drawings from moleskine 1

I just wanted to show some of the stuff I've been working on in my moleskine. I'm suppose to be working in it more.

I was suppose to draw this for my friend Josh a long time ago lol. Such a simple thing I kept putting off. But it's done. I hope he likes it. I always tell him to get into his Josh burrito and go to sleep when we chat.

This is a character created by mizna wada. I think she's a cute character and I enjoy drawing her. I believe she's in a comic made by mizna? I wish I could find more work with her in it, like some comics or something.

This is a sketch of the first page of a zine I'm making called 9lives. It's about a cat girl who loses 1 of her lives by doing silly or bad things. I'm taking my time on this project because I really want it to come out good. I hope I can get done with this project before the end of the quarter.

I would like to continue to post things from my moleskine. I'm suppose to work in it at least an hour a day. I'll try to update my blog with drawings from my moleskine every sunday. It sounds like a good checkpoint.

sketchbook bsns

i think keeping a sketchbook is serious business. and i really love doing it. it's like keeping a record of growth and experimentation. and sometimes it's nice to look back on what you sketched in the past. so i'm just going to share some pages from my sketchbook.

some random mess. i don't know what's going on. i just draw random things that make no sense sometimes i guess. i also like drawing food. that donut came out nice though.

mizna wada is one of my favorite artists. i've been looking at her work a lot lately. it's cute but also has a dark touch to it. something i want to experiment with in the future.

i love cassie mccarthy's psychic cats with their crystals. i tried to draw one myself. but i hate how my crystal came out. and i don't know why i drew those ghosties. i think i did it to fill up the page, or i was looking at something with ghosts.

on the left page is a tatami galaxy sketch and below it is something from pucca. u w u i really like how cute and simple the art is in that show. on the right page is some sketches of a character for a book i'm working on. it's going to be called 9 lives. and it's about a silly little cat girl that keeps losing one of her 9 lives through stupid things she does.

well that's all the sketches i have for you right now. at least the ones i want to share. i'll try to post more sketches and drawings from my sketchbook in the future. thanks for reading.

editorial illustration

one of the classes i'm taking this quarter is editorial illustration. i was kind of intimidated by editorial illustration. it seemed so serious and required me to think outside the box. but after doing my first illustration for the class i felt better about everything.

for our first assignment we had to pick an article about going green. the article i chose was about a school that incorporated the environment into their curriculum. they even taught classes outside. so after i showed the class my thumbnails they gave me more ideas and suggestions. i took their suggestions and ended up going with a student at a desk. and in the desk was soil and sprouting plants. (i know my desk is wonky, but i think it works) and there's trees in the background.

i learned a lot doing this project. i learned how to make brushes and how to use textures i create with traditional media and turn them into brushes and textures i could use in my illustrations. and i'm so glad i learned this. i think this is a way i could make my cute illustrations more sophisticated. i also learned that i need to work on my palettes more. i mean sometimes i get and sometimes my palette is all over the place. but i'll get better.