My Art Blog
Welcome to my blog! Here, I’ll discuss how my classes are going, the projects and assignments I’m working on, and more! If that sounds interesting to you, I hope you enjoy your stay while you read! I’ll try my best to keep it as up-to-date as possible!
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September 2025
Wednesday, September 17
Although I haven’t been as up-to-date with my blog as I might’ve initially hoped, I’ve been quite busy behind the scenes with new assignments and projects!
Namely, some projects I’ve been working on are a fantasy map for Design I, and a still life with vine and compressed charcoal for Drawing I. I completed the fantasy map yesterday, but I still have a ways to go with the charcoal still life.
For my fantasy map, I illustrated a map that I made up in my head some time ago for some of my characters that I fortunately made a sketch for some months ago on my iPad.
As we started the still life, we began with a gesture drawing using vine charcoal and refined the lines and angles with a technique called sighting. I think I did a pretty good job for the most part! I’m not very confident with any kind of charcoal because I’ve never used it before this class.
To further refine the lines in the drawing and add the illusion of shadow, we are using compressed charcoal and implied lines/playing with line weight. Compressed charcoal is a bit more challenging for me than vine charcoal, so I’m still not done with it yet. I’ve got time to finish it, though; it’s due this Sunday.
Also, I photographed the still life that was assembled in class for reference. I realized much later on that I didn’t accurately capture the angle at which I was working at for my drawing, but I think it’s fine at this point and you guys get the gist.
Finally, I’ve been working hard to adjust and add on to this website. I plan on updating the theme per season or holiday! Please keep in mind though that I am a Celtic Pagan, so my site will feature some Pagan holidays I celebrate rather than more commonly celebrated Abrahamic (or other) holidays such as Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Saturday, September 6
Hello all again! Before anything else, it’s now September, which means SPOOKY SEASON! I’m super excited for Halloween this year.
Aside from that, I (technically) completed my second art assignment! Huzzah! It is an assignment in my fully distanced Design I class where students are to photograph any 2D art they have made to demonstrate understanding of how artwork should be properly photographed. It took some adjustments and problem-solving, but I think I did a magnificent job! I opted to photograph my personal sketchbook’s front page/cover with my digital camera.
I photographed this work with my Nikon Coolpix L330 (2014) digital camera! I absolutely adore older digital cameras, even if the quality isn’t always as crisp or striking as a 4K film camera or something, I dunno.
Thankfully there hasn’t been too much going on just yet, but with my in-person Drawing I class starting this Monday, I’m feeling fired up and excited for my classes to really take off! I’m looking forward to the next post here!
August 2025
Saturday, August 30
Welcome to the beginning of my art blog! Since this is my first blog post, it’ll be a bit lengthy. I’m creating this post the week of Fall 2025 classes beginning, that being August 25, 2025. I am currently enrolled in three online classes—Art History I, Design I, and Digital Media—and one in-person class—Drawing I.
Since I’m wrapping up my first week, there isn’t much going on at the moment. The most I’ve done so far is print out and highlight syllabi and document due dates for assignments and modules and such in my personal Trello board for schoolwork.
However, I have gotten around to completing my first ever art assignment! Yaaaaay! It’s a small Photoshop assignment for Digital Media to get familiar with some basic shortcuts and selection tools. I had so much fun doing it!
As I’m certain I will continue to do with my art assignments, I went a little overboard and went full throttle! The parameters for satisfying the rubric requirements were quite relaxed, so I put some extra effort in to make it look great with my own artistic flair!
Every morning I wake up ready and excited for new content to read and new projects to start planning. I don’t even need coffee or an energy drink in the morning anymore! I honestly have never felt so excited for anything in my life, so I just can’t wait to see and do more as the semester progresses!
Some more amazing news: the final upgrade for my desktop PC arrived—my new GPU! Now that I have a $800 graphics card in my computer (AMD Radeon 9070XT), Adobe Photoshop can now run like a hot knife through butter! Massive thanks to my lovely boyfriend, Jack, for installing it for me <3. With that monstrous beefy GPU in my PC, I can seamlessly run any art software I want! I think that’s a great note to end my first entry here on.
P.S., unrelated to my art, I updated my website skin so it’s a bit more festive! I’m very excited for Halloween this year (like I am every year, really)!