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Seven

December 31, 2024 Acrylic on canvas

Finally finished this painting!! Hey, got it done before 2025 at the very least 😉

Only took about 30 minutes to finish it up because it was just cleanup and painting the edges.

Moniker for this painting went from "coloured puke" to "seven" because when asking my family what the meaning behind this painting was we realized that there are seven characters here, which could be indicative of the seven deadly sins. Ofc that was unintentional, but was a cool coincidence.

Non-unanimously, the sins were identified as:

Pride - Green / ???

Wrath - Orange

Lust - Red

Gluttony - Yellow

Envy - Green / Pink

Greed - ???

Sloth - Purple

The blue guy didn't really fit any of them 😭

I asked my family what they thought the meaning of this one because they'd incessantly bugged me about what the meaning behind another painting I was working on was.

Still need to varnish it, but I'll get to that later

"W" Painting

December 25 - 26, 2024 Acrylic on Canvas

This painting has an actual name, but I'm sticking with the moniker " 'W' Painting" (as dubbed by my family/friends because there's a W sticker on the top left corner) until I actually finish it.

Painting I frantically did because I was having a Terrible Time and when that happens you paint little guys having a Terrible Time.

Wanted to finish this before I moved over the spring/summer for coop but just didn't have the time for it, so it won't get done until 2025 fall the earliest.

I look at this and realise there's Anatomy Problems / a fundamental difference in the flow/positioning of the characters between the initial sketch and where I'm at now. There's no turning back now, and I'm still happy with what I have, still. Just have to figure out that damned arm when I go to finish this. But it's also a fun loose painting, anatomy doesn't have to be flawless (call me a part of the 'it's my style' club 😛). Pro tip when drawing characters interacting --uhh refine the sketch before rendering 🤠👍👍👍👍👍👍

Student Housing and also Jeremy's there

December 3, 2024 Icing + Candy on Gingerbread

Once again reviving jeremy for these cookie decorating events

Did this with two of my friends. Was a cute little gingerbread decorating contest for our program at uni. We didn't end up winning,, they didn't fw jeremy 😔

Mannn I lost the screenshot of the description we gave him in our submission it was fire 😢

Onyx Plush

November 27, 2025 Thread on Felt

Did this during plushie making event that my uni's art club hosted. The event itself was a mess, ngl. There were way more participants than expected, so the distribution of materials was slow, unorganized, and a large number of people were left with nothing. Plus they decided to start handing out materials to the people who came in last rather than the people who had been waiting the longest. Which was obviously a problem

It's really just a cockatiel plush, but because of limited colours (and it's the easiest colouration of a tiel to do anyways) it's more specifically a lutino cockatiel plush. Hence 'onyx' plush, because onyx is my lutino tiel :)

I meant to finish it over the winter break but I couldn't find my mother's sewing kit and then I forgot about it. One day i'll finish it and then let onyx destroy it

Jeremy Cookie

November 26, 2024 Icing + Candy on Sugarcookie

Brought back jeremy as the theme for decorating my sugar cookie at a free food event. The house was decorated from my friend, we decided that it's jeremy's house.

At this point jeremy is a whole damned oc

Sticker Promo Sign

November 3, 2024 Stickers + Gel pen on Cardstock

Little sign I made to promote my stickers because I was committed to going overboard for the cute little artist's alley.

There are no actual stickers here, rather I used the test prints and just glued them to the board. That way there was no/less waste.

I then doodled little things related to the game/show each batch of stickers are from around the board, plus flowers to match 'cyclamen' 🌸🌺🌷

Stickers | Multifandom (see below)

~November 1 - 3, 2024

Nov 1 - Printing + Laminating

Nov 2/3 - Cutting

Nov 3 - More Laminating + Cutting

Printer Ink + Matte Vinyl on Sticker Paper

Stickers I made for Anifest. The final end to this long sticker journey!

