Morgan, TBN

Hellboy | Hellboy

January 12, 2024 - February 8, 2024

Hellboy posterish thing I wanted to make. Went with a mix of the comic hellboy and how he looks in the movies. I love Mike Mignola's art style, but I didn't want to rip it off completely. Especially since I'm most familiar with movie hb, so I wanted it to resemble Ron Perlman's hellboy,, (slightly, ok? 😭)

It's still not finished. Need to clean up the marker with some pencil crayons. This was my first time using some gifted ohuhu markers on a piece, and let me tell you markers are, like, the least forgiving medium. I'm predicting that's why they pair so well with pencil crayons (they be there to fix them mistakes 😭😏).

I learned that you have to be really purposeful with using the markers, cause a second pass will completely change the colour. This is what happened with his coat on the right and it bugs me everytime I look at it.

Some white acrylic paint was used to hide some leftover pencil marks in the bg.

I had had all of the weapons sketched in, but I changed it to be one big silhouette so it wouldn't compete with the piece's other details

The last picture is a little doodle of hb i did for fun. (I LOST THE FILE?!?? I hate my tablet's file system it's so badddd)

Edit** Finished it eventually (do not know the date xd) so I added it here instead of making another post 💔❤️💖

Microns, india ink, ohuhu markers and watercolour on watercolour paper

The Babs | Tyrian, Duke, Marine

~March 2020

I completely forgot that I made this, until I randomly found it in my parents' room.

Again, tentatively put in the timeline. It must have been recently after their creation, since it's just the three of them and the hourglass was a feature that didn't stick for long.

(plus this painting's concept sketch = is in the same sketchbook as my first drawings for them)

Acrylic paint on canvas

AAM Inktober Day 14: Mystic

October 20, 2024 India Ink on Paper

Worked on this one at the same time as the rest of the batch I completed on oct 19, but didn't complete it until the day after because the brush pen I was using was running out of ink!

I tried refilling it with the india ink I had, but it didn't work. The pen definitely uses some special kind of ink to let it flow through w/o clogging.

Anyways, I ended up just dipping my pen in the ink and using it as a brush. It worked, it just wasn't the same experience :(

This drawing was fun. The unicorn ended up pretty well. Think I messed up on its body's form, though.

Little Miss Fortune | Misfortune, Morgo

January 5, 2020

Just some fanart. Played around with different line weights for the fore/mid/background. Morgo was done with a brush and india ink for the thickest lines, misfortune with a pen and the bg has no lineart.

The quote was a paper addition that could be removed/added

Watercolour, pen and india ink on watercolour paper

omg i JUST noticed that morgo's left hand is a right hand LMAO 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

~June 2020

Another painting I did that utilizes the peeling canvas trick.

I wasn't too happy with this when I finished, but I really like it now. It's just a fun little piece.

Acrylic paint, mod podge, newspaper and varnish on canvas

Stickers | Multifandom (see below)

~November 1 - 3, 2024

Nov 1 - Printing + Laminating

Nov 2/3 - Cutting

Nov 3 - More Laminating + Cutting

Printer Ink + Matte Vinyl on Sticker Paper

Stickers I made for Anifest. The final end to this long sticker journey!

There are 20 total designs:

Beetlejuice | Sandworm

Hellboy | Angel of Death, Hellboy

Alien | Xenomorph

Pan's Labyrinth | The Pale Man

Hollow Knight | Grimm, The Knight

Omori | Basil, Omori, Something

Arcane | Jinx

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor, Lucifer, Alastor's Minions, Husk

Hades | Zagreus

Coraline | Coraline Doll, Cocoa Beetle

The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni, Jax, Gangle

I wanted to print the stickers on my mother's colour printer, but the colours and the black were slightly offset so I used my uni's printer service.

Applying the vinyl was tricky (messed up a few times), but once I learned the tricks it went by pretty smoothly. I did half of the vinyl application in the makerspace, and the other half at home on the 3rd.

I also wanted to use the makerspace's silhouette cutter thing to cut out the stickers, but I didn't know you had to run the paper through that machine before printing out the sticker design for it to work. Thus began the saga of cutting them out by hand.

