Coffee swag

Lookit, I got coffee swag.  I'm going to make my own good coffee now. 

Coffee painting and fan brush

Since I'm taking illustration again, I am once again playing around with coffee and FW ink because it's my "thing".

...and I got a fan brush using a Blick's (art store) gift card...

If I'm using it right, it's amazing.

If I'm not using it right, it's still amazing.

This is a self portrait sketch based on a picture I took of myself with a mini ginger bread that sits on a mug of hot chocolate that my lovely artsy friend made for me. It was amaaaaaaaaaaaazing

I actually had a right hand that was holding the mug but I royally f*cked it up so now it's just a big smudge of coffeeness.  Also, I got lazy in rendering my hair so it's a little bit WTF toward the back of my head. At the time, I had long bangs, so no, that look wasn't because I wanted a "sexy" look or because I was lazy...I really had long bangs covering my left eye.

This is a painting I am working on for my class...that's kinda late and should have been done, last week?

It's a cup of coffee painted in coffee.  Hahaha, get it?  I'm not really sure what to get either.

Sketching classmates

School has been....scary ass busy.  Like, SCARY-ASS.  I'm already having nightmares about my biotech classes.  I keep dreaming about everything that could possibly go wrong in lab.  It's been terrifying.

Anyway, I dug through my folders and sketchbook to find some of my better sketches so I could decorate my desolate blog....

This is from 2012. These are sketches I did during my rendering class:

My teacher (top left)  basically talked abt "meaning of life" more than  rendering so I  ended up drawing my classmates most of the time.  I drew this particular classmate(bottom right) quite often, b/c well, let's admit it, she has pink hair.  HOW COOL IS SHE?

One of my favorite things in my illustration class is that our instructor has us working in our sketchbooks for 30 minutes.  Like usual, I like to draw my classmates:

Another thing that's great about this class,is the use of traditional media, even in our sketchbooks.  These sketches were done with ink and pen.  

This was a sketch I did today during sketchbook time (well, I guess technically, yesterday).  It was done in COFFEE.  I changed the value of the coffee by adding black ink or white ink:

This girl has beautiful hair but it's kind of beautifully tame and wild at the same time.  It was difficult to draw.

My sketchbook smells lovely now.

Coffee and Drawing

My name is Rie and I am a coffeeholic.

No seriously, I kid you not.  I have serious withdrawal symptoms that may rival a drug addict's when I go without coffee.  This is why my sketchbook is drenched with coffee stains and my drawings are speckled with coffee spots.