There are going to be plenty of old pictures coming up on my blog. I actually have no idea how long ago I made these... and these files are all undated. They are most likely from two to three years ago. All I remember about these was giving them to a friend.

Well, I normally dislike abstract art. I mean, what is it? Just random blobs of color. Sometimes such random blobs can look nice to pull the colors of a room together... eh. But you know, abstract art is really, really easy to make. So easy that I finished both of these in half an hour. :P

And don't forget the fun angle shot. :)

I've been trying out new techniques and new challenges-- manga being the latest. I have to say, I am terribly thrown off by the weird proportions involved. I found some manga faces that I used as reference to learn. Then I turned my Lucy Pevensie of Narnia drawing into manga in the corner-- I'm sure you can see it, its bright red. :)

I updated a few posts with new pictures. All the ones that I said, "Hey, I've got more pictures for this laying around somewhere..."

Lucy Pevensie Colored Pencil

Hermione Granger Colored Pencil

Tapestry Crochet

(Old) Paintings for Above Staircase

I am also going to work a bit more on my Tengwar article-- update it; I learned some new things about vowel phonetics and that ties into the tehtar somehow...

Have you ever found yourself in possesion of a boring nightstand, three dusty dried roses, an idea and no vase?

Me no like computers. :P

First the scanner wasn't scanning very well. Then I thought I'd simply take pictures of my Lucy and Hermione drawings. I downloaded them, realized the WB setting had been incorrect, and decided to fix that via Paint Shop. Which promptly locked up. Then I had another page to scan in. Our scanner saves images as a TIF. Blogger does not accept TIF. And guess what is the only program we have that changes TIF to JPEG? That's right. THe locked up Paint SHop.

*deep breath*

Okay, I'm good. Just do it another day.

Anyway, it is a drawing of my little brother! And the squiggles on the one side is supposed to be his teddy bear. Excuse me, my sister's teddy bear, which he stole. The photograph is really cute, I snapped it while he was being protective of Mr. Fuzz-Fur.

Here is the photograph I based it off of: (you can tell I tottally messed up the face, particularly the nose, and the hands)

I am quite upset at our scanner; even with the help of Paint Shop, the picture doesn't have the depth of color that my actual drawing has. And the colors that it highlighted are the wrong ones-- it makes the drawing look funny.

I have decided to get back to honing my colored pencil skills! Believe it or not, this is my first colored pencil drawing that does not have any pen lines-- since third grade. Yes, it is true.

I based this drawing off of a photograph from Goblet of Fire. In the movies, Hermione wore a beautiful pink gown to the Yule Ball. In the books, however, the dress was periwinkle blue. :) So, for the fun of it, I drew the picture and transformed the dress blue. And more modest. :P