Fresh Start

Oh no, you're all saying. Kristina's made another sketch journal. Well this one is an art blog (it sounds slightly less silly and much more pretentious, which is how we artists are supposed to be, or so I hear). I've deleted my old livejournal sketch account, because it was going unused and quite frankly the username was a character I created when I went through my weeaboo phase, and I'm trying to grow away from that.

My intentions are to improve (which I would hope was quite obvious given the blog title) and to begin sketching daily throughout the summer, since I won't be in school. To get the ball rolling, I finally opened up that pad of marker paper I bought at the convention from the Copics people. Rather than draw something meaningful of course, I've hopped onto a bandwagon and done a meme. Oh well.


There are plenty of errors, I'm not especially worried about them. And I cheated on the meme. It's essentially "You as a teen vs. You as an adult." The versions I've seen have all consisted of a 10-year difference, but I'd have been 11 and not counted as a teen if I did it this way. So I compared myself in 2003 to myself now. There's enough of a difference that it works, I think.

The marker paper is marvelous. I got a funky texture for the sweatshirt when I layered grey on the frontside and a dark blue on the back, and blushing skin is much easier. It didn't work as well on the actual figures, but the ear looks almost exactly as I wanted it to, as far as the coloring goes. Now if I could sit still long enough to do the work required for my finals, I'd be in business.

We'll see if I can keep this blogging thing up! :)