Start of 2009-2010 sketchbook

It hasn't stopped snowing yet, so I am trapped in the house for a while, an advantageous position for someone who hasn't updated her blog.
This post begins my 11th grade sketchbook. I have mixed feelings about this one. The good stuff is okay and everything else is, well, meh.

I don't have enough brain power today to make up captions. Sorry!

Art Day

I've been having a very busy, very social week. I wonder what's wrong?
Today I had an art day with one of my best friends. This entails eating pancakes, watching Star Trek, talking about any number of subjects, and not doing any art. T'was fun.

Sketches. Character to note: Skyler. His helmet is supposed to look like an eagle head, with the "eyes" being actual optics. Yup.

One of the only pictures I drew when I was in Florida. It was my first trip, and only so far, to that state.

Accel, drawn on the airplane ride home.

...I don't know?

Pardon the floating shoe. The horses were done in marker and then washed with a brush.

:D

Chickens

I finally got the last of my money from the summer crops. I picked so many yellow beans this summer that at one point the only thing I could dream about was yellow beans. We're hoping to get an early crop started in April to sell in June (way ahead of competitors), but we'll see whether the wind will allow the greenhouse roof to stay on or not.
Also, while I was picking up the money, I visited my chickens which are wintering with Contessa's birds. My rooster is double the size of her biggest chicken, and he has the attitude to go with it. Those poor, poor chickens. My hen just hides in the corner because he picks on her so much.  
I've created a monster! 

So! On to the pictures!

Golden crowned kinglet. I used to sit in the school library during all of my free time and sketch. I'd flip through an encyclopedia, find something interesting, and draw it.

Axl. Always up to something. I don't like peach colored markers for skin. >:(

Colored with nail polish.

A pacer. Looking at this scanned in, I can see the conformational flaws. Still, it's a pretty neat use of a brush pen!

Branching out of my comfort zone! Book page, oil pastel, and picture clipping.

That's all folks!
As you can tell, I've been rather busy, so it will be harder to post on a regular schedule. I will try my best to do so, though!

MOAR

Nice walk with Willie in the freakin' cold today. My only complaint about him is that he was kind of nippy today. We'll set that straight.

Also, no update last night because I went bowling in the afternoon (2 hours for free!) and then I went to my friend's house for gingerbread house decorating.
Now, you have to understand that "bowling for two hours" = "fun" = "OH GOD THE PAIN" the next day. Man, I'm out of shape. I did discover that I, a righty, actually bowl better with my left arm than my right. Weird, huh?
Anyway, after this bowling adventure I went to my friend's house, where I decorated with lots of candy. Sorry, did I say "decorated with lots of candy?" I meant to say "consumed a lot of candy."
Actually: "Ate so much candy/cookies/holiday cheer that when I woke up this morning I was suffering hangover-like symptoms."
I also have a sore throat from spending 4 hours telling/reenacting ridiculous stories to a unwilling audience. Heh heh. 












... Looking at this now, I realize that moving to Canada has turned me into a wimp. GAH.

Okay, pictures:

Trying for realism. You can see here a common flaw seen in many teenagers' art: the eyes. There is a tendency of teenagers to put extra emphasis on the eyes. This has been the case even before the introduction of manga/anime to the West. Pretty interesting, eh?

Unusual, but neat. This was based off of a picture of a Saddle Seat rider.

Horse on steroids, based off of one of my favorite horse models.

Accel. This picture is simple in composition, but the colors play off of each other well.  APPROVAL!

Dear god, Please never allow a horse that looks like this to walk this earth. Love, Artiste!

That is all for now. Please excuse me while I crawl up the stairs to my room in a most pitiful manner.


... Who the HELL gets this messed up from bowling and gingerbread?

Second Post!

I figure that if I continue to read 20 pages of the textbook everyday, I will complete the entire semester's worth of reading in another 8 days or less. In a way, getting locked out of that final has been a blessing, but I want to sincerely thank my prof for allowing me to write the exam when I return from the US.

I haven't scanned in any pictures of my art-attack yesterday because I am too lazy to walk up the stairs to use my scanner... and my dad wants me to stay from stairs because of my apparent tendency to take a tumble every once in a while. I think my pain reaction of laughing unnerves him, but that could just be me.

Anyway...

Coupla crew parents chumming it up at the NJ crew meet. Additionally, I really loved crayons in 2008.

Hoss, hoss, hoss. Done with sumi ink and a brush.

One of the ugliest concepts for Accel's armor. I am SO glad this one didn't last for very long :<

I'm pretty sure this was the first time I drew Zero in his MMZ armor. Considering that graphite is one of my least favorite mediums, I think this turned out pretty well...

She actually has a forked tongue. There is also a caption at the bottom of the picture that reads "The Face of Insanity." Nuff said.

Now I have to start painting some Christmas presents. Painting is actually not something I will willingly do unless I am in the mood to paint. It's tricky like that. :/

I'm Incredibly Busy.

HA! Fooled you >:D
My vacation has officially started. I've been chowing down on Sour Patch Kids (100 candy box? Challenge accepted.), painting (I don't even feel like painting usually), taking Willie for a walk (best tiny horse EVER), reading, watching youtube videos, sleeping like a fiend, and... studying.
Yep, that's right folks. My last exam was yesterday.
Supposedly. >:(
   I got stuck behind a tractor hauling hay on the way to campus, and hit every single red light on my way to town. I parked the car at 2:00, got to the building at 2:05 exactly, and no one would let me into the gym. So I left as a wreck, and wrote my prof an email explaining what happened. I now am going to write the exam the day after I return from the US. *le sigh*

I need to write a thank you card for this person:
   Before I went to the library, I went to the student building to sit alone and calm down for a bit. However, there was a little table set up, and the lady manning the table offered me a free coffee. I normally despise coffee, but they had run out of tea, and if I didn't get something into my systems, I was going to... I don't know. But anyway, the lady made the mistake of asking how my day was. I told her. Normally I try not to get other people down, but I felt compelled to tell her what happened, so I did. She felt so bad for me that she bought me a cinnamon roll to go with the coffee and talked to me for a little bit to try and cheer me up.
   Coffee-lady, if I ever find you I will give you a better thank-you than a sniffle and nod. I promise.
... the coffee was delicious, too. Thank you for your kindness! ;_;

Pictures for today:

This sketchbook had a bunch of helmetless Reploids. I was trying to get comfortable with that idea, but fortunately it didn't stick!

