Magpie Nest

It's another oldie! Well, not too old.. circa last summer :) Just an ink doodle, an illu for my jewelry company Magpie Tendencies ...


I feel like if I were to be an animal of some sort I'd be a magpie ... they're the hoarders of the animal world lol

Narwhal VS. Giant Squid

... the squid won.

My boyfriend and I had a bet a couple months ago (don't remember what we were betting now) but the betting price was one complete illustration, the topic: a narwhal fighting a giant squid. Well, I lost ... but this was probably the best bet to lose :)

Continuing the whole textured-piece-flat-colours look ...

Creating the background took the longest ... working with glasing and scumbling(?) acrylic paint like Terry Schoffner taught us last semester:

Strange Dreams

I keep having these weird dreams, but this is one of the strangest I've had so far. My boyfriend appeared in the dream at one point, and so we thought it would be fun if we both illustrated what I dreamt and then compared our renditions.
My aim this summer was/is to work and further familiarize myself with acrylics ... recently I have been attempting to give my pieces more texture, while still incorporating the bold, flat colours that Gary Taxali pushed last semester ... enjoy :)

Mixed Berries

summer berries with gold ink:

Mother's Day!

Mother's Day this sunday! This is my present ... acrylics and inks on wood ... anyway... back to priming more boards :)

Started painting on my wood panels ... This was a scrap piece I had - repainted over it :)
It's Little Red Riding Hood!

Wheee HeeHeeHee it's a Narwhal

still doodling ... it's a narwhal! :)

Magpie

Sitting in my kitchen listening to Muse and finally working on my jewelry website I've procrastinated on for about 4 years ... here's a sneek-peek of some of the art work for the site:

Quick Card

made a card ...

PEEP PEEP!

:) In the process of making a zine ... it's about a marshmallow peep ...

Chapped Nose

Sketchbook fun! Enjoying the first few days off from school ... but time to paint soon :)

These are my 'anatomy gowns' ... I did the originals in ink last summer and then digitalized them via photoshop and tablet ...

Type Face

Here's another oldie ... my Type Face assignment for Guy McCrum's class first year ... (I've included my reference photo ... there were over 400 photoshop layers in the final copy) ...

FREEDOM!

This is another old one from last semester for Fiona Smyth's class ... can't remember what the assignment was, just that it was some editorial thing...

So.. because I seemed to have developed a severe case of a.d.d. while studying I'm putting these up ... I did them last summer / last spring ...


Okay so this one (above) I kind of blatantly stole from Nadia Flower ... I couldn't help myself I really wanted to try drawing in her style ... so credit to her with the composition and concept ... I did however substitute my sister in as the character present, as well as added my own critters ... some sort of weird raccoon creature I saw in Costa Rica ...

uhg I really hate exam time .. all I want to do is draw and paint ... so many ideas are coming to me now because I can't execute them / I keep day dreaming off on stuff I plan to do but can't because I have to study...................... stupid, stupid exams.

Old Stuff

Here's a bunch of old pieces - mainly from first year at OCAD (some were for fun), first semester's drawing with David Cheval ... (he's a really good prof, p.s.):




This piece (below) took FOREVER to do - this isn't even the full image ... pretty sure I logged over 40 hours doing this one (but I enjoyed it!) I love black pen work and extreme details, also love overlapping images and layers ... within this one I made sure all of the blades of grass continued correctly ... none overlapping and cutting off half the stalk ... made a mistake on one (and it still kind of bothers me lol) ...




This last photo represents most of the pieces (not all) that I did for Cheval's final project ... fortunately this was due after my exam so I had about a week to devote exclusively to this assignment ... :)

Cupcake Anatomy

heehee cupcake fixation continues ... quick sketch in moleskine during a lecture ... :D

Poem illu from last year

There was a request for these pieces to go up; this was an Anson Liaw project ... we had to illustrate this poem he gave us, creating two images:



Colour version:


I had a lot of trouble picking a colour copy / combination. I finally went with a monochromatic scheme, but here's a picture of some of the other variations I tired along the way ..

more Moleskine pages

Cranes & Creeping Clouds

Fishing for Eyes

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