30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 7

Day 7 - Favorite Animated Character

Schnitzel! <3

From the Cartoon Network show Chowder! I feel so giddy talking about him. He's so adorable with all his grumpy glory. He only says one word 'Rada' and he is absolutely awesome. I saw him two years ago when I was in Sweden while I was watching the television with my cousins, and I got completely hooked on the show.  

Day 8 - Favorite T.V. Show

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 6

Day 6 - Favorite Movie

Finding Nemo!  

I watched this move four times when it first came out and I still crack up when Dori speaks whale. I can't tell you how many times I've actually seen it because honestly I've lost count. And I know I'd probably watch it again with fresh new eyes completely enthralled in the story. 

Day 7 - Favorite Animated character

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 5

Day 5 - Favorite Book(s)

From J.K. Rowling and Margaret Atwood. I've read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire about 6-7 times. And my favorite chapter is the 'First Task'. I didn't think the movie did it justice. It's just a lot more awesome in my head. :P 

I recommend Oryx and Crake to any one interested in post-apocalyptic stories. I think I'm on my 4th read of the book. I've lent it out to one of my boy friend's brothers. I love the commentary on the stuff we put in our body. 

Tomorrow - Day 6 - Favorite movie

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 4

Day 4 - Best Friend(s)! 

I've got a few more... but I couldn't fit them all in. The taller one is Liz and the shorter one is Kayla (the height difference is true!). I've know both for more than 10 years now. :D We've taken a cooking class together during high school and they made it just more awesome. We were also in our high school's concert band together. I played the flute, Kayla played the saxophone and Liz played the trumpet. And I consider them as surrogate sisters. Liz is now married and still an avid Batman fan. Kayla's is the one that I go to cons with, she makes awesome lolita clothes and accessories!

Day 5 - Favourite Book

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 3

Day 3 - Favourite food!

Any one who has ever come with me to an all you can eat sushi restaurant can vouch for my love of Salmon. Just thinking about it makes me drool. I was thinking about colouring this picture, but cravings made stop. I love just drenching the salmon sashimi in soy sauce and eating some sushi rice separately. It's my happy place, I also do a happy dance after the first bite.  

 I have cravings now, I'll be back in a bit... gone to get some salmon sushi.  

Day 4 - Best Friend

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 2

Day 2 - Favourite Animal

Tigers!!! I know some may not believe in the Chinese Zodiac, but I'm born under the year of the Tiger! I don't know if that has any pull in what I do or the way I lead my life but I like it none the less. I don't know why I decided to do a baby instead of a grown adult tiger, one reason could be that I don't feel like a complete adult just yet. And those of you who know all about the Chinese Zodiac more would be able to figure out how old I really am! Don't tell anyone please! :P 

Day 3: Favourite Food

Till next time!

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 1

I decide to complete a 30 day drawing challenge to:

1. Kill some time

2. Improve my skills

3. To see if I can actually do this 

I'll be posting each day to keep up with it each day. So with out further ado... Day 1: Me!

I did two versions of myself, but I think that they are both a caricature of my self not anything close to "natural". I do like both versions though. 

So if I do eventually get through this, I might do a pokemon related 30 day challenge. 

Day 2: Favourite Animal!

Tomorrow

Till next time!  

Sick Again

I should start counting out how many times I get sick a school year. Sorry this is probably going to be very short. First picture is from my sketch-book. It going along with this awesome artist called Mattias. His work is just mind blowing for me and I wish I able to have as much dedication as he does. 

 

Can you guess what I'm painting?

Till next time!

Beginnings

For the next few days I'll be moving my sales site from Artfire to Etsy. No reason really, I just want to. The new site will be Tangles on Etsy From now on I will be updating this blog on every other Sunday and post a few pictures of what I'm doing. These posts are going to be a bit shorter than the previous depending on how much drawing I'm actually doing. But I'm going to make it regular. 

I want to try something different with my sketches for my sketch book. I'm trying to use more of the space given by the sketchbook. I'm trying not to limit my self to just one side. It's tough for me and I'm not used to it at all. I'm doing an Image and Narrative class this semester and I need to be able to work out my ideas in a systematic way and follow a time line. And see it through completely to the end. 

