Busy!

Hi guys, I haven’t been on lately. Whether on this blog or deviantArt. Busy school days and many exams, so usually I just do some painting, involve emotions of course.

 

And I’m going away next week, so maybe I update my deviantart and blog too.

 

Bye For Now,

 

Keshia

Free Tree

watercolour on watercolour paper.

 

-Keshia

Train…

I did this last night! Based on a postcard my brother gave me from US. San Francisco.

A little bit imaginary I think. Watercolour paint on watercolour paper.

 

-Keshia

Mood for Perspective

I’ve been thinking about landscapes recently, and found drawing it very hard and amusing at the same time. Me, a person who don’t have nothing to do, or know what to do with perspective just drew something this morning. School was, you all know how school is. I’m thinking about an imaginative and magical place called “Not-School” And somewhere behind those ideas turn in to actions on a piece of paper. Pardon me, for being completely and utterly amateurish and feel intimidated by something like perspective. Yeah, the p word.PERSPECTIVE. Something that is really hard for me to draw with. Perspective can be a good partner and it can be an intimidating partner to be around with.

Sorry, for being such an amateur in perspective, this is what I did:

I tried. :)

 

-Keshia

Line. Coloured. Edited

 

When I made an artwork, I also consider when I scan this piece do I need a photoshop? Some works do need a Photoshop touch.

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Caption: The left one is no-edited, the centre is lineart-only, the right one is the Photoshop edited version.

Photoshop helped us in so many ways. It brings out the colour if you set the settings. It really works and I really like working with it. Especially if the scanner made all of the colour fade, oh yes my friend, you really need a Photoshop help!

The usual ways I use in Photoshop: make a new layer above the original work. Colour the layer colourfully or just choose the colour that go well with the original work. Choose overlay.

Sometimes overlaying colour tends to make the colour disappear so, do with all your power to prevent that from happening, Photoshop will help you how!

 

Some person who sometimes like to edit with Photoshop,

 

- Keshia

Fast Art Stuff: Who Cares?

This piece is interesting enough to talk about. It’s one of my favourite. It has this unrevealing story behind it, that’s tragic but at the sometime really sad.

It’s about a girl. Who need to be listened. No one realize her. Until she get hurt all by her self. Alone in the unforgiving world full of deceitful people all around. Who cares about what I’m feeling? She said. She just stand there like nothing around her make her move. Close her eyes, and realize the only who listen to her is herself and God. and that’s enough for her.

Nobody knows or cares or understands about what her state of feelings  are. She want to say goodbye, if she is never be appreciated by anybody. People would leave her in the corners, left her sobbing in to the night. To the darkness and the light comes in the next day, but no one would knock on her door.  Nobody cares. So that’s why she asked:

Who cares?

Multiple times and counting them all, one by one.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell

I found that quote just recently. And those two paragraphs just tell the story behind what I drew and paint.

It’s kind of look death , and gothic style in some parts especially the red lips. Yeah, I don’t know why did I do that? But all and all it came out beautiful. I think she resembles my Original Character named Astraea or maybe the sister Virtue. But I’m positive this is Astraea. These OC’s of mine are sisters. Their hair are very colourful according to my state of emotions. I haven’t drew both of them in a while so this one is kind of give me a feeling of relief cause at some what they’re still alive.

“Who Cares?” Is really self expression kind of art. I did it with paint, drawing pen, and pencil. I sketch them up in the car and then ink it while there was a activity in my church, and paint it right away when I’m home. I was really angry at someone back then and maybe that anger got the best of me at some point. And this picture show me that side of me.

This artwork works for me, and I got the message. But that doesn’t mean as long as I understand it the picture is okay. I hope people who see this artwork see the message too.

Tools:

1. Koi Watercolour Paints
2. 0.7mm 2B mechanical pencil
3. Eraser
4. Drawing pen

That’s all for now,

- Keshia

Note: I got emotional push from this song: Exit Wounds by The Script http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYehN7mWMyU

Fast Art Stuff: Having Fun, Boy?

 

You don’t know what will come  in a strange deserted and black paper.  When you put a little mark on it, your mind start to wonder. Like this blog. All along this blog was just an assignment but when I’m working on this blog, I really get in to it. For who ever is wondering what this blog is  about (teacher, that’s you) This is an Art Blog, I just throw everything in here like this post is some kind of blank paper. Everything goes. For the next post, actually I don’t know what I’m going to talk about, another tutorial, another walkthrough maybe, or maybe some posting from my old blog. Oh yeah. my old blog. Let’s start with that shall we?

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I start my artwork "Having Fun, Boy?"  'cause of Owl City. I mean Owl City. The synthpop electronica one-man band. The songs are playful and fun, and so high imagination. The tunes go up and down, and synchronized with the lyrics, and the keyboard sound, and the singer vocals, play around the song make it so beautiful.

Because of the lyrics, I start building concepts. Concept I took for this piece is what the song said about the surroundings. It’s pretty descriptive sometimes, but it’s still pretty hard. What if I interpret this part that way, this way, maybe other ways? What about the lineart, the colors. Is it going to be dark and horror, or light and playful? It’s kind of hard when you start thinking about the lineart for a piece. Detailed or outline only? In the end “Having fun, Boy?” Probably is the hardest and most detailed artwork I’ve ever done. Mostly maybe because of dedication. :) 

When you finished something (concept) sketching on a piece of paper made you turn your brain again. Because sometimes, not all of the concepts you’ve been thinking about is going to fit in one piece of paper. Remove this, remove that, there were a lot of erasing. Maybe I lost my eraser on the way.

A thing that I really troubled with in this artwork is the boy’s hand. Some part need some perspective (annoyed, I’m no good with this perspective) A thing that I really loved with in this artwork is not all the imaginative stuffs are real and they don’t really need perspective. Just let your imagination run wild! After I finished the sketch let’s get on with inking it.

Ink. Hard. Really now, I’m serious that this is hard. I mean, When you see the sketch, inking is one obstacle that you have to through. Key to inking: stable. Your hand must be steady and flow correctly, follow the lines you’ve made in the sketching step. Watch out for details and if you want to change something in the inking stage you better think twice, be careful.

I color the picture a few days after the inking and the coloring takes a few days as well (including the art block of colors) I mostly used faber-castells classic color pencils, but to smooth the boy's  and angel's face I used faber-castel;s watercolor pencils. Why watercolor for the face? Because it much more smoother than If I used coloured pencils. Most of the technique or ways are gradation and layering (check out my First Post ) I really like this process although it took me so long just to finish it.

Tools:

1. Faber Castell Coloured Pencils
2. Faber Castell Watercolor Pencils
3. Snowman Drawing Pen (forgot the size)
4. 0.5mm 2B lead mechanical pencil
5. Eraser
6. The back of a manga paper :)

That’s about my artwork,

 

- Keshia