Rainbow Pop!

I know. I know. You’re all probably laughing at the fact my nth attempt at keeping this blog alive just failed after a 4 month drought. Let’s at least keep in mind I was busy with a bunch of mini-theses, practicum, enrollment, and trying to figure out what to do with my life, yes? I’m still stuck on the last one as we speak, but I’d like to think I’m making progress.

Yes, I’m still having trouble doodling (hence the lack of updates as well.) I think I have my mojo back tonight after thinking over my life goals. Hopefully this time I don’t lose my drive to draw that easily.

Now have a silly doodle of my boyfriend and I’s avatars on a character creation site (you can probably guess easily.)

… well, I only finally tweaked it today. It was finished since Monday… err, Tuesday morning. The wee, ungodly hours of Tuesday morning.

Hush (2010)
Acrylics on canvas
16″x20″

I hope I can get a better photo of this. Maybe at the exhibit?

Need to doodle something pronto! I will not lose to the likes of you, real life! … wait a minute…

PUMP UP THE JOY 2009
by =dia-aren-marie on deviantART

I finished the sketch from the last entry! Do check it out if you can. It’s never too late to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~!

Kind of spoils the surprise, but hey, look! Second day of my attempt at drawing more often, and I think it’s going swimmingly. Even if they’re for drawing memes on dA. I’ve never finished one of those, you know? I still remember the first one by… Nyu, I believe? I only got up to the second or third question.

So far, the meme on the top has been a lot of fun, even if it takes me an hour (or more!) just to sketch and ink one answer. That’s because I’ve been using reference and being super OCD to make up for the lack of practice this year. Can I still call them doodles if they take me that long? They’re still not exactly professional or polished work, but they’re pretty much there…

The meme on the bottom, I’m just about to get back to. I think for this one, I’ll try to finish all the sketches first before I begin inking. Let’s see if it works.

Sense? There is none.

I love them plate titles. ;P This one is from back in early December. Not much to say other than this is another acrylic wash plate where we had to try to get “thin or anorexic” and “fat or obese” proportions down. Pretty happy with the guy, and I know the girl, even strictly following the reference I had, looks weird. I really need to work on drawing fingers.

And I know her head might look a bit small, but it was a sacrifice I had to make to make this thing look like a scene… well, as much sense as a woman in a swimsuit turning around just in time to witness a fat man in a tutu waltzing past her while “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” plays in the background would make.

Still didn’t quite have the hang of acrylic wash here (still very inexperienced with the medium). I need to be more careful and use less contour lines as possible. Economy of lines, as my prof coins it.

Plotting. Literally.

This next one, about child proportions, from early January turned out much better. I started becoming braver with the acrylic wash here, layering it down much more solidly. Granted I still need to work on gesturals in general, especially since I tend not to notice mistakes until I’m midway into a drawing. Pretty happy about this one.

References are from Veer and FlickR.

Your regular February Draw Everyday Challenge posts will resume tomorrow! (This is not part of it. ;P)

Denise & Mahavir.

This month is February Draw Everyday Challenge, and here’s my first few days… this one for the second of February (in terms of ‘it’s specifically for the challenge’).

Miss Management fan-art! I love this game so much. I recently ‘beat’ in that I got tired trying to get the 3-Star ratings in those almost impossible stages. This style is so much fun.

The girl is Denise, the office manager and your character in the game. She’s holding a choco-caffino and a cinnabun, two items in the game that help keep your employees’ stress levels down. (Yes, that is a chocolate bar shoved into a cup of coffee.) The guy is Mahavir, the first employee you get to know. He’s an average joe… who has an English Degree from Harvard, IIRC. He’s the office flirt and loves lazing on the couch, but by jove, he’s adorable.

I somehow got a piece of rice stuck on Mahavir’s hair… leaving unsightly dirty marks on him. :[ So I decided to ink him… and now I’m trying to experiment with it a bit since I fudged up so much. Will post the results up soon!

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I’d probably rather use the term ’super deformed’ or something but I’ve gotten so used to that word. Please keep that tomato in your pocket for the meantime.

Sakura microns, Copic markers.

A gift for my dear friend Lira’s 18th birthday. She loves all things Sailormoon. Again, thanks so much for inviting me, sweetie, and may you have all the best sparkles in the world!

This piece also makes me realize that I did in fact sketch something on the 1st of February, even if it wasn’t specifically for February Draw Everyday Challenge. What is that? You’ll just have to find out tomorrow if you’re too lazy to utilize your Google-fu!

"WHOO!"

Click on thumbnail to view larger size. As with the last two parts, it’s Faber-Castell colored pencils on Reeves acrylic paints.

WHOO!

Third and last part of the 3-part plate, and the one I had the most fun on.  I always thought caricatures would be super freaking hard… I had no idea they would be so freaking fun!

Gotta give my prof credit, he never reacted to any of my reference pictures. He is a man of steel!

Also especially proud of this: my first ever grade of 1.0 in this class!

Faber-Castell colored pencils on Reeves acrylic paints.

Click to full the view thing.

Second part of the three-part plate back in November. While I know most would go “OH MY GOD YOU DIDN’T GIVE HIM BACK HIS NOSE”, we had to make the idealization somewhat realistic or feasible. I used a magazine picture of him as reference by suggestion of my professor.

I was still too scared to go darker with the shading at this point. Could’ve gone less dark with the corsage, maybe… it turned out looking even darker in the scanner. Oopsies.

Reeves acrylics, with some Faber-Castell colored pencils for details.

Click to view the full version.

This is part one out of three of one of our Figure Drawing plates, from back in November. We had to pick a celebrity and make an objective portrait, an idealized portrait, and a caricature. This, as you can tell, is the objective. I picked Michael Jackson for obvious reasons… just… look at him.

This is my first decent acrylic wash. First time using colored pencils over acrylic wash, too. I think it can still be improved as I think it looks a tad bit too light, but this is a big step forward in comparison to my first plates. I tend to make things either too dark or too light, so I was very paranoid while doing this entire plate, laying on super light layer after super light layer.

My last dry media plate (as far as I remember) from my Figure Drawing class.

Howdy! Like I said in the last post, I took some photos of my figure drawing plates from my first semester (around June-September). These are in dry media. It’s definitely one of my more difficult classes. I do hope there has been some progress since I first started.

Why did I start with my last plate? Because I think slowly but surely I make a lot of progress, no matter how small it may be. Hence, you can see the jarring difference when I show you my first plate. Whoop!

Please take note that most of these are huge - sketchpad paper is usually 12″x18″, while the brown paper is even bigger. That’s why I had to take photos. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about my camera slapping dates and times on pictures. When I figured out how to turn it off, it was too late.

I scanned in the last three (including the above) because I think they turned out pretty good.

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