So I'm trying to work out what the assignment is about, it's pretty vague with hardly any direction. The one line we are supposed to get our ideas from is "The human factor, Animal myths, What I know and how I know it". And I'm struggling a bit. I'm more of a "here's a project, this is how you do it, now do it" sort of person. I may recycle some ideas that I've had in regards to previous projects but right now I'm aiming for the "Animal myths" part of that line. It reminded me of Dumbo, and that's sort of a Disney myth that most of us grew up with. 

So now that elephant looks a bit high and I think I might add clouds, pink ones. 

Till next time!

Finals

I was able to attend an awesomely small convention this past Sunday called DTAC (December Toronto Anime Convention (I think)). I went with my friend Kayla, and we had fun despite the small sellers area that they had us all in. I think at times we needed traffic signals to usher people in and out of the dealer's room. Many of Kayla's things got pushed down, and dropped just because people wanted to get by. I think it would have be better if they had given us a better space. However other than that the atmosphere was great, the people were friendly except this one person which I'll talk about at the end of this post. For now here are some paintings that I did for one of my painting classes. And the season of Finals are upon us!! T___T Oh yes this post contains some nudity. 

So this one's a self portrait, and it's supposed to be more about just the play of... well I chalked it up to the play on society's need for perfection, and how there are many sides to a person. The outward is always checking if it's in good graces, the inner is confident, and the innermost is slightly afraid. I actually took this picture inside a dressing room to get this effect with the mirrors. The painting stands at 2 feet by 3 feet, and taking this on public transportation was a cinch compared to the next painting. 

This thing is simply massive, it's 5 feet by I think 3 1/2 feet and it's just irritating to transport more than 10 feet, and even then I'm pretty reluctant to. This painting is just for the study of the model and getting her in different poses. I like the fact that her body parts morph into other body parts and are intertwined. My favorite section has to be the leg in the middle of the picture, I've never really focused on feet before and I really enjoyed it. The model bothered me the whole time I was painting her. The reason? She kept moving, she wouldn't sit still at all. So in that respect it was a bit hard to do.  I think I might paint over this, I don't know just yet, but I'll decide its fate later.

This is the next little project that I'm working on. It's probably going to be sold at Anime North in their Gallery Momiji. I think it's at about 5 inches by 10 inches. And once I finish my exams I'm going to be really lazy and I need some motivation, and this could pushing me to do something awesome. I'll post some before and after pics when it's done.  

Last but not least is this little fellow. As I said before the only thing that got me down at DTAC was this guy. He asked for himself to be turned into a Tangle, but never came by to pick it up. :( oh well his loss. I don't know what to do with him just yet, I might paint over it or sell him just like that, or even use him as an example of what I could do with Tangles. 

Oh well. Till next time! 

(I might post something next week but if not... 

Merry Christmas!)

Pre-Drawing for Tangles

I just wanted to do a quick update today, I know I haven't been too vigilant about posting onto this blog and I'm sorry. My only excuse is school. And so that means more essays, more stuff to read and yes this includes more paintings! Nothing to show quite yet, but lots eventually (in regards to paintings I mean). But for now I've got a bunch of preliminary sketches that I did in regards to future Tangles that I'm planning to do, or I might not, it all depends on how I feel. 

This ducky one I know I'm probably not going to do, I was just doodling while I was on the subway one day and I was bored of staring at people (they get weird-ed out)

Luigi is already in the works and right now I'm sitting at 9 copies for him and he will be done by the time I'm at my next convention, which is in November in Ottawa! (I just have to draw on his face!!)

Next is Sailor Moon, this one I'm definatly going to do. She one of my favourtie characters and I'm probably going to do one of Tuxedo Mask and Mini Moon too. Those ones will be ready for Anime North 2012, but possibly done sooner. 

Here's another doodle one, I'm probably not going to paint this one. Just a cute kitty eating a fishie.

And you've already seen him and you can see how many hearts I've drawn around him that I <3 DeadPool and I couldn't believe it took me this long to convert him into a Tangle.

And last is Mr. SquarePants himself :D I`m probably going to stick to the second one just because it`s just a bit more put together. And he will be ready for Anime North 2012 or sooner!

Till next time! And I promise that next time wont be too long, I have some awesome news that I want to share with people!!!