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!

Snail Trail

Snail Trail

Drawn: 17 October 2012

Age: 14

Drawn on gimp (I think?)

Why are all my recent post's titles rhyming? 

I do not know.

It's always nice to just draw something with only one colour.

In fact, it's what I do best :)

Handy Dandy

Handy Dandy

Drawn: 13 July 2012

Age: 14

Used a Reference to draw this.

Drawn on gimp using the pencil tool as the shadow which is why it looks so pixelated.

To all those Art users out there: Use the pencil tool from time to time! (it's super fun!)

Delicio Berrio

Delicio Berrio

Taken: 9 March 2013

Age: 15

Taken with a Nikon Camera.

Mmm...

If you ever get a manual camera, remember to have a play around with aperture and speed!!

Cornet

Cornet

Drawn: 18 December 2012

Age: 14

Drawn on DeviantArt's cool drawing program called 'DaMuro'.

I used to play the cornet and I loved it so much!

Who else loves playing music?

Mini Beetle Car

Mini Beetle Car

Drawn: 23 January 2013

Age: 14

Drawn using pencil (a really crappy pencil).

I love these cars!

Sweet Heart

Sweet Heart

Drawn: 8 September 2012

Age: 14

Drawn on Gimp.

This was my contest entry for 'Draw this Again' on DeviantArt last year.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Sonic The Hedgehog

Drawn: 13 December 2012

Age: 14

Drawn with Gimp.

A lot of people on DeviantArt love Sonic The Hedgehog. 

Decided I would give it a go.

Fresh

Fresh

Taken: 9 March 2013

Age: 15

Taken with a Nikon Camera

I love the warm colours that are apparent in this photograph.

Butterfly

Butterfly

Drawn: 10 October 2012

Age: 14

Drawn on Gimp

Inspired by the Art we were doing at school, I draw this butterfly at home with my tablet.

Green Beetle

Green Beetle

Drawn: 2012, coloured in January 2013

Age: 14

Water coloured

I drew this last year in Art for School. Decided I would colour it in this year.

Cathy

Word: Cathy

Drawn: 11 January 2013

Age: 14

Drew this for a friend called 'Cathy' for her birthday.

Teemo!

Teemo!

Drawn: 22 January 2013

Age: 14yrs

Wow. This little League of Legends champion took me over 3 hours to draw!

It is one of my most beloved drawings and was definitely worth the while.

Teary eyes

Teary eyes

Drawn:  2011c

Age: approx 13 years

Pencil drawing of eye. 

Not sure if I used a tutorial for this one, but if i didnt, 

I probably used a reference because it turned out really good (haha).

Life

Life

Drawn: 12 July 2012

Age: 14

Dragonair

Dragonair

Drawn: 19 October 2012

Age: 14

Husky

Husky

Drawn: 1 June 2012

Age: 14

Gold

Gold

Drawn: 11 July 2012

Age: 14

Lugia

Lugia

Drawn: 19 October 2012

Age: 14

Hope

Hope

Drawn: 8 January 2011

Age: 12

Water

Water

Drawn: 10 July 2012

Age: 14

Drawn on inkscape, then gimp. 

This is yet another one of my word art in my word art collection.

Sableye

Sableye

Drawn: 7 October 2012

Age: 14

Drew using Inkcape and Gimp. 
Sableye is my favourite pokemon! 

Lion

Lion

Drawn: 24 August 2012

Age: 14

Pencil-drawing using reference. 

I liked drawing this lion but it took quite the while to draw!

TREE

Tree

Drawn 10 July 2012

Age: 14

Used Gimp and Inkscape to draw this. 

I had a random spasm of wordarts at this time for some odd reason (lol)

Bulbasaur!

Bulbasaur

Drawn 5 October 2012

Age: 14 yrs

Used Gimp and Inkscape! Pokemon are cool. Like, super cool.