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DTIYS | @/Lilyntx on instagram

December 24, 2019 - December 27, 2019

DTIYS entry

This person doesn't seem to exist on insta anymore.

Watercolour, india ink and acrylic paint on watercolour paper

AAM Inktober Day 3: Garden

October 3, 2024

Initially wanted to do a full garden, but I was a bit tired of doing full backgrounds so i settled for a tomato plant

Pretty simple, I like the different textures I can get with this one brush. Sometimes reminds me of the technique used in chinese paintings to draw bamboo/trees

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 20: Split

October 20, 2024 India Ink on Paper

The last inktober drawing i ended up doing for this season 🥶

For the entirety of this one the pen was officially out of ink. I made do with just using it as a brush pen w my india ink.

Although, that's definitely the main reason the challenge died for me. Not having the convenience of just whipping out the pen whenever I felt like it got rid of pretty much all instances where I would typically work on these drawings, especially when art was slowly becoming something I wasn't able to prioritize nearly as much cos school 🥲

Not to mention it was really annoying,, it's just not the same as the ink flowing from within the pen 😩

Watercolour Assignment | Great Blue Heron

~December 2020

Gr11 watercolour painting assignment. Painted a great blue heron I pictured in the pond near my house.

Painted the background first, but had to lift a lot of the colour because it was too vibrant before.

I used masking tape to mask out the spots of the foreground plants, but it bled a lot and I didn't save as much of the white space as I should've.

Second image is watercolour practice I did beforehand. Used some of the tips from a watercolour art book I'd been gifted

Watercolour 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.

Introductory Sketchbook Assignments

~February 2020

Gr 9 sketchbook assignments that were meant to teach us the differences between the following terms:

Inspiration

Appropriation

Plagiarism

Notes:

These are three characters I like to draw that were initially inspired by the angel on one shoulder devil on the other trope. It's an example of inspiration because that trope inspired me and I wouldn't have reached this result without it. Pen on sketchbook paper

This is appropriation because I used elements of another person's art/work (cutouts from a magazine) and created my own art out of it Acrylic paint, pen, and magazine cutouts on sketchbook paper

This is MY painting. Completely original. This is a totally new concept that has NEVER been done before! Van Gogh who? Did you just think that it wasn't Van Gogh who painted this? You're right! Because it's MINE. I thought we established that already. (Let's pretend this isn't a painting that's well known) This is an example of plagiarising because I'm taking someone's own art/creation and claiming it as my own.

Coloured pencil, ballpoint pen and acrylic paint on sketchbook paper

February 2024

Skull I painted in my dorm one night.

Acrylic paint on canvas

Alien | Xenomorph

Drew the majority of this when I should've been working on a presentation 🗣️🗣️

Edited afterwards to increase the contrast btwn the colours and increase the width of the green stripe because the stickers I received from stickermule were really dark.

Most of the details are made up because there weren't many clear reference pictures, and the details varied depending on the reference anyways.

Anifest Artist's Alley

November 5, 2024

The fated day finally came!! Definitely was a stressful time. I made stands for the sticker promo board and the board I hung the posters on at the makerspace earlier in the day. Me and my friend also made cute little fandom labels for the stickers.

I invited quite a few of my friends to come hang out during this debacle. It was a blessing and a curse. One of my friends in particular kept on pissing me off by constantly nagging me abt how "increase profits." Actually got pissed off to such a high degree but I digress.

Anyways, the event was really cute. There were a LOT of vendors. Hot damn, was the room crowded. A lot of them were also seasoned vendors which was pretty crazy. I wish I had gone around and been more friendly to them, but I see why I didn't this event had me exhausted before it even began.

I ended up setting the pricing as: 3$ for one large sticker, 5$ for two large stickers, $1 for one small sticker, and $15 for one poster.

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Things I learned:

Less clutter! The table was really overwhelming and I'd like space to put my laptop for excel tracking xP

Actually have people follow my art account for receiving my stamp for the stamp rally

Just chillll, have a good timee. It'll be a lot easier when I do it again because 90% of the work will already be done, but I still need to remember that this is for the fun sillies and that I don't need to focus on numbers at all.

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According to my Excel sheet (which definitely is not 100% accurate because I forsure missed a few things), the data is as follows:

58 Stickers Sold

0 Posters Sold

Cost: 141.35

Revenue: 118

Profit: -23.35

Note: the cost includes sticker paper/some supplies that I didn't actually use, but because it was related I included it. Also, the vinyl was apparently 50$ which I swear it wasn't- never in my right mind would I buy that. Still put it in as 50$ because whtvr.

The most popular sticker designs were: The Knight (13), Coraline (7), and Grimm (6).

**Some of them were traded for other stickers / not exactly sold**

0 posters sold?? Yepppp. I think it's less of a pricing problem, but more of a people just weren't interested in the fandoms. I would've sold them for any amount of money tbh, but noone seemed interested. Plus, I tried to do a poster trade with someone and they declined because they weren't familiar with any of the fandoms. I mean I didn't know the fandoms their posters were about either, but ig a lot of people aren't interested in posters purely for the illustration 🥲🥲

So I have a lot of posters... Teehee. I'll definitely try to sell them next year again (as I will with the leftover stickers), but I don't know if it'll make much of a difference. Hopefully, though 🙏🙏🙏

Idk man it's strange because I genuinely look at those four pieces and am so proud that I made it. Like the craftsmanship yo. I can't tell if I'm genuinely just being delusional, but it's not like anyone close to me has given me the impression that they're actually terrible drawings either.

Ofc my own opinion is what matters most, and despite the doubt that the lack of sales for these posters has given me, it hasn't changed how much I absolutely love those pieces. Especially because the technique I used changes for each one. All of them give me a different thought of "I can't believe I made that" and takes me out of the whole 'I can immediately tell how I made that' mindset that I fall into when subconsciously trying to devalue my art/skills. I really have to think to recall the techniques I used to make each piece (O.K. maybe not the hellboy one but still), because they're all so damned complicated. Idk I love them a lot, but I will be forever a little bit bummed that other people don't love them as much as I.

August 11, 2024

Little sparkly ocean painting i did at a cafe with friends. Underpainted using a mix of metallic white and yellow, so when the painting catches the light it sparkles ✨. Can't really see it in the photos though 💔

Acrylic paint on canvas