Sidenote 2: - Back to blogging

Recent Digital Art!!!:

Though I haven't been updating this blog much in the last couple years that didn't mean I stopped drawing and crafting! Within that time I've grown a lot as a digital artist (though I still have a very very long way to go) and also my friends and I started cosplaying! So I plan on updating this blog with some stories and pictures and even patterns of past and current projects from now on!

The grid above is literally the most recent digital art files I had in my repository XD - I became a big fan of the Tower of God webtoon last winter and have been following the anime hence all of the fanart.

Some patterns to look forward to: Chibi Rak Plush & All Might onesie

Other projects that I've been working on:

I have an instagram! Joined instagram about a year ago after I started going to cons every once in a while. It's been a lot of fun so far but I do miss rambling about all of my little mishaps like I do on here. Can't wait to reminisce on some of the stories behind the art and things I've made within the past year or two.

I have a youtube channel! kind of - nowadays I mainly just post speedpaints of my digitial art but I plan on making some tutorial videos and maybe some other interesting things in the future.

I also have a redbubble store for funsies. I figured I have a bunch of old digital art lying around and I wanted to design some fun merch with it. I don't really expect to sell anything but it's been a lot of fun so far.... all the like two days that I've had it 😂

I also am a grad student! I'm currently working on a couple passion projects related to digital art on the side of my research. Will elaborate further at a later date 😉 - for clarification though I'm in electrical engineering so when I mean research I mean like coding projects not fancy art projects 😂

Anyways I'll stop rambling for now~ Oh boy now I just need to decide where to begin~

Art Show 2: Lincoln-Way West Show

05/15/13 Today I went to the Art Show at Lincoln-Way West! It was awesome! All of the work was fantastic!

 My "Waiting For a Tow Truck" piece won an award of excellence for painting.

My Hand painting also won an award of excellence for painting.

 This is a picture of my painting (At Dinner in Galena) with my lovely mother who is the subject of the painting standing next to it.

And my Caramanico-Terme painting was honored with Best of Show!!!

This was a great night. Thanks a ton to the Lincoln-Way West Art Department especially Mr. Faris. And Congratulations to all of the people who had work in the show!

Art Show 1: 4x5 show at Fremd High School

Today I went to the 4x5 show at Fremd High School. It was pretty awesome; I loved all of the little art. It amazed me how good art could be even when it's confined to a 4x5 in. space. As I mentioned in a previous post, my 4x5 in. hand painting was honored with first place in the painting section! This is really exciting, because I've never received any sort of "place" medal (1st place, 2nd place, etc.) for art. Anyways I have some pictures from the show which include a distorted glimpse of the colored version of my hand drawing.

The above picture is my hand painting displayed on a television screen.

The above picture is my hand painting! It is tilted and it has a glare, but that was the best picture I could get. I'll take a better picture when I get it back. See the blue star on the name label? That indicates my first place! :D

And this is my plaque! I also received a Blick giftcard!!! ~And I bought a t-shirt for the exhibition.

The art exhibition was awesome. I feel very honored to have participated. Thank you very much to the Fremd high school art department and all other people who helped sponsor and/or run this event.

Newsflash! 2 - 4x5 painting

I am happy to announce that my 4x5 hand painting won first place at the 4x5 competition in the painting category. I will post a picture of the completed painting once I get it back from the competition (an uncompleted [grisaille] version of it is under Painting 4).

Newsflash!: An article about me (from October)

This was an article about me, my knitting, and other activities I do.

See pdf scan here

Or read article here.