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Blind Contour Baby Birdie

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My daughter, known as Birdie to the internet for the sake of maintaining anonymity, is a very fun and interesting subject to doodle! Babies are weird. Crazy anatomy.

Haven’t posted in a while, though I’ve been meaning to, so in the meantime I offer up these!

Blind contour drawings are an excellent exercise for improving hand-eye coordination and observational skills, as well as a fun way to warm up by making some unapologetically “bad” art!

I love to do these as sketchbook fillers. However, these two in particular were actually sketched on my Boogie Board. It’s reminiscent of my old magnetic drawing board I had as a kid, but completely different technology.

I love how temporary it is, everything can be erased so quickly with the touch of a button. Because of this, I can make lots of crappy doodles without worrying about wasting paper. But when I make something I happen to like, as shown above, I just save it using the Jot Boogie Board app.

(This is not an advertisement, this post is not sponsored, I just like to be specific about what I use! If you feel like buying one after reading this though I’d honestly recommend just getting a kid’s magnetic drawing toy, they’re cheaper and in my experience a bit more fun! After my No Buy is over I might pick one up myself…)

Hospital Doodles!

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I’m happy to report that I was able to get a few doodles in during the hospital stay before our daughter was born!

Birdie was born very healthy via a semi-emergency cesarean. I was induced but failed to progress for 24 hours after my water broke, and then she was having some heart rate dips. Turns out she had the cord triple wrapped around her neck! We are very lucky that things turned out as they did, even though the whole situation was very stressful… Not to mention uncomfortable. My spinal failed so I had to go under for the surgery but luckily I was still able to meet her not long after. C-section recovery is no joke, I have never been in so much pain in my life. Luckily now I am more or less all healed up, though I do have nerve damage on my lower tummy.

She’s almost 2 months old now and doing very well so far. She is getting progressively wigglier as she trains to start walking and crawling! I can’t wait until the day she can grasp a crayon…

I actually came here to write a different post, but I realized I hadn’t updated you all on the baby situation! So here’s that. Stay tuned for another post hopefully quite soon!