Erin Rae's Sketchblog

A New Home.

2011-07-07T17:58:00.000-07:00

On the Web, anyway.

I am in the process of moving my portfolio over to Cargo (well, I've already done that but now I need to make everything look attractive and work well.)

It isn't very interesting yet, (see fig. 1) but you can visit it if you like.

(fig.1)

Take a quick look around, if you will. It certainly won't take you too long, haha!

As for the rest of my time, I've been trying to balance between finding some steady source of income and working on a project with a friend of mine, known almost universally on the Internet as Spazzlings, or Spazzy, or some other variation of this, haha. She writes and I draw, so I proposed that we work on a comic together. We're still in the early stages, but we're both very excited!

The job search has eaten up most of my time and has been less successful but, there it is. The situation is not dire quite yet. So we're good.

Actually, a week ago I was in Alaska and took way too many photos (meaning: just the right amount) so I'll probably make a separate post about that. Photos on the way!

New Promo Stuff!

2011-06-02T10:02:00.001-07:00

I used one of my paintings from my thesis project for a new business card and promotional postcard. I like making them functional postcards for some reason, haha. It's fun to design them!

Hello Again!

2011-05-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

Well, here we are. Safe and sound on the other side of the Commencement Show and Graduation! Here in the Real World! Or that's what I hear, anyway.

Here is a photo of my wall at the Commencement show, taken by my stepfather, Steve.

I was really lucky, and received a great spot in the main illustration gallery, sharing a little alcove with the wonderful Kelly Miller, and Qing Zhuang.

You'll probably recognize the black and white pieces from my Sherlock Holmes series from a year ago, but the other three paintings are all from the spring of this year. On the shelf below the paintings are the mock ups for three books covers I illustrated and designed.

(You can see them larger in my portfolio.)

I was so pleased with how everything turned out! Then I was walking in Commencement, and suddenly it was all over. With everything taken down and packed away, I am back at home and trying to jumpstart some kind of freelance career. This will be an interesting first few years, haha.

Henry of Sound and Blood

2011-04-13T01:23:00.001-07:00

A book cover assignment for fantasy art class; there is also hand lettering, but it's still on its way....

Business and Promo Cards

2011-03-26T20:01:00.001-07:00

So here's my business card design. I think it turned out pretty well!

And here's my promo card design.

I know it doesn't actually have to be a postcard postcard, but I got... carried away?

(front)

(and back)

Thanks for the suggestions on where to print! I ordered them last week and it seems they're on their way.

Travel Far

2011-03-24T13:23:00.001-07:00

Travel Far, a photo by erinraewatson on Flickr.

It's so nice to do something in color again (and not want to tear my hair out in frustration!)

I took a break from thesis over spring break, working on some other homework in between errands and attempting to get things custom framed.

I then came back to school, wrote a paper about micrometeorites and painted this, haha.

I want to use this for my promotional piece (and possibly a cropped version for my business card?). I hope I can get the orders in sometime this weekend so I can move on to the next thing on my list.

Thanks for looking!
Erin Rae

Almost ready for Midterms!

2011-03-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

Well I'm halfway done, at least. This is what I just recently finished:

A spot illustration of Loki running off with Lida's voice (in the tiny - maybe too tiny - acorn.)

A full page illustration of the witch Iwona in the entrance to her home (and with her little gremlin children. I'm not quite sure what they're about yet, but I know that she actually gave birth to them... ew?)

Anyway, I've got one more black and white image on my list for midterms, where the wolf Fenrir attacks Iwona and Gerda and Lida. Fun. :3 And I want to at least start the first of my three color illustrations I have planned.

I think I'll go back into the first piece up there, to maybe give it some of the softness I got in the second piece? I don't know.

We'll see what they look like in the morning. Afternoon. Whenever I wake up. D:

YOUNG JUSTICE.

2011-02-20T23:45:00.000-08:00

Ohoho.

I think I doodled this a week ago for Illustration Friday... the theme was... "sweater," I guess. I can't be bothered to check this late.

That day also happened to be the first day I started watching the new Young Justice cartoon. And so this was born. Ahahaaaawhat.

Also please excuse Miss Martian's vacant eyes. They didn't start out that way - I don't know what happened. D: And that's technically not Barry's costume I referenced for Wally's sweater. It's (mostly) Wally's future costume. I like it better.

