So I have been hanging out at Spider House Cafe lately, if you live in Austin and haven't been here then you should check it out! Anyway, yesterday I heard a mom explain dehydration to her 4ish year old son. Convo went like this:

Kid: "I feel weird, I want a soda"

Mom: "you are dehydrated you need water. It will make you feel better."

Kid after drinking some water: "wow! I do feel better, but I want a soda."

Mom: "You can't have a soda. Just drink some more water, your body is made up of water not soda."

Kid: "Weird"

I know this is a silly conversation to share, but It made me think of the imagination of kids. It blew this kids mind that he was made of water. It was cute.

On another note, I am behind on my sketch of the day drawings... As usual. I am trying to get better at sketching everyday, but first I need to catch up. So I am work

ing on two weeks at once. My idea for week 12 came from a reusable grocery bag from Germany.

Sketch of my German Bag:

The theme is "Unnatural Animal Behavior". I think it is humorous the way people can portray animals some times. Here is an example:

drawing of a cat dressed like a frog (based on an actual photo I found)

Working on it

So... I've been trying to learn more and more about editing blogger. My blog is still in need of a good fix up, but the blogs I am working on for my boss are coming along well. I have found so some great help online. Anyway, just to share some of the things I've been working on, I found this site with free photoshop brushes, patterns, etc... here is the site: Ars Grafik

On this site I found this pattern:

and altered it a few times to change it to this:

I also found this step by step graphic design site that is pretty fun, but some of the processes I looked at take a LONG time. There are many short cuts if you really know photoshop well. However, it is a neat site to play around on if you have some time.

So as of now I have updated the blog I am currently working on from this:

nice but too simple

to this:

still needs work, but more memorable (hopefully)