I did an ART!
This is like my first ever legitimate attempt at doing anything with watercolors. It looks more like a drawing than a watercolor painting because I layered like a millimeter of paint on there, haha. It took me three hours because I had no idea what I was doing.
What do y’all think?
Thuuuuuuumb!
I can tell I haven’t drawn in a while because I was working on a drawing on Sunday and my thumb has been numb and tingly since then (because I hold colored pencils very differently than I hold any other writing utensil, apparently).
I want to keep working on that drawing, but I also kinda need my thumb for, y’know, work next week.
So.
(I’ll probably work on it later anyway, haha.)
Edit: I ended up ripping this drawing up before I finished it because it was ungodly ugly, so that was a complete waste of time.
The Digital Age
So I made my first attempt at digital art today. Behold: Pepper in neon!
(Yes, I know it sucks.)
Drawing in Procreate is very different than drawing by hand. I’m sure I could adjust the brush settings to be much more like drawing with a real pencil, but I didn’t want to mess around too much this first time.
Whatcha think?
Good lord, what is this
Welcome to the experimental film stylings of Young Claudia.
I have no idea how old I was when I made this, but that looks like the house on Borah, so maybe 5th or 6th grade?
Either way, I was freaking Spielberg.
Eye See You!
(That’s the most unoriginal blog title ever, sorry)
Look at this eye I sketched:
Doesn’t it look like I drew it with a pencil?
WRONG!
I drew it with one of the pencil brushes in Procreate. It looks so much like real pencil, though!
I guess this is my first “digital art.”
Now I’m tempted to redo my Nick Gehlfuss drawing entirely in Procreate and see how different it looks from the pencil version.
You know, in all that free time I have.
(Maybe over Christmas break.)
Waiter! There’s a Drawing in My Blog Post!
WHAT THE HELL, right?
I haven’t done a portrait drawing since *checks DeviantArt* 2011. So it’s been about 12 years since I picked up a pencil and drew someone with it. But I wanted to see if I could still pull of something that looked vaguely human, so here we are.
For those of you who are NOT obsessed with medical dramas like I am, this is Will Halstead from Chicago Med. Will is pretty hit or miss as a character, but the actor that plays him, Nick Gehlfuss, is great.
And he’s also WAY more attractive than this picture makes him out to be. (Also my scanner sucks.) Sorry, Nick.
Claudia + Watercolors = ???
So when I was back in the States, I of course had to visit Walmart. The Walmart I used to go to here got “upgraded” over the worst pandemic years and now it’s horrible. Also, everything is so much more expensive here.
ANYWAY.
Because I’m really good at “this thing looks cool, let’s buy it,” I bought this little travel watercolor set:
And finally got a chance to try it out today:
I know it sucks, but this is the first thing I’ve watercolored since Art Camp. And I was really just trying out the colors; a tree seemed the easiest thing to make.
I am an absolute garbage artist, but MAN it feels good to art.
I Am Drawing
And OH MY GOD IT FEELS SO GOOD
All my creative energy since November 2020 has been dedicated to that year’s NaNoWrimo (and re-writing it), but I’m taking a little break from that so I can read/edit again with fresher eyes later.
SO IT’S DRAWIN’ TIME!
I forgot how utterly relaxing drawing is.
Writing is not relaxing, but drawing is.
Cool? Creepy?
Kinda both.
I wonder how much work it was to 1) make those and 2) train people to use them so that they looked and acted real.
I also love the random shots of chaos and running in between everything else, haha.
GIMME SOME WADDAH
I have vague memories of the markers mentioned here. Anyone else?
I don’t remember the crayons, though, but I was much more of a marker kid.
Also, these crayon names:
They’re all pretty great, but http://www.purple has got me laughing so hard. It’s just…it’s just http://www.purple. Is it a .com? Is it a .org? WHO KNOWS, BUT IT’S PURPLE
How Much Wood Would a Wooden Truck Truck if the Woooden Truck Trucked Some Wood?
Jesus, this is obscenely amazing.
The DETAIL OH MY GOD. It’s even got a suspension.
I love it. I want it.
Childhood was UNHINGED
In that wonderful tradition of “we did things in the 90s/early 2000s that would not be allowed today,” I present to you two things.
One: Raku firing!
Two: Batiking!
We did both of these in Art Camp. Scorching hot coffee cans and burning newspaper? Hot melted wax and big vats of dye? There’s no WAY 8- to 15-year-olds would get away with doing these things nowadays.
Seriously, though, we never had any accidents or incidents. I don’t know if artsy kids are just different, but we were always very careful with these more “involved” art projects. Even the kid that would shove oil pastels up his nose.
Art Camp was the best.
Wow
I suspect Van Gogh would have LOVED this tribute to his works
So freaking cool and beautiful. It has a very OK Go-ish vibe to it, too.
Burf
Hello, BUTTBAGS! It’s my birthday today, blah blah blah, who cares.
Have some horrific Pictionary drawings instead.
I have no idea what word we were originally drawing here, but yeah. Also, I’m pretty sure “oh lawd, Satan loves worm demons” is in the Bible somewhere.
Nate’s word was “VIP.” I had to spice it up a little.
I think the word was “diversity.”
The Joy of Lego + The Bow
Things I learned today:
There is a Lego-building group that focuses on constructing landmark Calgary buildings.
It took Roy Nelson five years and about 8,500 pieces of Lego to build my favorite Calgary building, The Bow.
Here’s a side-by-side comparison:
(Actual building pic from here, Lego building pic from the site linked above)
Isn’t that a beautiful building? The fact that he’s got a giant Lego head as that wire mesh head statue is pretty awesome.
If I had money to spare to buy this, I totally would. I dig this kind of stuff.
Wild Wings
I freaking haaaaaaate thiiiiiiiis but I don’t have anything else to blog about today.
Horrible iPad Drawings
HEYOOOOOOO so I have an app on my iPad called ArtRage, which is basically a fancy version of Paint. I suck as an actual artist, so I mainly use it to play Pictionary with Nate (we take turns looking up candidate words on an online Pictionary dictionary and try to guess what each other are drawing).
However, every once and a while I go a little overboard with the drawing nonsense. Examples:
(This is called “The Telltale Art”)
(This came out of a Pictionary round, but I have no idea what the word was)
(This is called “Schwa, Bitches”)
Yeah, I suck.
Hearts? Butterfly Wings? Both? IT MUST BE A CLAUDIA DRAWING
Yup.
I like this one substantially better than the one I posted last week, though.
Squares Are Hard
I hate this freaking drawing.
Its main purpose was to check if my scanner still works, though. Which it does. This means that I can start making drawings for my coo encyclopedia!
YAY!
Did…Did I DRAW SOMETHING?????
Yes I did.
I hate it.
Kistler
When I was young (first/second grade? Sometime in the Troy era) I remember watching quite a bit of Mark Kistler on public television. Mark was (and still is!) an artist who taught drawing skills aimed at kids. I still remember his little “Draw! Draw! Draw!” chant he’d do whenever he’d draw a bunch of lines or some other series of shapes/figures. I always thought he was super cool.
I also had a few of his books!
Anyway. Not sure what the heck made me remember him today, but I did and so there ya go.
Holy crap, I drew something
It’s a freaking Christmas miracle.
K
Ugh, I want to draw, but I feel like I have no creativity in my brain right now. Or more like there’s creativity in there, but it doesn’t want to come out.
Which is frustrating, but not unfamiliar.
Psst. Hey. Want some really crappy art?
YOU GOT IT, BROTHER.
HEY YOU FARTS, HAVE AN ART
You’re welcome.
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