Days 7 and 8 - #29faces challenge

Here is my offering for Day 7:

This is a portrait of John Constantine from the Hellblazer series. It was bound to happen as I like this character a lot. This was not the picture I had originally intended to draw but my muse decided otherwise and this was the picture I ended up with. If I remember correctly, it's the latest incarnation of Constantine that is being shown in the new comic series of Constantine. I wasn't too fond of his hair so I just skipped it!... I really like how rough his face still looks like.

Day 8:

This was something I doodled while watching TV with no clear idea of where I was going. I had started with Harry Potter and the others came along.

When I was spending my semester abroad at the University of Wolverhampton, England, I met plenty of people and since I'm not that good with remembering faces, I decided to draw a cheat sheet for myself that I carried along. In it, I would draw each person I met with their name and nationality (there were many nationalities and I also needed to differentiate the Germans from the Austrians) and their characteristic that made them unique. It really helped me a lot and it looked a lot like the Harry Potter drawing I did above.

Decorating my Nerdmaids

Since I have received my two Nerdmaids, I have been using them a lot. Well, I have been using mostly the light one and I have added the Hobonichi Cousin for 2016 to Nerdmaid Dark and I'm waiting for January 1st to start using it on a daily basis.

I use my regular Nerdmaid for journaling mainly and I'm applying the One Book July challenge for the month of November. Since I'm doing more writing than sketching, I need to always have one pen at hand at all times. Until today, I had simply placed the pen inside the book and closed the TN with the elastic band and it was working although denting the inside pages a bit.

So today I went stationery shopping and I bought some self-adhesive pen loops by Leuchtturm. I had used them once for my dark brown TN by Morgan LeFae's Trinkets and it was working well.

I used some scrapbook paper that I placed behind the notebooks and where I attached the pen loop.

Back of the scrapbook page

So I went scrapbook paper hunting and after looking at many shops, I finally found some beach themed paper among all the Christmas paper. I also found some pen loops in different shades of blue (there were at least 3 different shades that I saw in the shop!) and I went to work. Here is the result:

And a last family photo for the road!