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Sunday, December 18, 2011
In my free time...
...I made Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson from Glee! I've recently become really interested in everything Darren Criss... I blame *cough, cough* Leslie, because she first showed me "A Very Potter Musical" and "A Very Potter Sequel" first- so that's the real reason why I've started watching Glee, and what lead me to draw this. ***And if you guys haven't watched of "A Very Potter Musical/Sequel" YOU TOTALLY NEED TO- GO ON YOUTUBE, LOOK IT UP, AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW! IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME :D:)<3
Friday, December 9, 2011
No Title
I STILL HAVE "SANTA BABY" STUCK IN MY HEAD. D:
In other news, I'm actually working on my doll. :)
Have a fabulous weekend everybody! :D
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Concentration #2
Yay! Done with one more concentration! Still one to go before finals... eek!
So this one is a faerie. I used the same medium's as before-- this time, highlighting the wings with sparkly paint. The wings went through many transformations, but I'm happy with the ending result. I hope you guys like the mushrooms. I was inspired by Mario ;) With the sky, grass, and tree's I was trying to create an enchanting whimsical effect. Hope y'all like it! :)
So this one is a faerie. I used the same medium's as before-- this time, highlighting the wings with sparkly paint. The wings went through many transformations, but I'm happy with the ending result. I hope you guys like the mushrooms. I was inspired by Mario ;) With the sky, grass, and tree's I was trying to create an enchanting whimsical effect. Hope y'all like it! :)
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Concentration #1
I should have posted this a lot sooner... but since I'm going to start working on my 2nd concentration I thought it would be a good time to post this.
So first of all, the idea of my concentrations are overall fantasy animals and people. 6 of my concentrations are going to be (somewhat) human, and the other 6 mainly animals-like creatures. This is what I'm planning on doing: (f- female, m-male)
(Humans): Mermaid (f), Faerie (f), Wizard (m), Witch (f), Elf (m), Dwarf (m)
(Creatures): Dragon (m), Unicorn (f), Phoenix (f), Centaur (m)*, Griffin (f), Basilisk (m)
*Yes, a Centaur is half-man, half-horse. I feel like I would be incomplete w/o a Centaur and I am planning on interpreting the Centaur with more horse qualities in him. (For example I may use horse ears, and have more horse hair on his torso and arms, rather than common views were only the lower half of the body is really the horse).*
So here is my first concentration "Majestic Mermaid" finished!
(I used acrylic and tempera paints w/ black felt pen as the border lines)
So first of all, the idea of my concentrations are overall fantasy animals and people. 6 of my concentrations are going to be (somewhat) human, and the other 6 mainly animals-like creatures. This is what I'm planning on doing: (f- female, m-male)
(Humans): Mermaid (f), Faerie (f), Wizard (m), Witch (f), Elf (m), Dwarf (m)
(Creatures): Dragon (m), Unicorn (f), Phoenix (f), Centaur (m)*, Griffin (f), Basilisk (m)
*Yes, a Centaur is half-man, half-horse. I feel like I would be incomplete w/o a Centaur and I am planning on interpreting the Centaur with more horse qualities in him. (For example I may use horse ears, and have more horse hair on his torso and arms, rather than common views were only the lower half of the body is really the horse).*
So here is my first concentration "Majestic Mermaid" finished!
(I used acrylic and tempera paints w/ black felt pen as the border lines)
Next up, I'll be working on the Faerie! :)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
....dOts....
Finished dot project!
I used watercolor for the background. I was thinking about making the spiky dot background just white, but it ended up looking odd and unfinished so I did a multicolor effect by painting it with white watercolor and smearing the other colors in with it. I overall really like it. The colors remind me of Toys 'R Us. haha. It's also really fun to touch the dots, because I used a crazy amount of matte gel and such. (So as long as people don't mess it up, I'm cool with people touching it...)
On another note, this 3 day weekend has been awesome and low key. Went to grandparents, hung around home, saw "Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein" for the first time (pretty funny), and going swimming later today. Been listening to lots of country music- got 3 albums this month! For some reason it seems like my favorites decided to release their albums all around the same time! Super happy. :)
Anxious for next weekend! The Halloween spirit will be kicking into high gear! Going to Fright Town Haunted Houses with an awesome group of friends! <3 ;)
Ready to work on my concentration soon too!
