Stole this from ~Bladebitch (who got it from someone else)

I've thought about to accept this challenge for a long time, and now I've finally accepted it with a little encouragement from


The point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist.

The rules

1. Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.
2. No time limit so have fun
3. The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photoshop to create the pic.
3. Pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.
4. The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A) You are in the challenge
B) What you have completed
5. make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic
6. In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST:
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers [link]
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

I really hope I can improve my art and that this challenge can help me when I get in an art block.

Today's my birthday though I won't celebrate it until later, but I've still got some birthday gifts:

*A "Hello saferide"-CD from my sister (It's good! If you never heard Hello saferide [link] you should check her/them out! )

*Five promarkers from . I promise to do a picture with them as soon as I get time (which is either tomorrow or after the weekend)


And today my degree project for my Bachelor's degree started It will be superfun, but I'm a little bit nervous, because I still don't know which project I will work on. (There's some safety issues with my first hand choice, since I will be doing it alone and boats are involved...)

Today I finished reading The End of Mr Y written by Scarlett Thomas and I feel kind of empty as you do when you finish a really good book.

When I bought it I was hunting for a book not written by the authors I usually read, but it's hard, because I got the feeling that's there's a lot of crap in the shelves for sci-fi and fantasy (wich are almost the only thing read. The decision to buy it was determined not by the content, but on the looks: It has one of the coolest cover ever! [link]

And the cover kept it's promise: it was a cool book, well, at least the second half of it, though the first half was good.

It's a story told by Ariel Manto, who works at a university in England. It starts when a building collapses at the university and she has to walk home and finds an antiquarian bookshop and in it she finds the infamous book "The End of Mr Y". The book is said to have a curse: whoever reads it will die. Of course she reads it and after that the wheels starts turning.

I can't tell much more of the story synopsis without spoiling anything but it was a thrilling and interesting book. Except for leaving me with an empty feeling, it also left an akward feeling because it would be very wierd if the world worked in the way desccribed in the book, but it still not improbable...

If you want to read a very original story I really recommend The End of Mr Y.

*End of book rant*

So, it felt good to rant about the boook, because it really made an impression on me.

Hope you all had a good start of 2009 (omg, that's the first time I write 2009 this side of the New Year )

So, I thought it was an good idea to update my journal since I'm pretty much out from the art block and have been so for a while

There's not much interesting stuff going on in my life right now. I go to school, train kendo about 4-9 hours a week (but my training is threatened by my legs: they hurts ) and I've started to become a trainer on the junior trainings.

I'm also on an ongoing project to keep chaos out from my apartment (sometimes less successful...)and keep the time at the computer down (also less successful sometimes...)

I don't take a lot of time to draw, write or do other creative stuff, but then again, I've never have...

But I'll try to finish some pictures I'm working on and try to do some new ones also.

Now I'll end this journal

(To all Swedish people who likes fantasy or just weird things, try this game: [link] WebTorkel)

I'm in a complete art block right now, I cant even draw a sketch...

I had this block pretty long and the only thing that seems to (almosst)work right now is storytelling and planning of roleplaying game (wich is a kind of storytelling)

So I won't have my "to do-list" in this journal, because it just makes me depressed But don't think I have forgot about it.

(I tried to work on my piece to ~jenniology but this computer is to slow to cope with the big size)

Btw, Dr Horrible's sing-along blog is the best thing ever, I hope the DVD comes out soon ^^