#art backlog

[art backlog: march 7, 2024]

Salem

Prismacolor markers and colored pencils

9" x 12"

4/15/2026

Can you believe this is somehow the first full color physical drawing I've made of Salem despite inventing him like 6 years ago and doodling him one william times? Astounding

My process for this was kinda weird– the proportions of the initial sketch were wack so I stretched it out digitally, printed the fixed version, then traced back over it and re-lined it. Definitely more steps than necessary, but hey, if it works, it works

Untitled

Micron pens

6" x 6"

4/16/2026

Mfw I'm made of vertical lines

Crossing

India ink

10" x 10"

4/7/26

Just a little simplified graphic study for my design class

this is the photo I referenced:

Finally posting my gigantic self-portrait!! (y'all better hype this one up istg) This took like 17 hours, 12 of which were in one sitting which absolutely destroyed every bone and muscle in my body, but I did it! And it turned out so good!!! I'm glad I got to use graphite for this instead of being cursed with more charcoal, though as it turns out, any material is harder to work with when you're making something this big. Most of my previous graphite work is like... random 2" x 2" doodles. But anyways, this is awesome and was very difficult to make but still fun. For sure the biggest thing I'll be posting for quite a while.

Untitled (Self Portrait)

Graphite on paper

18" x 24"

Behold! One of two artfight attacks I did last year, and one of my favorite things I've drawn. The wings took forever but it was so worth it. Man, I really gotta make my own bird guy OC...

Curiosity

Prismacolor marker and colored pencil

9" x 12"

Revolution

Plaster, acrylic paint, glass, scrap metal, wax, dried flowers

approx. 6" x 7" x 3" excluding stand

2/17/2026

What's this? A sculpture project I actually like? With depth and meaning?? Turns out having sculpture ideas is easy, just use an existing 2D art idea and make it 3D. The execution of this piece isn't something I'm particularly proud of, but the concept is by far the best I've come up with.

Making this was quite the process. First I had to make a mold of my face, which meant sitting in a pile of goop for 8 full minutes with nothing but some tiny paper straws in my nose to breath through. Physically I could breathe just fine, but it still felt like I would drown any second. Luckily I was going for a distressed expression, lol

Next I cast it in plaster, which captures and amazing amount of detail. I had to carve the nostrils and eyebrows out by hand, but all the pores and everything turned out great.

Then I painted it gold, with a dark undercoat to deepen the shadows. I took some broken glass and scrap metal from the foundry next to my classroom and jammed it into the cracks, (I may or may not have cut myself on the glass ond gotten some actual blood on there), then melted a bunch of red sealing wax and dripped it down from the cuts. Finally, I stuck some dried flowers into the still wet wax and then built a little cardboard stand to put it on. Ideally it should've been wall-mounted, I just don't trust a nail to hold it.

This was my first real charcoal piece, definitely difficult but I really like how it turned out. I unfortunately lost most of the progress pictures when my phone stopped working, but I at least managed to recover step 1. I had it saved in the pikmin bloom app, of all places.