Sketches

I'm currently working on a piece I think I'll call "The Easter Bunny's Visit":

 

And then just some drawings from my sketchbook:

Re-Touched Art Piece

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I want to submit this to a student competition so I edited some parts. It was a lot of fun to go over it again!

Aquarium Visit

While in LA, visiting my family, my brother and my sister-in-law took me to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. If there are any places that I absolutely love being in are aquariums!

Colored Pencil Sketches (and pen)

Crafts-and-Drawings Show and Tell

I'm almost done knitting a small shawl made with super-soft Peruvian baby alpaca yarn (from Rowan's Lima edition). Sooo soft. And because of it's chain construction (a "braided" yarn), it's also sort of stretchy.
 

Did a simple pattern of 4 rows stockinette, 1 row with gaps,
 1 row of horizontal ribbing.

As a christmas gift, I also crocheted a shawl for one of my friends who lives in Norway:
 ( Taken at Modern Yarn, my local yarn shop)

Lastly, during my winter break in Los Angeles, I got to spend time with one of my sisters, who lives in San Francisco. Here are two drawings I made of her:

I drew her in medieval garb for fun.

This didn't come out as good because
I used a ballpoint pen instead of something erasable,
oooh well.

New Copic Markers!

One of my brothers and my sister-in-law gave me a large set of copic markers for christmas!

           I'm still in shock, but alright. I never really looked up how to use them because I figured I would never own one since they're so expensive. Because of their blending capability, they're like an interesting mix between watercolors and markers. I'm quite happy with the set and it was a lot of fun to use them (the blending is exactly what I wanted from markers).
    Below are my first test-run with this new medium:

I definitely played around more with the blending option in this illustration.