You Suck Monday - Collage!

Collage is one of the many things I am horrible at. I'm not good with composition, or "matching" colors - I kinda like things to clash. Example: one of my socks is purple with orange and green circles, the other is pink and white stripes. That's just the kind of chick I am! Anyway, collage was the game of the day and here is what I made:

It came out pretty good, I think.I sort of chickened out and did a collage mosaic.I cut the bottom and top of the cupcake out, then carefully tore them into pieces, keeping them in the exact order I needed them to be so it would look like a cupcake when I was done! It's still collage, so it still counts. AND it's for my best friend Suzi's birthday and she liked it so that's all that matters!

Crackle You Suck Birthday!!

This is what we did on You Suck Monday (which I did still manage to be a part of, despite my birthday AND my friend leaving - I just did it from her house!)

The name of the game is: crackle. I'm horrible at crackle. Usually. I don't know what happened - something about YSM changes me and I'm able to be successful in ways I've never been able to before. So, this first one is Inkssentials Crackle Accents by Ranger - no one else has ever heard of it, so it's possible that I've had this stuff for a thousand years. It's CLEAR. It's a top coat, so it's not one of those "paint one color, let dry, paint crackle, let dry, paint another color" blah, blah, blah. You just paint, let dry, then put the crackle on and it cracks when it's dry.

This is Elmer's Glue-All. That's the white glue you can get right now for twenty cents at Wal-Mart because of the back-to-school sales. For this one I did a bottom color, let it dry completely. Then put the glue on. While the glue is STILL wet, paint on the second color. When it dries, it cracks.

This is the folk art crackle medium. For this one, you have to paint the bottom color and let it dry, then the crackle medium and let it dry, then the second color and let it dry.

These are my birthday cupcakes.

NO HEAT GUN. Use yours if you want. I didn't and I've heard you're not supposed to. Be patient. I'm not a patient person, so if I'm telling you to be patient, you can do it! Also, I didn't use the cheap craft paints on any of these projects. They're all either Liquitex or Golden.

Bat/Demon wings

I've been slacking with my cartooning lately (for the past four months, actually), so I'm going to PRACTICE more. I just have to make myself, even when my arms feel too heavy to pick up the pencil. This is with Mark Crilley's latest tutorial, I LOVE his manga drawing vids.

Rough sketch:

Ink:

Mark's character:

It's the details I'm not good at - I can draw all the basic shapes, but the shading, the folds that make clothes look real - I suck at that stuff. Don't worry, I'll practice!!

Sad friend...

One of my good friends is leaving tomorrow for OTS for the Air Force. She's going to be gone for three months and I'm sad. We've been friends since middle school, and we play lots of video games and drink lots of margaritas together. She's already an amazing woman, an amazing conductor, and is going to be an amazing officer. But I'm gonna miss her :(

I doodled this at her house tonight while we were hanging out (she was packing and I was eating cupcakes). 

The Funk

Been stuck there for WEEKS but I'm forcing myself to get over it. Art is the key, I know that, and sometimes I still don't do it. Silly Goog. So, here are some ATCs I was playing with yesterday with my copics. I'm still determined to learn how to use those silly markers!!

Happy Ugly Truck Day

Journaling the "spirit" of art

Ajae says it's all about the spirit of art and that I have that 'down". I want that to be true! I make MOST of my art in my journals. It's just how I work. But I rarely journal about my day or my life. I usually just draw or paint whatever comes to mind. But THIS day was "petit/portrait" day on The Schedule AND it was our first journaling MeetUp AND Kelly was having a flare-up (a small one, thank goodness). So I journaled about it.

And I printed some stuff about FMS and stuck it on there, along with the pic from the MeetUp.

Then, because I can't seem to stop stamping this image, I stamped my tree onto this page that I found on my table and added it to the facing page because it's fun!

Then, paint!

And here is a shrinky dink in action!

I'm having trouble shading faces in this journal, that's why Kelly is still so pale! You know I love Fabriano Artistico paper, but it's horrible with Prismacolors. Maybe I should copic marker her?!? It's a pretty big area, but today is copic marker/cartoon day on The Schedule...