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.