Tentacle Girl

With this picture I just started drawing without any particular idea of where I was going with it and it ended up as a picture of a girl with tentacles coming out of her mouth. The picture was kind of small for the page though, so I put some more tentacles in the background.

Our scanner wasn’t working properly today, so I had to take a photo of my picture instead. This meant the lines weren’t sharp enough, and I had to digitally sharpen them. This resulted in several different levels of brightness in the picture, and since I couldn’t figure out which one I liked best, I just went with all three.

A Tomb Of Unheard Words

I was reading Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, and I got the the scene where Moist Von Lipwig is exploring the upper floor of the post office and falls through the floor. His fall dislodges letters, burring him in them. letters. While he is trapped under them the letters start whispering to him. As I was reading it my main thought was “I have to draw this.” So I did.

I drew this picture a bit differently than usual: instead of drawing an outline then coloring it in, I drew the colors, then shaded them. I don’t usually do this for several reasons, for one, it takes a lot more time (I had to stay up late to finish the picture) and also you have to use like twenty different layers of shading.

If you look closely then you will notice that his eyes have writing in them. That is the letters talking/writing. I actually took lines of the letters from the book, but I doubt anybody will actually be able to read them. I would also like to mention that the letters do not say anything until after he is buried already. The thing is, I only had a vague idea of which part of the scene I wanted to draw, and I sort of ended up putting that a bit too soon. However, it still makes sense to put the letters in his eyes in this picture, even though they aren’t mentioned for a couple of paragraphs, so I don’t think it is too big a deal. If you feel like that is too inconsistent (although I doubt anybody except me will care), here is a version without them.

The Tattered Shoes

The Tattered Shoes

Here is a link to a scene that I wrote for creative writing. The writing assignment was to read a section from the Lord of the Rings, and write a scene where the reader finds out the backstory of a person through the dialogue of other characters. This is why the original title was “Writing a scene where you find out about a person or backstory through dialogue, in the style of Tolkien.” I am very good at thinking of titles for my stories.

I am not sure if I did a very good job of making it like Tolkien’s story, but I still think it is a good story. Well, part of a story. Also my Dad said that it was possibly the best thing I ever wrote. So there.

Silver Tongue and Hot Flash

This is a picture of a super hero (right) and her arch nemesis (left). I had an idea for a story with these characters, and I may ever write it, but for now I just wanted to draw them.  Hot Flash, who is, in case you didn’t know, the hero, has the power to levitate things, she is also immune to fire when using her power. Silver Tongue is a necromancer and user of dark magic.

I had the idea for these characters because of those double sided books where you flip the book over to read the other side. I have always liked that kind of book and I was thinking about what would be a cool story for one of those. I came up with the idea that one side could be the story from the point of view of the a super hero, the other side could be the point of view of a super villain. And of course there would be lots of meeting each other’s secret identities and not realizing it.

Squidapus Shirt

This is a T-shirt that I designed and screen printed for a friend’s birthday. This isn’t the actual shirt, but another one with the same design.

I had a hard time coming up with what I wanted to put on the shirt. I had the vague idea that I would do something with tentacles. I tried at first to draw a picture similar to this, but I just couldn’t get it to look right.

One of my main problems was that the difference between the monster and the page was unclear. On a screen print you can only use two colors. The color of the shirt, and the color of the ink. So in order to make things look like different colors you have to use some sort of alternating pattern.

My first solution was to draw stripes for a background, but while this works just fine on a page, on a shirt the stripes wouldn’t cover the whole thing, and it would look weird. So I put a border around the stripes, which sort of worked, but the idea was that the monster was coming out of the shirt, not out of a wall. The final solution, suggested by my mom, was to make the monster have the pattern, not the background. So, after going through a long and complicated process in order to only get the dots where I wanted them, I was able to shade the monster.

When I was working on this picture I titled the file for it “squidipus shirt pattern” and the name I mentally assigned the creature was “squidipus.” This is a name which I use for tentacled monsters in general, and is not a cross between a squid and an octopus as it sounds.

Mr. Skellie

I think that this is one of the best works of art that I have done. I got the idea for it when I was lying in bed and I noticed that my T-shirt was glow-in-the dark. Then I realized that I could do a screen print with glow-in-the-dark ink. I started trying to come up with a design I could use, and I thought of this one. I am not actually going to print this in glow-in-the-dark ink though, because I think it would look better in a darker color. But I don’t mind too much because it looks so good this way.

This was really fun to draw, I especially liked figuring out how to shade it with only two colors. Now that I am looking it over I can see a few spots I might like to make a little darker, but it doesn’t really need it.

I may be good at coming up with ideas for pictures, but I cannot think of very good names for things. Hence Mr. Skellie. Also the spider’s name is fluffy.

Ceramic Medusa

This is one of the first ceramic things I have made so far. I had some trouble with the snakes breaking but other than that it was surprisingly easy to make. The hardest thing about it was gluing the pieces back together in the same places they were in before thy broke (they did not all end up in the right places).

Whenever anyone saw this they always asked about how I got the snakes to be so shiny, but all I did was use metalic green paint.

There are a few things that I notice about it which could be better, so I am kind of tempted to make a better one. On the other hand I could just make something else.