I used watercolor for the background. I was thinking about making the spiky dot background just white, but it ended up looking odd and unfinished so I did a multicolor effect by painting it with white watercolor and smearing the other colors in with it. I overall really like it. The colors remind me of Toys 'R Us. haha. It's also really fun to touch the dots, because I used a crazy amount of matte gel and such. (So as long as people don't mess it up, I'm cool with people touching it...)
On another note, this 3 day weekend has been awesome and low key. Went to grandparents, hung around home, saw "Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein" for the first time (pretty funny), and going swimming later today. Been listening to lots of country music- got 3 albums this month! For some reason it seems like my favorites decided to release their albums all around the same time! Super happy. :)
Anxious for next weekend! The Halloween spirit will be kicking into high gear! Going to Fright Town Haunted Houses with an awesome group of friends! <3 ;)
Ready to work on my concentration soon too!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
DONE- W/ 30 MINI'S
Goodness. I am so happy to be done with my 30 mini's... SO HAPPY. I honestly don't love them and I don't know if I hate some of them... I realize that a few if them are unintentionally pretty creepy, so don't be afraid to critic all of that type of stuff... From the combo of drawing myself a twice and huge in drawing 1 last year, and also drawing more of myself for this project, I have come to the conclusion I DO NOT want to draw myself for a REALLY REALLY long time. :D So here's the 30: (Left - Right)
1. inked little kid me, 2. mosaic/colors of my bedroom, 3. pencil/realistic, 4. charcoal, 5. pen/brown colored pencil eye, 6. 'looking at a mirror and not my hand drawing procedure'
7. Pablo Picasso, 8. markers, 9. colored pencil, 10. water colors, 11. acrylic harry potter, 12. Vincent Van Gogh
13. scribbly fine-tip sharpie, 14. finger painted tree, 15. calligraphy, 16. pastel, 17. pink- colored pencil, 18. little cartoon- pencil
19. stick figure- sharpie and colored pencil, 20. collage- magazine and paint, 21. painted wolf, 22. little circle gel pens, 23. hobbies in cursive, 24. Mona Lisa- Leonardo Da Vinci
^Okay, the above 6 above I decide to be lame and go for quick things to finish up.^
25. harry potter trio #3, 26. when I was little tulip contest entree, 27. green on green X, 28. graffiti 'Jen', 29. chibi, 30. friends and I in photo booth dealio
So there they are! Excited to work on my dot project tomorrow. :)
25. harry potter trio #3, 26. when I was little tulip contest entree, 27. green on green X, 28. graffiti 'Jen', 29. chibi, 30. friends and I in photo booth dealio
So there they are! Excited to work on my dot project tomorrow. :)
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Black and White 6x6
Birrrdddiiess!!!
I used black and white acrylic paint and mixed matte gel with the black paint to give the bird silhouette's a nice texture. The jumping off point for the idea of birds started with the hummingbird and crow which are my favorites. We have a bunch of hummingbirds at home that fly up to our hummingbird feeder year round so I thought that was a nice personal touch to add one in. Also something interesting, is that one of the meanings of my first name is "small bird." Here they are in different positions- I don't remember for sure, but when I presented, I think we agreed that the penguin and swan didn't really fit in, and once I figure out for sure what is going to be in the portfolio, I may post another pic or something. So here they are, hope you like them because I spent a long time working on them:)
I used black and white acrylic paint and mixed matte gel with the black paint to give the bird silhouette's a nice texture. The jumping off point for the idea of birds started with the hummingbird and crow which are my favorites. We have a bunch of hummingbirds at home that fly up to our hummingbird feeder year round so I thought that was a nice personal touch to add one in. Also something interesting, is that one of the meanings of my first name is "small bird." Here they are in different positions- I don't remember for sure, but when I presented, I think we agreed that the penguin and swan didn't really fit in, and once I figure out for sure what is going to be in the portfolio, I may post another pic or something. So here they are, hope you like them because I spent a long time working on them:)
Surrealist Self Portrait
Finally I decided not to be lazy and actually make a new post- but school has started, so I kinda have the right to be lazy ;). So I'm gonna post my surrealist self portrait:
(^Full piece- for some reason when I took this with my camera the background came up as blue, but it's really supposed to be purple >:|)
I was actually really freaking out about what medium to use on this piece. At first I was gonna use watercolor pencil, then that didn't show up bright enough for my taste. I was tired of using paint at the time to. So I ended up using dry pastels even though I was really worried because I'm pretty used to things working out well, and when the skin colored pastel was making marks all over I didn't know what to do. Eventually I think I got over the "perfect, crisp" look and I remembered it's surreal- so I decided to go for it and put oranges and pinks in my skin. Overall, I'm super proud of this piece- and the fact that it's on display right now is awesome and one of my friends (who isn't in this class and didn't know what I was making) said, "whoa, that portrait totally looks like you- creepy..." then I laughed saying, "because it is me, and I made it!" haha.
