Crazy Hobbies

Hobbies???

I severly sprained my ankle last week playing football, and I need to find some sort of cheap hobby/class/activity to do for three weeks while it heals. I love sports, and would love this activity to relate to that. I also love drawing and painting. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!

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1. Try this. Get a figure of a sportsman - a footballer if you prefer - and a lamp. now, alter the angle the light from the lamp hits the model and draw the difference the light makes in shading and shadows on the figure. Youd be amazed at the diffence a change in light can make to your art :0)
2. How about becoming an assistant coach for Pee Wee or Pop Warner Football? Go to the field during a Football game and paint what you see. There hasn't been a good sports painter in a while now.
3. If it hasn't been done already, convert your team's mascot and/or logo to cross-stitch and knitting patterns. They aren't the same thing. One has square units and the other uses rectangles to represent the stitch V's. This isn't just for your use. This can be shared freely or marketed as a fund-raiser for your school or team ... just the patterns, not finished items. An artist's eyes are helpful in conversion to charts. Pure mechanical conversion is, oftener than not, relatively crude.
4. Try coin collecting. It doesn't have to cost you a lot. You can go to the bank and pick of a box of coin (whichever denomination you like) for exactly face value. A box of pennies is $25, a box of nickels is $100, a box of dimes is $250 and boxes of quarters or half dollars are $500. You don't have to buy the whole box. The bank can pull out whatever amount you like. Once you get a box, you can go through and pull out the better coins (there are books to help with this or websites). You can pick up a coin album and try to fill all the holes (get one for each year) or just search for interesting ones. The coins that you don't want can be returned to the bank and put straight back into your account (though it's often better to return the coins to a different bank (not just a different branch but a different bank) so that you don't search the same coins over and over). Everything you find will have been obtained at face value. You'd be surprised what people have found. Check out these links to see: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1902&whichpage=1 http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11494&whichpage=1 http://www.foundinrolls.com/ Also check your change for interesting finds. Some things to search for: wheat pennies, silver dimes, silver quarters, old coins, error coins, coins with the "S" mintmark - it could be a proof coin etc. There's always the chance that you could find a real treasure! It's also helpful to buy a red book. It can help you price your coins and will answer many of the questions you may have. OR IF THAT'S NOT FOR YOU... http://www.spacefem.com/quizzes/hobby/
5. Try woodcarving.
6. Try making digital scrapbooks, it's really fun. Downloads can be found around the website, you can drag and drop the images in "Adobe photoshop" and just get some pictures in your file to put there.