Tyre Fyre

Drawn with a color pen and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Don’t ask me--I don’t know, either. It would probably make a decent poster for a local band.

Mermaid Evolution

Drawn in MS Paint. © 2018 objet discret

I don’t own the mermaid drawing that this sheet is based on--it’s a pixel illustration from one of the coloring book pages in Nintendo’s Mario Paint. I played that game quite a lot as a kid--it was one of my earliest outlets for experimenting in pixel art.

In Mario Paint, I always loved the underwater scene, and in particular, the mermaid in the upper left corner. As an experiment, I took that mermaid and gradually smoothed and redetailed her. On the left side is the original drawing in the Mario Paint palette; on the right side is a reworked version in the Atari 2600 NTSC palette, a favorite of mine. Mermay has ended, but may I propose Merjune?

The Moon

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ80 and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

I envisioned this as something like a tarot card--I used a public domain frame from Pixabay to complete the look. This is the first photo of the moon that I’ve taken with my new camera. Earlier this month, I splurged to get myself a camera with 60x optical zoom--I have no regrets so far. You can see the unedited photo below:

April Planner

Drawn with an ink pen and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Joined Flowers

Drawn with a color pen. © 2018 objet discret

Notebook Flora

Drawn with an ink pen. © 2018 objet discret

Gold Leaves

Drawn with a metallic pen and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Contoured Cherries

Drawn with color pens and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Populated Leaf

Drawn with color pens. © 2018 objet discret

I doodled this little picture in the corner of my meeting notes. I think I was inspired by the comic Clan Apis, which I absolutely recommend if you haven’t already read it.

Tama Cat

Drawn with brush markers. © 2018 objet discret

I did a quick sketch of my cat, Tama, when I first opened up this set of brush markers. She was sitting “catloaf” in front of me and got progressively more interested in what I was doing--I think she could tell that I was doing something involving her. She got up before I finished drawing and jumped up onto the couch next to me to watch.

Tama is a rescue kitty from an animal shelter. When she arrived at the shelter, she was missing part of her back left leg, and the rest had to be amputated. (You can kind of make it out in my drawing--her left side is flatter to the floor because she’s not sitting on a leg there.) When I first met her, she immediately rolled over to play with me, slow blinked at me, and rubbed her head against my hand. I fell in love with her there and took her home a week later. She is such a good cat.

Dandelion World

Taken with a Huawei Honor 6x camera and a macro lens. © 2018 objet discret

Contoured Blueberries

Drawn with color pens and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Cosmology

Drawn with a color pen and edited with Paint.net. © 2018 objet discret

Blooming

Drawn with a color pen. © 2018 objet discret

Puff Parachute

Drawn with a color pen and a metallic pen. © 2018 objet discret

Fisheye Flower

Taken with a Huawei Honor 6x camera and a fisheye lens. © 2018 objet discret

This is the first photograph I’m posting to this blog. I was afraid for awhile that I should just stick to drawings, but I want to show you all everything that I do--I draw, I take photos, I craft jewelry, I build stuff in Minecraft, I make pixel art. I want to share all of it, even if I’m not the best at everything. Much thanks to Pixabay for the public domain frame I used for this photo.

Tap Root

Drawn with color pens. © 2018 objet discret

This is my 100th post! Thank you all for your support. ♥