Things I've been making lately
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elabyI've been trying my hand at making chainmaille jewelry, and I found it really fun. Tiny little extremely shiny circles that fit together in patterns! For some reason that's really satisfying XD I had a little difficulty starting up because I had crappy materials AND a crappy tutorial (blurry pictures and skipped steps and typos in important number sequences! Awesome!) but Rachel got me a couple of books from the library that are super helpful for beginners.
Also, I realized I haven't scanned any drawings for, like, EVER, and so I thought I'd remedy that. I've only drawn a couple of things recently, but I had quite a backlog!
This is the first thing I made. If I'm going to keep making earrings, I'm going to have to get some hooks or whatever that I know the metal content of, because after wearing these, my earring holes are like "AAUGH WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" XD This is my attempt at Byzantine weave using the abovementioned horrible tutorial. I think it came out pretty well!
Here's my second attempt, with bigger rings (MUCH easier to work with!). These I made for Rachel :) You can see in these pictures that the rings I'm using are pinch-cut and not saw-cut, which means the, um, kerf (the cut in the ring - I learned new words! :D) is created by pinching the ring with snippers instead of sawing it. Sawing it creates a straighter kerf, which allows for a tighter closure. LOOK AT ME LEARNING THINGS.
I made this bracelet next. I tried two different patterns, both times realizing I couldn't possibly complete the pattern because the rings I had weren't the right size. Aaargh. So I just made something up. I think it looks nice!
I made these earrings for Rachel too, and they were so much less frustrating than all the other ones! Haha yay. Probably because I had something close to the right ring sizes. The pattern is called Japanese Cross earrings.
And finally, I determined that the rings I have left are FAR TOO SMALL to do anything with them except swear at them, so I just did a swatch of sorts of chainmaille fabric. This is European 4-in-1 weave.
And now for the drawings! Nudity warning.
Nakedness! This is an old, old picture. Sometime early in 2011, possibly. I found some anatomy light/shadow studies on the internet and drew the ladies. I like the bottom one better.
Lina Inverse! At some point last year we marathoned Slayers. I used to have this magic-using character in high school, Isolt, who was very much inspired by Lina. I drew her in poses like this ALL the time, so I thought I'd actually draw Lina like this.
I drew this picture of Miku when I was in the airport in LA, coming home from Anime Expo last summer. It pretty much sums up my feelings about the concert XD
Iava is the main character from the book I'm currently working on. I drew this before I had written a lot of it, and it doesn't quite portray her personality the way it's developing.
Miku singing in a sweatshirt. I inked this with a brush pen, which was SO MUCH FUN, and then I colored with Prismacolor pencils. The scanner, predictably, doesn't portray the real color of her hair, which actually has a lot of dark blue and forest green in the shadows. This was inspired by a mashup of Miku's song "Calc." (by JimmyThumb) and a Luka song called "Interviewer" (by kuwagata-P). The video for the Luka song has Luka in a white sweatshirt with teal accents, so I colored Miku's sweatshirt with pink accents (Luka's color).
Museum art! I drew this at the MFA in Boston. He's a statue I found in one of the Greco-Roman galleries. He was a satyr, apparently, but the only way you could tell was because he had pointy ears (which you can't see from the front) and horns (which had been broken off at some point in its history). I like his lower half, but I'm skeptical about his chest.
Surprise surprise, I like drawing naked women better than naked men. This was a gorgeous white marble statue of Aphrodite, done in the 1700s, I think. She was stunning. I sat in the middle of the floor to draw her because there were no seats in the room XD
The Pre-Classic Maya mural exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Harvard inspired this picture. I didn't have any actual references so I just made up the curly patterns. I love this style. She ended up looking a bit too much like a Zora XD I think it was the eyebrow pattern.
Also, I realized I haven't scanned any drawings for, like, EVER, and so I thought I'd remedy that. I've only drawn a couple of things recently, but I had quite a backlog!