And Superboy's hair is stupid and doesn't like being drawn. (Yeah, that's it.)

Anyway, I'm going to get some sleep 'cause I'm beat. Really happy that I got to finish this piece though!

Thanks for looking!

First piece for Thesis 2

2011-02-17T12:36:00.000-08:00

Is that the absolute least creative title I could think of or something? Geez.

Well, now I've officially started my new thesis series, focusing on the story of my troll characters, Gerda and Lida (as seen in this post, and this one too.) I am approaching this semester with a little bit more focus than the last, I think, since I'm dropping the broad series of book covers for illustrating a single story from beginning to end (I'm also going to illustrate and design the cover! D": ). It's also significantly more personal this time around, this being a story of my own creation.

Anyway, on to the actual drawing!

This was meant to be the moments after Lida's birth, when she first popped out and started wailing like all newborn babies. That's all well and good for most babies, but most babies' screams don't turn their mothers into trees.

Lida's cries have the ability to call up offshoots of the great ash tree Yggdrasil. It's pretty harmless for the tree, but not necessarily any hapless bystander who got in the way, since the shoots grow pretty indiscriminately and will swallow and absorb anything that gets caught up in branches and such. That's what happened to girls' mother, leaving Gerda alone to take care of her sister.

Honestly, everything's still pretty rough, but I'm enjoying working on it :"D

Thanks for looking!

Erin did a comic?

2011-02-08T18:49:00.001-08:00

(my interpretation of) The Sea of Frozen Words

"...on the edge of the frozen sea of the north. In winter, all words and sounds in the area are frozen; as the milder weather approaches in spring, they begin to thaw and can be clearly heard. Travellers can pick up the frozen words, which resemble crystallized sweets of various colors."

And this seems to be from Francois Rabelais' Le quart livre de faicts et dicts du bon Pantagruel, Paris, 1552.

Haha, what? I drew my first comic since sophomore year, only my third comic ever - and boy does it show. What was I doing with that awful speech bubble in the third panel of page 2? Good question. And "BWOOOMP" is apparently what foghorns sound like in my head. I'm not really sure why.

I've learned my lesson about trying to finish 3 pages in less than a week, but man was that rewarding. :)

Loved it, will definitely go on for Round 4!

Thanks for looking!

Erin Rae

Far From Home.

2011-02-02T22:26:00.001-08:00

Looked a little to Theodor Kittelsen for this piece.

Thought I'd try my hand at Gerda and Lida again, this time with a little more focus on Lida, the younger (but much larger) sister.

The two are forced to leave their home and their family and all they know when something of Lida's is stolen, and they must go and take it back at all costs. This story is also what I am planning to base my thesis on.

Thought I'd try something new(ish) with media as well: the drawings are all ink, and everything was colored in photoshop. Just wanted to give it a whirl - nothing's quite perfect.

Thanks for looking ;")

Make way for the Troll Princess

2011-01-27T15:46:00.000-08:00

The first assignment for Fantasy Art this semester: to tackle a fantasy cliche with either hyperbole or a plain old fresh take. I wanted to do something with trolls, but as trolls aren't much of an overbearing presence in the greater part of the fantasy genre, I added the stereotype of the "warrior princess," which definitely brings strong images to mind - good, bad, whatever.

And so we have this pair of troll sisters, who are sort of quasi-princesses, since their parents were pretty big and bad (or something?).

The real star of this piece (the one directly dealing with the cliche) is clearly the character in front. I wanted to take the (very) general image of the "warrior princess" (statuesque, outrageously gorgeous, great hair, huge tits, bikini armor, etc.), and nix everything but the bikini.

I had a lot of fun doing this piece and really enjoy these two characters. Expect to see them again, haha.

And so begins the last three months of school, ever.

At Semester's End

2010-12-16T09:52:00.000-08:00

Well the end of the semester finally came, and I'm sure it was a welcome arrival for all. I look forward to painting a lot over the winter break (not so looking forward to my wisdom teeth extraction on Saturday), and working out my thesis project for the spring semester. :"D

And now on to the artwork:

My final assignment for my Illustrating the Edible class is posted up at the class blog, but I'll put it here as well. It's a seed packet! Shown is the front and back.

