I went to hawai'i (big island & oahu) & a disney resort for the first time! :’) I love the big island, everywhere you stand you’re on a volcano (there’s five) and there’s wild black goats and pigs :’) and the fish are so cool!! and cloudforests are gorgeous :’) <3 Also more of my kids that I plan to print & color!! :’)
Hope everyone’s doing good :’)
I want to print them out and color them!! And I will tomorrow!! I will not be able to draw all the kids at my job before I leave on wednesday tho so I’ll be finishing this project late :/ ah well, hopefully the kids won’t mind since it means I’ll be visitin in the future :’)
I am officially certified as a teacher and will be working as the sole art teacher for a super progressive k-8 (pride flags everywhere!! Emphasis on talking about non white/cis/male artists! Big classroom that I just finished completely cleaning cuz the last teacher was a hoarder!) starting the 28th! :’)
Here are some marker and ink sketches of my kids at my job and a friend :’) I’m trying to draw them all before I leave, but I’m gonna switch directions to linearts so they can have a personalized coloring page vibe as a gift :’)
my kids are the cutest!!! I really struggled with this (like I drew it over 3x oop) I feel like it’s finally in a good place!!
and I have a model lesson for the second part of an interview tomorrow wish me luck!!!
I’m really trying to get hired by a public school & do this teaching art residency, which means I’ll have to leave my afterschool program and all my kids there at school year start - so I’m trying like mad to make a small zine I can give each of them that features drawings of them and a little message from me before the summer ends. I have 32 kids right now, so I’m thinking black and white illu on different colored papers, probably a 36 page count with a harder stock cover.
Also have a buff lady and a lil ¾ ref sheet :’) need to make a frontal view and a couple of marker benchmarks and then I’ll be done prepping for my summer class later this month
ngl, I’m a lil stressed, the high school position I really wanted fell through and I’m just praying someone hires me so I can stop freaking out lmao
hope yall are doing good and keeping cool!!
i’m making reference sheets for a lil portraiture class I’m gonna teach in july & august :’) Then there’s some lil life drawings - one of the animals in my mom’s backyard eatin the fallen mulberries & one of my coffee turned water cup done durin a boring work training :’) I’m also trying to learn how to ink traditionally with dip pens and brushes! I’m very excited :’) They’re all kids from my job :’) <3
yall I’m so shook!! I finally found a nib/ink combo that makes utter cense to me! im not perfect at all yet but I’m so excited!!
deleter nib set - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007THB150?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
ph martin hi carb ink (just ordered the matte version too to try out) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026HXHAA?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
plus this super opaque lil white out guy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LU2HWX0?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
I did the face using a micron but now i’m unsure if I ever need to buy another micron again lmao
I’ve been having a great time making emotion coloring pages for a friend’s gig, and now I wanna make a whole zine/series in grayscale visualizing different emotions, I’m so hype!! Top emotion is about craving, second is about the deep exhaustion that comes from working a 10 - 12 hour retail/customer service shift (the grabbing hand was modeled after a rodin cast & represents the incessant customers lmao). Bottom pic is some of my mom’s roses in her backyard :’)
thinking a lot about love
drawn from a photo by Gideon Mendel & with reference to perfect lovers
i found a dessicated fish at the beach and took it home :’)
gonna go workout!!
hope yall are doin good!!