Own Beauty

“Sometimes people are beautiful.

Not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.”

― Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger

Its been a while since I've done watercolor painting, my last one was last december when I've done my final project for my art foundation class.

This painting will be a gift for one of my co-workers who is graduating this coming May.

Watercolor, pencil, pen, pastel on 11x14in canvas.

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Gymnastics Sketch

A quick sketch, took about half an hour to complete

all in HB and H pencils!

A Closer Look

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I'm trying to get back into the hobbit of doing quick sketches again. So hopefully I could get to do more sketches more frequently than it was.

Working on Graphic Design

I don't know if I mentioned this before, I'm working on my Graphic Design minor at the University. At the moment, I'm still at beginners classes, but there is lots to learn! This semester, I'm taking the two basic graphic design classes. Graphic Design 1 is basically teaching us how to use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop  how to do vector graphics etc. I've already done the basic assignments, they are not so bad. At the moment, I'm practicing on creating logos by creating vector graphics. So I decided to make my mom a cake logo for her cake decorating title.

First thing first, do a sketch! It's something that I learned in all my art classes, always start with a thumbnail sketch of what I want to create! I talked to my mom, and I asked her how she wanted it, colors, etc. So the sketch its just rough, nothing fancy, just scribbles here and there.

Thee Sketch! A topsy turvy cake with these crazy flowers and roses, and more decoration, etc!

So I scanned the sketch, uploaded it, and put it in illustrator. Now I will use the learned lessons from my class to create this cake! And BAM! This is what I got so far!

Took me about 5-6 hours to do this!

My mom's opinion? She loves it! I guess I could say that my mom is my first client! Yay! But I still have lots more to learn, and I'm eager to know what's next in my class's schedule!

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The second Graphic Design class is the all-traditional graphic design. Meaning, we won't be using a computer to create a design, everything will go traditional! I haven't done an official design in this class yet, but when I do, I'll post them up here!

WIP Hermione Granger

Work in progress! Wanted to work a little bit more with watercolor as much as possible. Also, since I haven't truly worked in any of my favorite characters in the Harry Potter world, I decided to give it a try. As you can see, I already started with Hermione, up next could be either Harry or Ron, or maybe Ginny or Luna. It'll all depends.

ARFT Final Project: WIP

1/12 done! Took me about 2 1/2 hours! In this project, I decided to use one of my favorite artist's techniques of using watercolor, Agnes Cecile, go check out her work!
I decided not to use 5 18x24" paper because I find it too big for doing this kind of idea. So instead, I'm using 11x14 Bristol paper. Even though watercolor paper could work better, I already bond with the Bristol paper as my favorite paper to use.
My idea will involve my little sister, and myself.

Read more of this project here!

Hermione Granger/Image and Text

Hermione Granger/2012

This assignment was based on using Text and Image in a creative way. Since I'm always in my books, I got to bring my favorite characters of all time!

WIP

 Image and text project. let's see how this goes....

After 5 hours...I think it's going by well.

Final

Used several references, but I give credit to Ktshy on the books in her Hermione piece http://ktshy.deviantart.com/art/IndieGogo-Commission-Hermione-271571597

Tools: Watercolors, Pen & Ink
Paper: Watercolor paper cold press 18x24"

Time is Running Out/Surrealism

This project was based on using "surrealism." This time, I used trees and hourglasses to represent time.

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The starting point...

Almost done...

Final

Tools: Watercolor pencils, Pen & Ink, Brush & Wash
Paper: Watercolor paper cold press 18x24"

The God of Mischief

"That was just a bit of fun, really. To ruin my brother's big day, and to protect the realm from his idiotic rule a little longer."--Loki

Phew! I'm finally done!!!
Tom Hiddleston as Loki: The God of Mischief
tools: Black Charcoal Pencils 2H, White Charcoal Pencils, Kneaded Eraser, blending stomp, workable fixative.
paper: bristol paper 11x14"
reference: [link]

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Batman and Wonder Woman

Batman and Wonder Woman for a friend of mine as a birthday present.

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Used: Mechanical Pencil, Dip Pen, India Ink, Sharpies, Copics, and Watercolor Pencils.

Used references: 
[link] and [link]

Batman and Wonder Woman belongs to DC Comics
All credits to them!

Loki

I was bored yesterday and had nothing to do. so I decided to play with my wacom bamboo tablet and the drawing programs that came with it. This the first one out of 20 tries that came out right, ever since I had my tablet delivered since the end of March.

Tom Hiddleston as Loki, the God of Mischief from the Avengers and Thor. Got to say, I'm obsessed with him! 

All done digitally, used Corel Painter Essentials 4.

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