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Chinese watercolor behaves really differently from sumi on rice paper and it keeps throwing me off.
Last of the pieces from Have You Eaten, on display through June 11th. You can see all three pieces and some photos from the opening reception here.
Another piece from Have You Eaten, which opened last week. You can see all three pieces and some photos from the opening reception here.
My mom asked me what the red thing was and why it’s drippy and I said it’s probably? The sun? And drippy makes it look cool okay. Also rice paper hates me. Art is deep.
One of three new scrolls debuting as part of Have You Eaten x Kasama Space’s Meryenda show, opening this Wednesday, May 17th. Opening reception from 5-8pm.
I feel like the more I work with rice paper, the harder it gets… trying to hold a giant scroll with one hand while taking a photo of it with the phone in my other hand remains a consistent level of difficulty, however.
I’ve baaaasically had the same business card since 2015, wowee…
Still kinda obsessed with the whole concept of square word calligraphy.
I’ve made the very obvious discovery that the supplies I never use are great for just brain-off doodle time.
The green Tombow Fudenosuke is a really similar shade to the random highlighter (it’s a Bic brite liner, but do I want to make a tag for it? not really…) I’ve probably had kicking around in a drawer for 10 years at least. It still feels like a big waste to use a Fudenosuke to color random stuff, but that’s the only practical use of the yellow imo…
Colored inks are for doodling. Dunno how those red splotches of paint got in there though.
Meeting doodle.
Figured I’d use some of my colored Fudenosukes, but it looks better in black with texture. Maybe the original would look good with some flat color though.
Took some animal prompts and doodled with no reference. The little chickens are definitely just… Peeps. And the skunk definitely turned into a squirrel.
I’ve learned that other people take way better notes than me, so now the weekly meeting mostly produces doodles…
Was at a drawing meetup, but didn’t know what to draw, so I just doodled a bunch of tigers. No ref, no sketch, no masters, only ink and strips. Digital texture and color later.
Last one has a weird limp wrist, huh.
I’ve wanted to make this sticker for ages.
Meeting doodle. Which means no reference and I don’t know what tigers look like.
For this year’s Stanza show, where artists are assigned a poem to draw inspiration from and make art for. I got to draw for my friend Lore’s poem, which was fun and also great because there are bikes in the poem and we met via bikes. :3
The original’s available at Push/Pull along with the anthology zine with all the poetry and some additional art!
Meeting doodles.
Wooper are too cute for me to draw properly, but I love them.
The Daiso Illustration marker gets super splotchy if you blend colors dark to light like I usually do lol.
From the Daiso Illustration marker review. I hate how often I use this pose, but it’s the easiest way to fit a big dumb tail onto the page. ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
Were cabbits always this hard to draw? I don’t remember… Sold at the Sakura-Con Art Show.
Ai Orikasa’s Renai no Jikuu/Dimension of Love (man, remember when they dubbed insert songs??) has been on repeat for a week because it’s seasonally appropriate. It was an insert song in Tenchi Universe, and I guess I gotta figure out where tf I can stream the series these days.
More for the Sakura-Con Art Show, which will be on the 4th floor of the new Summit building this year, which is as far as it can possibly be from Artist Alley, because whoever is doing layouts for this con hates me specifically, I guess.
I don’t know if I like taking photos of these better or if I like scanning them. I guess photos feel a bit better when it’s a whole mess of doodles rather than one bigger, singular doodle. 🤔
Sometimes there aren’t a lot of things to take notes of, okay.
This sketchblog is a dumping ground for sketches, studies, scribbles, process drawings, WIPs, disjointed ideas, OCs, commissions, trades, etc. It’s basically a catch-all repository for art I want to share.
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