There are 20 total designs:

Beetlejuice | Sandworm

Hellboy | Angel of Death, Hellboy

Alien | Xenomorph

Pan's Labyrinth | The Pale Man

Hollow Knight | Grimm, The Knight

Omori | Basil, Omori, Something

Arcane | Jinx

Hazbin Hotel | Alastor, Lucifer, Alastor's Minions, Husk

Hades | Zagreus

Coraline | Coraline Doll, Cocoa Beetle

The Amazing Digital Circus | Pomni, Jax, Gangle

I wanted to print the stickers on my mother's colour printer, but the colours and the black were slightly offset so I used my uni's printer service.

Applying the vinyl was tricky (messed up a few times), but once I learned the tricks it went by pretty smoothly. I did half of the vinyl application in the makerspace, and the other half at home on the 3rd.

I also wanted to use the makerspace's silhouette cutter thing to cut out the stickers, but I didn't know you had to run the paper through that machine before printing out the sticker design for it to work. Thus began the saga of cutting them out by hand.

Cutting it wasn't tooooo bad. It was just monotonous work so I could talk w people/watch something while doing it (watched Terrifier with my family while cutting most of them which worked because I don't really looking at pure gore). It did make my hand hurt like a bitch after a while, though.

I only ended up cutting like half of them anyways. My plan was to cut them by demand if needed during the artist alley.

There were quite a few defects by the end (mainly because of the vinyl, but there was a printing error for one of the sheets), and I ended up putting those stickers on my waterbottle. Me and my friend also tested their waterproof-ability by scrubbing at said stickers on my waterbottle with a soapy sponge. Needless to say the vinyl works really well!!

Stamps

November 1, 2024

November 2 - Stamping Posters

November 2/3 - Cards

Linocutter on linoleum, Ink on paper

Stamps I made during a stamp/printmaking event at makerspace.

We needed stamps for the AAM stamp rally, and this event was hosted at the perfect time for me to make mine for the rally.

Everyone got a ~2x2" piece of linoblock to carve, but the cards for the stamp rally had slots that were ~XxX", so I cut the linoblock into pieces.

I carved a little flower to fit my flower/cyclamen motif ❤️ and then I decided to make a little business card stamp

I printed with their actual fancy printmaking ink at the event to check that the carves were deep enough, but all the stuff afterwards was done with ink pads from michael's (they're honestly a lot easier to use, too)

My dumb ass never took good pictures of the actual stamps I made before moving 170km from them. I'll add pics once I visit home.

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To keep it tidy I do not have asks open nor do I reblog others' posts.

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AAM Inktober Day 20: Split

October 20, 2024 India Ink on Paper

The last inktober drawing i ended up doing for this season 🥶

For the entirety of this one the pen was officially out of ink. I made do with just using it as a brush pen w my india ink.

Although, that's definitely the main reason the challenge died for me. Not having the convenience of just whipping out the pen whenever I felt like it got rid of pretty much all instances where I would typically work on these drawings, especially when art was slowly becoming something I wasn't able to prioritize nearly as much cos school 🥲

Not to mention it was really annoying,, it's just not the same as the ink flowing from within the pen 😩

AAM Inktober Day 14: Mystic

October 20, 2024 India Ink on Paper

Worked on this one at the same time as the rest of the batch I completed on oct 19, but didn't complete it until the day after because the brush pen I was using was running out of ink!

I tried refilling it with the india ink I had, but it didn't work. The pen definitely uses some special kind of ink to let it flow through w/o clogging.

Anyways, I ended up just dipping my pen in the ink and using it as a brush. It worked, it just wasn't the same experience :(

This drawing was fun. The unicorn ended up pretty well. Think I messed up on its body's form, though.

AAM Inktober Day 19: Porcelain

October 19 2024 India Ink on Paper

I really like this one. Fun to do and turned out well.

Locked in when I was inking (the 'sketch' was essentially just me drybrushing) (this goes for all of these inktober drawings tho) cos I was scared.