But then there was thesis, am I right? I've been pretty tight-lipped about my senior thesis project this semester. I didn't really mean to be - I planned to share the entire process, really I did - but working through the project proved to be very nerve wracking.

I am a painter; I always have been, and always will be. But I also love to draw, and as much of my more recent work (the past year and a half or so) has become flat and graphic, I feel like I've been growing tighter and tighter and less and less comfortable. My use of the medium began to feel more like a paint-by-numbers or coloring a coloring book. All of the life had drained from painting for me, and so last semester's Concepts final was all ink wash and over the summer I buried myself in Photoshop. But I had to face painting again sometime, right?

My first couple pieces in my thesis series represent that more graphic style that I've been developing, and I while I enjoyed drawing them, I really hated painting them. The pencil lines stressed me out, and I think I part of me wanted them gone, but another part of me was afraid to paint without them.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardobe

I realized at some point afterwards that I had grown too used to working nearly the exact same way for too long; I didn't feel like I was growing, and that was a bad thing. I needed to break away from the past year or so and try something completely different.

I decided to focus on the environments and the mood of each piece as opposed to a particular scene or characters from the books. This is the first time I've ever paid so much attention to any kind of environment so these were really an interesting challenge for me.

The Magician's Nephew

The Horse and His Boy

The Last Battle

The Silver Chair

There's one last painting that I have yet to scan in, but I'll update this post in a few days with its final version.

Edible Illustration Update

2010-11-25T06:51:00.000-08:00

Finally posted all of my recent assignments for Edible Illustration up to the class blog, which is now available to the public, I believe :"D So check it out - everybody's doing really fabulous work!

My thesis is coming along, although I haven't posted on my thesis blog in a while. But there will be a final post when I'm finished in a couple weeks, haha. Although I think I might nix the separate blog for next semester, and just post everything here instead.

Edible Illustration: Station North Restaurant Guidebook

2010-10-10T08:43:00.000-07:00

So these are my illustrations for a restaurant guidebook that the graphic design students will be working on. We were each assigned a specific restaurant to review and illustrate, and were also required to do a cover and a map of the area, plotting all of the restaurants reviewed in the book (about 18, I think.)

Cover

On the Hill Cafe - exterior

On the Hill Cafe - interior

Map

All in all I am pleased with the results, although mostly I'm just glad to have that over and done with so I can turn my attention back to thesis again.

Illustrating the Edible

2010-09-20T10:32:00.000-07:00

So for Illustrating the Edible, we're working on a guidebook of good, affordable restaurants in the area, which is really awesome. I'm excited for this project anyway, and I was lucky enough to receive a restaurant assignment that was nearby and to my taste. Bonus, right?

Well, I've got all of the information for On the Hill Cafe, plus some personal recommendations (both my friends and I enjoyed what we had ordered). I took reference photos while I was there, outside, inside (we sat inside, so there are more interior shots), of our food.

So, here are some of the better photos taken in the restaurant:

I really love the colors of the restaurant: there's something very warm and inviting about them, and the menu written in colored chalk is lighthearted and pleasant. The atmosphere is very easy, very casual. The staff was lovely and the service was good.

All in all it was wonderful - I really can't believe I have lived a block away from On the Hill for three years and never bothered to give it a shot.

First final of the semester:

2010-09-13T08:48:00.000-07:00

EDIT: Except I lied. I totally forgot that the Edible Illustration blog is private. Click the link if you want, but I don't think anyone will be able to see it. Kind of a shame, really. If anyone is curious as to how my assignment turned out, I've got it up on DeviantArt.

For Illustrating the Edible. Boy, was I surprised by how much I liked painting food. Pictures of food. Not on food.

Aaanyway, check out the class's work over at the Edible Illustration Blog!

Everything over there's wicked awesome, and you'll find some pretty cool people. Not a great many things up yet, but over the next couple days activity should pick up.

Liiiike my senior thesis blog.

Ahem. Now I'm going to get back to these curiously blue potato chips. Curious.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia

2010-05-03T23:37:00.000-07:00

Well then.

Here we are at the end of another semester -- the end of a whole year! Junior year is over and done with. That's pretty amazing right there.

And then I get to spend my summer preparing to be a senior. Ooohwhatthehell. But whatever. That's for another time; one where I have not been awake for 48 hours straight.

