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Miscellaneous | Caravan Palace, Jordi, Little Nightmares II, Rush Hour, Sir Chloe, Dark Shadows (Barnabas Collins), Cowboy Bebop (Spike), League of Legends (Ashe)

~September-November 2021

Bunch of unfinished fanart for random ass things

Crow Costume | Claws

October 31, 2020 - October 28, 2021

Originally I wanted to manually create/CAD/sculpt my own articulated finger extensions, but I had the self awareness to figure out that that was beyond my skill level. Also there's so many CAD models of these online it was a bit too easy. I still want to make my own version of these someday, but 2021 was not the time 💀

OH yeah even before that I didn't just want to make finger extensions, I wanted to make a wooden arm and hand that hand moveable fingers. Inspired by smth similar I saw on yt. I think I was deterred from this option because of how difficult it would've been to carve the wood.

I got the CAD models for free on thingyverse ❤️. At first I tried 3D printing these on my 3D printer, but I didn't know how to adjust the settings to have a print actually work (pieces would always peel up from the build plate) so I eventually outsourced it to my auto teacher lmao.

Assembling these was a trip, but we made it through >:) 💪

Didn't end up ever painting these guys, so they just existed as uglies.

Super glue and PLA filament on 3D printer magic

Crow Costume | Mask

October 31, 2020 - October 27, 2021

Templates: Dec 19, 2020

Base glued together: Sep 22, 2021

Mask Dremelling: Oct 7, 2021

Foam clay: Oct 17, 2021

Teeth sculpting: Oct 18, 2021

Base paint colour: Oct 25, 2021

Mouth paint colour: Oct 26, 2021

Glue teeth: Oct 27, 2021

This idea came from Halloween day 2020, and I brainstormed possible ideas Oct/Nov 2020. This whole endeavor was inspired by seeing articulated finger extensions on youtube.

This took a lot of time. There were quite a lot of lulls, but days upon days of work went into this. I didn't start taking progress pictures until ~October 2021, so a lot of the process just lives in my head.

By far the most difficult part of the project was figuring out the template for the crow mask itself. I knew of the whole wrap a body part in clingwrap and then duct tape to get a template, which I did around my head to get the inner headpiece, but that only works for fitted things.

I did a whole bunch of tomfoolery over gr10 winter break to get around this. I make like a paper mockup of my head, and then I built off of it with paper tubes to get general shape and structure of the crow mask down. This took so long omfg. I wish I'd taken a picture. I made a huge mess of the house for weeks over the break as I slaved over this stupid shite. Once i'd gotten it,,, it was just like,,,, kinda rudimentarily figuring out what size the foam pieces would be 😭

It worked out eventually, but man was it annoying 💀

I don't think I worked on it much after that until sept/oct 2021. Beginning of october was the final rush because I really wanted it done for the halloween.

When gluing together the pieces, I didn't have any barge contact cement so it was a struggle. Initially I was using a contact cement, but it didn't work well with the EVA foam, and I found that I was able to just pull the glue off once it'd become tacky (wouldn't even damage the foam - was just laying on top of it). So I used a lot of superglue and... other types of glue I can't remember to force em together.

Used a dremel tool and foam clay to smoothen the seams and add more details.

Magnets are embedded in the jaw for movement and to hold the jaw in place. Initially, I wanted the lower jaw to move up and down as I move my jaw, but I never figured out a way to get the torque to achieve that (and it was too late to go down that rabbit hole once i'd realised that the jaw wasn't working as I'd hoped).

Painting was a couple layers of mod podge followed by acrylic paint and then a couple sealing coats of varnish.

Teeth were made out of peachy-coloured polymer clay and glued into the mouth after it was painted. They were used to mould the foam clay gums prior to painting.

Then it was done!

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Materials List:

Eva foam

Super glue

Contact Cement

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Acrylic Varnish

Gloss Varnish

Foam Clay

Polymer Clay

Crow Costume | Shoes

September 22, 2021 - October 27, 2021

Resizing and heels cut: Sept 22, 2021

Paper mockup: Sept 23, 2021

Glued to tights: Oct 24, 2021

Painted and glued little pieces: Oct 27, 2021

This was a later addition accompanying the mask and claws. Took inspiration from hoof heels.

Used an old pair of high heels with a large base. Cut the heels off (hacksaw and jigsaw for the final bolt/metal thingy). Also expanded the shoe size in the heel and toe areas by making vertical cuts and then sewing them to a larger size with red wire 😭

Then came the paper mockup that was essential for me to painstakingly figure out the template for the toes. These all got the foam clay and dremel treatment for extra detail 😋. The painting process went the same as the mask

I traced the bottom of the shoes onto paper and used that to cut sheets of rubber to the perfect size to act as the shoes' soles. I then glued the soles onto the black stockings when they were around the shoes. I glued the toes onto the shoes once they were done, as well as some EVA foam scales I'd made to smoothen the transition

Claws were made out of the same polymer clay as the masks' teeth and then glued into the dawgs

These are definitely my favourite component of the costume. I just think they're really sleek and fun to walk in and cool.

