I want to share some of my first drawings and paintings, as well as some random arts that I’ve made in the last 4 years since I’ve been drawing and making graphics.

Warning: Many many (horrible) pictures ahead…

I first started drawing around late 2006 when I took art in 9th grade. I’ve actually been interested in art before cause of deviantart, but I never really tried–if I did, it wasn’t realism. I started off with like 3-4 drawings of Anime/games such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Ball Z. It’s because I liked the cover and character art. I didn’t really draw that much, maybe once every 2 months, but my improvements were drastic even though I didn’t practice. A good break always help me.

These are some of the more decent drawings I that liked enough to scan.

Cloud <3 Final Fantasy VII was a nice game.

Yuna and the guy from //hack sign. My brother spilled water on Yuna’s face ><

Now time for some realism. My first 2 attempt at it looked cartoonish. Obviously I only spent 1 or so hours on these.

Both are BoA ^^

Probably my best first attempt at realism, cause it really looks like the person I was drawing.

This is towards the end of 2006, in like November. Things are starting to look up.
Sucks I never got to finish the first one.

First finished portrait, though I don’t like it.

I really like this one, and I worked on this right after the drawing above with color pencil. (End of 2006)

First good portrait of BoA. This was probably in January of 2007.

Now lets compare all of this to my most popular drawing of Song Hye Kyo in May of 2008.

Yeah, big difference. I think it’s all due to the fact that I spend a lot more time on these (patience is a virtue), and I discovered tissues for shading and blending, oh and kneaded eraser.

A lot of people tell me they can’t draw, but if you have the patience and is willing, I’m sure you can draw too. I can draw what I see, but I lack creativity.

Those things include drawing a portrait, finishing a large canvas piece that I started like four months ago, as well as making some resources. I have my doubts on whether or not I’ll finish though, because on the 8th, I have to start doing some research and writing reviews for my research lab.

Anyway, here is a preview of the themes I worked on.

This is the stock that I started to use for the large canvas earlier this year. Look forward to the piece.

Oh, and how can I forget–I got my Macbook Pro 15.4″ laptop Saturday. I’ve been using it so far with ease and I love it. I was originally worried about switching over, but I’m glad I did. Mac is pretty easy to use if you’re not too use to Windows. And now with a Macbook, I kind of have a desire to design and such to test it.

But before I do that, I painted something for my room, which is technically mine only for the summer.

If you know me, you would know that I have no creativity whatsoever and that I can only draw and paint what I see. So without further ado, here is a horrible re-paint of Florian Olga Wisinger’s painting. I used acrylic, which I hate and is horrible with, but the canvas was also bad. So I knew this painting was doomed from the start.

So yes, as you can see, I’m not good with acrylic at all. I prefer water color. This was the last acrylic I did. It was for my sister.

School for my siblings is canceled tomorrow, and it’s surprising that it wasn’t canceled to begin with today. I hope that it won’t be so cold when I go back to Atlanta, but it probably will be, if not colder. Anyway, pictures below.