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So, right, Sherlock Holmes!

This collection of illustrations for A Scandal in Bohemia, by Sir A.C. Doyle is a major part of my final project for Concepts 2. While I feel like I failed to start early and strong, I somehow managed to pick up the slack in the time that I had left and now I am left with the foreign feeling of being... actually sort of done. I mean, there's still the printing of the book dummy pages and I have to lay those out all nice but, really that's just busy work. The hardest part's over with, really.

Although I do wonder if my book dummy should have the actual text or not. Do I really want to type pages of text? ...I can't decide...... No. You know what? I'm going to turn to the Internet and copypasta my way out of this. Yeah.

But that aside, these were really interesting to do.

I do really want to illustrate books; covers, interior illustrations, whatever. I just really love doing it, and would love to do it... kind of forever.

Well, fell asleep in the middle of this, and now that I'm awake 6 hours later, I still have some finals-related things to take care of, so I'll leave this here for now!

Much love and luck to anyone and everyone else in the finals boat right now!

Erin Rae

Words on Wheels

2010-02-24T14:01:00.000-08:00

My final image for the Words on Wheels program, sans the poster template and the poem.

I was pleasantly surprised by the poem I received. It was about one's self-image, and not listening to the people who strive to bring you down and make you think less of yourself, but trusting who you are. I thought it was kind of cool that a fifth grader wrote that. I don't remember being that self-aware when I was 10.

I struggled with harmonizing the imagery and concept, and I hope that the illustration makes at least a little sense... um. Haha~

UNDERPANTS.

2010-02-24T13:20:00.000-08:00

(block pattern)

(block stripe pattern)

Inspired by my random doodling of underpants.

This was just some really quick practice with patterning during Concepts 2... Now, off to research the Mother's Day market! LOL.

The Week in Review (Two, really)

2010-02-08T18:33:00.000-08:00

Illustration Concepts 2

Studio Drawing: Portrait

Lifestyle Illustration

OH MY. IT'S BEEN A WHILE.

2010-02-04T14:13:00.000-08:00

Was my last post really so long ago?? Wow. Well, I suppose I should continue chronicling my art-schooling... or something. Sometime this weekend I will post all the homework that I did this past week, but until then I guess I'll just share this semester's schedule.

On Monday, I have Arts in Native America and Feminist Theories of the Political (or something to that effect). These are both very interesting classes.. I listen to a lot of people talk on Monday afternoon. The readings are interesting, and make me think.

Tuesday, I decided to commit suicide weekly with double studio classes: Studio Drawing: Portrait in the morning now with 100% more Mark Karnes! (and considerably less Abbey Sangiamo, who had to drop the class for medical reasons D': ), and Lifestyle: Body and Behavior in the evening with Dan Krall.

Wednesday (which is pretty much my Friday), is my Illustration Concepts 2 class. I decided to stay with the wonderful Rebecca Bradley.

...Oh look at that, a three-day week!

I have also been attempting (with limited success) to set myself up with an internship this summer. I have some interviews coming up, so here's hoping something will work out and I can stop wondering.

If I don't intern anywhere I'll probably just try looking for a job in Waldorf. Great. Well, there's always Senior Thesis to prepare for.

In other news, a wholesale art company wants to use one of my pieces from last year on a pad of paper. I of course agreed. Awesome. I'll be on something that someone will buy... SUPER AWESOME.

Well, I wish I could post an actual image here, but I seriously did jack the entire winter break. I mean I read books... and painted my brother's bedroom and the guest room in the basement. I (tried to) entertain my Grandparents when they visited for Christmas, and went to one of my good friend's New Year party thing. We played a game called 'Body, Body' and I killed everyone. In the game of course. I swear.

For absolutely no reason, here's a list of books that I read:

The Land of the Silver Apples, by Nancy Farmer

The Islands of the Blessed, by Nancy Farmer

(Last year I read the first book of the trilogy, The Sea of Trolls)

The Candle Man Book One: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance, by Glenn Dakin

I am currently reading:

Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Specifically, I'm still on the first story, A Study in Scarlet).

Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals and Beliefs, by John Lindow

And whatever I need to read for my two academic classes, of course~ :)

Ah, now that I've shared entirely too much useless information about myself, here's something I drew this evening while I watched the end of the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice.

