Dreamcatcher

First Interpretive assignment of the year... mostly, Interpretive will just be a thesis thing, but this one was a (vague) assignment, about the topic of Good & Bad. So I decided to play with the idea of good and bad dreams, and a dreamcatcher, which is meant to trap nightmares and allow only good dreams through.

Postcards from Trafalgar

First finished assignment of the year! A thing for narrative class, where we took a trip and then somehow retold it in a series of 3 postcards. Mine was a walk down Trafalgar road.

This thing was a major experiment, and my feelings about it are mixed, to say the least. Overall I think it tips slightly in the direction of not quite working, but isn't a total failure. So that's something.

Also, on the off chance anybody reads this blog who doesn't actually know me (not likely...) the girl on the cards is me. Haven't done a self-portrait in ages...

I got nothin'.

So I was looking through Dani's sketchbook and was inspired and uh...



Yeah, I don't know either.

Queen of Roses

So, uh, that whole weekly challenge went down in flames, didn't it? Since then, it's just been happy children and animals for Junior Jetsetters all day, every day - and it still is, more or less, but now I'm back to school! A couple of small things...


Painted this with my (AWESOME) new portable watercolour set at a friends' cottage. (I had a portable watercolour set before, but this one is far superior. It has a mixing tray! Sponges! Eeee.) One of my friends' young cousins dubbed this the Queen of Roses, and it's as good a title than any, I suppose. Mostly, it embodies the need to draw something uncute. Like seriously. I am going to break out in unicorns any day now. It may be contagious.


And this is even less meaningful. Doodled today between classes, with pencil, ballpoint pen, and a bit of black watercolour. Some colour slapped on in Photoshop to see how it would look, and I approve. It's nice, I think. I mean, for a doodle.

Since I can't show any of my Jetsetters work until the books are published, and time for personal work is still rare, hopefully I'll have some schoolwork to slap up here soon enough. Time shall tell.

Week 6 Challenge: Band

A band! So instead of doing a bitchin' performance scene like Mike did, I went more the poster route. Yes, their name is Buttonville.



Buttonville first made an appearance in my NaNoWriMo novel a couple of years back. They would probably never actually be on a poster, as their main point was that they're terrible. Next week: whatever Mike decides on, because he's indecisive!

Week 5 Challenge: Modern Myth

Playin' with ink again! My feelings on this one are iffy, but overall, I think it's okay - I'm not a great inker, but I'm learning and learning is good.

The theme was modernized mythological characters, so here's a faun reimagined as a street musician.



Observe as Mike goes all anime. And awesome. (Also, he did this adorable comic about us and a dancing robot. And it actually happened. But it has nothing to do with the challenge.) Next week: a band!

Sarah

Went downtown with a couple of friends last weekend, and when we stopped in Second Cup for a bit, I sketched my friend Sarah. I liked it enough to mess around in Photoshop a bit - I actually did this before the Fire Maidens one in the last post, and it was kinda closer to the look I was going for with that, but didn't quite get.

Week 4 Challenge: MST3k Titles

The challenge this week was to do stuff based on the titles of movies that were mocked on Mystery Science Theatre 3000... I chose Fire Maidens from Outer Space and, uh, man this went somewhere weird. It looks like stained glass... in the weirdest church on earth.




Mike's is cooler. Next week: Modernized Mythological Creatures! Or something like that.

Week 3 Challenge: Epic Mounts

Epic! Is it a giant badger ridden by a normal-sized child? A normal-sized badger ridden by a very small child? The world may never know!

I was worried about the fur, but it turned out that the metal was more my undoing. Also, my weak understanding of badger anatomy. On the whole, though, Kim is happy.

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger.

See Mike's truly "epic" mount here. Next week: MST3k episode titles!

Week 2 Challenge: The 1920s

True story: When I suggested this theme for the week, I was thinking I'd do something girly and innocent to offset last week's leather wonder.

But then I found a picture of a 1920s motorcycle. A beautiful, beautiful 1920s motorcycle.



So, yeah.

For those who've known me online, no, I didn't just title this picture after my former-and-sometimes-current online name. It's actually called an Ace. Eeee.

Here's Mike's shot for the week. Movie poster ahoy.

Next challenge, as selected by Mike: Epic Mounts!