The Library At Mount Char | David, Q-33 North, Carolyn

DTIYS | @/Moonvika on instagram

December 25, 2019 - January 4, 2020

This is labelled moonvika on the old scan folder I have, and I recognize the artist, but I'm not sold that this is a dtiys for that particular artist. idky

I don't remember why I cut them out. It might've been to put them on different backgrounds??

Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper

Painting Assignment

November 18, 2021 - December 16, 2021

Gr11 assignment where we had to paint something that has a meaning.

I'm gonna yap about my thoughts on this.

I hate it when teachers/people start developing this notion that every piece of art needs to have a meaning. I get that that's why a lot of people do art (whether to convey a message or just vent an emotion), but once it's forced it's no longer an outlet. I like doing art because I do. And if it has a meaning to me, that's for me to know. Everyone has their own experiences that vary their interpretations, which leads to people seeing stories that you may not have intended (which is fine). But I don't see the reason for chastising the artist if you don't see a meaning to their work.

Idk, I just feel that once you force an artist to make art that has a meaning, you're taking away the freeing aspect of art. With art, you're the one in control of what you create and the messages you send, but once it's forced it defeats the purpose.

Anyways,,, I needed to paint something that has a meaning, which i really didn't feel like doing. The way around this was to paint something that has so many fucked up aspects that most people would think this says so much about society. Dead animals? check. fucken,, fire? check. impossble perspective?? you love it babyeee

I had fun painting this piece, but it did take me a bit to get over my angery about me having to have a meaning. I eventually leaned into thinking how funny it was that peoplewld think this says so much about society when I was just dickin around.

(also this assignment had a written portion where you have to explain the meaning, but I never did that 🤠👍)

Acrylic paint on canvas

AAM Inktober Day 13: Origami

October 18, 2024

I like this one. Think it turned out cute. Only thing I wish I did better was keep the frog and star on the left from touching, but I knew that that was a mistake when it was happening. Oh well :<

Continuation of my catching up on lost days.

India ink on paper

The Babs | Rosewood, Iris

December 19-30, 2023

Sketches: ~April 5-12 2021

Paper Art: December 19-30, 2023

First doodled the sketch in class, then drew it on wc paper to make it a full blown illustration. After that it sat for two years and I finally picked it up again. I don't know why I got the idea to make it 3D paper art, but I'm glad I did. The piece is complicated enough that there's a lot of interesting overlap, and it let me make Rosewood's horns bigger.

The background was originally going to be a wall full of eyes, and I had the idea of also making those 3D so it would look like they're moving. But I was too lazy to do that lolll. I have a psychedelic neon background thingy instead that I'll have to print sometime.

Watercolour, india ink, micron pens and glue on watercolour paper

Lego Figure Assignment | Hellboy

~December 2023 - March 9, 2024

1p lego assignment for bonus marks. They supplied drawings for the lego figure itself, but we would get more bonus marks for adding a special feature. I went all out and made a little lego hellboy.

When I first started this, I hadn't realised that we were supposed to follow drawings they gave us so I just made the figure on my own. Did that by looking at pictures of lego figures and just recreating it. And then I found out all my work was for naught 😢

Might 3D print this some day, but if I did I would remake the legs and leg connector. They didn't do it the way normal lego figures are (which is slightly more complicated,, not much though) and so the legs look dumber than they should.

Inventor CAD

March 14-21, 2021

Sketches for an unfinished horse/pegasus/alicorn illustration

AAM Inktober Day 11: Hare

October 11, 2024

This prompt somehow unlocked all my memories of being obsessed with jackalopes every halloween.

Like how the fur texture ended up 👍

India ink on paper

School Sketches #2

July 2023

Collected so many of my school sketches in my phone (would also go through large batches of me taking pics as i threw out old notes at the end of the year) and went through it all to make a bunch of compilations

2/5

The Babs | Robot, Rosewood, TBN, Saffron, Marine, Iris, Duke, Orchid, Rosewood, Eerie

~December 27, 2020 - January 29, 2021

Buncha sketches of my lil bab guys

AAM Inktober Day 15: Jade

October 19, 2024

In favour of keeping the actual creation date in chronological order, the prompt days are now out of order 🤠👍👍(I'm keeping it as consistent as I can, just that day 14 is gonna be out of place >_<)

This one turned out way bettwe than I thought it would. It's not great, I just had very very very low expectations for it.

India ink on paper