Quick charcoal and pencil drawing. I should have made her chin a little smaller, I think. Oh well. Wheeee~

I should go to bed.

Back in the States!

2009-07-31T19:13:00.000-07:00

Aaaaahhhh... it's a wonderful experience to visit a foreign country, but after a month being away from home, it's equally wonderful to return.

Still jet lagged like woah, but I'm happy :"D

Now that I am home and have my scanner, I figured I would post my favorite piece(es?) from the 40-some paintings that I did throughout the month!

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My favorite piece from my main series - much more graphic and minimal that usual.

Medium -- gouache and white gel pen on Rives BFK

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My second favorite. It took me a whole day of experimentation to get this one right.

Medium -- gouache and white gel pen on Rives BFK

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I think I already showed this in my last post, so sorry to be redundant, but I love this one too! :"D

Medium -- pencil and white gouache on Rives BFK

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Another repeat from the last post, but it was the first in a line of personal things I did while I wasn't in class. Helena was somehow inspired by the Cloisters of Santa Chiara...

Medium -- Acrylic on Rives BFK

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Helena Dreaming.

Helena envies the water's freedom. She dreams of floating far away on the waves, away from her island; the mountains of the mainland are barely visible, but she tries to imagine..

Her dreams never get her very far, but she likes them all the same.

More Helena.

Medium -- Watercolors over ink drawing

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Helena Coming Home.

Helena again. I know she looks like a pirate or something, but she's not.

She joined the army (not her original plan), got involved in some sensitive politics, lost the most important prisoner of war and then came home. Yep. That's more or less the story, it would seem.

She also killed some guys and saved her older brother from execution.

Medium -- Watercolors over ink drawing

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That's more or less it for now.. I'm off to bed. GOING TO SEE HARRY POTTER HBP TOMORROW MAN!! Ffffffunnnnnnnnn..... :"DDDDD

..Goodnight!

Underneath the Mosquito-bitten itch..

2009-07-11T08:50:00.000-07:00

I am a very happy person.

A very tired, but very happy person. Who also happens to be somewhat in love with a place. At least as much as one can be in love with a place.

My supper tonight might also consist solely of cake and champagne, about which I cannot complain. I was also wandering through the Pompei excavations for 9 hours yesterday; also about which I cannot complain.

If you know me on Facebook, than you might have seen my paintings, but I'll stick a few that I like up here anyway~~ :"D

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Day One.

Day Two.

Day Three.

Day Four.

Obviously there've been more painting days than that, and more paintings to boot, but I like these, for the most part..

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And then there's some personal, de-stressing-out-of-my-head business~

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I apologize for the random cropping up there, but I'm not really sorry, haha - just exhausted. Tomorrow is a free day, so instead of last weekend's free day where I spent the day hiking all over Capri (and I MEAN HIKING.) I'm going to properly take a day off and do nothing, which I am brilliant at doing. I might even do more out-of-my-head-painting in order to decompress from the past two weeks.

Because that's how long it's been! Only a little more than two weeks left!! D":

But I'll be glad to be home with my family again; too often I've found myself wishing that they were there to see what I was seeing.. but my Mom just told me we'll be heading of to Disney World in only 36 days!! Whoot!

Well, the mosquitos are feasting on my legs down here in the hotel lobby, so I'm going to head back upstairs for a little while before cake and champagne.

Ciao!

Have Some Thiii~ngs...

2009-06-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

22 Days until Italy.

Here are some things I've done in the past couple days... It's been distressingly hard to draw or paint anything as of late, but then I switched back to acrylic, from watercolor. :") It seems to be working!

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Ahhh~ Princess Morgaine. A character of mine :") I hope this (and another pair of these I did a couple months ago) might turn into something of an actual series... hnn.

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Here's something I did earlier tonight of Abby Boeh's webcomic, Adventures of Bee Boy~ It is a lovely little comic~

B's a little squished 'cause I don't have much paper over 5x5 inches right now.. But I made him fit! It's like he's in an invisible box! :"D

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I... don't really have anything else to say.. *flails* Nnnngh! Sorry!

I'm going to go watch Andrew Zimmern ingest strange things now.. and maybe eat an apple, myself?

Ta!

Erin Rae

A brief look back...

