Photomontage Art Project | Salmon Rush

AAM Inktober Day 16: Token

October 19 2024

Just a little guy

India ink on paper

Black Space Basil #1

Omori | Kel, Hero, Aubrey, Basil

Oct 30 2022 - Jul 13 2023

Behold! Four versions of the same drawing

Started in 2022, along with a lot of omori wips, and then didn't finish it until almost a year later. 😛

All in all, is a fun piece. I enjoy the nonsense perspective 10/10 love nonsense perspectives 💃👯‍♂️🪭🪭

Pattern Assignment

September 27, 2020

Intro assignment for gr10 art. Had to incorporate a pattern somewhere.

The background isn't a solid pattern because i didn't have enough time to ink it all.

Pen on paper

Emotive Mask Project

Grade 5 - 2015/2016

Wait this was supposed to be the first post??? I didn't get around to cleaning it up until ~3 weeks after I'd queued up all of the tumblr posts 😭

Ig I'll see how making the post date in the past works >:)

Anyways what I can remember of the prompt was that we were supposed to make masks that represent a specific emotion. We were in pairs and I did it with my friend.

Making it out of wood was not a requirement, but I'd gotten it in my head and I knew my dad wld be able to cut the wood for me 😋I made a paper mockup, and then my dad took care of cutting and gluing together the pieces. Two masks were made, one for my friend and one for me.

iirc, the emotion I was going for was happiness, but it really doesn't read that way. There used to be paper fluff stuff hanging from the back, but the birds ate that stuff up. They also bit a whole bunch of chunks into it 😭

I don't remember what happened for it to break that badly. Prolly fell

Acrylic paint on wood.

Jujutsu Kaisen | Sukuna

October 9 - 25, 2024 Time: 12:43 IbisPaintX

Poster I whipped up relatively quickly for Anifest.

WWW airbrush I actually love sketching/rendering with the airbrush it's so fire. Also continued my saga of rendering in black and white and then adding colours

Sukuna is my second favourite character from jjk❤️❤️❤️(right behind Nobara🥳💖) (I'm happy on the outside screaming crying on the inside)

If I really wanted to profit off of JJK I would've made a poster of Gojo (or at least that's what was said to me, and it makes sense), but I don't really like Gojo. Idk that's the thing about free will. Quite a few instances of "if I did x it would be more profitable/popular to the general public" crossed my mind, but truly I cannot make art if it's not something that I won't really like. Profit isn't enough to motivate me.

(although it also just feels wrong to make art for that sole purpose -- same feeling of ick as when I realised I was making art for more likes in the past)

~June 2020

Another painting I did that utilizes the peeling canvas trick.

I wasn't too happy with this when I finished, but I really like it now. It's just a fun little piece.

Acrylic paint, mod podge, newspaper and varnish on canvas

The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni

May 14, 2024 Time: 2:42

Ohhhh here I am, milking the Big Indie Show. I quite liked ep 1, but I've been on the fence about 2 and 3, since the 'find an exit' central focus has kind of been dropped. I get that the exit was fake, but I still feel that Pomni should be a lot more annoying (ask questions) about anything and everything regarding how the circus works. It's only at ep 3 (at time of creating this post), so we'll see how I feel about the future eps.

Really like the pose I came up for her here. Very anxious 🌚. That's the thing I've really enjoyed while making the sticker designs, I really want to convey the character's personality with their pose.

AAM Inktober Day 4: Cloud

October 4, 2024

Still didn't do a sketch for this one (which was scary cos it's a person), but I did do a little thumbnail sketch on another page so that I would have a clear idea of what pose I wanted. I do think that the sketch's pose is more dynamic, but I like the final piece.

India ink on paper

Pumpkin Carving | Skull

October 22, 2023

Pumpkin carving afternoon with my famiry.

Had to go all out since some relatives visited from the Philippines and it was their first time carving pumpkins. The cat pumpkin is my pilipino cousin's ❤️

Knife on pumpkin

Crow Costume | Mask

October 31, 2020 - October 27, 2021

Templates: Dec 19, 2020

Base glued together: Sep 22, 2021

Mask Dremelling: Oct 7, 2021

Foam clay: Oct 17, 2021

Teeth sculpting: Oct 18, 2021

Base paint colour: Oct 25, 2021

Mouth paint colour: Oct 26, 2021

Glue teeth: Oct 27, 2021

This idea came from Halloween day 2020, and I brainstormed possible ideas Oct/Nov 2020. This whole endeavor was inspired by seeing articulated finger extensions on youtube.

This took a lot of time. There were quite a lot of lulls, but days upon days of work went into this. I didn't start taking progress pictures until ~October 2021, so a lot of the process just lives in my head.

By far the most difficult part of the project was figuring out the template for the crow mask itself. I knew of the whole wrap a body part in clingwrap and then duct tape to get a template, which I did around my head to get the inner headpiece, but that only works for fitted things.

I did a whole bunch of tomfoolery over gr10 winter break to get around this. I make like a paper mockup of my head, and then I built off of it with paper tubes to get general shape and structure of the crow mask down. This took so long omfg. I wish I'd taken a picture. I made a huge mess of the house for weeks over the break as I slaved over this stupid shite. Once i'd gotten it,,, it was just like,,,, kinda rudimentarily figuring out what size the foam pieces would be 😭

It worked out eventually, but man was it annoying 💀

I don't think I worked on it much after that until sept/oct 2021. Beginning of october was the final rush because I really wanted it done for the halloween.

When gluing together the pieces, I didn't have any barge contact cement so it was a struggle. Initially I was using a contact cement, but it didn't work well with the EVA foam, and I found that I was able to just pull the glue off once it'd become tacky (wouldn't even damage the foam - was just laying on top of it). So I used a lot of superglue and... other types of glue I can't remember to force em together.

Used a dremel tool and foam clay to smoothen the seams and add more details.

Magnets are embedded in the jaw for movement and to hold the jaw in place. Initially, I wanted the lower jaw to move up and down as I move my jaw, but I never figured out a way to get the torque to achieve that (and it was too late to go down that rabbit hole once i'd realised that the jaw wasn't working as I'd hoped).

Painting was a couple layers of mod podge followed by acrylic paint and then a couple sealing coats of varnish.

Teeth were made out of peachy-coloured polymer clay and glued into the mouth after it was painted. They were used to mould the foam clay gums prior to painting.

Then it was done!

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Materials List:

Eva foam

Super glue

Contact Cement

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Acrylic Varnish

Gloss Varnish

Foam Clay

Polymer Clay