Gun

This is a gun and some roses that I did for my mentor.  I  gave it to her after she finished my tattoo and she loved it.  She has a fascination with guns, haha.  First I penciled this drawing, and then I painted it.  I wanted it to look old, so I took a tea bag and seeped it in a little bit of hot water and painted the background with it.  I painted the leaves of the roses with green tea, and the roses with this weird berry tea in my kitchen.  I painted the gun with some black tea.  I also used grey water color paint with some of the tea to make shadows.  I don't usually paint with tea, (well actually, I've never done that before) but I was feeling experimental.  I really liked how this one turned out. 

Jellyfish

I am super excited about how this piece turned out.  I love it so much.  It took about 6 hours in total to complete.  It started out as a pencil drawing.  Next I used watercolor paint to paint the blue background.  I painted around the jellyfish.  I then painted the actual jellyfish. The next day, I realized that the tops of the two bottom jellyfish were just shaped really awkward, so I took out my paint again and made them a bit more rounded.  I then inked the drawing, which took a long time because the ink pens I have don't really like to work on top of paint.  After I inked them, I did some finishing touches with pencil crayon.  I really, really like this piece, and I'm sad now that I don't get to keep it, because it's a birthday gift for someone else. Wah. Oh well. I hope they like it as much as I do.  

"Ladybug"

Completed October 28th, 2013

I decided it was time to draw something more realistic. This drawing took me about 3 and a half hours to complete. I didn't think it would take very long, but shading everything to look real actually takes a really long time. This drawing started out as a pencil drawing, and then I coloured it with pencil crayons.  I'm not completely thrilled with it. I think it looks better further away then up close.  I don't like how the shine part on it's wings turned out, but I like the way it's head looks.

"Koi"

Completed October 20th, 2013

Doing this drawing was fun, because I really enjoy just drawing things in pencil.  At first it was just a line drawing, and then later I filled in all the shading.  This piece took me about 4-5 hours in total.  Something I really struggle with is drawing scales, but I got a bit of practice drawing that snake a few weeks ago, so drawing the scales on this drawing wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be.  I also struggle with eyes sometimes, but his eyes in this piece turned out well.  I feel like there is a lot of pressure to get the eyes right, because the eyes capture the whole soul of the animal. If the eyes are off, the whole drawing is off. I think I did it justice.  I'm really happy with this drawing. 

"Snake With Tiger Lilies"

Completed on October 10th, 2013

Doing this piece was really fun.  First I sketched it with pencil.  I then used water color paint.  It was kind of tricky, because the water color paint covered up the pencil lines, which made it hard to ink afterwards because I couldn't see some of the lines.  I like how I painted the snake in a really loose style, but the ink is very tight and detailed.  The only thing I don't like about this piece is the snake's belly underneath the top right tiger lily. It doesn't really match up with how a snakes belly would actually be.

"Time Is An Illusion"

Completed on September 29th, 2013

This piece took me about 5 hours to complete.  It started with a pencil sketch, which I inked over afterwards.  I then colored it with pencil crayons.  I think the color on this piece worked out really well. I don't like the way the top of the stop watch turned out though, the two sides don't match.  The word "Time" is also not centred on the banner, which bugs me.