Someday I will find the original picture of her. This is Phix. She was my very first MM fan-character, and still a favorite of mine.

Hoss hoss hoss

I want this. If any mechanical engineers are reading this, please build me one for Christmas, okay?

This one actually looks a lot better in person. It's still charming, though.

This sketchbook was the earnest start of coloring in marker for me. Before, I viewed markers as childish, but actually playing with them again completely changed my mind. In fact, the only reason that I was excited at all to go to University this year was because my mom bought me a 90 pack of Crayola markers. Aww yeah.

Bad Art (a mini rant)

Yes, my friends. The internet is a treasure trove of bad art. I'm glad that I explicitly stated in an earlier post that I am scanning in OLD sketchbooks, because I seriously just saw an entire gallery filled with pictures, by a 23 year old that look worse than my 12-13 year old self could draw. D:
I want to encourage people, but the first step to solving a problem is to admit you have a problem. I mean, seriously, don't expect a truckload of praise for your art if it looks like something semi-sophisticated chimps crapped out. ARGH.
On another, but similar, note, there is a museum in Massachusetts that I had the benefit of going to see in person. That museum is the one and only "Museum of Bad Art." Check out this link: http://museumofbadart.org/

On to the continuously-improving pictures!

I enjoy looking at this picture. The shading, the movement... it's pretty good for a 13 year old.

Hoss. At this point, I still used a very light touch with colored pencils, which did not afford me the full range each pencil can offer!

Neato. Wish I could remember where I got the pose from, though.

Look at the exhale! I need to try something like this again.

Some boy. Actually, there's a story behind him, but it's quite long and confusing. So there.

Seeing as it is 11:52 on a Friday night, I'm going to go get a bowl of Lucky Charms and count myself lucky that I managed to grab a bowl before my brother consumes the entire box by himself. Muaha.

The End and Misc.

The mini book was just that: mini. This post is the end of that tiny book, and the beginning of another sketchbook that I tore pages out of (what the HELL was I thinking?!). I'm pretty lucky that this stack of pictures managed to more or less stay together, but I still cringe at what I might have thrown out during one of my "MY ART SUCKS" cycles. ;_;

My 9th-10th grade science teacher was always sitting at his computer. This was an attempt to capture its charms, I suppose. Also: more highlighter!

Sayaka the ninja, again, as well as a page of history notes. Read if you dare!

Inspired by contour drawings. Kind of neat.

New pages! I truly love drawing Accel. You will be seeing A LOT more of her around (as if you haven't already).

Don't mess with me man... I don't play!

200 chickens

THAT is a lot of KFC.
Yes, that's true. However, I was eating feeding my neighbor's chickens for her while she was gone. The first day sucked, the second day was slightly better, and by the third day I finally had a routine down.
Today... today was different.
I entered the barn through the dairy. The lights were on.
"Huh," I thought to myself, "that's strange. But no biggie. Carrying on!"
So I wandered into the main part of the very dark barn, and tried to find the power strip that controls the lights. Well find it I did, much, much higher than I left it, and, being 5'2, it is not generally in my best interest to put things up where I can barely reach them! I pressed the button, voila, the lights go on. But so does the milk hose! 
I turned the freakin' thing off before something could have happened, which meant, of course, that the lights went off, too. I stood still to let my eyes adjust.
All was silent.
I turned.
She scared the hell out of me! ;-;
Apparently my neighbor had come home this morning, and my mom failed to inform me of her arrival. Anyone who knows me well knows that I can be a little jumpy sometimes. I'm just glad I don't have any super powers, because kid, I'm tellin' ya, she would have been toast before I'd even register who it was!


Okay, on to the pictures!

That horse is making me want to use versatile wax sticks crayons again.

Hippo-face and purple hair guy.

Accel and cool pose guy.

The left side creeps me out o.O  The right side is kind of cool, though!

Wall climbing to practice a bird's eye view.

Yarp.

A successful dinner!

Basically what the title says. The only downside to this evening would be the apple pie. Lawdy, I love me some apple pie. Sadly, this pie tastes horrible. Like burned zombie carcass or something not that I would know what that tastes like...
Anyway, this batch of pictures is the last of my second 2006 sketchbook. Huzzah!

Practice with charcoal. You'd think cats would be simple to draw, but they are quite difficult for me :/

I am American born and raised. I've never once celebrated the 4th of July, because we were always in Canada for July. Oops.

Accel at the beach. Skipping stones across the tiny waves has always been relaxing for me. *nostalgia*

I seriously wish this thing was real. Land chasers are awesome.

Still trying to develop my own style... This is nice and crisp, though. I might revisit this someday.

Hoss hoss hoss. Yup.

And that's-
Wait, what's this? A current picture? Are you kidding me?!

SWEET JEEBUS! NEW ART DOES EXIST!
This is Accelera. She's also a robot (look at the eyes...spooky), because I am creative like that. I might refine this a bit more, but who knows, I might just leave the picture the way it is!