Sketch Dump

It's been a little while since I have posted anything so I thought that I would upload some of the stuff that I have been working on at the moment.

This is something that I did in a few hours, to practice getting back into using Copic Markers again. Sadly both of my light blue markers started to die on me while I was working on this so the sky looks really patchy. Hopefully when I get refills for both colors I'll be able to fix it up and repost it.

I am really not great at successfully coloring blonde hair yet. I need to look up some tutorials on how to do it better because her's, while not horrible, isn't what I want it to be quite yet, and I'm afraid if I over work it the yellow hues are just going to become ugly and muddy.

This is one of the cover's I did in France over a year ago. I printed out another copy and used Copic Markers to color it. I'm fairly happy with this, and think I will ad it to my scholarship appeal portfolio.

This is something that I think I will either end up using on a business card or at least in my display for any artist alley's I end up going to.

I was think that for cons, I could always wear a stripped shirt and dark bottoms (cause I have so many black/dark jeans and shorts ^^;; ) That way customers will hopefully eventually recognize me from a distance based on appearance and my table set up.

The star's are because I made a new Deviant Art account as an experiment to see if I market and brand myself better if I can get a bigger audience and sell more art in a shorter period of time than my last DA account. The username is 'etoile-san' which etoile is french for star.

Scholarships...I need them.

I got my official acceptance letter from SCAD about grad school. Yay! Unfortunately, I didn't get much in the way of scholarships from the school, so now I have to go through the process of appealing my current scholarship and hope that maybe they will give me more. I'm also fervently searching the internet for scholarships as well. If I can't find a way to minimize how much in loans I will need to take out, then I don't think in the end I will be able to afford to continue my education.

So aside from searching the web for ways to win money from organizations, I'm also going to start whoring myself out on DA (and I will create a brad new account for this) and try to make money through commissions. That way I can deposit it into my savings/pay for supplies and possibly classes to prepare myself for the 100,000,000 dollar debt I may end up in.

There is so much that I need to start doing so that I can actually be successful in my field that honestly I have been putting off for too long.

 I need to:

• make business cards
• design a logo
• build a website
• start going to cons to promote myself
• buy a button maker

And I am sure many other things that I just haven't listed.

Gotta get on that and stop being lazy. :/

Grad School

Well I've applied to grad school. I don't doubt that I'll be accepted. I'm sure that SCAD wants more of my money, but I do hope that they give me a decent scholarship. I'm both excited and nervous about starting grad school. I'm excited to have a more productive environment to work in that the classes will provide, and to be able to get truly constructive feed back one last time in the required critiques. But the thesis part has me worried. I sort of know what I want to explore, but I have never considered myself that great of a paper writer. Though I know there are classes specifically there to help me prep for the 45 hour review and the paper.

Anyway, the reason I'm finally making a new post is because I wanted to share a few of the pieces that I put together for said grad application.


Here are the first six pages. I actually started working on these when I was in Lacoste over a year ago. The inks are all recent but the pencils were done in France. I am fairly pleased with how these came out. One of the things that I want to start trying is using ink washes on characters clothes and also fabrics/cloth to give them a softer appearance.



This page is one of my more recent ones. I am really happy with it. I used to not work with textures much. Not because I didn't like it. I love textures, but I never really thought that I was all that good at it. I really worked for longer than I should have on this, but I think that it was worth it.