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Materials List:

High heels

Rubber

Stockings

Eva foam

Super glue

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Acrylic Varnish

Gloss Varnish

Foam Clay

Polymer Clay

Finding Nemo 🤡🐟💀 | Marlin, Nemo, Dory

September 20-24, 2021

Dory: Sept 24, 2021 - Oct 27, 2021

Nemo: Oct 18-27, 2021

insta notes:

swipe for a surprise 🥵😏🍆💦

Sequential hermaphroditism  (called dichogamy in botany) is a type of hermaphroditism that occurs in many fish, gastropods, and plants. Sequential hermaphroditism occurs when the individual changes its sex at some point in its life.[1] In particular, a sequential hermaphrodite produces eggs (female gametes) and sperm (male gametes) at different stages in life.[2] Species that can undergo these changes from one sex to another do so as a normal event within their reproductive cycle that is usually cued by either social structure or the achievement of a certain age or size.[3]

Tl;dr, marlin would become a woman a few months after finding nemo and then nemo would bang her

2021 - 2022 Yearbook Cover Contest

October 6, 2021 - October 13, 2021

My entry for the yearbook cover contest in gr11. Didn't win 😢

I remember really really struggling to come up w an idea for this. I'm okay with the front cover (I think that bull needs some work), but I think I should've used the back cover's watercolour theme throughout. I prefer that look a lot more.

October 7, 2021

Did this thing a lot in gr11 where I'd draw over photos of my friends. Here's one pseudo inspired by howl's moving castle

Vinyl Printmaking Assignment

~September/October 2021

Gr11 assignment that was a bit of a disaster. Cutting the shapes out of the vinyl was ez, but I remember the printing itself was a disaster.

Kinda doesn't work but that's aight. Meant to be the printmaking where you scrape ink onto a shirt or smth and there's the fabric thingy in between.

I tried printing it on my sketchbook before but it didnt work cos the ink was made for fabric. Did it now w acrylic, but it bled a lot. Could do the strat where u paint in base colour first nd then the wanted colour, probably.

Spring Plant Trilogy | Ti plant, Algaonema, Caladium

April 12, 2021 - August 22, 2021

I wanted to do a whole four seasons of plant trilogies, where each one had a different colour theme that fit the season. This was for spring.

Unfinished, and idk if I'll ever get around to finishing it.

!!! I found my old notes on the chosen plants for each season. !!! This ups the chance that I'll return to this series.

Autumn:

Croton plant

Orange coleus

Flapjack

Winter:

Poinsettia

Blue hosta

Peacock fern

Acrylic paint on canvas

Genshin Impact | La Signora, Klee, Diona, Qiqi

June 29, 2021 - August 8, 2021

Genshin fanart I've worked on on and off since around when I stopped playing.

Finished la signora's fanart during several calc lecs. Started using it as a way to practice adding the whole colour jitter when rendering to make it more interesting.

Development of colour theory understanding go woo.

I think it's funny that signora's literally unrecognizable because I gave up on adding all of her accessories (they wldve covered all of my hard posing work :( ).

Dusk Devil, Beastboy, Creation, Snow tree, Ari

~July 31, 2021

Fanart of some of the heroes created by Matt Rose's omegle escapades.

Wanted to do all of them and then also the villains but I lost steam

Album Cover

July 21, 2021

Had an assignment during gr11 online english (summer school) where we had to make a playlist and analyze/justify our song choices. This was a little doodle I ended up using as the cover.

Pencil on paper

Science Video Assignment | Chemical Bonding Animation

May 2021

This is really funny

Covid assignment where we had to make a video teaching a chemistry/science concept for grade 10 science. Had a lot of time on my hands, so I did a lil cute animation.

Notes throughout the video say it all 💀💀🔥

Omori | Omori, Mewo

Apr 25 2021

insta notes:

very fun shading..might do it again maybe for my 10000 goddamn omori wips I lost momentum for 🙄

saved right before the mewo torture cos I 100% thought I'd get some fucked ending

"black space mewo"

Wayne Gretzky

April 16, 2021

Painting of a hockey card I was doing for my brother in-law. I worked on this for like a day and then gave up. Drawing people was not my specialty and I'm still bad at making a drawing of a person look like its real-life counterpart, so making this was frustrating.

Acrylic paint on canvas

School Sketches #1

~Apr 9 2021

First of many school sketch compilations

insta notes:

functions and history scribbles

characters, some posing n foreshortening practice, planning 4 future drawings/painting and scribble

prolly gonna post all my current wips tmrw to see how many, if any at all, I end up finishing during the break

feeling kinda artblocked digitally, at least for when it comes 2 rendering, so I'm probably gonna go more traditional for the next bit.

