Jaclynn and Me Drawings! #2

Everyone loved my first post that showed a ton of my drawings of me and Jaclynn, so I thought that I would make this a series! I'm constantly drawing Jaclynn and myself, and that means I'll always have more to show you all. Here are my latest drawings! :)

This one I only did a couple weeks ago, it's of me and Dee riding horses! I think it's super cute. Plus, Jaclynn and I really ought to go riding together at some point.

*looks wide eyed at Jaclynn* 

Hehe! I made this before NaNoWriMo, and it embodies November for us. We're FaceTiming, if you can't tell, it's nighttime, we're writing, and I love it. XD And I'm also super proud of how I did the shading! I was worried I wasn't going to be able to make it look right with the computer screens glowing and the harsh lighting and shadows, but it turned out so well in my opinion! 

If you haven't heard, Jaclynn and I have a job now- we work at the nursery at my church. We are with the two year olds, and they're so cute (although really crazy and tiring)! This was the drawing I made inspired by our work. XD 

Dee and I are getting our hair changed in the upcoming month, so I drew our new hairstyles that we will be getting! :D I'm cutting my hair and dyeing it, and Jaclynn is getting blonde highlights. It's gonna be so fun to have new hair! ;) This drawing makes me even more excited. XD 

DONUT AND COOKIE INSPIRED OUTFITS!

I finished this just yesterday I think (who can remember), and I think it's really fun! :) 

LOLOL! This drawing... XD

So, I can't remember if it was Jaclynn's mom or Jaclynn herself, but one of them had the idea that I should draw us as famous Disney friends! Last time I did us as Buzz Lightyear and Woody, this time around it was Sully and Mike Wazowski! XD It turned out to be perfect considering our height difference. I am "wearing" stilts though to exaggerate my height. ;)

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I hoped you liked seeing these drawings! I realized that there weren't any Star Wars ones, but I think they're all cute still. ;)

-Emma-

I'm always looking for more ideas of what to draw Jaclynn and myself as, do you have any ideas? :D

Project: Finish What I Started - Update One + A FAIL

Hi everyone!
If you read my post about finishing what I started, then you would know I'm going on the journey of finishing all of the unfinished drawings in my most recent sketchbook!

I am calling it Project: Finish What I Started, and I am bringing you my first update! :D
I have finished a total of four drawings so far! Here they are-

This was the first drawing that I attempted to finish- two bounty hunter sisters! :) 

And here is the finished product! I wasn't really in love with the drawing when I drew it (that's why I never completed it), but I think it looks pretty cool all done! :)

Now I don't think I showed this dude to you in my list of drawings I wanted to finish, but he was incomplete, and I am going to be finishing nearly all of the drawings in this sketchbook. He was originally supposed to be one of the characters in my NaNo novel, Wings of the Banished, but if you notice (ha) he has quite the large chin, and I didn't like his pose and just bleah. But I did it. I penned him in, then colored him! Look at what he looks like now! :) 

He looks pretty great! I still don't like his slouchy pose, but he turned out a lot better once I fixed his chin in the final product. :) He doesn't look like my character though, since I gave him red hair and casual clothes.

Unfinished...

Finished! I love the bright colors I got to use in this drawing! I'm super happy I finished it! It only took me a little bit, and now I have one more completed picture in my sketchbook! :)

And now for the fail. This drawing of Jaclynn and I acting on stage at some sort of rehearsal. 

*cringe*

My problem was the lighting. Stage lights are harsh, drowning the actors out in super bright light and ultimately creating harsh shadows as well where the light doesn't shine. And I colored in the drawing with normal colors and normal lighting in mind, but it didn't look like Jaclynn and I were on stage or whatever, so I attempted to add the spotlights and lighting, resulting in this really funkily (that's not a word but who cares) colored drawing.

It also didn't help that I really disliked the drawing without it being colored. XD

ANYWAY! That was my first update. I also got back on track with posting Glazed, which is another thing that I want to finish this year. It's been going on for over a year now or something insane. O.O BUT I WILL FINISH IT, AND IT WILL BE OVER!

(My, my, redundant much?XD)

I hope you liked my update, and stay tuned for another one next week! :)

-Emma-

Is there anything that you are planning on finishing this year? Basically all of my resolutions revolve around finishing stuff that I've started...O.o

Glazed Part Twenty-Nine

Hi everyone!

