Filed under: Friend Portraits, Illustration, Portraits | Tags: 2010, Friend Portraits, Friends, new, new art, new drawing, People Profiles
Another Friend Portrait: this time, Estie. She’s a good friend who lives in Gifu, in the countryside and even has her own column in a local newspaper! She has a signature pose that she does every time she has her picture taken, so I decided to use it for the portrait (it’s kind of like a photo, and she would have done this pose for the drawing anyways! haha).
I hope everyone likes it. Cheers~ :)
Filed under: Drawings, Illustration, Manga, Portraits, Updates | Tags: 2010, Digital Coloring, Friends, new art, new drawing, People Profiles, sketches
I start the new year with new art! This time, I made a color sketch of another friend of mine, Vesi. Hopefully she doesn’t mind much me drawing the cigarette although she’s trying to quit! :)
Like I mentioned before, this is a color sketch. I made previous friend’s manga portraits using pen and inkn, but since I’m trying to get more familiar with digital coloring, I thought it would be a good idea to experiment on the portraits themselves. They’re short and small and make for good exercises.
I hope people like it, and I will definitely be posting more of my friends soon! Cheers!~
Happy New Year 2010 Everyone! May this new year (and decade!) bring you lots of love, joy, peace, good health and prosperity.
“Live Long and Prosper” :)
- Angela.
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: 2009, art, card, cards, Drawings, new art, tarot, the high priestess, xmas
I managed to finish this in time for the Graduate School of Art 1st year Student’s Exhibit, starting Jan. 13th (here’s more info on that, but unfortunately is only in Japanese). It’s really the first (and only) big illustration I’ve done all year. I hope next year (and next decade) brings me an easier and more relaxed time in regards to my work. I’ve been struggling a lot with it in the past couple of years and I could really use a break. Hope it works out.
But in regards to this illustration, it’s part of my project to make my own Tarot cards. This is #2, “The High Priestess”. Here’s a bit of information on her I found here:
The High Priestess or Papess (La Papess)
The Priestess of the Silver Star
Card Number: 2
Key Number: 13
Rulership: The Moon
Hebrew Letter: Gimel
Translation: camel
Numerical Value: 9
Divinatory meaning
- Upright – Intuition, wisdom and secret knowledge, the feminine side of the male personality. Something remains yet to be revealed, but patience must be observed. Duality and mystery. Hidden influences affect both home and work and intuitive insight suggests new solutions. The influence of women.
- Ill Dignified or Reversed – Lack of personal harmony and problems resulting from a lack of foresight. Suppression of the feminine or intuitive side of the personality. Facile and surface knowledge. repression and ignorance of true facts and feelings. In women, an inability to come to terms with other women or themselves. Things and circumstances are not what they seem.
Let me know what you think about it~ Cheers and have a Merry Xmas everyone! :)
Filed under: Illustration, Illustration Friday, Inspiration | Tags: 2009, Drawings, flying, Illustration Friday, markers, new art, new drawing
Whenever I’m drawing, I feel like I’m flying :)
