Nightmaro

Charcoal drawing of Bird

Charcoal drawing of Bird

Drawn: 2 June 2013

Age: 15

I used a normal HB pencil to get the basic structure/tone of the bird, and then used a mont marte charcoal pencil on top to create darker tones and shades.

Took approximately 3 hours to draw! (was it worth it? maybe..)

Birds are a great way to practice tone differentiation (in my opinion at least) so go try drawing a bird! Yay!

Icy Dragon

Icy Dragon

Drawn: Some time in January, 2013

Age: 14yrs

Used pencil to draft it first, and then black pen to ink it out (aww yeah).

After I inked it, I coloured it in with some water colouring pencils (which is much harder than I thought!)

I used one of Dawn's tutorials on Dragoart to draw this.

Thanks Dawn! :)

What is a Nengajou?

Happy New Year (akemashite omedetou)

Drawn: 2013!

Age: 14yrs

あけましておめでとうございます!

Happy New Year!

In Japan, New Years is much more celebrated than Christmas. A traditional way to celebrate New Years day is to send a 'nengajou' to just about everybody you know! A nengajou is a new years greeting card. Typically, a nengajou will contain the chinese zodiac animal of the new year, a new years message, and symbols of the coming spring such as cherry blossom flowers.

Above is my personally designed nengajou.

Have a great year everyone!

The end of Summer

Purple Flower

Taken: 10 March 2013

Age: 15

The flower booming has come to an end! (In the Southern Hemisphere).

I have taken several photographs to capture the last few moments of Summer where the delicate flowers of the season are still visible. Summer this year was filled with a few hot days (43 degrees Celsius!) and a few rainy days that flooded many parts of Australia. Mmmm.... the sweet puffs of aroma is still vividly imprinted in my mind. :)

FUN FACT: Juice from bluebell flowers were historically used to make glue!