An Attempt in Illustrator

I finished my first piece in illustrator. I quite like vector art and it's high time that I started applying it more to my work.


I did actually draw the image in traditional media but I converted it to a vector file using illustrator. Just use the live trace tool.

I have a few reasons as to why I would get into vector art. For starters I'm really weired with art that is digitally based. I really only like doing art on my computer that you can only do with a computer (mainly pixel art and vector art). I have nothing against digital painters, it just doesn't work for me. And second of all since this is vector art I can up the scale on my work hassle free. So if I feel like getting huge prints of my vector art made I could easily do it.

Hello Febuary

Not going to lie: January kind of sucked as far as productivity goes. Hopefully that will change this month. I'm trying to start more projects but school has been very trying for me. Still, seeing as how hectic things have been for me I don't expect much from myself this month.
GOALS: Make key chains, get more thumbnails done for comic, do at least one painting, make some ATCs to trade.

Don't take the maximum amount of credits, work part time and do online selling.

Too long, too long

I apologize for not posting much here. But to be honest I really have not drawn all that much this month.

Anyway, I have made two new ACEOs that are indeed for sale in my etsy shop. In two day I would have been there for a year. I'm planning on making a bunch of ATCs and trading them on Monday Art Day.


Find more photos like this on Monday Artday ATC

Cool Sneaks

I got some really nice waterproof non-toxic dye for the holiday and I decided to dye some shoes with it. I had a ton of fun making them and I would love to make more and experiement with adding gold paint and drawing on the shoes as well.

Crazyness

Well this Christmas is already very odd. My family is going to Arizona for Christmas to be with my Grandparents. That's fine and dandy but my parents decided that we should have a fake Christmas at home before we leave. We had it yesterday and everything went as expected, except for one thing: I got next to no sleep.

No, it's not that I was excited; not at all. I've always been able to sleep on Christmas eve as a kid and I usually sleep like a rock now. But ever since I got to my parents house I've been having trouble sleeping. And the fact that on Thursday I woke up at 1 PM didn't help me go to sleep (I was getting sick and I needed that sleep). So I went to bet at 11 PM on Friday night, woke up at 12:30 because my Dad was being too loud with the TV right out side of my room. He went to bed at 2 AM and I tried to get some sleep. I spent about an hour and a half rolling around trying to get comfortable. I gave up and fell asleep on the couch. My mom woke me up on accident at 5:30 AM. She was filling stockings and didn't know I was there when she came down and made too much noise. I honestly didn't feel tired so I opted to stay awake from her. Besides, it wasn't like I was going to get much energy from an extra two and a half hours of sleep.

Everyone got up at seven and we had fake Christmas. I'm still feeling fine well into 9 AM. Then at 10 my family went out to do some errands. I got a hair cut while everyone went to the bank and at noon you could clearly see I was exhausted. My family did some other errands and I was on and of sleeping in the car for most of it.

We got back home at about 3 PM and I took a 30 minute power nap. It just made me be able to stay awake until 6 PM. My mom told me to take a nap and I took an hour long power nap but it barely gave me enough energy to stand up. I typically have amazing power naps where I can be dead tired with 5-6 hours of sleep, do some heavy sleeping for half an hour and wake up feeling just a little tired and be able to stay awake until I go to bed (that is if I don't exert my slef). But at this point I knew that there was very little I could do to stay awake. We're going to be leaving for our plane at 5 AM and I have no energy to pack my clothes, let alone get my bag out. So I went to bed officially at 7PM.

I woke up an hour ago at 1:20 AM. I feel pretty good and while I could go for some more sleep I don't want to mess myself up that much, so I'm going to stay wide awake until I get on the plane, sleep a little bit. Then push myself to stay awake until 10 PM. I'm still going to bed far earlier than usual but at least it's normal.

So what's the moral of this story: Fake Christmas sucks.

Heck yeah

I just got a feature on Dharma Designs blog.

And I'm going to flat out admit that I haven't been making anything for my shop lately. I've been busy with finals and making Christmas presents. Knitting three people presents right now. I'm not even that good at knitting but everyone wants me to make them something.

Happyness Packs

I'm going to be selling five happyness packs for this holiday season. Think of it as a holiday thank you to everyone who supported me this year. And yes, happyness is intentionally misspelled.