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I am not ashamed that I spend my Friday night playing my Chopin, painting celebrities, catching up on my favorite shows, and listening to indie music.

and I never will be.

but Misfits, omg. I love this show. plus they used "Spanish Sahara" by Foals in the background of one of the scenes! if only my internet wasn't so laggy when it comes to videos...

Any guesses who the new portrait is of? I don't think I'm going to skimp out and not finish this one. The tones aren't as washed-out as those in the Casey reference I used, so this guy won't turn out looking as pasty, which is good.

Ellen

Ellen!

Portrait of a friend for her 16th birthday. First thing I've freehanded in over a year. It doesn't look exactly like her, but she likes it. So I'm pretty pleased with the overall result.

off to study for my calc test! ahh wish me luck!

casey wips

I think I've given up on this.

He looks downright ridiculous now that I've tried to add hair and clothing. Plus his scruff is never going to look good. It was a bold attempt though, no?

Maybe I'll try him again when I actually have loads of time to spare...

Although technically, I kind of do right now.

It's Thanksgiving Break, thankfully! (no pun intended)

School was starting to really get to me... homework=mehhhh

I've still got loads of homework over the break but I can deal with that. It's nice to have time off.

I'll probably have a graphite portrait up within a week.

Thanks for following!

casey wip

Casey Affleck.

First attempt at digital portraiture. I'd say he's coming along pretty decently, so far. Far from perfect, but then again, I'm far from done. Painting with a tablet is definitely a completely different beast than painting with a paintbrush.

bahh

won't be drawing/posting for a while. my schedule and my workload are both horrible.

haven't drawn anything decent (or at all, for that matter) for months now, which is sad, but academics come first so art's going on the back burner for now.

I wish I had more leisure time for drawing, reading, and practicing piano, but that is sooo not going to happen anytime soon...

anyway, thanks for following! I'll be back as soon as I can be.

-Shana

brushes

Playing with brushes to try to figure out Corel Painter...

The line art was traced from a photo reference of Kaya Scodelario because I was lazy and needed something to test brushes on.

I haven't gotten the hang of blending skin in a way that I'm happy with, but I have completely fallen in love with the colors available.

Smeared black ink

I've decided that I am going to MASTER drawing digitally! hahaha hopefully this temporary determination will get me somewhere.

School is starting in like TWO FREAKING WEEKS. which is not cool. because I still have to outline like 30 pages and make 30 flashcards and write a report.

ALSO, first person to guess who the person I drew above is (which I'm pretty sure will be hard to do...) will win a free drawingg! You pick a celebrity or send me a photo of someone, and I will draw them for you. Realistically. with my lovely, lovely graphite pencils. I would also like to thank you all for following, even though there aren't that many of you haha. It still means a lot. I promise to have some actual drawings that I take seriously up soon!

Oh and I switched emails for my blogger so that's why on my account it says I don't follow anyone. I am still following people, just not on blogger. I follow all the blog feeds, twitters, etc that I'm interested in on my google reader.