I don't even remember the last time I used watercolours

I've been using brushes everything, my toothbrush anyways. It's been a while since I've picked up a paint brush, but yesterday I bought 24 pack of Artist's Loft watercolor pencils and was excited to test them out.

I used regular Strathmore Sketchbook paper, and it's like pretty thin so the paper warped, surface rubbed off, and the colour bled to the other side. This explains the dark wrinkles on the paper. I used a lot of water to create the blotting effects, way more than the paper could withstand. Ah, maybe next time I should use watercolour paper, but it's so expensive! Anyone know a cheaper alternative?

It stared off with the head sketched in with blues, purples, and greens. When I painted that in, I decided, on a whim, to add wings, because wings are cool. I soon noticed I would need to lay down more colour than I liked if I wanted it blend in with the head. Here comes my Talens water color set my sister bought in Hong Kong, mint condition.

For my first picture with any kind of "paint", it didn't turn out as bad as I expected. I enjoyed the generic, run-of-the-mill colours offered by my watercolour set than I expected. When it comes to markers and coloured pencils, the more colours, the better. I forgot you can mix with paints. Also, I found out that pans/cakes is way more convenient than tubes. Have you ever noticed that when you mix colors together, you get less than what you started out with? Weird.

Don't ask me about the white oval in the bottom of the dress. I don't know either.

So, interested with the new media, I tested it out again today. This time, I drew in a pencil outline as well as trying to get the colours to what it's supposed to be. Oh, and less water.

The hair turned out great, albeit a bit plain, but for the most part I had kept it to the outline. "Alright," I thought, "the rest should be great, too!"

Well, the skin turned out pretty horribly. The pink I intended for the the fingers, cheeks, and joints spread everywhere.
Oh, and I also found out that the "black" I was using actually was a purple, and my jar of water was actually blocking the real black!

I added in some white highlights with my new brush, the Nobel round short-handle in size 5/0, the finest brush I own. I was hesitant with it, though, as I intended it to either be used with masking fluid or or white ink, and the white-ness would make it a real pain to clean.

Excited to explore some more.


Made on Strathmore Sketchbook paper
Coloured with transparent watercolors and Artist's Loft watercolor pencils
Second picture also used Derwent metallic pencils and Liquitex ink in Titanium White

Poor kitty, always being picked on by penguin

In psychology, we're learning about interpersonal relationships, but more specifically aggression. We were to make a comic strip of someone disengaging from a conflict. You know those things we were taught in school where if someone does something you don't like, say, "I don't appreciate you doing ___ and I'd like you to stop!" thing that you would never do because no one backs off? Well, that's the gist of it.

There was this one example that was hilarious and sad at the same time because the conflict was "resolved" but the guy getting picked on killing the dude picking on him. How peaceful, no?

INTERESTING FACT: Ever hesitate to do something because you thought "someone else would do it"? Well, everyone thinks like that. Many people die because, even though people would hear whomever in peril, no one does anything (some even watch the person die). By the time the police/ambulance arrive, they're dead. So moral of the story: call the damn police.

My 1st draft drawn in class. As you can see, there are two guys looking like they're constipated. Like how I tried to draw them in a "cartoony style"? I'm not one of those people who draw anime in everything; I know when it's appropriate. I switched the people into animals, though, as animals look cool and can be drawn stupid.
On the bottom with the ear and the part with the cloud and unicorn was my attempt to do a floor-chart-esque thing like some people have done and succeeded. Unfortunately, I don't have the genius to come up with something like that.

Final Product:

Poor kitty, always being picked on my penguin!

You get it? Is it funny? I don't think it's funny. No newspaper would accept this.

Technical part:
It's been a while since I've cracked out the good ol' pencil crayons/coloured pencils. For the past little while, it's all been my dear Copics, but I figured that: one) I need to save ink, and two) I haven't used them in a while.
I'm quite happy to report that, unlike me from grade 8 and 9, when I use pencil crayons, I try to add contrast in the colours. Failed, though, for the most part.

Man, is my room ever hot? Its' almost the end of fall and beginning of winter! Why is it so hot? And I can't stand hot. Bleh, me and my hyperthyroidism.


Drawn in pencil on printer paper.
Second picture inked in Faber-Castell Black PITT pen,
coloured with Prismacolours.