A day after chemo- and immune therapy

Yesterday I had my first session, which took about 7 to 8 hours give or take. I've handled the medication quite well; I'm feeling slightly nauseous, but nothing I can't handle.

The immune therapy was the most intense one, since it seems to have completely cured my cold. It really felt like those microbes got kicked out of my body. I experienced no side-effects either, so they were able to crank up the dose to the maximum.

Chemotherapy went well too, but that's when the nausea started. It was only mild at first, but by the end of the evening, 3 hours after my last dose, it became quite bothersome. I got some medication and slept quite well.

All in all I think I did quite well. I'm keeping a positive and pugnacious demeanor, and with the help of my friends and close-ones, I'm going to beat this thing and come out stronger than before!

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Now back to drawing!

PS: my girlfriend made me a survival pack. Chocolate, cookies, manly care products :p She's the best :)

Port-a-cath

Yesterday this thing called a port-a-cath was surgically inserted. Still feels quite sore, the pain will probably last for a few days.

Got this from wikipedia:
"In medicine, a port is a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin. A catheter connects the port to a vein. Under the skin, the port has a septum through which drugs can be injected and blood samples can be drawn many times, usually with less discomfort for the patient than a more typical "needle stick"."

2012 Archive

Long overdue but here goes. All of these are practice from ref, but i lost the links :/ 

I tried out different approaches each time, ranging from setting a 30mins time limit to playing around with different brushwork techniques. 

We're back !

I finally decided to start up this blog again. My main reason was that I really should force myself to at least make one drawing a day. It's good practice! It's fun! And hopefully peer-pressure will force me to keep going !

The other reason is that a few weeks ago, I received some bad news: I was diagnosed with non-hodgkin lymfoma (a type of cancer), and I need to undergo immune- and chemotherapy. Now, this thing has a good chance of being cured, but still, that news really hit home and made me re-evaluate certain things in my life.

Anyhow, I'm going to start adding some old sketches in the coming days, and hopefully, I'll be able to do some new sketches; kind of depends on how well I handle the medication. Here's hoping !

speedpaint of my girlfriend

Between 1hr and 1hr and a half; I didn't keep track of time, since there were a lot of interuptions. I'm quite happy with the result :)

a forest in the afternoon

I used a picture I photographed this summer while strolling around the park. I remember I liked the colors and the light: the sunlight refracting in the leaves, making them glow yellow and red, the soft red-ish shadows of the forest floor...

So half a year later, here's the color study :)

Let's try this again ...

Daily drawings? Eeeehm not likely, I'll try to do it on a weekly basis :p

So here goes, a color study of a snowy landscape. I used a photo as reference; it was taken 2 years ago in Central Park New York.