games parody, you defiantly should. It's not their best by a long shot, but it defiantly is great, and if you are as Hunger Games/ fashion crazy as I am, you'll defiantly love it. It's actually my new favorite song, after Taylor Swift's "Eyes Open", and possibly "Girl on Fire" by Arshad. One good thing about "Girl on Fire" is that it's very much an accurate song regarding the book. Oh, and Whitney Lee Milam has some awesome Hunger Games stuff too. And Sherlock, and yeah, check her out too. May the Odds be Ever in Your Favour.