(So now I'll mention some background info about this piece):
Most of you probably remember learning about Greek Mythology at some point, and how Medusa had snakes as hair. Well, since my giant fluffy fizzy hair is kinda "a focal point" and since my family has actually joked that when I wake up my hair "look's like Medusa" I decide to take that idea, and create something surreal about it. First of all, I knew that I was going to have my hair slowly transforming into snakes because "transformation" is a characteristic of surrealism. Secondly, the fact that there are snakes in my hair creates another characteristic- "dislocation." And, finally- the snakes are also somewhat "levitating" which is another characteristic. At first, I felt like it would look really interesting to have another eye in the upper right hand corner and have the yellow snake coiled around it and squeezing tears out of it. Then once I tried sketching out the floating eye, it bugged me a lot and there was too much extra space that was awkward to me. I ended up coming up with something relating to the symbolism of the snake- which also went well with my love for nature.
This is a great website for looking up symbolism and it mentions more about why I specifically chose the Sun, Earth, and Moon as the upper right focal point.
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/snake-symbolic-meaning.html
So that was that. Now Imma post about my 6x6. :)
Snnnaaakkkeeeessszzzzzzz...... O_o
I was actually really freaking out about what medium to use on this piece. At first I was gonna use watercolor pencil, then that didn't show up bright enough for my taste. I was tired of using paint at the time to. So I ended up using dry pastels even though I was really worried because I'm pretty used to things working out well, and when the skin colored pastel was making marks all over I didn't know what to do. Eventually I think I got over the "perfect, crisp" look and I remembered it's surreal- so I decided to go for it and put oranges and pinks in my skin. Overall, I'm super proud of this piece- and the fact that it's on display right now is awesome and one of my friends (who isn't in this class and didn't know what I was making) said, "whoa, that portrait totally looks like you- creepy..." then I laughed saying, "because it is me, and I made it!" haha.
(So now I'll mention some background info about this piece):
Most of you probably remember learning about Greek Mythology at some point, and how Medusa had snakes as hair. Well, since my giant fluffy fizzy hair is kinda "a focal point" and since my family has actually joked that when I wake up my hair "look's like Medusa" I decide to take that idea, and create something surreal about it. First of all, I knew that I was going to have my hair slowly transforming into snakes because "transformation" is a characteristic of surrealism. Secondly, the fact that there are snakes in my hair creates another characteristic- "dislocation." And, finally- the snakes are also somewhat "levitating" which is another characteristic. At first, I felt like it would look really interesting to have another eye in the upper right hand corner and have the yellow snake coiled around it and squeezing tears out of it. Then once I tried sketching out the floating eye, it bugged me a lot and there was too much extra space that was awkward to me. I ended up coming up with something relating to the symbolism of the snake- which also went well with my love for nature.
This is a great website for looking up symbolism and it mentions more about why I specifically chose the Sun, Earth, and Moon as the upper right focal point.
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/snake-symbolic-meaning.html
So that was that. Now Imma post about my 6x6. :)
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