Project 1: a painting for one of my best friend's, ixoj, mom. Last year ixoj's mom's cancer ended up coming back. Mom had been in remission for about ten years I believe, and to top it off, mom's favorite cat died.
Ixoj's mom is once again cancer free, after a lot of not so fun cancer related stuff, and I was supposed to get this painting to her...oh about a year ago? Which makes me a poopy, terrible person. However, in my defense I have painted this cat three times now. Two oils, and one watercolor and none of them have been, well, good.
However, I hope that the fourth times a charm? Here is the drawing that I have so far for it:
I have learned a couple of things from trying to paint this cat so many times. One is that I am horrible at drawing cats, horrible. This is sad for me, considering how much I super love cats. Another is that, well no that is it, I suck balls at drawing/painting cats, particularly white cats.
Example of poopiness: there is something wrong with the cat's mouth. An angle is off somewhere else in the face that is making the dots not quiet connect in my brian, but I have redrawn this thing too many times, so I guess the mouth stays. (frown)
My friend asked for the painting to have a lot of blue in it, because her mom super loves blue. The flowers I added around the cat are blue columbines. These flowers are actually very small, but I think they look nice enlarged, except for the flowers in front. They are larger than the others, which gives the image a little bit of perspective, I hope...? But I think that they may be too big. I am going to erase them and figure something else out.
Project 2: a T-shirt design I have titled Twin Geeks. Only one twin posed for this photo op, but I mean, really, do I need both? I think not. The top girl is going to be Zelda and the bottom girl is going to be Leah. I hope this works, because if it does, it is going to be awesome.
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