Portraiture midterm

before and after pics of my portrait--will update with a better final picture.
I struggled a lot with this--it was mentally and emotionally taxing -_- I kept on erasing the face because the colors wouldn't be right or the nose was too far to the left or something like that....
I was far too focused on one area and stressed out about it ~I forgot there were other components that needed to be painted. I turned to my friends for their advice which was really useful--and I appreciate it a lot.

the crit was to be mindful of my edges, some of them are too harsh like the line dividing her bangs from her forehead. Light the outer right edge of the hair. Fix the highlight on the left side of her head. Crop wasn't convincing enough, zoom out a little more so that the bunny ears are fully visible and the figure smaller.
I was thinking of painting a couple more flowers. Her shirt really bothers me-- there should be more highlights there and perhaps redoing the shadow on her cheeks, underneath her eyes.

oil isn't my strongest suit but I really tried my best on this--I'm never sure whether the painting's good or bad especially after staring at it for more than 10 hours.


EDIT-- so here' s a better picture of my portrait--;_; i didn't fix anything haha mainly so the model can see it ~ not sure if you'll enjoy my portrayal of you- the idea was to make it look more 'cartoony' than realistic

CP: Honeybadger Cafe

;_; I love this place

I wish I lived closer to this cafe

-_- there aren't really that many study places where I live

anyhoo--the perspective is kind of wonky towards the ends of the pictures...

but I love doing these--been a while since I worked with copic markers -- kind of rusty ~_~

but I'd like to do more of these in the future!

I highly recommend going here :) my favorite drink has to be the almond milk tea and the Italian Mango Soda

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short rant:

I JUST WANT TO PLAY! ;_; four more weeks until freedom!!!

even though I know I'll get  bored after three days

things to do on my list, beat alice madness returns, read the hunger games and other suggested books, cover some songs, improve my sketching for entertainment stuff, get out of my house, and most of all COSPLAY!!! :D in my own house I guess haha

just random and completely irrelevant, I want to comment on my friends' work
but every time I post, it doesn't show up on their post :(

ID: book cover for Breakfast at Tiffany's WIP

Just a screen shot of the book jacket assignment I'm working on--
The most important thing missing is the title--have to work on that by hand but I think I kind of like how it's turning out :)

~_~ ahh the color palette is kind of bland...i had this really golden yellow but during the crit, they associated it with Spain or Mexico and said to go for a more urban feel

Honestly, this project kind of bored me when we were first assigned it--but then I started getting into it :D -- I had a whole bunch of other ideas for this book but they were too uhm...extreme haha I portrayed Holly to be some kind of 'gold digger' XD (part of her is) I wish I didn't watch the movie -_- visually, movies ruin everything if you don't read the book before it.

I can't wait to print it out!

disclaimer: I do not claim ownership over Breakfast at Tiffany's or Vintage International-- I did not write the summary of the book or bio of Truman Capote, I just copied it off of the version I have at the moment. This is merely a class project.

Shiina Ringo Gig Poster

Illustration Design HW-- create a gig poster
*_* hrmrmrm the font isn't as well integrated into the poster--as it could be -A- too much of a disconnect between the image and the text
the crit was to take out the glow effect on the screens(which I actually kind of liked)
and hand write the text at the bottom
man this project was a mess ;_;

this is not an actual event--just a project for a class haha