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Mom's Birthday Card

Cards

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A little while ago was my mother’s birthday. She’s always been an inspiration for me artistically, so I absolutely had to make something from scratch.

I was at the craft store and came across this item called grunge paper. It’s a fairly thick soft cardboard like material that is almost rubbery. I think there’s a lot more potential with this material than I accomplished this time. I cut out some butterfly wings and used my Shinhan markers to fade colors in.

I didn’t think too far ahead what I was going to do for the butterfly body, so I found some scrap paper that I folded for structure and wrapped the string around it for texture. Glue gun makes everything stick together!

I think it came out prettier than I thought because it was a spur of the moment crafting. At least my mom was happy and that’s what matters. <3

Keeping Organized

Supplies
new markers
more markers
grey markers

I went to a gaming convention recently, absolutely not intending to look or get any art supplies. Yet, there was a vendor there that was an art supply store. OMG they were selling Shinhan markers for a great price. I stood staring at the rack for at least half an hour debating what markers I already owned. I knew I had to take the opportunity to purchase some because Shinhan is harder to find in stores in my area.

Because I wasted about an hour of my life debating markers, I decided to catalogue the colors I own just in case I ever happen across another sale. Sometimes, it’s actually useful being organized.

Green vest

Sketchbook

I realised I need more colours of markers. I really wanted to make this girl more pale, vampire-ish, but that is the lightest color I have that looks skin-like. Not to mention for clothing… All other colors were much too strong. Perhaps I’ll use color pencils next time.

Ms Robin Hood

Sketchbook

I wish I remembered to date this when I first drew it, then inked it. At least today, I markered it in. I wanted to do a semi-futuristic sci-fi type of drawing. I think I got it for the most part. When it came down to coloring it… the browns and greens just gravitated up. Now I have a semi-futuristic sci-fi type Robin Hood character that has much story writing potential. Wooh!

hand and cloth

Sketchbook

There were three main things I wanted to practice on in this drawing — the hand, cloth and hair. Initially I didn’t know where this was going when I first sketched it. Finished, came back to it and then decided to ink it. When I finally purchased a marker set, I started looking for some sketches to color in and this was it.

The sketchbook is one of my favourites. Gifted to me by my best friend, I was curious to see how it would handle marker. Finch Paper at 100lbs the ink will bleed through to the other side, but not enough to ink onto the next page. The pages are so smooth — I’ll be doing a lot more inking and marker work in this book.