I’ve been playing around with my Graphire tablet every day since I got it for Christmas. I’m trying to figure the whole thing out. I’ve got the mouse down pat, cause it’s…um…a mouse. But the pen is a little trickier. You’d think I know how to work a pen, but getting my hand to coordinate with what I see on my monitor involves a little more hand/eye coordination than I’ve got. [Have I mentioned how bad I suck at video games because of this same problem?]

So my attempts up until yesterday have been signing my name over and over and over again in Illustrator and erasing text with the pen eraser in Word and Excel. Yes, internet, I am on my way to greatness because I can use the eraser on the end of a pencil. Please inform the networks.

So yesterday I decide to be a little more adventurous and actually try to draw something. It’s a sketch I did in the past. This is my attempt to duplicate it on my tablet.

Today I attempted to trace a photograph from a book. Two points [which buy you nothing] if you can guess who this is.

Here’s a hint. It’s a very famous dead actress who I have been obsessed with since I was in high school. If you know me in real life that obviously just gave it away. I mean I had a life size stand up poster of her in my living room for years for crying out loud.

If you honestly still don’t know because my tracing skills are really that bad, it’s Marilyn Monroe. And yes, I really did have a life size poster in my living room. It was a Christmas gift from my mom. But unfortunately, as in real life, Marilyn parished and we had to send her out with the recycling a while back.

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