my drypoint print

so this is the second traditional printing we got to try out. what is this? well, you carve into a plastic sheet with a needle-thingy (the thing on the first image) when you’re done carving on your plastic sheet; take a roller and paint on top of the sheet, wipe away the excess paint but be careful not to wipe away the paint in the cracks of the carving. dab some water on a blank sheet of paper, put the paper sheet on top of the plastic sheet, and use something that really flattens them together (i used some sort of machine we had in class, but you can just put something really heavy on top of your paper+carving)

feel free to experiment with more colours, the sheet is easy to clean my washing it by hand with water and soap. :)

Off topic; I decided to make this my March contribution, because I don’t think I will have time to do a whole new drawing before this month is over, plus I’m actually kind of happy with how this assignment turned out.

my linoleum print

so our latest assignment in art class has been printing traditionally, this is my linoleum print which i’ve created using a linoleum sheet that I have carved into. it was kind of tricky because you have to be really careful to where you carve, or else you might carve out places that weren’t meant to be carved, and there’s no turning back - oh and also, i accidentally stabbed my thumb when carving violently, so be careful if you’re going to try this at home

easy hao2steps:

1. carve whatever pattern/picture you want - keep in mind that if you want to carve out a name or word; mirror it, because the print will be a mirrored version of your carving

2. roll on paint onto your carving

3. put a blank paper on top of your carving, use anything heavy on top of it, push the heavy thing down on top of the paper+carving for about 20-30 seconds

4. the first try will always be a failure, try again to get better results

ruhani:

We Can Do It!

I did it! I managed to complete this drawing! :D

I really had no motivation to continue on this piece yesterday night when I was sketching on it. The colours kept mixing into this huge lump of messyness and I just felt like giving up. Thankfully I had Oishi telling me to finish it and that it didn’t actually look all that bad.

Today I gave up on trying to be someone I’m not when colouring (I had earlier been trying out different colouring techniques but nothing seemed to work for me) and at last I just did it on my own way, which felt a lot more comfortable for me and it was going very smoothly too - and soon I had something that I could look upon and feel the pride of “yes, this is my doing, and I like it.”

Okay anyways, here’s a “quick” description of what this is supposed to be:

In the beginning of 2013, Denise gave me the great idea of making at least one drawing (or more) each month in order to not procrastinate from drawing - aka keeping my drawing skills active.

February is a very short month and so I felt very stressed to think of something to draw. Valentines day passed before I even remembered that I still had not drawn something for February. That’s when it hit me, February might be the shortest month of the year, but it is still a very important month. It’s Black History Month! It’s nothing that we celebrate here in Sweden, but I think it is still important to remember the ones that are often excluded from History books, etc. Unfortunately, even if PoC are remembered, it is rarely ever any women, so I felt like drawing something that would include a WoC. I used the “We Can Do It” propaganda poster as my reference and then I simply just race-bent the whole thing. And before anyone of you ask; no I am not an African American woman, but I am a WoC, and to me, solidarity is very important, so I guess this is my way to show that I stand with you in the fight against inequality. :)

The drawing took me about 6-7 hours to finish. Although I did watch The Walking Dead inbetween working with this piece and then I had to stop to eat food, and procrastinate, etc. But it did approximately take me 6-7 hours. It was sketched in Paint tool SAI and the rest was done in Photoshop CS5.

I still have a lot to learn about this god damn confusing program.. Teach me, pls? T_T

Thursday’s art class. You might notice how my canvas contains of only just a line so far.

ruhani:

Gymnasiemässan is one of the biggest events held every year in Stockholm for high school students in order to make it easier for them to find what they want to study for their further education. My school has become rather popular these past few years, so we had this huge booth this year - which attracted a lot of people. :D

Another way to attract kids is by having us students talk about what kind of programmes we have to offer and to answer any questions they might have without sugarcoating anything. I stood in the booth for 10 hours yesterday, accompanied with my great classmates Denise & Alice. We tooks turns to draw on the cintiq while two of us talked about our programme to anyone interested.

The best drawing (that caught the most attention) was obviously Alice’s He-Man. ♥

This was the first draft I made for my Martha Jones-inspired poster that I’m making for our poster assignment in school. I wanted it to have this kind of old warrior’ish feel to it, but I wasn’t too happy with the results, which is why this only remains as a draft. I still kind of like it though. :I

amnesia: the adventure

If I wasn’t the lazy person that I am, I would actually take my time to make a proper bucket list of things I want to do before I die. One of those things that would be on that list is “to go to the amusement park with Emmi” - it’s something I really want to do, something we must do when we get the chance to meet eachother irl. It doesn’t matter which amusement park we go to though, as long as it has a haunted house that I can force Emmi into, I’m fine with it. Why? Because of reasons. +____+

This drawing is for Emmi, beucase today’s her birthday! Happy 17th birthday, gurl!

The drawing is of us two in the Brennenburg castle. How did we get there? Some random accident when we stepped through a portal which was inside the amusement park’s haunted house. How will we get out of there? God knows. Maybe we’ll get lucky - all I know is that it will be a heck of an adventure! :D

I thought that “maybe I should update you guys on what I’m doing” - just so you guys don’t think I’ve died or something. I have recently been working on a drawing. I tend to work on it for some hours from time to time. There’s a lot of procrastination in between every stroke I draw. It’s halway done though. Yay progress! or something.. +___+);

Legs and are a pain to draw. They don’t even look like legs. Actually nothing in my drawing is proportional. But I guess it’s good as long as you can tell what it’s supposed to look like. Oh well, here’s a WIP image of how it’s going. As you can see, I’m a bit frustrated.

What time is it? It’s coming together time! :D

One of the things I’ve been doing this summer is catching up on all four seasons of Adventure Time and like many others; I have fallen in love with it’s quirky style and awesome humor. So when Oishi drew an Adventure Time-inspired drawing of Marwa and me, I also wanted to try drawing in this style. It started off as a sketch of only Oishi and I, but then I started adding more and more friends of mine in it. The paper in my notebook was too small to fit everyone in, so I took it to my computer to “evolve” the drawing. I wish I could squeeze in some more people into the drawing - because I really don’t want anyone feeling left out or forgotten, but I don’t like things looking too messy.. so this is as many people I could fit in. :( So who are the people in the drawing? Let me introduce you to them! :D

• Person protecting the TARDIS: Emmi
• People riding Appa: Camilla, Alice & Denise
• Person in the wedding dress: Nafisa
• People standing in the front: Oishi, myself, Selma, Jannat & Sajie