I Was Thinking About Birds Earlier Today(many Such Cases), When My Thoughts Wandered A Bit Too Far And

I’ve been in a bit of a slump for a bit, and although I’ve been drawing and painting still, I haven’t really had the motivation to finish any of them. While I was practising faces though, a sketch I did stood out to me, so I decided to post it.

Synthetic biology

I wanted to try out different angles for the face, so this is the one I did today. My 3rd drawing using the markers, plus some coloured pencil this time.

I wanted to try hatching again, so I made this little piece based on the song “Let the Maggots sing” by the band Mili. It’s definitely busier than I wanted it to be, and very sketchy, but I enjoyed doing it, and I enjoyed the outcome. I might polish it up and ink it later, but this was mostly meant to be a quick sketch, and I already spent more time on it than I originally planned, so it’ll probably remain like this. As always critique is welcome, since I do want to improve.

A plant study I did in watercolour. I actually really like it. It’s the first time I’ve done watercolour in a bit, and I’m happy how it turned out for the most part.

The right edge was a bit wonky on the previous version, so I decided to post a slightly updated version. I made the skull linger a bit more as well. I think it’s definitely an improvement on the previous version.

Irrelevant personal tangent under the cut

I’ve honestly been really happy so far with my forays into digital art and animation. I haven’t had much time to practise properly, so I’m not improving as fast as I would have liked, but nonetheless, it’s been fun.

I’m sort of in a bottle phase right now, so my next piece is probably going to be a ship in a bottle.

A piece I’m working on. I’m bad at colouring, so I wanted to share it before I possibly ruined it. Nonetheless, I’ll follow up later with the coloured version.

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(Based on a picture on the Glacier National Park picture archives)

An apple I did in my notes app. I guess this counts as my first piece of digital art.

I have one last apple thing I’m working on, but then I’ll probably stop doing so many apples.

A piece I finally got to work on again. I think it’s my best so far. It started with the apple, then I felt like drawing a full scene, so I did it. Many things in the image are references to a band I like called Mili. Other things are just stuff I thought would look nice. Anyways, it was fun to work on, and I hope to do more and better things like this in the future.