AAM Inktober Day 18: Memory

October 19 2024

Hey hey hey the pose here is very similar to day four's pose, but just ignore that 😊

Got the effect I intended. This a good example of how enjoyable using that brush pen was for this inktober. Had to strategically use the different ink saturation levels to get different effects when drawing. It was fun

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 17: Hunt

October 19 2024

I love love love this oneee 😍💖💖

I had a vision and I executed it dead 💪💪

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 16: Token

October 19 2024

Just a little guy

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 15: Jade

October 19, 2024

In favour of keeping the actual creation date in chronological order, the prompt days are now out of order 🤠👍👍(I'm keeping it as consistent as I can, just that day 14 is gonna be out of place >_<)

This one turned out way bettwe than I thought it would. It's not great, I just had very very very low expectations for it.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 13: Origami

October 18, 2024

I like this one. Think it turned out cute. Only thing I wish I did better was keep the frog and star on the left from touching, but I knew that that was a mistake when it was happening. Oh well :<

Continuation of my catching up on lost days.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 12: Enigma

October 18, 2024

Really didn't like this prompt, it just didn't speak to me in any way, and because of that (plus school in general :p) I lose my streak/drive to do it everyday.

Once again, I started the drawing, hated it, but then returned to it later and it became o.k.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 11: Hare

October 11, 2024

This prompt somehow unlocked all my memories of being obsessed with jackalopes every halloween.

Like how the fur texture ended up 👍

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 10: Lucky

October 8, 2024

Another one that I barely got in/almost forgot to do day-of.

Arm's a bit weird, but I like how the hand turned out. If I could go back, I would make sure the clover has a clear silhouette and doesn't overlap with the hair.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 9: Spicy

October 9, 2024

This was me hella trolling ngl.

I didn't have any ideas for this prompt and I also just wanted to get this in before the day ended so i whipped this stupid thing up in a min

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 8: Soar

October 8, 2024

I actually finished this one on oct 8 (i almost forgot about it). I did forget to send it in the discord until the next morning, though xd

I have problems with the front wing, but considering I just jumped into the drawing w no preamble it's fiiiiiiine

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 7: Supernova

October 7, 2024

Didn't want to do another night sky one since it'd be too close to the first day's drawing, so I did a character instead. Took inspiration of the characters some people made for the galaxy prompt

Made a tiny thumbnail for this one, too

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 6: Serpent

October 6, 2024

Used references for the open snake mouth, but just jumped straight into the final drawing wo practicing beforehand.

Ofc I had to do the whole snake slithering about a skull its iconic🗣️🗣️

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 5: Coffee

October 5, 2024

Like this one's composition. Had fun drawing it

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 4: Cloud

October 4, 2024

Still didn't do a sketch for this one (which was scary cos it's a person), but I did do a little thumbnail sketch on another page so that I would have a clear idea of what pose I wanted. I do think that the sketch's pose is more dynamic, but I like the final piece.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 3: Garden

October 3, 2024

Initially wanted to do a full garden, but I was a bit tired of doing full backgrounds so i settled for a tomato plant

Pretty simple, I like the different textures I can get with this one brush. Sometimes reminds me of the technique used in chinese paintings to draw bamboo/trees

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 2: Abundance

October 2, 2024

Couldn't really think of something for 'abundance', so i did a bunch of little guys in a forest.

I was really unhappy with it in the beginning (second pic), but I decided to keep going because why not. I'm glad I did because, while I still have problems with the final piece, i like it a lot better than i would if i'd left it unfinished.

India ink on paper

AAM Inktober Day 1: Galaxy

October 1, 2024

Here's the beginning of my inktober escapades. All of the prompts are from my uni's art club. I was planning on using both this prompt list and the official one (for certain prompts where I need more to get my brain going), but the official prompt list is kinda ass this year.

Challenging myself to only use my one brush pen that i've never used before (along with no sketching beforehand) for all the drawings

This one was pretty fast, but then the stars were really annoying and took a decent amt of time. I like how they turned out, though.

Gonna post them all separately because I have things to say about each separate one 😜😝

India ink on paper

Jeremy, The Civil Engineer

September 19, 2024

Painting I did at the art club's watercolour workshop.

Me and my friend jokingly made a backstory for this guy. He's in civil eng and he's suffering

Watercolour on watercolour paper.