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🍔8 foods, 8 mediums🍝

Decided to challenge myself recently to try drawing/painting/making 8 different foods but using different mediums of art, whether it be paint, ink, or even 3D modeling! I think I came out of this little challenge having learnt more about my skills & my capabilities as an artist. Trying new mediums can seem scary, but you’ll realise it’s not as bad as you think & you can always do better!

I may consider turning a couple of these into prints for sale. Leave a comment if you’re interested!

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🍡 Old painting throwback! 🎆

I did this many years ago using poster paint & gel pens on black paper in an effort to get the colours to pop, & honestly I think I did quite well! Still look back on it every now and then as a reminder of my progress as an artist since then. Looking at your old art can have that effect on you. You see how well you did in the past & get motivated to do better in the future!

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What a wonder motto to put up on your wall

lil wip for a carte blanche commission lol

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req'd by @maryshelleyreincarnated

how're you now

text: sup

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"Lady Midnight"

From the Winternight series by Katherine Arden <3

Step-by-step tutorial for this piece, plus many others, is available on my Patreon!

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I was thinking through what else I’m looking forward to this holiday season and I realized I haven’t mentioned it on here, just on discord, but— MY MOMS BEEN MAKING ME A REALLY COOL ART THING??

I think I’ve talked about it before, but my mom has been a quilter for most of my life and in the last few years started doing these really cool fabric collages, and it was my turn to request one so I asked for a phoenix cause I’m obsessed with this one art piece I did in art therapy ages ago

Anyway, my mom has been working on it and THIS was the last update I got???

I’m so excited for it?? Can’t wait to see where it’s at by the time I get there this weekend

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Frederick Pinguin

That background was created by taking a very dirty kneaded eraser and smushing it into the paper a bunch of times.

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🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑

This is my first time posting something done in mixed media! I usually post only digital illustrations, but to be honest it’s been very limiting for me. I’m someone who likes exploring mediums, so to finally be able to do that for once & make it work is such a relief!

On another note, I’m open for commissions, so DM me if you’d like one done!

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🌊 The birth of Israel 🔥

I started on this work when my church was going through our Exodus sermon series. My hands wanted to wander during the sermon, so they “wandered” all over my iPad screen with my pencil! Initially I didn’t think I would actually end up with a whole finished masterpiece, & in fact I left it halfway for so long, but I found it again in my gallery & decided to play around with it, leading to this finished work!

I wanted to emphasize the grand scale of the scene - the parting of the waters, the fire representing God’s presence leading them in the night, & how tiny & insignificant they looked in the midst of God’s great work. This was the climax of their escape out of Egypt, for here they were delivered out of Pharaoh’s grasp & birthed into a nation, as the language used in Exodus strongly hints at. Yet they were so rebellious all throughout their history, thinking they had the power to do what they saw as right…I hope this painting can remind us of who we really are before God, & make us think twice about our presumption.

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Here's my attempt at designing a character & drawing her out with oil pastels!

Me at the start: 😙 this is going easy!

Me halfway through: 🤨 looks really meh

Me adding details: 😱 what atrocities have I just committed?!!

Me at the end: 😐 doesn't look too bad actually

As always, feel free to comment on how I did!

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Hello, folks! It’s been a while hasn’t it? I’m back with a drawing I long forgot to post here.

Trying out a different art style this time! As much as I like cartoony, outlined styles, I thought a line-less style would look even better for some of my drawings. The part that I had trouble with the most was lassoing neatly to ensure the borders were clean & not wonky.

In any case, behold another OC that you may or may not see again! Hahaha. She doesn’t quite have a name yet. She likes music & is a mechanic who helps her mom build & repair stuff. She is mute unfortunately, as her larynx had to be removed when she was younger. But she communicates using her DJ panel, quickly stitching together clips of music lyrics to form sentences (reminds me of Bumblebee from Transformers!). No matter what happens, nothing fazes her & she likes living at her own pace.

As always, feel free to provide feedback!

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First post on Tumblr! These are just some digital oil pastel paintings I did yesterday & today as part of my drawing practice. I promise I’ll upload better stuff here in the future.

Can you believe I did these with only 2 layers? Haha. I think there’s something more organic about just using one or two layers to paint rather than piling up a bunch of layers with different elements on them. When painting in real life, you don’t really get to do stuff like layers, so whatever mark you make blends with the rest of the painting directly. It’s a good challenge to not be so unconfident about your painting & just lay your stroke down.

As always, feedback is welcome.