The Art Proposal | 2/3
The Art Proposal | 2/3
December 1-30, 2022
This was supposed to be a themed trilogy, but I, like always, did not really have a theme in mind. I was kind of going for 'where art and technology/science meet' but it was really shoehorned. This was going to be a beautiful piece symbolizing medicine w elements of the staff of asclepius w the snake and her arm.
Making this was really, really annoying. I hadn't done a multi canvas piece since the cardinal (which was five years prior) so the idea was I go all out for this one (bad idea, never got finished). I did really like the style and the overall composition of the piece, but there's a 0.00001% chance I ever go back to this because of how big of a task it'd be.
First of all, making the wooden frame just to hold the canvases in the right position was terrible. I made the spacing smaller because I didn't want to lose details, but because it was so thin it broke 24/7. Don't even talk to me about the nailing/gluing process.... horrible.
Painting it was also a feat, because it took up so much space and I had to dance around the pieces constantly.
I got it to a place where it was finished enough, and then I was done with it.
(also I changed the position of the legs in the painting to make it more anatomically correct, but it ruined the silhouette)
The canvases still exist in my house, but the frame is long gone.
Acrylic paint on canvas
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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.
AAM Inktober Day 19: Porcelain
October 19 2024 India Ink on Paper
I really like this one. Fun to do and turned out well.
Locked in when I was inking (the 'sketch' was essentially just me drybrushing) (this goes for all of these inktober drawings tho) cos I was scared.
Favourite Animated Character | Phosphophyllite from Land of the Lustrous
March 25, 2020
Part of the 100 day drawing challenge, but I wanted to draw it outside of the sketchbook because I had this idea for the finished piece.
Me trying to fit all their forms into one cohesive piece but instead it just gets all messy. Still love em ❤️
Watercolour, metallic watercolour and pen on watercolour paper
Stickers | Multifandom (see below)
~November 1 - 3, 2024
Nov 1 - Printing + Laminating
Nov 2/3 - Cutting
Nov 3 - More Laminating + Cutting
Printer Ink + Matte Vinyl on Sticker Paper
Stickers I made for Anifest. The final end to this long sticker journey!
There are 20 total designs:
Beetlejuice | Sandworm
Hellboy | Angel of Death, Hellboy
Alien | Xenomorph
Pan's Labyrinth | The Pale Man
Hollow Knight | Grimm, The Knight
Omori | Basil, Omori, Something
Arcane | Jinx
Hazbin Hotel | Alastor, Lucifer, Alastor's Minions, Husk
Hades | Zagreus
Coraline | Coraline Doll, Cocoa Beetle
The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni, Jax, Gangle
I wanted to print the stickers on my mother's colour printer, but the colours and the black were slightly offset so I used my uni's printer service.
Applying the vinyl was tricky (messed up a few times), but once I learned the tricks it went by pretty smoothly. I did half of the vinyl application in the makerspace, and the other half at home on the 3rd.
I also wanted to use the makerspace's silhouette cutter thing to cut out the stickers, but I didn't know you had to run the paper through that machine before printing out the sticker design for it to work. Thus began the saga of cutting them out by hand.
Cutting it wasn't tooooo bad. It was just monotonous work so I could talk w people/watch something while doing it (watched Terrifier with my family while cutting most of them which worked because I don't really looking at pure gore). It did make my hand hurt like a bitch after a while, though.
I only ended up cutting like half of them anyways. My plan was to cut them by demand if needed during the artist alley.
There were quite a few defects by the end (mainly because of the vinyl, but there was a printing error for one of the sheets), and I ended up putting those stickers on my waterbottle. Me and my friend also tested their waterproof-ability by scrubbing at said stickers on my waterbottle with a soapy sponge. Needless to say the vinyl works really well!!
Hollowknight | The Knight
May 12, 2024 Time: 1:05
Just a simple little design for a simple lil guy
Art Movements Assignment | Bald Eagle
September 9, 2022 - September 16, 2022
I spent so long working on this assignment at the beginning of the semester that my parents got concerned about me taking art when i should be studying to master my other classes 💀💔
Gr12 assignment where our teacher told us to all bring a random object to school (for unknown reasons), and then revealed that we're doing a project where we have to draw that object multiple times using 3 art movement styles.
Bottom-up the movements are:
German Expressionism
Cubism
Impressionism
Had a lot of fun making this. The german expressionism was a hoot, but I just love using inks. I hated doing the impressionism one, though. I just didn't like how it was turning out/turned out, and me and my teacher agree that it's not really an impressionistic style. They be using colours in crazy ways that I hadn't unlocked at the time.
India ink, watercolours and acrylic paint on mixed media paper
Hard drive
December 30, 2019
Hard drive painting I did over the winter break. Was fun
Acrylic paint and varnish on canvas
Art Exhibit
March 7, 2020 - December 21, 2021
A community center in my town lets people under 18 showcase their art for free in their halls. I took a stab at applying and was accepted.
The exhibit wasn't supposed to last as long as it did, but covid lockdowns hit shortly after we installed everything and the persistent lockdowns kept on pushing back the pickup date. This means next to no one saw any of the art, but I was fine with that. I kept on getting really worried abt ppl destroying the art.
Wait! I'm Camouflaging Right Now!
Skkkrrt Skkkrt Ma Dusa
Oh shoot it's Nanny McPhee
Honey, your pelvic's showing again
Hard Drive
Out of Place
Cardinality
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
Alien | Xenomorph
Drew the majority of this when I should've been working on a presentation 🗣️🗣️
Edited afterwards to increase the contrast btwn the colours and increase the width of the green stripe because the stickers I received from stickermule were really dark.
Most of the details are made up because there weren't many clear reference pictures, and the details varied depending on the reference anyways.
Blog archiving all of the art I've made over the years 🧡Posts queued until May 1stSend any requests/asks over to @flowerspeakz
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