Cutting it wasn't tooooo bad. It was just monotonous work so I could talk w people/watch something while doing it (watched Terrifier with my family while cutting most of them which worked because I don't really looking at pure gore). It did make my hand hurt like a bitch after a while, though.

I only ended up cutting like half of them anyways. My plan was to cut them by demand if needed during the artist alley.

There were quite a few defects by the end (mainly because of the vinyl, but there was a printing error for one of the sheets), and I ended up putting those stickers on my waterbottle. Me and my friend also tested their waterproof-ability by scrubbing at said stickers on my waterbottle with a soapy sponge. Needless to say the vinyl works really well!!

One Point Perspective Assignment

~April 2020

I remember having a really hard time with just about every aspect of this piece. Getting the proportions of the buildings down was terrible, as was designing them. And then painting it was just a trainwreck.

Inspired by Devil town by Cavetown iirc

Watercolour and pen on watercolour paper

Hollow Knight | Grimm

God, I love this guy. Can't believe I actually beat nkg.

Would've made it nkg cause cmon it's nkg, but I like normal grimm's colour scheme better.

Top version is the edited/new one (done on 10/14/2024). While the fire isn't nearly as prominent, I like it a lot better than the former version.

Inktober 2017

October 1-30, 2017

My oldest inktober challenge participation. Didn't know this was the second year where he had the official prompt list. I'm like an og

India ink on sketchbook paper

Crow Costume | Mask

October 31, 2020 - October 27, 2021

Templates: Dec 19, 2020

Base glued together: Sep 22, 2021

Mask Dremelling: Oct 7, 2021

Foam clay: Oct 17, 2021

Teeth sculpting: Oct 18, 2021

Base paint colour: Oct 25, 2021

Mouth paint colour: Oct 26, 2021

Glue teeth: Oct 27, 2021

This idea came from Halloween day 2020, and I brainstormed possible ideas Oct/Nov 2020. This whole endeavor was inspired by seeing articulated finger extensions on youtube.

This took a lot of time. There were quite a lot of lulls, but days upon days of work went into this. I didn't start taking progress pictures until ~October 2021, so a lot of the process just lives in my head.

By far the most difficult part of the project was figuring out the template for the crow mask itself. I knew of the whole wrap a body part in clingwrap and then duct tape to get a template, which I did around my head to get the inner headpiece, but that only works for fitted things.

I did a whole bunch of tomfoolery over gr10 winter break to get around this. I make like a paper mockup of my head, and then I built off of it with paper tubes to get general shape and structure of the crow mask down. This took so long omfg. I wish I'd taken a picture. I made a huge mess of the house for weeks over the break as I slaved over this stupid shite. Once i'd gotten it,,, it was just like,,,, kinda rudimentarily figuring out what size the foam pieces would be 😭

It worked out eventually, but man was it annoying 💀

I don't think I worked on it much after that until sept/oct 2021. Beginning of october was the final rush because I really wanted it done for the halloween.

When gluing together the pieces, I didn't have any barge contact cement so it was a struggle. Initially I was using a contact cement, but it didn't work well with the EVA foam, and I found that I was able to just pull the glue off once it'd become tacky (wouldn't even damage the foam - was just laying on top of it). So I used a lot of superglue and... other types of glue I can't remember to force em together.

Used a dremel tool and foam clay to smoothen the seams and add more details.

Magnets are embedded in the jaw for movement and to hold the jaw in place. Initially, I wanted the lower jaw to move up and down as I move my jaw, but I never figured out a way to get the torque to achieve that (and it was too late to go down that rabbit hole once i'd realised that the jaw wasn't working as I'd hoped).

Painting was a couple layers of mod podge followed by acrylic paint and then a couple sealing coats of varnish.

Teeth were made out of peachy-coloured polymer clay and glued into the mouth after it was painted. They were used to mould the foam clay gums prior to painting.

Then it was done!

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Materials List:

Eva foam

Super glue

Contact Cement

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Acrylic Varnish

Gloss Varnish

Foam Clay

Polymer Clay