Spider Pendants

          Over the weekend I was able to meet up with my friends so of course I rushed to make some things to give to them. This was also an experiment to see what I could do with this Easy Cast stuff one of my friends recommended to me to use. It was easy to figure out and the results were great. They start off looking terrible with loads of tiny bubbles but those bubbles eventually all float up to the surface and pop.

       They turned out fantastic but it's too bad I don't have anything to put them on but cheap flimsy chains. I will need to save up to buy something good for that. Speaking of which I also I made another dragon keychain with one of the flimsy chains and it turns out that they break pretty easily. Someone somewhere now has a pretty neat little dragon wearing a little orange scarf.... I didn't even remember to take a picture of it. Oh well.

Vacation

Look at my red wall! So yes, I was on vacation for a little while. Making a terribly low amount of art things.
I was able to do a few pieces of ceramic pottery. The clay was fun to work with but some of the glazes didn't turn out how I thought they would. The blue monster was supposed to be shiny. Oh well.

I also did a few little monster things like these, which wasn't really the best idea. Ceramics is different from sculpey and isn't made for small stuff like this. So they broke a little. I will make some sculpey versions later.

Copy Catting

One day I woke up and was determined to try out a coloring style based of the art of a friend of mine. Sometimes it's good to try to be inspired or imitate a style because that actually makes me try to think about how to color things in a different way. I also threw in a couple of her themes that she puts in every picture she has. She is still better than me at drawing flowers and moths.

Here are some of her drawings that I was looking at:

To check out more of her stuff, try her Etsy store!

Not Much to Update With

I've been experimenting a little with drawing without leaving any lines. I don't know the word for it, if there even is a word. I kinda like it.

Catsup

Sorry guyz I've been busy with library books. I've got about ...one two three four......7 nice thick books I've been trying to read all at the same time. And that's after the library rang down its overdue hammer on half of them. Ha!ha! I love Socialism sometimes!

Though I haven't been all about reading about goofy stuff. I've also been trying out different inking styles and doohickeys in Photoshop and Illustrator. As a note though, all of these doodles are pretty crap. I just focused on inking stuff.

The thing I hate about Illustrator is that it obviously draws like a computer would draw and not like a real pen.I'm still learning so everything looks real flashy.

Very subtle line shapes get all kinds of messed up for no reason other than the program's over-willingness to try to help "correct" them.

It is real annoying trying to draw one simple curve and end up redrawing it twelve times. And I still won't get it just how I really wanted it.

 I'm not saying I don't like it though. Vector drawing is pretty cool. Plus it makes changing the line colors real easy. But don't try to actually color the stuff in Illustrator. Oh no. I wasted 1 and a half hours just trying to color it. Ship inked doodles off to Photoshop.

This one is inked in photoshop. I usually don't like doing that because I have to work REAL HUGE to make things look nice. I can get the lines a little better than Illustrator, but this doodle is about 1/8th of the size I had to work at. Bleh. That takes up a lot of save space.

So yeah, maybe I'll look into other programs like Manga studio, since lots of people seem to like that. I remember using a free trail a few years ago but it would glitch out on me a lot. Still, I guess I can try it again. And I'll get back to posting regularly.