peonies

close up of this:

man my photos suck lol...the lighting in the room..is so bad....
um this drawing is really lame....not what i planned on...........except i didnt really have a plan...but i dont find this working very well but...no time...and who cares...........

anyway its supposed to be peonies and i used watercolors and white acrylic paint and a white gel pen...yeah....

backward w.i.p. :

octavia

My homework was to illustrate one of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
I did Octavia:

"If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to set your foot in the open spaces, or you cling to the hempen strands. Below there is nothing for hundreds and hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the chasm's bed.

This is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support. All the rest, instead of rising up, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters, showers, trapezes and rings for children's games, cable cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing plants.

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long."

We didn't have to illustrate everything and we could interpret it anyway we wanted to so...yeah...... Um, I didn't really finish cause I procrastinated too much and I worked on it on the day or before it was due again.....Why does this keep happening.....

There's actually a cable car (the aerial kind) but you can't really notice it much. Sigh I was rushing so badly.....I did like nothing for hours....Why.....

close-ups:

progress (backwards)

other junk:

NEW NEW NEW

^^this is closeup of this:

tools: Markers (i bought these Bic markers from target cause I got a gift card from someone lol), metallic color markers, crayola watercolors! LOL....and then copic and micro pens---which really ran out while I was doing this. I need to be buy new ones. :(

It's supposed to be inspired by some art movements that we got to pick from and I chose art nouveau.

I don't really like the final outcome! I hate some of the colors. I was rushing really badly cause I wanted to catch some sleep haha...why do I always do things at the last minute....sigh. Anyway after listening to the critique I would definitely like to change some things :( whether I would really care enough to do ...uh depends. Lol.

WIP(going backwards again):

some sketches/brainstorming for it :(

painting commission wip

jim and doyle.. i had more but they suck






new sounds like nou :)

Blind

(tools: watercolor, gouache, white gel pen, black copic brush pen)

Supposed to illustrate a quote. I used this one from House of Leaves:

"I will become, have become, a creature unstirred by history, no longer moved by the present, just hungry, blind and at long last filled of mindless wrath."

The red parts are what I left out...accidentally. I JUST SAW IT RIGHT NOW SIGH. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT LOLLLL. I should have double-checked before turning it in. OH WELL. TT_TT....I think I was doing this around 1:30 AM-5:30 AM on the day it was due. I don't know why it took so long.... I think I was distracted a lot and I'm naturally slow....sigh.

Honestly I've never read this book so it's just purely from the quote....

Also, originally I didn't want to include the part of the quote before the word 'BLIND'... but my teacher told me it wouldn't make as much sense without it..... but I ended up hiding it anyway?! SIGH. Actually I think it's more readable in real life.... Well people seemed to be able to.... Critique was okay... I wish we did it before turning the work in....though....so I could actually make this somewhat better after listening to suggestions and stuff.


close-up:

process (going backwards):



This was my thumbnail sketched....that I messed with in photoshop a bit...lol

sea horse final and wip

as usual O_O click images for larger size
first assignment done! finished drawing for that seahorse creature thing I posted sketches of here and here
(heheh you can see part of my litchi milk tea with tapioca at the back in this photo hahahha)

we had our group critique today (whoa first time i ever had one o_o im a newb okay o_o) and I was late to class cause I was finishing this!!....i just sat at a place where i eat lunch for like three hours and I didnt even get to eat my lunch HAHAH so i had to bring it to class with me during the critique O_O munch munch munch. actually it was just a snack and not really a real lunch lollll

there are a couple of things i regret about this and i wish i could like do some stuff to make it better BUT I WAS SUCH IN A HURRY O_O sigh i really want to make the creatures show up more like what we talked about in the critique T3T

I also took WIP photos sooo here they are (going backwards hahha)
i wasnt planning on using watercolors actually O_O;;;;





hey first post for september heheh o_o

remember this?

Old watercolor (2004-5?)