Twins

drawn from an interesting ad for some designer fashion.

Character design

The best way for me to think of new characters is drawing people I like the look of...who knows when any of them will actually come into a story.

and here's a bonus doodle of Supermaeve.

harajuku

painted these girls using reference photos from tokyofashion.com and had SO MUCH FUN

people in history

Paintings done on pages from an old book called People in History....

Kim Il-Sung

Trying to get better at painting famous people from photos.

Fairly recently I watched National Geographic's Inside North Korea, which was intriguing and really really sad at the same time. This is why I picked Kim Il-Sung to paint.

I recommend the video, it's about 40 minutes and you can watch it on YouTube here.

People dressed warmly

It's been very cold out lately.
(But still no snow since October! Fingers  crossed that we'll get some...)

-A♫

Fishbowl

Lady Caraway

I think I'll make a whole series of pictures like this.

I was inspired to begin some drawings of people and landscapes in some kind of mysterious, different place by the book Amarant: The Flora and Fauna of Atlantis by a Lady Botanist, by Una Woodruff.

This is a really interesting book with really beautiful illustrations--if you see it somewhere, pick it up! Look at it! It's great.

Cheers,
Ava

Crowd

Hi Everyone

Sorry I haven't posted for so long!!
So, here are two little watercolor pencil people....

Cheers-

Ava

More watercolor pencil...

I ♥ watercolor pencils

I don't know why I always forget how much fun watercolor pencils are! Now I really know how much I love them.


Me today: They're just like watercolors, only they're so much easier! And you draw with them like they're normal pencils, but then when you go over them with water it's like they're watercolors!!! And then--!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah.
Today I was really experimenting with them for the first time, and it was a lot of fun.

Cheers,
AVA

Paper Dolls!!!!!

This is Nadia.

This is Tamora.

Both of them live happily in origami paper land.

I created Nadia and Tamora (named after two authors I like) months ago, along with their clothing, and since then I've been keeping them in a converse shoebox. (Actually, the shoebox isn't really the most convenient place to keep them, but I like the sound of keeping something in a converse shoebox. ^ ^ yeah.)

For each of them I made a set of clothes--eight outfits.

NADIA!

TAMORA!

These were so much fun for me to make. So much fun, because I was basically creating things that I want to wear. (Tamora's purple bunny rabbit shirt? Totally want it!)
     Since I had never made paper dolls before, I made all kinds of mess-ups: the mistake of having hair hang over shoulders and dresses that puff out but still have tabs on the sides, so they don't actually even reach the legs.  Most paper dolls you see have their arms sort of sticking out to the sides, or have arms drawn in with the clothes, so that they go over the actual arms on the doll. (Like this.)

I imagine drawing the arms attached to the clothes makes it much easier, but I think it's a little creepy making them have several sets of arms at once.

 Nadia was fairly easy to make because her arms were tucked behind her back. But I wanted them to look different, so I made Tamora's arms hanging down at her sides.Then realized that that wouldn't work. There would be nowhere for the tabs on the sides to go.

So, I ended up doing this thing where I cut a little slit on the line where her arms are against her sides. It was a pain, because I had to line up the tabs exactly with that spot, but it worked! ☺

And now, I still haven't bent any of the tabs on the outfits. I can't bring myself to do it.
But the clothes really do fit them!

(This looks a little weird because it's hard to get it positioned right on the scanner and I refuse to use the tabs.  It looks better in real life.)

Sooo, in conclusion......

Paper dolls are great fun, especially the clothes. ☺☺☺☺☺☺

~THE END!~

-Ava

Happiness

This is a watercolor thing I did shortly after eating the cookie with that fortune in it. (It's a great fortune, isn't it?) I also included an awesome hat I saw! Yay!
 The title is "Happiness."

Watercolors

These are some watercolors I did...

I've been experimenting with bright skin colors. Blue people are a lot of fun...I like to model them after paintings of Hindu deities.

I'll post more soon!

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Ava