Morgan, TBN

April 2021

Didn't like and still don't really like either of these two drawings. So much so back then that I archived it from my insta cos I couldn't stand looking at them (and I was embarrassed that i seemingly downgraded in skill)

insta notes:

so uhh I finished this sometime last week but got too lazy to make a post and now I dont remember which day I finished it

i started these at the same time as my mako drawing and oooh boy they'd been wips for wayy too long

ngl I had no idea what to do for the background and everything after the initial cell shading was just me playing around. I like the finished piece for the pink one but I dont rlly like the bg effects on the orange one.

orange one was supposed to have a shotgun of some sorts but uhhh something something the hand position was dif than what I had and I just didnt do it

Lizard Lady 🦎

Mar 25 2021 - Mar 28 2021

.kra notes:

1000 x 1500 canvas size

Lineart - jackpack turnip pen

Bg texture: Flat decay tilt (#2 'fuck'), Jackpack special foliage

Shadows duplicated + gaussian blurred

*tried* split complimentary palette

^ gave up :( don't understand

2 shadow passes + highlight pass

insta notes:

forgot what it's like to hate Instagram cropping :>

anyways joined an art discord for critique n stuff and they had a ~redraw an old art piece thing~ so this is that.

2nd slide is the old one - ~ April 7 2020

3rd slide is a ~30min quick sketch of what itd be like if I hadn't had the idea of changing the whole drawing 4 fun

the old drawing was supposed to be a personified candy (nerds) but I didnt wanna do that that

I acc deleted the sketch layers 😥😣

March 14-21, 2021

Sketches for an unfinished horse/pegasus/alicorn illustration

Self Portraits / PFPs

March 16-21, 2021

buncha random stuff

⚠️Flashing⚠️

AMV | Coffee by Jack Stauber

January 4, 2021 - March 16, 2021

Animation meme/AMV featuring my ocs:

Monarch

Duke

Tyrian

Marine

Iris

My first full blown animation. Could definitely be a lot better, but could also be a lot worse.

Kill la Kill | Nui Harime

Feb 29 2021 - Mar 12 2021

.kra notes:

Krita 4.4.2

Lighting, colour palette, foreshortening

Stupid hair

Soft shading - cell shading erased w airbrush

so many clipping layers + groups

supposed to be moonlit. doesn't really read that well

^^(could've gone for a more downwards red/orange lighting 4 the fire)

took overall less time than the mako (i think)

mako - getting used to krita and digital art in general

nui - further experimenting

bg "thing" and signature taken from mako

more practice on lighting for metal (scissors)

^copied the way it's done in the anime

The scissors are p inconsistently drawn in the anime so not v accurate here

bg trees - "fuck" textured brush #1

4 ref images

insta notes:

played w soft shading. didnt plan on it but the light is sppsd to be from the moon so it was me tryna make it read better

did nui from the flashback cos I like the color palette n why not

I have problems w this drawing being too busy, so I might leave it alone 4 a while n fix it later. details r getting lost - not enough contrast.

p happy w it. kinda on the fence tho

"kill father owo.kra"

Castle kill redraw

March 12, 2021

insta notes:

ayo the whole drawing can't fit in the cropping 😎

redraw of the second pic. og was done sometime in 2016

slide 7 was the hair before I realised that it's at the wrong angle

the skull is kinda out of place, proportionately inconsistent, and looks horrible if mirrored, but I love it.

this was my first choice for the discord thing but they specified that the drawing had to be from 2020.

Colour Ref Sheets | Marine, Monarch, Ivor, Tyrian, Iris, TBN, Duke, Saffron

March 7-9, 2021

Holy fuck what did I do to red's feet why they dogs like that 😭

gotta redraw all of these because I don't draw em like this anymore. And also to do them justice,,, there are improvements to be made

I think I've named them !!! (see updated colour sheet?!! (it has not been made at all at time of writing))

insta notes:

my low effort guys

needed a color ref sheet 4 them

finished b4 the nui one but I dont remember which day. did the sketches the same day I started nui

they're all nameless qwq

done on one file on dif layers. copypasted onto the color ref 4 easier life

"color ref the babs.jpg"

white one.jpg

yellow one

scissordrago

red one

blue one

butterfly

"motal.jpg"

sketches

Kill la Kill | Mako Mankanshoku

28 Feb 2021

.kra notes:

Gradient tool

Alpha lock

Clipping + Normal groups

Overlay + Multiply layers

+3 brushes (textures)

Lighting

~Colours, yellow/orange backlit, blue-orange shadows

~Colouring metal/metal shines

Exporting

:o

"mako.kra" goku uniform Mako Mankanshoku,, Kill la Kill

Kill la Kill | Mako, Nonon, Satsuki, Ira, Rei, Hoka

~Feb 27 2021

Random Kill la Kill sketches

None of these end up becoming a drawing, but it predates most of the kill la kill illustrations I made.

Looking back on this, I gotta do a drawing of nonon sometime in my life... and redo ragyo 😩

Civics and Careers | Misc

February 2021

Grade 10 Civics assignments I turned into art projects 🥰

February 23, 2021

Colour palettes I'm just gonna put here for me to never use 😛

The Babs | Monarch, Duke, Marine, Tyrian

February 3-15, 2021

Random comic thingies with these ocs

The Babs | Robot, Rosewood, TBN, Saffron, Marine, Iris, Duke, Orchid, Rosewood, Eerie

~December 27, 2020 - January 29, 2021

Buncha sketches of my lil bab guys