pokémon go & other goings on

Unless you've been curled up under a cozy rock somewhere, I have no doubt that you've heard about Pokemon Go. It's everywhere; I've even seen driving advertisements telling me to no 'Pokemon Go and drive.' The craze has somewhat died down at this point, but I still pop on it every now again again, and I can't wait for the larger updates we've been promised. (I believe?) Join Team Mystic! :P

Here's a piece of art I posted on my DeviantArt earlier on (which can be found here!) I did the majority of a few months ago, but sort of lost motivation for it... I decided to finish it this evening, though it's not quite at cleanly done as I wanted it to be. There's some rough edges here and there, but I quite like how it came out! Even though I'm not the biggest Pokemon fan out there, it will still a fun project to practice my Illustrator skills with.

School is back in, and it's always slow to begin with, but I know the pace will quickly speed up as it always does. I'd love to maintain this blog so I can feel I've accomplished something outside of the school curriculum. Expect future updates (I sincerely hope!)

a couple of arty things

Not particularly good things - but a little bit of a study of colors and shapes. I've taken a liking to making patterns using Sharpie markers and just letting my mind go and create patterns when I'm feeling a lack of creativity.

Also, spring has sprung! I recently bought a few pastel colored Copic Sketch markers and I wanted to try them out in a spring theme. I'm not too pleased with how her arms came out... but I'm working to get better at basic anatomy!

Odd little flower-thing doodle

I'll never be able to title things properly. Anyway, my mom went to a garden show yesterday. I've got a slight cold so I decided not to go myself, but she sent my dad and I a few photos, and for whatever reason they inspired me to try drawing a flower, which became leaves and a wooden frame, and somehow a person got put in there... yup.

Names kept popping into my head for the little girl there, though I can't seem to remember any of them from yesterday. Ah well - she gave me an excuse to try drawing floofy hair and little booties. Maybe she's a flower fairy of sorts, one without wings?... no idea!

I'm not an artist but this was fun to do. Sorry about some of the odd pencil scratches and the non-ruler edged lines of the window frame. I wasn't too sure to put outside, so right now it's just a house on a hill. Maybe I'll finish it and try making it look nice one day. Maybe.