Long time no Glazed, aye? XD I don't know why I said "aye", I guess I'm a pirate! XD

*does the rest of the post in a pirate voice*

WAARRRRGHHH!!! GLAZED, MATIE! NUFF SAID, Arrrghhhh...

Emma, Wes, and Crumbles, with their new companion McGlaze, could feel that they were getting closer to the queen.

“So, what are you planning on doing when you see Jaclynn?” Wes asked as they walked through an especially sprinkly part of the mountains. Giant sprinkles emerged from boulders and ended in lethal points.

“Oh, I am going to talk to her,” Emma replied then added, “I have a lot of things to talk to her about.”

“That's it? You're just going to talk to her?” Wes asked.

“Yeah,” Emma nodded, and she ducked under one of the spiky points of a red sprinkle.

“So, you aren't even a little afraid of her and her magic?” Wes continued, gesturing to the spiked sprinkles. Emma licked her lips.

“I may be a little concerned about her magic, but not her. I know her. I'm just worried of what she might say."

“Yeah!” McGlaze shouted, “She's the most nicest, warmest, most pleasantest person in the world probably!”

“Most nicest and most pleasantest aren't how you say that,” Emma pointed out.

“Yes, it is,” McGlaze replied, a smile on his donut face.

“Um, actually, no. Grammar says that you are supposed to only use one extreme, so it would be 'nicest' not 'most nicest'-” Emma glanced down at Fred, who was frowning.

“Uhhh...you said that it isn't how I say it, but that is how I just said it, so really, I'm right,” McGlaze said and waddled away.

Emma stared blankly at his back, processing what he said.

“I believe you just got burned,” Wes whispered and walked past her, Crumbles following.

Emma's teeth clenched as she realized that she hadn't worded her sentences right. She shook her head and muttered, “Ugh, boys,” under her breath.

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GRRBYE

-Emma-

Recreating... #4

Hi guys!
First off I wanna say thank you to the people who have taken my survey- and if you haven't yet, go do so! :D

AND NOW FOR ANOTHER RECREATION!

This one turned out really well in my opinion, and I can't wait to see what you guys think! So, let's get started with the original drawing I did!

This drawing I did around late 2014, I think, or whenever Into the Woods came out as a movie. So...there are quite a few problems with it, starting off with her unbalanced features. Her eyes are too far to one side, and that's the biggest problem on her face. Next, her arms are insanely skinny and don't connect where they should, and her chest is just...really funky. And adding onto things being unbalanced, her torso is too far to the right. I also didn't give her a pose, making the drawing pretty blah and not adding any interest.

(See, guys, I used to do the "put the hand behind her back" pose before I knew how to do hands well! XD)

Now here is the finished product!

*squeals*

I think she looks a billion times better, and super pretty! I always have a fun time trying to take the shapes I used in the original drawing and incorporating them in the improved image. I added a necklace and a headband to her outfit, and I think it makes it look a lot more pretty! :D

The only problem I have is that her eyes are once again just a tiny bit unbalanced, but it's still a huge improvement and I can overlook it. :D

What do you guys think? :) I remember in the comments in my previous recreation, some people liked the original better, so tell me if you like the "before" better than the "after". :) Although I don't think there's anything up for debate really... XD

-Emma-

P.S. Expect a new hermit post coming soon, I need to take some pictures and work out the details, but I have an idea. XD

Take My Survey! :D

Hi everyone!

I was bored today, so I thought- HEY! Why not make a survey? I'd love to see what people like and stuff. So, here's the link to it!
LINKEDY LINK LINK

TAKE IT! TAKE IT! TAKE IT!

*continues to chant*

ALSO! There is a very, very important question at the end, so yeah. XD

-Emma-

 

Project: Finish What I Started

HI GUYS! XD

I hope you all had a great New Years as well as Christmas, since I was, uh, absent during the holiday season...

*shrug*

Anywhoo! I've been thinking how I've just been so unable to finish any of my drawings lately... Mainly the ones that require lots of coloring and shading and things I practically hate most in the drawing process...

I've started so many drawings I really want to finish, and I thought how it would be really cool to start something fun to help me finish drawings that deserve to be finished!

