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So today as I was strolling after my dinner, I went into the bookstore near the uni campus (I, btw, just love bookstores and office supplies stores if I could I’d buy everything in them… but then I’d be broke) and started looking at the art section. Now, for a while I’d been meaning to buy myself a set of watercolor paints, but hadn’t because of classes, too much homework and reports. But then I thought, because I’m now in summer vacation, it’s not such a bad idea, so I bought them, a nice new set of 12 watercolor paints.

I get home and start experimenting with them a bit, mixing colors and all. So after a while, I manage to produce this:

It’s not so bad (in my opinion), though I’m not exactly thrilled as to how the hair lights turned out, or the lips, wanted something more subtle, but then again being the first attempt, it ain’t so bad. Definitely will keep trying, I really like how you can layer the paint and how it creates great light effects.
Well then, that said, I’ve lately done other sketches, but till now I post them cause I’m a bit lazy with the scanner. Anyways. First, I finished Spring for the fairies of the four seasons, really like the fact that I could add much more color and detail to this one, gives it a nice feeling:

Again, calligraphy pen and watercolor pencils. (I’ve found a not so good side to these. I really like how the color comes out rather bold [compare it to the skin color which is from a normal color pencil] but they tend to rub of on the other pages. Thankfully, it doesn’t smear the drawing.)

Finally, something I did a while back:

I really love fractals, everything from their symmetry to their somewhat mathematical nature, and everything in between. I find them so unique and complex, yet they are composed of the same repeating shape. For this one, I begun with a circle, and then started to do arrow head like shapes around. I purposely did it offset from the center, so as to balance out so much symmetry with a little anti-symmetry.

Also new pics in the photos section. ^_^

Well, that’s all for the moment.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Cheers, NM