Phoenix 2 (2013)

This is supposed to be a draft for the next course I have. I'm supposed to make a relief that has a meaning for me. Well, I drew this based on my another phoenix drawing. Once again, tattoo/tribal style. Dunno, these kinda drawings work for me, I don't need to be that accurate with everything, because I can spend hours on details. Seriously. These are rather quick to do and they look hella neat. Decided to leave this without color, so I can get a copy and work on levels. I have a lot of work to do...

Craft: Apple (2013)

Now this was interesting. With no filling, this sat on my scanner for a while, until last night I finished it. The filling I used was clumpy and old (ancient), so it left it heavy and a bit uneven. It looked like a bell pepper at one point (as I wrote this, my classmate behind me spoke about bell peppers), but thankfully it now looks like an apple. The red yarn is 7-Veljestä by Novita. Bonus, my hand holding it. It just didn't look good on the turned over mousemat.

Craft: Small Rose (2013)

Tiny rose I crocheted a while back, I'm planning on making a bigger one, that was rather challenging. Also, I might switch yarns completely. The light green is Nalle Aloe Vera wool yarn from Novita, the red is cotton or something, but it was nice and shiny. This was rather painful to make, I was VERY exhausted while making this, it was 3am when I finally finished it and simply crashed. Every petal is done separately and every crocheter knows the spirals are natural state of the crochet.

This is Halloween (2013) WIP

This is still work in progress, I'm out of idea what to put there. I can't leave it like this though. Graah! This will also eventually be on sale.

TD: Lady in Turquose (2013)

This was an interesting project. I used a model from Drawing Shojo of different nationalities and this was ancient... indian? Anyway, I had my fiancée pose for me too. I'm kinda pleased with this, only problem is I forgot how the fabric folds and that digs me still. I'm happy with the hair though. And the gold jewelry, though they could have more shine in them. Maybe her facial features a tad bit too Caucasoid to my taste.

Reconstruction of Nike of Samothrace WIP (2013)

Nike is one of my favorite goddesses, first one I ever drew. It bothers me that her statue is this broken, so I'm trying to draw her complete, so she can get what she deserves.
This will be my take of this and I have honest to goddess, no idea how this will turn up eventually.

Random doodles (2013)

Half abstract what I drew on my fabric designing class. My most random doodles in years...

Elements and boxes (2013)

First box is made of glass, the second from snow and the third... was supposed to be brushed metal. I have no idea what it is. The shadows in the brushed metal go in different way, it's darker towards the light.

Marker hand (2013)

The last work, with this, we had any tool in use, I had incidentally brought my markers, so I went with my ProMarkers. Teacher was surprised with the colors being from a marker, but I like this.

Couch cover (2013)

The final work was in three parts. First, we had to look for a painting that pleased our eye with the colors. I chose an ancient Egyptian painting of a vulture from someone's tomb. Then, we needed to take the colors and create something of our own, something that could be from our respective lines of work. I wanted to keep the vulture, but no. Even the stripes are from there. And the balls. I guess I'm too neurotic for this.
Anyways, we had to keep the proportions of colors, hence the black-blue (which my camera blew again) being dominant. We had to then paint that, either with gouache/watercolors, or acrylics. I obviously went for the acrylics and cried blood how others treated the paints and the brushes. Also flipped off when they shook our desks.

The third part was to show a new side of the said design and place it in a normal environment.

I chose to depict the corner, which shows it has more of that clay red, close up of the fuzzy ball and of course, our cat.

Painted from photo (2013)

The original photo was taken by Ian Cameron, he takes wonderful pictures, I actually had two of his photos as options, but teacher and I came to a conclusion this had more challenge over bluescale winter picture. This was hard as hell and believe me, looks better from afar and without the model image. Acrylics on watercolor paper.

Abstract Star Trek style (2013)

Random ass name, I don't like Star Trek, I'm more of Star Wars kinda girl. Anyway, we had to make an abstract painting with different shades. We were told to plan it carefully. I didn't. This isn't even close to my original plan, I just painted slabs with minimal attempt to make it look like a tunnel. Failed, but I don't care. Honestly, I simply don't care.

Halloween table (2013)

This is the last pencil work. I like the results sometimes, but after a week of greyscale, my mind was screaming for colors. We got a homework. We had to draw a random nook of our house/apartment and draw it with the grid. I didn't use the grid and to be honest, the image is from the depths of Google Search.

Shadowed Chair (2013)

Another pencil work, we also had to use the grid, but with my wobbly left hand, it's nearly impossible to nail it, so most of this is once again, straight from my view instead of usage of the grid.

Greyscale Hand (2013)

This was a bitch. My hand, once again, as you probs can tell from the nails, if you know me at all. Also, we used a transparent sheet and with one eye closed, drew the outlines and drew with the grid. We had 4-square grid, I used half of it, I can't think inside the box, I always think outside the box. We colored the background to mid-grey before tackling this. Well, it's a bit better then the previous one.

Heavy Metal Hand (2013)

Naturally. Made with pencil on yellowish croquis paper. My left hand. I rock, goddamnit!

Itten's Color Circle (2013)

We had to make this as accurate as we could. I just had to add the black details. Simply had to. At least it stood out. Also, we were once again, have to use watercolors in arts class, I went all fuck the police again with few others and used gouache. She didn't mention it. I win.