2009-05-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

Here are some things that I've been doing the past couple of days, when I'm not working and researching for a paper ~~which my professor was nice enough to give me an extension for~~ ahaa~

Being home always makes me look back at my old interests...

Whoa look, my character from my secret LOZ: Ocarina of Time fan fiction (from... middle school.)

She never used to dress this... modestly.

And she looks kind of like a broken doll here, anyway.

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Random, kind of (fail!)Egyptian lady~ Oooooh I spent way too long drawing this... and not enough time painting this - I wish her skin were a little darker..

But I was trying to work with lighting a little bit more. hm~

Drawing anybody and anything from ancient Egypt proves to be a very difficult task - something I noticed many many years ago during my Mummy series and YuGiOh-induced obsession with Egypt, but seemed to have forgotten. The drapery. That's hardest.

I was up until 4 in the morning the day before yesterday drawing and painting this lady alone. The first painting at the top I did a few days ago.

Needless to say I didn't stay up last night...

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"..if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50 to 200 proglottides or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself."

Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

After a whole day of reading, that made me laugh rather hard.

Go tapeworms.

I hope I can finish painting the doors for our computer room this afternoon, and then tonight maybe I can play Hotel Dusk...

...has anyone ever thought of what Spongebob Squarepants would look like if he weren't a 3 inch tall sponge, but a person?

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

2009-05-16T23:29:00.000-07:00

I almost forgot about this~

Last week, I was informed on Deviant Art that this piece was featured on Gianmarco's blog (~cubbu on Deviant Art) :"D

I was super-excited for my piece to be featured with so many awesome poster designs, for although this was my first assignment of this past semester it is one of my favorites! It is also extremely different from the way I usually work, so its success is even more exciting for me~

So I'd like to thank Gianmarco once again!

..and now I am seriously going to bed.. I can only watch one episode of Iron Chef America a couple of times before it gets really old. Iron Chef Mario Batali is my culinary hero though (aside from my mom, who could outcook anyone).

Good night! (..good morning?)

Wow I fail hard~

2009-05-16T22:24:00.000-07:00

(originally intended to be a character of my own but.. I don't know who he is now, haha~)

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Ivan Braginsky, a character of Axis Powers: Hetalia, a webcomic by Himaruya Hidekazu (Kitayume, his website)

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Feliks Łukasiewicz, another character of Axis Powers: Hetalia...

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Young Herakles Karpusi and his mother, both are characters from Axis Powers: Hetalia~

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I have totally been painting for the past week, and have some nice little watercolors to show for it - I've just been hesitant about putting it all up here 'cause, well.. it's (almost) all fanart. Whooooaaaaaaa.

..but I've thought about it a little more and think, "Yeah, so freaking what?" So hopefully I'm not alone on thinking this, haha~

So here I am once again (finally..), and have something to show for myself this time. (If you know who any of these characters are, good on ya, but I don't feel like I should blather too much about them.)

The first painting was me just fooling around with gum arabic, which I had recently bought during finals week, but hadn't yet had time to try out.

The three pieces of fanart were born from my desire to draw clothes from different times and places, specifically Russia , at first.. then followed by Poland. The next day I wanted to try working with darker skin tones, and so I went for the Mediterranean :)

All this is because I bought this amaaaaazing book last month:

It's really bangin' and although it isn't ridiculously in-depth, it's full of full-color illustrations and brief but informative descriptions~

Well, as it's now two in the morning I'm going to leave this here.. once again, everything I do can also be viewed (somewhat larger) at my Deviant Art account, it anyone's interested.

Thank you very much~

Erin Rae :"D

This is the beginning of something...

2009-05-10T18:50:00.000-07:00

..I'm just not quite sure what~

My name is Erin Rae and this is my first step into the blogging world. I have previously showcased my work only on my Deviant Art page, but now being halfway through my college career (I am an Illustration major) I feel as though I should begin to extend further out into cyberspace~ I look forward to my future here and appreciate any kind of constructive input, be it on my etiquette or formatting, or on the work that I will eventually share.

Over the course of this summer I will attempt to put something up at least once a day! This might be laughably optimistic, especially with my one month trip to Italy in July, but I'm willing to give it a shot, haha~

I will you to expect a variety of results -- a few ten minutes sketches or the considerably rarer fully-finished piece..

I look forward to this summer, beginning tomorrow!