Wait! I'm Camouflaging Right Now! | Steller's Jay

Crow Costume | Claws

October 31, 2020 - October 28, 2021

Originally I wanted to manually create/CAD/sculpt my own articulated finger extensions, but I had the self awareness to figure out that that was beyond my skill level. Also there's so many CAD models of these online it was a bit too easy. I still want to make my own version of these someday, but 2021 was not the time 💀

OH yeah even before that I didn't just want to make finger extensions, I wanted to make a wooden arm and hand that hand moveable fingers. Inspired by smth similar I saw on yt. I think I was deterred from this option because of how difficult it would've been to carve the wood.

I got the CAD models for free on thingyverse ❤️. At first I tried 3D printing these on my 3D printer, but I didn't know how to adjust the settings to have a print actually work (pieces would always peel up from the build plate) so I eventually outsourced it to my auto teacher lmao.

Assembling these was a trip, but we made it through >:) 💪

Didn't end up ever painting these guys, so they just existed as uglies.

Super glue and PLA filament on 3D printer magic

Bird Mask 🕊️

May 24-29, 2024

Glued - May 24

Sanded - May 25

Pink paint - May 26

First pass colours - May 27

Second pass colours - May 28

Varnish - May 29

Acrylic paint + gloss varnish on wood

Got around to fixing this mask this summer.

Glued the broken pieces back together with wood glue. Pretty sure I wasted 180% more glue than I actually used, but it's been a while since ive done any woodworking

Should've taken the pics before varnishing :p

The Babs | Rosewood, Iris

December 19-30, 2023

Sketches: ~April 5-12 2021

Paper Art: December 19-30, 2023

First doodled the sketch in class, then drew it on wc paper to make it a full blown illustration. After that it sat for two years and I finally picked it up again. I don't know why I got the idea to make it 3D paper art, but I'm glad I did. The piece is complicated enough that there's a lot of interesting overlap, and it let me make Rosewood's horns bigger.

The background was originally going to be a wall full of eyes, and I had the idea of also making those 3D so it would look like they're moving. But I was too lazy to do that lolll. I have a psychedelic neon background thingy instead that I'll have to print sometime.

Watercolour, india ink, micron pens and glue on watercolour paper

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor

May 21, 2024

Time: 5:50

Really like how this turned out. I had had the pose floating around in my head for a while, but it took a couple tries for me to put it on paper.

Had to go back in and add his horns cause I completely forgot them the first time 😛

First of a batch I did to try and compensate for the days I didn't make a drawing for

Hazbin Hotel | Lucifer

May 11, 2024

Time: 6:36

Okay so here's me continuing my sticker design escapades. Now the motivation is to eventually sell them at my uni's yearly nerd fest in the artist's alley >:)

This was also the start of me challenging myself to complete one drawing a day for as long as I could since it was summer and I had the time.

Finished this in one day! Whoaa actually hit a goal of the day for once!

You know, I don't really like a lot of the characters' designs (including this guy) from HH, but it grew on me when I was drawing him.

When I first realised that I should make his hat-fire the light source I thought it would go terribly, but I really like how it turned out.

Switched to ibis paint X for drawing--it's wayyy better for drawing on a tablet than krita. I can see why people call it a beginner program since the interface is really easy to use and get a hang of. Krita is great, but it's impossible to use on a tablet/without a keyboard for shortcuts.

I also like Ibis' feature where it records your progress. Really fun to look back on how i drew shite. It also records how long smth takes which is fun to see how embarassingly slow I am.

Sketchbook Assignment | Pose Practice

~November 2021

Just some line of action drawings in my sketchbook for gr11 art

Pencil on paper

Anifest Artist's Alley

November 5, 2024

The fated day finally came!! Definitely was a stressful time. I made stands for the sticker promo board and the board I hung the posters on at the makerspace earlier in the day. Me and my friend also made cute little fandom labels for the stickers.

I invited quite a few of my friends to come hang out during this debacle. It was a blessing and a curse. One of my friends in particular kept on pissing me off by constantly nagging me abt how "increase profits." Actually got pissed off to such a high degree but I digress.

Anyways, the event was really cute. There were a LOT of vendors. Hot damn, was the room crowded. A lot of them were also seasoned vendors which was pretty crazy. I wish I had gone around and been more friendly to them, but I see why I didn't this event had me exhausted before it even began.

I ended up setting the pricing as: 3$ for one large sticker, 5$ for two large stickers, $1 for one small sticker, and $15 for one poster.

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Things I learned:

Less clutter! The table was really overwhelming and I'd like space to put my laptop for excel tracking xP

Actually have people follow my art account for receiving my stamp for the stamp rally

Just chillll, have a good timee. It'll be a lot easier when I do it again because 90% of the work will already be done, but I still need to remember that this is for the fun sillies and that I don't need to focus on numbers at all.

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According to my Excel sheet (which definitely is not 100% accurate because I forsure missed a few things), the data is as follows:

58 Stickers Sold

0 Posters Sold

Cost: 141.35

Revenue: 118

Profit: -23.35

Note: the cost includes sticker paper/some supplies that I didn't actually use, but because it was related I included it. Also, the vinyl was apparently 50$ which I swear it wasn't- never in my right mind would I buy that. Still put it in as 50$ because whtvr.

The most popular sticker designs were: The Knight (13), Coraline (7), and Grimm (6).

**Some of them were traded for other stickers / not exactly sold**

0 posters sold?? Yepppp. I think it's less of a pricing problem, but more of a people just weren't interested in the fandoms. I would've sold them for any amount of money tbh, but noone seemed interested. Plus, I tried to do a poster trade with someone and they declined because they weren't familiar with any of the fandoms. I mean I didn't know the fandoms their posters were about either, but ig a lot of people aren't interested in posters purely for the illustration 🥲🥲

So I have a lot of posters... Teehee. I'll definitely try to sell them next year again (as I will with the leftover stickers), but I don't know if it'll make much of a difference. Hopefully, though 🙏🙏🙏

Idk man it's strange because I genuinely look at those four pieces and am so proud that I made it. Like the craftsmanship yo. I can't tell if I'm genuinely just being delusional, but it's not like anyone close to me has given me the impression that they're actually terrible drawings either.

Ofc my own opinion is what matters most, and despite the doubt that the lack of sales for these posters has given me, it hasn't changed how much I absolutely love those pieces. Especially because the technique I used changes for each one. All of them give me a different thought of "I can't believe I made that" and takes me out of the whole 'I can immediately tell how I made that' mindset that I fall into when subconsciously trying to devalue my art/skills. I really have to think to recall the techniques I used to make each piece (O.K. maybe not the hellboy one but still), because they're all so damned complicated. Idk I love them a lot, but I will be forever a little bit bummed that other people don't love them as much as I.

June 2, 2023

Pride discord pfp challenge I did.

Just felt inspired in bio and sketched this guy up. Tried a different colouring and lineart brush (really that's the key to overcoming digital art block. you just switch brushes and suddenly it's a whole new fun experience)

Fun piece to make.

Kill la Kill | Mako, Nonon, Satsuki, Ira, Rei, Hoka

~Feb 27 2021

Random Kill la Kill sketches

None of these end up becoming a drawing, but it predates most of the kill la kill illustrations I made.

Looking back on this, I gotta do a drawing of nonon sometime in my life... and redo ragyo 😩

April 20, 2020

Just a little watercolour painting. I remember I was trying to get into tiktok because I'd seen that artists could get more traction there, so I made of one this painting's process. Don't got it anymore 😢

Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper