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Stamp making

Crafts

This is the first go at making a stamp. I’m pretty pleased with how it came considering the size of it. Took about an hour just trying to carve it out.

Sketchbook Project mailed!

Projects

I finally submitted (on time no less!) my sketchbook from the project I signed up to do.

This was hard to complete for me. If I did have more time, I would’ve done more ink work and perhaps may have even used other colors. The most difficult part was keeping up with the idea I started with. Somehow I knew it would come out to a bunch of portraits. I wanted to add more text to each image but thinking of titles or headlines is the worst part.

I’m just glad that I feel like I completed something, especially so early in the new year. I’ll post an update when they post the scanned version. (Hopefully that blue pencil comes out.)

The Sketchbook Project

Projects

There’s a project out there that anyone can participate in called The Sketchbook Project. I haven’t been to the Art Library in person, but I thought the concept was a great idea. You get the sketchbook and it just looks so small and compact. Once I started drawing in it, I had this idea to draw on every single page, but I’m only a few pages through, so it feels daunting. I’ll just have to keep plugging along and we’ll see. I want to be able to submit it in time for the “tour” they take some of the books on. My only request is that they make a stop in DC.

Moto Girl

Sketchbook

I drew this a while ago. Been tweaking it and waiting for some time to just color it. Today I just said eff it and I’ll use pen. Pen is a pretty nice tool for shading. I’ll have to do some more stuff in pen.

Tomb Raider contest

illustration

There is this contest on DeviantArt that ended last night. It was for the new Tomb Raider game that came out. I’ve never entered in a art contest before, let alone try to draw someone else’s characters like so.

It was fun coming up with ideas, but I just didn’t get a chance to put as much time into it. I would’ve liked to have done coloring digitally, but at the moment my desktop is dead. I considered using marker but I didn’t feel like I had enough color range.

Digging up old sketchbooks

Sketchbook

I was beginning a bit of spring cleaning the other day and came across an old sketchbook. I used this book from high school into college but never really got to mark up all the pages. Here are a few highlights of what I was able to crank out at the time.

I always liked the way this book came out. It kind of represents a more hopeful time for me; I felt more imaginative and yet not challenged then. (Compared to these days, it’s a challenge to just begin with the first stroke sometimes. That’s just RL getting in the way.)

Looking back on old work does help me realize that I have gotten better and it’s somewhat re-inspiring. At the least, I can establish that technique has evolved and I can believe my imagination can work again.