August 28, 2023

School Sketches #5

July 2023

5/5

Stopped taking pictures of random sketches and would instead cut the doodles out and glue them into my sketchbook cos this was a lot of work.

2021 - 2022 Yearbook Cover Contest

October 6, 2021 - October 13, 2021

My entry for the yearbook cover contest in gr11. Didn't win 😢

I remember really really struggling to come up w an idea for this. I'm okay with the front cover (I think that bull needs some work), but I think I should've used the back cover's watercolour theme throughout. I prefer that look a lot more.

Land of the Lustrous | Phosphophyllite

March 23, 2020

I looove phos I need to draw them again. Need to read the manga again too there's so much new content from when I stopped.

Acrylic paint and gel pen on watercolour paper

Hades | Zagreus

Zagreus sticker design. I drew it using the same style as all the other stickers, but I kind of regretted that, purely because the face doesn't look like zag. I eventually redrew it in the Hades style. You'll see it eventually ;)

February 23, 2020

Land of the lustrous inspired art.

I remember my cousin really liked it and wanted to buy it off of me, but the exchange never happened.

Watercolour, metallic watercolour and gel pen on watercolour paper

Pomplamoose | Bust Your Knee Caps

January 22, 2020

Kept on imagining an aggressive little murder family when I listened to this song so I drew it.

Wanted to make it very shapely and give each person a distinct body type. Did it p well

India ink on watercolour paper

Studio Ghibli | Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away

March 14, 2021 - December 3, 2021

Studio ghibli fanarts I never ended up finishing.

I still really like both concepts, just need to muster up the motivation to start em up again and finish em.

"W" Painting

December 25 - 26, 2024 Acrylic on Canvas

This painting has an actual name, but I'm sticking with the moniker " 'W' Painting" (as dubbed by my family/friends because there's a W sticker on the top left corner) until I actually finish it.

Painting I frantically did because I was having a Terrible Time and when that happens you paint little guys having a Terrible Time.

Wanted to finish this before I moved over the spring/summer for coop but just didn't have the time for it, so it won't get done until 2025 fall the earliest.

I look at this and realise there's Anatomy Problems / a fundamental difference in the flow/positioning of the characters between the initial sketch and where I'm at now. There's no turning back now, and I'm still happy with what I have, still. Just have to figure out that damned arm when I go to finish this. But it's also a fun loose painting, anatomy doesn't have to be flawless (call me a part of the 'it's my style' club 😛). Pro tip when drawing characters interacting --uhh refine the sketch before rendering 🤠👍👍👍👍👍👍

Lizard Lady 🦎

Mar 25 2021 - Mar 28 2021

.kra notes:

1000 x 1500 canvas size

Lineart - jackpack turnip pen

Bg texture: Flat decay tilt (#2 'fuck'), Jackpack special foliage

Shadows duplicated + gaussian blurred

*tried* split complimentary palette

^ gave up :( don't understand

2 shadow passes + highlight pass

insta notes:

forgot what it's like to hate Instagram cropping :>

anyways joined an art discord for critique n stuff and they had a ~redraw an old art piece thing~ so this is that.

2nd slide is the old one - ~ April 7 2020

3rd slide is a ~30min quick sketch of what itd be like if I hadn't had the idea of changing the whole drawing 4 fun

the old drawing was supposed to be a personified candy (nerds) but I didnt wanna do that that

I acc deleted the sketch layers 😥😣

Colour Reduction Printmaking Assignment | Ronald Mcwongald

September 18, 2022 - November 2022

Inspired by John dies at the end. What David Wong, resident non-chinese protagonist, saw in the window of a Mcwongalds on a normal Tuesday morning.

Gr12 assignment where we could either choose this or a still life/realistic pencil drawing of a 'terrible beauty.' We got to choose between these two because there's just not enough time to do all of these assignments in a semester, and we've done still lives all 3 previous years. All the people who chose still life are cucks.

I don't have the linoblock anymore 😭😭. I forgot to steal it when I took all my artworks home and when I sent my friend to get it for me the next year they didn't have it ??!??!?!?! It must be in that art room somewhere rahh

Lining up the prints was soo hard. Especially for the last layer because there was so little material left on the block that it would really easily shift around. I was smart by picking this subject, though. Any extra red smears just add to the blood, and whenever they don't line up it just makes it more distorted and fucked up 💀😏

Paint on fancy paper