27/02/2025 - Some life updates
Soo.... it's been a while, huh! Like I said in the previous post, college has been kicking my ass lately and i'm not exaggarating. We only had like 2,5 weeks to make a project that would normally take us a month and a half to complete. It's also the end of the semester, so we had to fix all of the grades for other classes + find a place for internship. So yeah, it was super difficult to navigate everything everywhere all at once. Some of our professors made it extra difficult by being way too picky about classes that aren't even related to the major. Like why would i need fucking P.E. on my last year of interior design college
But hey, at least i'm done with all of that now! I ended up getting an A for my project (i feel like i didn't really deserve it though lol). I'd love to say that now i have lots of free time, but it would be a big lie since there are still 3 different internship (i think you can call that an inthernship at least?? in reality we just need to find some random legal entity to sign our papers and make an assignment from college lmao it's still really time consuming), a predegree practice, several exams and the graduate work. Way too much just to end up unemployed in the end lmao
But enough whining! This week, after turning in one of the last assignments, i did have a couple of days of free time, and i spent it on drawing. Specifically on a fanart for the JRWI show, which is a DnD podcast. I listened to it in the background a lot while doing college work and i feel like it's the only reason i managed to turn all of the assignments in on time :D
It's a drawing of Runt, the smartest girl in the world and so far my favourite character of the show. It's the first time i happened to draw something digitally just for myself in like. three months i think? So that's really nice.
I also used a lot of knowledge on perspective that i got from drawing those lil' boxes in my sketchbook. This piece is just generally better compared to most of my usual drawings, since i just end up drawing static figures floating in the void
I feel like i could've made the composition a bit better by filling the white space under the tail with some quote from the series (it's like. the perfect book layout, come on!) but i couldn't remember anything that would fit the scene sadly
I also made this little close-up, and i really like it as well!
I also drew lots of obcervation sketches whenever i had the time, but it think i'll post them in a different entry
There's also another interesting thing happened. I don't really have much people to talk about it with so i really wanna share it Here. I feel like i should astart from afar
So remember how i mentioned that i study interior design? I actually really suck at it. I never liked furnishing houses even in the sims, it's just not my thing i guess. I enrolled here on accident. And the education quality is really bad as well, we never got taught about actually important stuff like ergonomics or construction drawing. We have to figure everything on our own most of the time
So yeah, i don't think i'll be able to get ANY job in this field. And it's really really scary to me! I can't really do anything besides drawing. Even that skill of mine is on a questionable level, but at least my cartoony art style seems to be really fitting for children's book illustrations.
So, a couple of months ago i started working on my portfolio in children's illustration. I only managed to make 3 projects until college consumed all of my free time.
Because of that my behance profile was left untouched for half a year, almost empty. I thought it doesn't really matter since a portfolio like this probably wouldn't attract any potential clients. But alas! A month ago, I recieved a message by a woman. She said that she saw my Behance profile and was interested in commissioning some illustrations for a children's park. Specifically some character designs and a drawing for a 21 meter long glass display.
I was really excited and scared at the same time and came up with the pricing almost on the spot. She said that she'll look at some other potential artists and will come back if i end up being the best option. I thought that it's one of those "we'll call you leter but it actually means your'e not hired" type of situatons. But several weeks later she actually contacted me again with detailed references. And that was a really inconvinient time because i was writing the course work atr that moment. Plus i obly then realised how low the prices i set up were. I mean, 21 meters of drawings is kinda a lot of work.
So i just ended up???lying about breaking my arm????? I don't know why i didn't come up with a better solution but i guess that's it anyway. I'm just really sad about letting away such a good opportunity to start a career in a field that i'm interested in. As far as i know, getting directly approached by a client when you don't even have a finished portfolio is pretty fucking rare. A lot of people have to send endless amount of letters to different companies to get even one contract!!
But i guess what's done is done. Maybe it's actually a sign to keep going since someone liked my work enough to "commission" me even though the portfolio was suspiciosly empty xd
Anyway, that's mostly all i wanted to tell about. I hope i'll have more spare time to do the stuff i wanted. I already started working on some of the OC pages, and i'm soo excited to finally introduce them here!
These are the random shapes i was talking about. Brace yourself, there's gonna be at least two on almost every page
Sketched out some stuff on my table. Maybe i shiuld clean up my room after all
more environmental stuff. I like drawing the things i see when i'm bored
A sketch from my class (i finished the assignments early and had a lot of free time), this one is one of my favourites. I started by just drawing the water bottle and the pencil case, but ended up drawing the whole table. I guess you can tell by the amount of details on each object lol
These are sketches for one of my assignments on interior design. I was just trying to decide on the general vibe for the place. The drawing on the first page looks a bit off with the perspcetive, but it wasn't really my main goal. I still kinda like though, i drew it from my imagination and it's much better than what i would've drawn a couple of weeks ago before practicing!
Some ramdom stuff. I really like these pages too. The first one has my attepts at drawing more things on my desk. Fun fact! the fox that's drawn from 3 different angles is a wooden figure i carved out myself!!
And for the end, a little sketch of my OC, Ira! I didn't study anything mith this one, just pure vibes
It's not a lot, but drawing these took me surprisingly a lot of time. It's just so hard for me to grasp on to the right facial features and also make them cartoony, i don't know!!
Not much to show here since stydying composition mainly involves looking at other people's art and analyzing why they put every object the way they did. I did draw some thumbnails to practice my knowledge in the end though.
As a theme i chose the moment in my OCs' story where they meet for the first time. Tried to come with a "cinematic" composition, as if it was a shot from an animated feature.
It made me realise how actually bad my perspective is, so i took some time to leran how to use perspective grids
After that i made two more studies from pinterest images. They may look unfinished... because they are. The point of these drawings was for me to familiarize myself with using perspective grids and drawing simple interiors
