a blog post and a beach

hi everybody, it's been quite a while (almost two weeks) since I last posted on this blog, sorry sorry! I've actually been posting on my facebook page mostly these days, I guess I feel less obligated to only post really 'good' work there. But don't worry, I'll continue to update this blog with my rambling stories of which I'm not too sure if people read them.. does anyone (besides my grandma and aunt) read them? 

anyways, here is a ..painting... Can I call stuff like this paintings? because they look more like paintings than like drawings but I'm doing them with copic markers. But you could say those are some sort of brushes, so that'd make it painting instead of drawing.

Well, I've written enough to make this a blog post rather than a repost from my facebook page's content, so that's handled (hey, gotta keep some difference so people don't feel scammed! you can now feel special for reading my blog which has a lot of text, which my facebook does not have).

This work was based on some pictures of me as a 4 year old digging fashion (look at those cute and daring pants, with colors reminding of sailors, how suitable to wear at the beach!!!) and digging in the sand at the beach.
I know.. the blue sky looks weird, with all the obvious stripes, but I really couldn't manage to even it out. I do really like those clouds! :)

The heaps of digged up sand looks dirty though, I didn't succeed in finding the right way to make those. :(

date: April 18th 2014

size: 20 x 20 cm

media: copic markers on canvass

grandma's birthday

Yesterday my grandma celebrated her birthday. My present to her was this painting:

it's my cousins and brother and me during a skiing vacation.

(I know it looks like I am not wearing any pants but I actually was. I had rolled up my trousers' legs.)

My grandma actually told me to make her a painting. I would probably have made her something anyway, but she did act a bit pushy. haha.

It started when she saw what I'd given my mum for her birthday....

(sorry, do those party guest look kinda creepy? I was just trying to make them into a background...)

okay, this last one's false, she did not mail me about it too. But hey! it's Lychee again!

(and a sneak preview of an upcoming comic! because.. the paper in this sketch book is thin and I only realised that ..now.)

copic

Behold.. the first drawing I did using my copic markers in this manner. (yeah, the rosy cheeks are a bit much,  let's say that's because I'm new to this technique)

ah, but I really like this technique, it makes me want to buy new markers too.

the drawing itself isn't really good, also, I think it's not really clear enough that she's tilting her head backwards. if you keep that in mind while looking at it, it looks less weird, doesn't it, now?