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Sketchbook/Intro Assignments

September-November 2020

Starry Eyes: Sept 18, 2020

Phoenix sketch: Sept 27, 2020

Wasp sketch: Oct 1, 2020

Superpower: Oct 1, 2020

Door: Oct 18, 2020

Plant silhouette: Oct 30, 2020

Pose practice: Oct 30, 2020

Houses: Oct 30, 2020

Nighttime forest: Nov 2, 2020

Misc gr10 sketchbook assignments

Pencil, pen and charcoal on sketchbook paper

Pumpkin Carving | Vampire ¿?

October 25, 2023

Cute little pumpkin I carved during an event at my rez. It stayed outside my dorm room until it was relocated outside due to rot 💔

Knife on pumpkin

January 4, 2024

Three tiny little paintings I did during a paint night with friends. Played around with underpainting and letting the chosen colour shine through.

Acrylic paint and india ink on canvas

Kill la Kill | Mako Mankanshoku

28 Feb 2021

.kra notes:

Gradient tool

Alpha lock

Clipping + Normal groups

Overlay + Multiply layers

+3 brushes (textures)

Lighting

~Colours, yellow/orange backlit, blue-orange shadows

~Colouring metal/metal shines

Exporting

:o

"mako.kra" goku uniform Mako Mankanshoku,, Kill la Kill

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

Wait! I'm camouflaging right now! | Steller's Jay

~March 2020

Little painting I made during a paint night with my family. Was me playing around with specialized colour palettes.

Acrylic paint on mixed media paper

Sketchbook Assignment 1-6

~September - November 2021

gr11 art sem1

Just fun little jacked up sketchbook pages

Pencil and pen on sketchbook paper

Masquerade

December 30, 2023 - January 4, 2024

Sketched/inked throughout winter break, painted during jan 4 paint night.

I had first thought up a piece like this years ago, and it was meant to be an illustration of what I imagine when I listen to Wriggle by Cosmo Sheldrake. I found it over the winter break and got inspired to make this. Didn't take a picture of the old concept, but the bird and the masquerade mask were both parts of it. And me using the red/yellow colour palette was me staying true to the og concept.

Took a scan of the lineart before colouring in the mask. Had to do it twice because the painting was too big for the scanner 🥲. Still need to splice together the two imgs to get the full piece as one scan.

The gold bits were painted on sometime sem2 year1 of uni (and after the end date listed above) but it was so little that I'm fine w the fake finish date.

I was planning on colouring the entire piece, but the mask in it of itself was annoying enough, and I thought it looked good w just that part coloured. I've asked around if people think it looks finished with how it is now, and most people say no 😭. I've gotten different suggestions for what to do to make it look more complete, but I don't really fw any of them (but I also think it looks does as is, so I'm not inclined to modify it at all in the first place).

The suggestions:

Colour the candelabra in blues to compliment the mask

Add shading to the rest of the obj

Microns, watercolour, acrylic paint and india ink on watercolour paper

June 27, 2022

random phone sketches brainstorming something to possibly plasma cut to turn the robot part into an art piece I can hang up on my wall.

Never came to fruition 😢

July 26, 2023

Painting of a butterfly guy I did at the cottage trip. I have a little butterfly oc thingy that I've been meaning to make an illustration of, and this was me taking that character and making them 99% butterfly.

There's a couple things I messed up on w the colouring, but what's done is done

Watercolour and microns on watercolour paper