Art from 2007

A friend of mine asked to see some of the paintings I've done.
The only one's I have with me are paintings I did for AP Art in my senior year of highschool. (These are the only one's I have on my computer, the rest are at home.. ><) I only have three of them on me--a watercolor, a mixed media piece, and a pastel (and oil) paintings.


The first piece is a mixed media piece...supposed to represent the different elements. The second piece is done almost entirely out of pastels, although I used a little bit of oil paint in some parts. :] I took the picture of these pots at the Hawaii Chinatown. The third piece are bicycles done in watercolor. This picture was taken at Waikiki. :D


Lastly, sorry for the kind-of poor quality images...I took pictures of them, as I couldn't scan them or anything.. ><

Drawings of my Grandma (mom's side) and Grandpa (dad's side).
I'm working on my Grandma (dad's side) and Grandpa (mom's side). :D

Fall Doodles II

More doodles from my sketchbook. I've only had time to do ink sketches. Hopefully I'll be able to do some watercolor ones during break/January Term.

Fall Doodles

- cali

Summer Doodles

I've been randomly doodling a lot throughout the summer, most of them not developing further than simple doodles.
I still kind of like them, though.
Here are some of the doodles that I've done...

<--I already posted this one before, but I'd like to point out that I have done some realistic-like doodles...not all were animu. >>;;
Top dog is a Welsh Corgi. I WANT A WELSH CORGI... O__O They're so awesome. ><

This one is a fanart of Apollo Justice from the DS series, Ace Attorney. It was one of the very first doodles I did this summer. It was more of a practice doodle, and hand/arm angle kind of thing. I still need to work on that some.


This next one is of Mao from Code Geass. Based off of this screenshot: here. I mean wow..I didn't even notice that till someone pointed it out to me. But I find it dreadfully amusing nevertheless.


This next one is basically Heath Ledger's version of The Joker in the Dark Knight. Except chibi version, ya. :D I had fun drawing his eye makeup and such, though. tee-hee!
It's chibi, and that is my excuse for his lack of fingers. Ya, deal with it. :>
This one is purely for perspective...usually I draw people with their face showing, so I wanted to try a pose where you can't see her face. And the shoulder that potrudes toward you is always fun / difficult to show...

so yea, that was the point of this one. >>;;




This next, and last one, is of Flonne from Disgaea. Aaron got the game and I thought the art looked nice, so I decided to do some fanart. I kind of like how sketchy it turned out, so I'll probably leave it like this. I probably out the outfit wrong at some points, since I couldn't really figure it out, but you get the general gist of it.
Haha, notice how it gets less detailed near the bottom, compared to the top. |D



So yea. These are some of the doodles I've done. CLICK THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE. :D Though I suppose some of them look better small and miniscule like this. :P I will continue to doodle, and if I'm not lazy, I'll upload them here, too! : ]

Artistic: Olympics

Yesterday was 8/8/08, which chinese consider to be a very lucky day. (8 = lucky number. So naturally three 8's would be really, really, really lucky.) Anything lucky happen to you today? :D

I watched the opening ceremonies last night for the Olympics. (I love watching it, almost more than watching the actual games. XD) And the first thing I noticed was the the Chinese Olympics were a lot more artistic...no joke! o-o
And they sure used their mass numbers well, haha! There were a shitload of Chinese participating in that, and they were doing all sorts of greatly stereotypically Asian things...creating crazy complicated murals with their bodies, performances so in-sync that you weren't surprised in the slightest that a bunch of Asian's were performing it...and they were wearing odd, stylistic outfits (you know, the odd styles Asian's are well-known for? See 'harajuku' or 'kogal')
Not to mention the hilariously awesome torch lighting ceremony at the end... heh.

But seriously, it was uber artistic, and pretty sweet. : ]

o, and Phelps is a freakin' mermaid or something, I swear. D: HOSHIT.

& am I the only one who feels really dumb when I see a nation and realize I have NOO IDEA they exsited before? D: Gah I feel so dumb and uneducated.. D':

Beach Volleyball...I never knew that was an Olympic sport. XD I am amused.

& in other news, I've been doodling some more.
I've been wanting a pet dog (A Welsh Corgi, a Shiba Inu or a German Shepherd) for awhile now...so I decided to doodle some dogs...since I can't have one IRL, I'll just draw them till I get one. >3

* I took a picture of it, because I am too lazy to turn on my mom's computer and scan it. >>;

Ohh, I added a imeem playlist to the left. I'll be adding more songs and such, but yea. Enjoy!? : ]

rant w/ code geass snuck in.

Yay, it's...that Chinese Federation guy from Code Geass R2. lol.
Typical bishie, it's great...every anime has to have one of those!
I don't know, I don't like him, but I don't hate him. I just don't see much to him yet. XD;
Anyways, this is a sketch of him. I will ink/color him tomorrow, and then post them up on MB and dA.

*o, sorry for the bad quality..the scanner is in my parent's room, and they're alseep...so i just took a picture of it instead. -fail-
& yea, I've tried a slightly different style again...smaller eyes, farther up, elongated face, more pronounced nose...mmya.. XD;

So , I've been doing a lot more doodles now that I actually plan on tidying up and such.

Hopefully I'll be able to sell them! :D Sakura Con is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get tables for, though, which really bothers me. --; Kawaii Kon has a much larger Artist Alley, and the artists there were much more friendly.
Aah, well. Maybe the Sakura con guys are friendly...maybe if I get to work with them, I'll be able to actually talk to them more. :]

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and on a totally different subject...though still relating to art...
I hate people who are soo cocky about their work. Especially those who know they're good, and thus they flaunt it and look down upon everyone else. They only talk to people who, in their eyes, have work almost as good as theirs, and ignore everyone else.
Luckily this has never happened to me, but I've seen this happen to many other people, and it makes me want to walk up to those arrogant artists and smack their heads.
-sigh- I mean, seriously? What if this guy really tried his best? Who are you to say that what he drew did not take up as much time and effort as you did on yours? He may have took a long time to draw that. You don't know that, and don't judge it just because you look at it and think that, 'Oh, I can do this in 10 seconds. WTF!!111!!'
And why is it you only think about profit here? Ever think of giving something for the sake of giving? You're regretting giving it away because you couldn't sell it, and if you kept it you could have sold it online. It's not all about making money. It feels nice to give sometimes. You should try it.

-breathes- Okay, I'm calm...I just hate it when people are so arrogant and stuck up towards anyone that they view are less superior than them. I feel that each artist has their own certain style. There is always room for improvement, but just because someone's style is different than yours does not mean that they are below you.
There is a difference between badly drawn art, and art with a different style. Some people have to learn that, seriously.

ok ok i'm done... ><