So Many Art Books and Not Much to Show

I got mad at myself this morning. The night before, I was online looking up gesture drawing videos and finally gesture drawing books. Whenever I find a subject I want to learn more about, I look for books. Yes, I could just continue searching online for blog posts, tutorials and articles, but the quality of those are always hit or miss. At least with books, I can look at the ratings and reviews they've received. Also, books have gone through a professional editing process and the publishers found a reason to publish the books.

This has been my process for years. Before writing this, I had just returned from my mailbox, where I picked up a book I ordered about making comics and two workbooks that were made especially for storyboarding. At that moment, it dawned on me that I probably have a ton of books on drawing that I've either didn't finish or never read. So I searched through my boxes (I know, I'll buy bookcases soon) to look for all of my drawing and art related books. Including the book about drawing comics I just got today, I have 15 books. 15 BOOKS!! To be fair, one of them is from graduate school and two of them are "The Art of ..." books. I've included the "The Art of ..." books because they do show the process of how characters were created and storyboarding techniques. 

April Photo Book Challenge: day 30

Day 30: Read this month

Very entertaining book. I wasn't sure what to expect when i found out about it.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 29

Day 29: Freebie

Since I already used the only book I can remember I got for free for the challenge of Nostalgia, I am interpreting this challenge to mean "free day". That means, I can post whatever I want. I am posting "books that need to be finished"

I started these books in Autumn of 2014. I've read about 10 others books since starting these books. I don't want Autumn of 2015 to come around and I have not finished these books (with the exception of the coding book). Feel free to bug me this fall to ask if I finished these books :-).

April Photo Book Challenge: day 28

Day 28: Pages

One of my friends and I are separated by 3000 miles and we decided to do the exercises in the book together. We started off doing one exercise 3 times a week. We sent each other pictures as proof and as show & tell. We started this project at the beginning of the year. We just recently decided to double up on the exercises because there are more pages than we expected. @_@

April Photo Book Challenge: day 27

Day 27: bookmarker

April Photo Book Challenge: day 26

Day 26: Outdoors

April Photo Book Challenge: day 24 and 25

Day 24: Hysterically Funny

None. I have not read any books that I felt were hysterically funny.

Day 25: Happy Tears

None. I also have not read any books that caused me to cry tears of joy. I can't think of any books I read that had someone in it that cried tears of joy, but I'm probably not thinking hard enough.

EDIT 04/29/2015:
I kind of knew this was going to happen. I HAVE read a book I thought was hysterically funny. The thing I remember most about the book is how spot on it was about depression. So whenever I think of the book, I think of depression.

The book is really funny before she talks about depression. Actually, even when she describes depression, she does so in a humorous way. She is not making fun of it, she is describing what it feels like to her and how people react to her. I really recommend reading this book.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 23

Day 23: Inspirational

I almost couldn't find anything since I used up the book I would have used or day 15 "quote.

I used a screenshot because I read this as a audiobook. I wrote a short review of the book on Goodreads.com

April Photo Book Challenge: day 22

Day 22: Slow read

The book that really fits the challenge of slow read for me, is the book I used for over-hyped.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 21

Day 21: Mythology

I had to use an e-book for this challenge.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright (2005-02-05). Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know . Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition. 

April Photo Book Challenge: day 20

Day 20: Short Story

I finally had to tap into a book I read in high school.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 19

Day 19: Young Author

I was about to leave this one blank when I noticed the scholastic sign at the bottom of this book so I knew it had to fit this challenge.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 18

Day 18: Interesting Cover

I feel like 'favorite cover' and 'interesting cover' are close to the same thing. I try not to judge a book by its cover, so it was hard to find a cover that I thought was interesting.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 17

Day 17: Overhyped

This is the perfect book for this challenge.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 16

Day 16: Flowers

This was the hardest challenge. I don't own any books with flowers. If I did, it would be a book on how to draw flowers.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 15

Day 15: Quote

This book is filled with great quotes and inspiration.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 14

Day 15: Mythical Creature

I own this book at an e-book, so I took a photo of the Goodread page. This book contains a gargoyle. That is a bit of a spoiler (sorry). I don't expect you to like my taste in books so maybe you don't care.

April Photo Book Challenge: day 13

Day 13: One Word Title

Sorry, I fell off. I haven't been in a good mood the last couple of days and also tired. 

April Photo Book Challenge: day 12

Day 12: Fiction or Non-Fiction

I choose Non-Fiction

April Photo Book Challenge: day 11

Day 11: POC Character

I could have used this book for female author. I'm noticing a pattern here. Anyway, I believe I read this book when I was in college. The story is fuzzy but... I remember the cover because I liked it. I could have used this book for the favorite cover challenge! Ugh.