So, I present to you- Project: Finish What I Started

As long as it takes, I am going to be finishing all of the drawings in my current sketchbook (and possibly older sketchbooks if there are some drawings needing of completion)! And I also am thinking that if anyone else wants to join me in this, they can! Since my blog is open to a ton of people with a lot of different creative outlets- drawing, writing, blogging, music, idk -you can choose which one you'd like to join me with. Or, if you'd rather just watch me make drawings, that's totally fine, too! :) But if you would like to complete some of your own pieces, that story that has been hanging around uncompleted, artwork half done, blog posts abandoned after a lack of motivation, then you can put up the button on your blog or in a post or whatever. :) I don't really know, because it was just now that I thought of other people joining me. ;D

I think this could be a great way to start the New Year off. Here are some drawings I plan to finish during this project!

Going through my sketchbook reminded me of all the hopeless cases of drawings I had forgotten about completely. BUT GUESS WHAT GUYS??? I'M GONNA FINISH THEM EVEN IF THEY TURN OUT REALLY REALLY BAD.

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So! Are any of you guys gonna finish anything alongside me? :) I'm going to get to work on this really soon, and I can't wait for it to be done and for me to see all of the drawings done!
-Emma-

P.S. SPEAK WITH ME. TELL ME IF YOU WATCHED ROGUE ONE. OR MOANA. XD XD

How to Find Your Style - For Drawing and Writing

Something that is super cool is how advice I come up with for writing or drawing separately will work for the other one as well. Like, this post was meant for drawing specifically, but the more I thought about it, the more I was like- this will work for writing as well...

SO! Onto the post and the advice and the stuff you want to hear!
Unless you like hearing my random thoughts...

Okay, so if you're like me, you will most likely look at other people's art and be like- AAGGH!!! They have the most amazing style ever. I love how they draw their eyes or how this author writes descriptions and dialogue, or whatever it is.

I definitely struggle with wanting every style of drawing ever made to be my style.

CREDIT TO BURDGE BUG

LIKE, LOOK AT BURDGE BUG'S ART STYLE AND JUST AGHHAGDHGDHGFHSGAHG

GIMME.

But then...

WOW! Look at this cartoon-y style that some awesome artist did (whom I do not know.XD)! I WANNA DRAW LIKE THAT TOO! LOOK AT ITTTT!! 

CREDIT TO MIRANDA YEO

*squeal*

BUT THEN LOOK AT THIS SUPER SIMPLE STYLE THAT JUST KILLS ME, LIKE CAN I HAVE THAT, TOO?!?!?

And when it comes to authors and writers, it's the same way! You love how they've crafted the story and the characters, and all that jazz, but what can you do about getting it to be your style as well?

A few years ago, I started to really get back into drawing a lot more, and I began to draw Disney characters. I loved Elsa and Anna and Frozen in general, so I started drawing them because I loved the characters. Soon I was drawing a ton of Disney characters to sell at a local craft fair (bad idea, kids. Turns out COPYRIGHTS ARE A THING, SO YEAH.)

I really grew a style from drawing all of these Disney characters, and it's still prevalent in my style nowadays, even though it has certainly evolved. And that's a good thing!

So, my advice short and simple is to, erm, I guess...copy...?

Although it sounds bad, it is my advice, but don't COPY copy, just take the things you love from your favorite artists and implement it into your own art! When you are inspired by a person's style, and you let it influence how you draw/write/create, you grow and evolve your style into something that is even more you. Although it's someone else's style, it's something YOU love personally, so it sort of is your style as well. And when you're an artist in any sense of the word, you will make things your own and won't lose your uniqueness. :)

So, that's my advice, take it if you will, but it's something that definitely helps me! I sort of stalk things then try to do it on my own and I create something special to myself. It's really fun to do, even if you don't ever draw in that style again. :)

I guess I'll wrap up my post now...Never been very good with that...So...Bye! :D

-Emma-

Oh, you're sooOOooOoOo right, Spell Check. OF COURSE "dialogue" isn't a real word. The entire world has been getting it wrong all this time.

P.S. I feel like when I go back to read my advice posts, I can't understand a word I'm saying. Hopefully you all can. XD