Crocheted Bunny Project

 

Ever since I picked up a crochet hook needle in February, I just have not stopped crocheting. 

Currently, I'm making this for my nephew who is almost a year old. It's a brown bunny crocheted with a soft and fuzzy yarn ( 30% alpaca hair). Since I'm seeing my brother and his family on Sunday, I'm quickly trying to finish this little guy. I'm also planning on making him a little gray, button-up vest with little details, like side-pockets and a collar. I'm debating whether I should make him a gray bowler hat along with a striped red and white scarf, (with a red bow tie for more elegant evenings.) I thought he was a gardener but he ended up wanting to look more stylish. Figures.

I need to make the eyes and I'll be done!

  If it looks decent I might consider making more to sell them on Etsy. I'll post a photo of the finished product. :)  

Do you plan on having a career around your art? :)

Yes, yes I do! I've been planning it all my life, even when I didn't know it (Paleontology, 8-year-old JGV, just so you can draw dinosaurs? Seriously?). Crippled by my fears of failure, I even got persuaded by my concerned parents to seek a career in accounting for two entire years--but after I got an associates degrees in business, I was just too miserable to continue. I took control of my life and decided on studying illustration. Despite the odd jobs I've done that have revolved around graphic design, I would like to work for publishing companies, making children/young adult book illustrations, animating, story-boarding, character designing, and publishing my own personal work (graphic novels).
Many times my dream really seems impossible and that I'll never succeed enough to economically support me (that's all I really need!) and yet I truly don't know what else will make me happy. All I want to do is improve and to continue to enjoy doing it. But I wont let my anxieties get to me. We all have one life to live, why not live it pursuing meaningful hopes and dreams?

Ask me anything

Finally Done with School

I need to get some rest.

Brewing Art

Big post today!

 I just handed in my 5-piece Illustration II Final! I was given the word 'ghosts' and had to work around that theme. So! I decided on illustrating a short story taking place in Victorian England in which a scientist, rejected from the Academy of Science, begins to study paranormal activities, in the hopes of proving it to be fake and earning admittance into the Academy. 

In this first illustration, the scientist-man attends a seance to observe and take notes. He meets the woman conducting the seance, who is actually a con-artist faking the whole thing.  Unfortunately, strange things begin to happen, and not by her own trickery!

 

 This second illustrate is a scene of the scientist-man investigating the halls and meeting the gray ladies of the castle. 

As the third illustration, the scientist-man and the con-artist woman, who can see and communicate with ghosts, travel to Mexico to meet La Llorona. The scene above involves the woman running after La Llorona to hand her a handkerchief. This act of kindness eventually frees La Llorona to move on to the next life. 

 Here the duo visit Hawaii. They sneak into the forest to secretly witness the Nightmarchers, a parade of spirits. 

As the fifth and final illustration, they arrive in Japan, and you know the Japanese love their ghost stories. Here they encounter mujina, which are faceless ghosts--they look like people except, surprise!, they have no faces. They were by far the creepiest ghosts to research.

And here are my sketches: 

 

 

 Anyways, outside of school, it was my friend's birthday recently so I made her a birthday card of her talking to a bear with watercolors. Silly, yeah.

And now I'm working on a watercolor piece, the largest scale I have ever worked in watercolor before. I haven't finished drawing it yet but so far I have this: 

Looking Out the Window

I painted these for my color theory class with watercolor. The assignment consisted of painting an indoor window looking out after 5:30pm. The point was to capture the reflection of the interior over the window overlooking a scenery during twilight. I found this challenging and I did get frustrated but one must keep going and practice.
I prefer the first painting above; the second one I was experimenting with a themed color of purple, I don't think I succeeded. It looks sloppy, but I'm posting it anyway. I'm still mostly clueless about color theory... A part of mastering it is a hyper-awareness to seeing-- a skill that requires immense practice and work!