December Daily Meme - Day 14/15

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fififolle asked: I'd love to know what/how you drew when you were little.

Oh man, time to dig deep into the murky, unsorted depths of my memory. Um, I think when I was around 5 I was very much a stereotypical girly girl who loved drawing horses and princesses? My horses were the most gaudy, blinged-out horses imaginable, with multicoloured manes and jewel decorations and stars on their rump like my My Little Ponies had. And I really liked winged horses and unicorns but couldn't decide which one was better, so I'd draw winged unicorns! My princesses were all fair-skinned, blonde-haired princesses because even though I was a mixed-race kid whose friends were Indian and Chinese and Malay, I thought blonde-haired white girls were the epitome of beauty because that's what all the princesses looked like in the picture books I read, and I used to be very jealous of the Caucasian girls in my class with their perfect straight fair hair. That's actually rather sad now I think about it.

I moved off princesses (but not horsies! Still not tired of drawing horsies!) a few years later and mostly drew animals - eagles especially, and then spiders, I could spend forever drawing spiders and huge, intricate spiderwebs. Oh, and I got pretty good at drawing all the life stages of tadpoles, after we had a class project about them. Uh... non-animal things... um, I remember having a bit of a hissy fit on holiday in India because I was trying to draw the Taj Mahal and couldn't get the dome to look symmetrical, and I suspect my sulk back then was not too different to how I sulk now when I can't figure how to get a tricky tangle of limbs to look vaguely passable.


eames asked: If you like Harry Potter (or are aware of the details), what Hogwarts house would you be sorted into, and why?

Hahaha, I don't actually know that much about Harry Potter - my uni flatmates forced me to watch a couple of the films and I had no idea what was going on except that Hogwarts was long-overdue a thorough health and safety inspection. But I do know how to find a Wiki, so based on elimination of qualities, bearing in mind these are supposed to be ones I value most rather than exhibit: er, bravery, chivalry, cunning, ambition, hard work, fair play... yeah, not really. Intelligence, knowledge and wit? I might not *be* those things but I like the sound of them, so put me down for Ravenclaw. Very good. Apart from the bit where I have to answer a riddle to get to the dormitory because I'm shit at riddles, so I forsee a lot of sleeping on the stairs for me.