Live

Colored it in a little on the computer.

Live a Little

Blue

Bird

Raegan

Here's a better picture of it.

Happy Birthday Hailey Mae

I miss you little Hailey Mae.

Naomi

Cheetah

Sad

In progress....

Finished...backwards due to the webcam.

Woman

Watcher

Tree

Intense

Miles

Flowery Sketches

Fairy

Sasha

My beautiful niece, Sasha, in her tutu. Graphite, outlined in black pen. This image is backwards. The real drawing is facing right.

Original image:

Abstract

Wind

I drew this a long time ago, so the face isn't very good, and I didn't use to be able to draw hands, so that's why she has no hands. But I do like the flowy-ness of this sketch.

Waterfall

Just a random sketch from a while ago.

Cocoon Door

Cocoon.

Opened cocoon with butterfly inside.

Invader Zim Page

Bird

Mixed media page. Acrylic paint, a button, feathers, white paper flowers, and a red jewel.

Squid Ship

A print from a few years ago. It's a squid in space. I wish I would have added more details, but then again I've only done two prints in my life so maybe I'll do better next time.

Door Page

My "door page" of a horse stable.

Dream Page

 Two pages had to be about my dreams so...

Watercolor

Just some watercolor paint on a picture in the book I used for my artist book.

Pages 3 and 4

Two pages of my artist book. Black and white acrylic paints.

Yellow

Pages 1 and 2 of my artist book. The assignment was to devote 2 pages to our favorite color, and find out some facts about it.

Artist Book

In one of my art classes, I had to take an old book that was going to be thrown out, and do projects in it. This is the cover. It's black and white acrylic paint.

Hair

If you'd like to see the original of
this, this is from my drawing
50 Factor.

Hair is one thing that many people are intimidated by, but that is super easy once you've really focussed on it for one or two drawings. The thing about hair is that unless you are looking at it up close, the individual hairs can't really be distinguished . So when drawing hair, I usually draw a light outline of the shape, and then start shading it in, depending on how light or dark the color is. Once it's shaded in to a relatively medium color, I start drawing darker streaks into it here and there to give it some shape and volume. Once I'm done with that, I get my kneaded eraser out and erase highlights in, which are usually just lighter shapes in the hair, not necessarily skinny streaks. Usually, the top of the head, around the roots will be lighter than the rest. When I'm done with these things, I usually smudge the different streaks together somewhat just to make it look more uniform. And that's hair. :)

Pumpkins

Lion

Graphite pencil.

Apple

Apple still life in charcoal.

The Face

1. The Face: Many people complain about not being able to draw the human face realistically. I am occasionally one of those people. Although I consider my face drawings pretty good, that doesn't mean it's easy for me. It usually takes me a long time to get it right. The trick to drawing a face is to draw shapes of shadows, instead of drawing lines. Drawing very light lines in order to get the general shape of the features down is a good idea, but make sure you don't draw them too dark. Then, just focus on what the shadows actually look like and where they are. Once you have a light outline of where the eyes and eyebrows will go, start drawing the shadow that is underneath and on top of the eye. Don't worry about leaving the light spots light, since it'll be more efficient to erase them out once you're done shading. Remember that when drawing eyebrows and eyelashes, individual hairs are seldom defined. See how in my drawing below only a few of the tips of the eyelashes are defined? The rest should just be shaded dark. For eyebrows, color them in dark, and then use a kneaded eraser to erase out a few tiny little lines near the inner eyebrow. Don't forget that eyes are not all shaped the same! It's important to really study the small angles in individual eyes, because the shape of the eyes can change who your entire picture looks like.

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When drawing the nose, start by lightly drawing the curve in between the eyes up to the eyebrows, and the straighter part of the bridge just to get the length of the nose right. Then draw the bottom of the nose by drawing the middle part as a small u-shape whose ends extend into ovals for the nostrils. Then shade the shape of the shadow underneath to define the shape of the nose.

It is particularly important to use this shapes instead of lines strategy when drawing the mouth, because lips do not usually have a natural outline to them. They are just shapes whose outline is defined either by the very thin highlighted area around the top lip, or the dark shadow underneath the bottom lip.

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Then start by the corners of the eyes and continue shading down to define the cheek bones. Towards the beginning of your drawing, it will probably look a little funny, and you may think it could not possibly turn out well, but the further you get, the more it will come together, like so: :)

P.S. Remember that when drawing a face realistically, the lighting will not always allow every feature on the face to be defined perfectly. Like in my drawing, how the left side of the nose is not as defined as the right. But that's okay, because that's what makes it look more realistic.

Little Hailey Mae

This is a pencil drawing of my niece, Hailey, who passed away three years ago from Leukemia. This was a difficult drawing to start and to work on in general. It's impossible to draw her as good as she should be.

Muses in the Woods

My charcoal woods illusion picture on blue mi-teintes paper.

The finished version.

Stargate

My cattle marker and oil paint drawing of a stargate that I made for my boyfriend +Ian Jorgensen :)

Monster

Someone asked for a tattoo design of a plant monster that resembles a wolf. I came up with this pen drawing.

Jolteon

Just a pencil sketch of Jolteon.