See? I do do something in art class.

Alright, lets start off with a really old sketch, shall we?

Venezula AKA Viza

Something I had rolling around in my head for a while. Figured I would document this character design so it seems like I've been doing something nowadays. (Seriously, I haven't drawn a thing in ages.)
Anyways, onto a short bio: she's an Italian born Spanish girl who, I guess, likes beaches, which is the reason behind the swimsuit-esque outfit. She uses an ice pick - because I heard the Mafia uses them - as well as brass knuckles (which, in her case, probably isn't made out of brass). And I like big sunglasses, but I'm a little "eeh" on the hat.
By the way, I don't recommend that you Google "ice pick" with your mature filter off, especially when you're looking for pictures. Just like Googling "cougar".

And... that's it for today's installment of sketches.

Made in openCanvas.

Okay, onto the main reason I made this post (other than updating... yeah, there's that I guess), check out what I recently brought back home:

Yup, it's the only impressive thing I ever made in art! An actual, painted board that's ready to be hung up in my room somewhere (more-so than the one still lying next to my wall, unfinished).
I don't know what inspired me to make this. I think I just wanted to draw some stupid, so I made a vegetable parade. Then I got the idea of making them walk on a rainbow road.
...aaand I forgot to put strings on the eggplant's banjo. There's also something else I messed up on, but I'll let you figure out as to what that is yourself.

Squee, can't wait to see it on my wall~

Made with tempura and spray paint on processed wood board stuff.

Lets just say they're related to love... PART 2

First and foremost, I'd like to mourn over the loss of my agenda. Yup, after midterms finished, I can't seem to find it. It's really a shame because I had so much more I could've uploaded in there.That and I totally forgot I had a Chem quiz in the morning - and a Japanese test. Needless to say, I was pretty screwed today.
Time to rely on scraps of lined paper nao. Or maybe my iPod or something.

Anyways, on today's menu, here's some more pictures that follow the same tangent as a previous post that you can probably see just by scrolling down but I'm appealing to your inner laziness by linking it anyways.

Look familiar? It's pretty much a redrawn version of one of the agenda pics I had, except shaded better, I gave a shit about the composition, and generally looks better.

It's a good thing that I didn't include the version with the cheesy words written all over it.

Drawn on Strathmore sketchbook paper with mechanical pencil.

"Why did you leave me standing?"

You can tell that I'm having an artist block or something when, like the above picture, I just redraw old stuff.
I have to say that I like this way better than the original picture, even if I used paint to do it. I mean, at least here, you can kinda see the rain. Kinda...

Still can't see how the song relates with women and car washes still (refer to original picture, but eh, who cares).

Made with tempura.

Hm, one of those things that looked better in my head. I don't really like this picture at all. Head be too big, the shading is uber crappy... among other things. I kind of like the shading on the background, though. But that's really it.

Drawn on Strathmore sketchbook paper with mechanical pencil and Artist's Loft water-soluble pencil.

From my chemistry binder

Some leftovers from before winter break. I recently discouvered them now when I was looking for some more lined paper for chemistry class. They were done in my art class.

The head was done quite a while ago, maybe even in October/November. Everything else slowly came after it, starting with the girl. I just had this huge animal muscle study session the day prior to painting these so I wanted to continue running with it. I think the red paint looks pretty nice as an accent.

"I want to buy you flowers//It's just a shame you're a boy."

I've been  using flowers in a lot of my paintings and titles for said paintings. 


I sketched on a base for this picture first, and even crudely shaded it in with pencil. At some parts, I just went over it with a black wash.  And I just touched up some of the flowers on her chest with some Copics to give it that deep red colour I originally wanted.

Semi-inspired by the song (you guessed it) Flowers, by Emilie Simon, and I only say "semi" because it has nothing to relate with the actual lyrics. I was just thinking about it when I did the piece, so yeah.


Painting these pictures made me realize that no matter how less paint I use, I always get too much. I got a drop of red for the top pic, and even that couldn't be used up. What happened? I used to use too much for my paintings a couple of years ago:

Silence

At least there wasn't much worry about warping. Pictures (or at least, when I pulled them out) came out pretty flat.




Drawn with mechanical pencil on paper not meant for paint.
Painted with really watered-down tempura.
Second picture touched up with Copics.