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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Being An Artist 101

  So.

  This may be a bit crazy.

  MUWHAHAHHA!
 
  We shall begin.

  *cracks knuckles*
 
  Alrighty.

  Being an artist takes work.  It's not easy. You just don't take up a pencil, slap some paint on a page, and BOOM!
Art.
 It's sometimes a painful process. BUUUTTT ...

 
ART MUST HAPPEN.

 
 
Yeah, yeah, I mean the whole staying up till 3 A.M. to finish painting that piece of art that could rival the great Leonardo de Vinci himself, people!!

  But then you wake up like this ...

 
AAAAAAAAAand if you have the tendency to use coffee as false courage to face the world ...
 
 
Thusly, after the caffeine takes hold ...
 
ART!
 
So, you sit. And sit. And sit.
 
Back cramps, anyone?!?!?!
 
Ok anyways.
 
So after sitting, and sitting, and sitting, and sitting, you get up for a snack all like ...
 
 
Kidding.
 
(let's face it, if most of us tried that, we'd all be in the emergency room ...)
 
Wait, where was I going with this one?
 
Oh, snacks.
 
 
STRESS EATING!
 
And did I mention coffee??!?!?
 
 
 I did ...
 
Eh, we need another one by now.
 
So, after walking around the kitchen and eating hordes of food ...
BACK TO THE ART!
 
 
Ok.
 
Let's talk about ...
 
 
THIS.
 
Yes, your eraser (like rubbed off yesterday) just put a nice, fabulous black streak
across the paper.
 
And do people even know how unsafe it is to try and talk you when you're
"in the mode"?
 
 
Then you ...
 
 
Follow me?
 
 
 
Last but not least (yeah here it comes) ...
 
*drum roll*
 
When someone looks at your art.
 
*horrified screams in background*
 
Ok. So we all take a sense of pride in all we do, yes? Hmm. It's not that we don't
want people to see our work ... it's just ... we don't? Is it a protective thing? What?
 
But either people do this with your art ...
 
"Oh .. you draw."
 
Or this ...
 
"I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!!"
 
!!!!!!!!!AND THEN THEY THUMB THE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!
 
And you sit in silence looking something like a baby hawk waiting
 for it's mommy to come back with breakfast ...
 
 
(see what I did there? no? ok ...)
 
LIKE. SERIOUSLY. THOUGH.
 
 
And then the famed ...
 
"Why don't you draw me?"
 

 
IT DOES'NT WORK LIKE THAT.
 
*breathes*
 
So, after a long day (and possibly half a night) you fall into your fluffy pillows, like the
near-dead artist you are.
 

 
 And that, my friends, is being an artist as told by moi.

~TheAbilaine

 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Minecraft "Creeper" box

WHELP! 

Glue, paint, glue, paint, glue, paint, GLUE, PAINT, GLUE, PAINT, GLLLUUUEEE, PPPAAAIIINNNTTT!

Pretty much sums up the whole project but here she is in all her glory.

 TAAAA-DDAA!


Cardboard box and cardboard little "pixels" I hand painted, then glued on individually. Tedious at the least but amazing in the end. Ehehehehe!


Sssssssshhhhhhhssssssshshhhh ... *screams* 

(And only gamers will get that one ... Muwhahah!)


AND IT OPENS!! :D YAY!

Thusly, awesomeness shall go into it. 

Comment or whatever. Hehe! 

Blessings!
-TheAbilaine

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

SKETCH DUMP!!!

I Hello, hello, hello!

Alrighty, been a crazy hectic INSANE few weeks and more is coming up ... Posts have been quite sparse yet here is a dump of art to keep you all happy!  :D

Attended a family conference which lasted a week (AND NO WIFI!!! ahhhh! THR HORROR!) but got some sketch time in while I was listening to come amazing Godly speakers.


People I drew in a session ... My dear little friend is "zee artist"


A freind, actually, but she doesn't know I did this so SHHHHHH ... *chuckles madly*


History history history ... Buried in the stuff yet enjoying every moment of it, I assure you.


Moses parting the Red Sea ... Did this as part of my history projects (hahah! As if I didn't have enough projects going on anyways) but have been meaning to do some Bible illustrations. 

Any ideas or requests in that line? Hmm?


Some Pride and Prejudice sketches I did late at night ... Mostly working on getting my own concept ideas for the characters. EHEH!


Bingley, Miss Bingley and Darcy ... (No, Darcy doesn't look a thing like the BBC Sherlock ... *snickers* And, no, I do not watch it)


"Lizzy, stop it!"




Ah, and yes, my dears, yet another Loki ... Did this one completely free-handed so am happy with that. 
He looks so calm though ... 


Duh, cause one always needs a close up of Loki ...


Whelp, there it is, darlings.

More posts coming soon. Have projects overloading my brain thusly they must get out into whatever form they wish to take ... :}

Have an amazing rest of the week!
-The Abilaine

Cinder (Ella) watercolor


Yet another Cinderella piece. MUCH happier with this one then the rest, however. :D


Close up 


Extra close up ... Eheheheh!

-TheAbilaine