This is the first thing I made. If I'm going to keep making earrings, I'm going to have to get some hooks or whatever that I know the metal content of, because after wearing these, my earring holes are like "AAUGH WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" XD This is my attempt at Byzantine weave using the abovementioned horrible tutorial. I think it came out pretty well!
Here's my second attempt, with bigger rings (MUCH easier to work with!). These I made for Rachel :) You can see in these pictures that the rings I'm using are pinch-cut and not saw-cut, which means the, um, kerf (the cut in the ring - I learned new words! :D) is created by pinching the ring with snippers instead of sawing it. Sawing it creates a straighter kerf, which allows for a tighter closure. LOOK AT ME LEARNING THINGS.
I made this bracelet next. I tried two different patterns, both times realizing I couldn't possibly complete the pattern because the rings I had weren't the right size. Aaargh. So I just made something up. I think it looks nice!
I made these earrings for Rachel too, and they were so much less frustrating than all the other ones! Haha yay. Probably because I had something close to the right ring sizes. The pattern is called Japanese Cross earrings.
And finally, I determined that the rings I have left are FAR TOO SMALL to do anything with them except swear at them, so I just did a swatch of sorts of chainmaille fabric. This is European 4-in-1 weave.
And now for the drawings! Nudity warning.
Nakedness! This is an old, old picture. Sometime early in 2011, possibly. I found some anatomy light/shadow studies on the internet and drew the ladies. I like the bottom one better.
Lina Inverse! At some point last year we marathoned Slayers. I used to have this magic-using character in high school, Isolt, who was very much inspired by Lina. I drew her in poses like this ALL the time, so I thought I'd actually draw Lina like this.
I drew this picture of Miku when I was in the airport in LA, coming home from Anime Expo last summer. It pretty much sums up my feelings about the concert XD
Iava is the main character from the book I'm currently working on. I drew this before I had written a lot of it, and it doesn't quite portray her personality the way it's developing.
Miku singing in a sweatshirt. I inked this with a brush pen, which was SO MUCH FUN, and then I colored with Prismacolor pencils. The scanner, predictably, doesn't portray the real color of her hair, which actually has a lot of dark blue and forest green in the shadows. This was inspired by a mashup of Miku's song "Calc." (by JimmyThumb) and a Luka song called "Interviewer" (by kuwagata-P). The video for the Luka song has Luka in a white sweatshirt with teal accents, so I colored Miku's sweatshirt with pink accents (Luka's color).
Museum art! I drew this at the MFA in Boston. He's a statue I found in one of the Greco-Roman galleries. He was a satyr, apparently, but the only way you could tell was because he had pointy ears (which you can't see from the front) and horns (which had been broken off at some point in its history). I like his lower half, but I'm skeptical about his chest.
Surprise surprise, I like drawing naked women better than naked men. This was a gorgeous white marble statue of Aphrodite, done in the 1700s, I think. She was stunning. I sat in the middle of the floor to draw her because there were no seats in the room XD
The Pre-Classic Maya mural exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Harvard inspired this picture. I didn't have any actual references so I just made up the curly patterns. I love this style. She ended up looking a bit too much like a Zora XD I think it was the eyebrow pattern.
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Date: 2012-03-27 09:21 pm (UTC)Drawings
Date: 2012-04-01 12:02 am (UTC)Lots of love sweetie---- Dad
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Date: 2012-04-01 08:32 pm (UTC)The drawings are lovely, as always. I really like the museum art (very well done!), and Miku in a sweatshirt, but I think my favorite is Miku at LAX. :) ♥
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:45 am (UTC)Thank you! I will so make you something :) Or many things! I was thinking of you with the bracelets. I just need some higher quality materials so that the construction of the jewelry works like it's supposed to.
n_n I'm so glad you like my drawings! I like the one of Miku I drew at LAX too. I didn't have a lot of time for drawing when I was there, so I'm glad I got to do at least one thing.
*HUGS*