recently

Hello! Today am going to share some recent art. School has just started, so I’m a bit busier, but I still have quite a lot of time on hand because of quarantine (sometimes posts might be late). I’ve been really into digital art lately, but I’ve also been enjoying my new sketchbook. I haven’t really been doing any big projects.

graphic design

I realllly like doing graphic design (specifically designing logos). On the right is a logo that I made for my brother (which will someday be put up onto my brother’s website). The logo is made up of three abstract rock climbing holds. I made a triadic color palette, which is a palette of three colors that are evenly spaced apart on the color wheel.

The logo on the left is a butterfly I made for my HTML website. I used to have a deep purple logo that, in my opinion, was really really ugly, but I never cared much to redesign it since I was more focused on coding. I found a cool gradient tool in Autodesk Sketchbook which I used for the butterfly. Again, I have a triadic color palette (can you tell I love triadic color palettes?) of lavender, mint and orange.

a new, more realistic collection of eyes

I got back into painting watercolor eyes, but this time I decided I would try to challenge myself a bit and make them more realistic. I went to the mall a couple weeks ago and I got one of those “Beauty Recommendations” papers where there is a picture of a face and you can put makeup on it and write what makeup you put on it. (Pre coronavirus they would have makeup artists that would do your makeup, so maybe this is new.) Anyways, there is a beautiful illustration of an eye on it that I copied for these eyes.

They look pretty creepy together

characters and dolls

Lately I’ve been really into designed my own OC (original character). I’ve always wanted to do it, but it was really intimidating because I can never draw the same face twice. It’s still very much in progress, but you can check out her little draft portraits below. I named her Ariadne, and I’m working on a logo for her because why not?

I’m also currently working on a fall collection for my Digital Paper Doll! It’s gonna be a lot smaller, but I’m really excited for it. Check out these sneak peaks! On the left we have a mask. Nowadays, everybody needs one, so I thought it be a fun thing to do. I also made a bright pink sweater, which I wanted to do for awhile; I don’t know why. (Those pants are from the Summer Collection.)

I hope you enjoyed my collection of recents! Do you have any ideas for my Digital Paper Doll’s fall collection? I’d love to design them. Bye and thanks for reading!

the flower and his monster

Hello! I was a bit out of ideas for this post, but I’ve been meaning to do another Limited Color Palette. Plus, I haven’t done a watercolor painting in a post since *pauses to count my posts* July 11. What? It’s been almost a month.

I knew exactly what colors I wanted to do: vermillion (a warm red) and cerulean (a cool blue). You might be wondering why I’m doing this pair since the in-between colors are indifferent from when I did red brown and cerulean. In that post, I was more focusing on the in-between colors, but this time, I wanted to focus on the un-mixed colors.

I found out that these colors go really well together when I was making one of the swimsuits for my Digital Paper Doll. Also, I only did half of the color palette ’cause I was feeling lazy.

I really didn’t know what I wanted to sketch. I just decided to jump at it and see what happens. Well. It ended up being a cute (I think it’s cute. But also weird.), bald monster staring at a flower. A weird monster and a flower is not rare to see me sketch if I’m out of ideas, though.

I started by coating the sketch in water so that it wouldn’t melt away. Then I added a red-ish color to face. Maybe I should of let the water layer dry first, but I was a bit impatient, so I just went for it. It ended up fine.

I made the flower bright red. At this point I wanted the flower to be the center of the painting, so I used brighter colors for the flower and more muted tones for the monster. This color pairing doesn’t really make brown colors, but it makes gray colors, so it was a bit hard for the monster to look “normal” (as if monsters could look normal).

I love mixing hard edges and soft edges together. It’s very satisfying to make big swipes of watery paint over the page. If you continue to layer these while they are still wet, some will bleed into other wet spots, and some won’t. But I also overdid it a bit so it ended up being all blended. I sorta fixed it later.

Also, I made the eye bright blue, so it was kinda the center of the painting too. I tried to make it look like the flower owns the monster… I don’t know if that is obvious.

Alrighty, here’s the finished painting. I decided to call it The Flower and His Monster. If I think about it, the title kinda sounds like a cheap copy of The Horse and His Boy (by CS Lewis) 😬 Oh well. I really like how the flower turned out. I also added a bubblegum pink background, but it looks kind brownish in the photo.

I hope you liked this interesting Limited Color Palette. What do you think of the color palette? Do you have any color palette suggestions? (Plus, don’t forget to comment your clothing ideas for my Digital Paper Doll!)

Oh, I almost forgot: I changed my logo and theme colors. What do you think of them? I thought the purple was a bit boring, so I decided to go with a bright pink, yellow and teal color palette. I chose to do a flower design instead of something more geometric because it feels more handmade which I think fits my blog better. For those who swapped blog buttons with me, would you mind updating it? Thank you so much! Bye!

My new blog buttonDownload

releasing ‘friends’

Hello! I wasn’t planning on posting this today, but I felt like it, so I did. I’ve got a new product for my shop! Hehe, I also am sharing another Society6 post tomorrow (more in depth than this one), and the product is already published, so you can check that out too 😊

Friends

I created this abstract portrait piece with digital art. I based it off of a photo of two of my friends. (For those who go to the same church as me, can you guess who they are?) I got inspiration for this style from Christina and Camera’s post on digital art.

Friends Art Print

My whole shop

I hope you enjoyed this short post and the design. Plus, I have a sign-off! I’ve been meaning to design one, but I never got around to doing it. Bye!