A reusable binder cover, to try and help lengthen the life of crummy cardboard binders. The plastic gets all peely and the binder starts to fall apart even though the hardware's still fine. Also this is just way cuter!! Please forgive the weird focus/coloring of the photo >.>
Not sure if this is in the right board so just move it on out if it's not
I've been asking to paint the mailbox at my parents' house since about middle school, and my mother finally finally not only let me, but actually requested it Took all day standing out in the sun, but I'm super happy with it and so is she! C&C weclome of course
I've been working on this on and off as a gift for my boyfriend since October. First it was going to be an anniversary gift, then it became a Christmas gift, then a birthday gift, then a Valentine's day gift...and then I ran out of holiday deadlines >.> So I finally picked it up yesterday, and it only took about 45 minutes to finish it up. Which was awesome, and kind of lame, because I totally could have finished it months ago >.< On the bright side, he LOVED it I'm pretty pleased too
It's regular old mechanical pencil on 8x11 bristol, probably took a total of 15 hours...over the course of 6 months :3 C&C welcome!
I was feeling nostalgic, so I thought I'd post these. Some old pencil portraits from high school:
Found a picture of them and loved it so much I asked to draw it. I think I like this one best.
Unfinished, and the irl version is lost so I never will. Sad.
Spilled some stuff on this one >.>
The first portrait I ever finished.
A gift for a friend to give to a friend. It's a singer from Grizzly Bear in their Two Weeks music video. I have no idea who they are or what their music is like, hahah. I just drew it for a friend to give as a gift After I scanned it I messed with the colors to give it way more contrast, since the original scan didn't turn out well.
Except for the last one, they're all actually very small portraits, about half a page of regular 8x11 paper or smaller. The last one fills up most of an 8x11 page though. The first, third, and fifth ones are done on bristol board, and the 2nd and 4th in a sketchbook (and they're the actual size they appear on your screen). They're all done with a regular old mechanical pencil, whatever I had in my bag. No special tools except an eraser pencil (so you can sharpen it and erase more carefully).
I haven't finished a portrait since the last one (which I did a little more than a year ago...which was not high school, like the others >.>) but I've been working on one of my boyfriend and I on and off for a couple of months. Luckily going back and looking at old ones is helping to inspire me to finish and start some more that I've been meaning to get around to
Okay I didn't make this backpack myself so I wasn't sure if I should put it in "More Art, Less Craft" but then scrolling through that it was all just paintings and drawings and I was confused and frazzled and so I'm just going to post it here and hope for the best!! Phew!
It's just a plain gray backpack that I'm slowly painting black and adding Tetriminos to. Sorry for image quality; I took the pic with my phone because that way it would upload faster :3
I'm lucky enough to get to travel to Ghana this summer to study ethnomusicology, but was warned that I'd likely be called a whore if I wore shorty shorts. (Don't get the wrong idea, Ghanaians are known for their friendliness! But also openness ) I own one pair of bermuda shorts, but in general, they're hard to find (especially because shorts don't come in special sizes like extra long!). So I pulled out two old pairs of hole-y jeans to cut into long shorts...problem being that they were about two inches too small. So a little more recon action was needed! Here's the result of the first pair.
After:
Before:
I used fat quarters to do the sides, and the big heart is actually a patch :3 I would've patched the scuff mark at the top of the left leg too, but it's over a pocket and hand-sewing through denim isn't my favorite activity The pocket fabric shows through instead of skin so I don't mind it as much anyways.
Some shots of what they look like on:
I should probably staystitch the seams now that I know they fit; that will help keep the denim from curling like that in the last pic.
They fit well, and having the thinner fabric on the sides make them feel a lot breezier which will be great in summer!
I zigzagged around the bottoms, but opted not to finish them any more than that because I like the cut-offs look. Next pair coming soon! Haven't decided if I want to repeat this style or if there's something more creative I can do. Any suggestions?
My friend asked me to do album art for her band, which has recently gotten its foot in the door of the music industry. Things are looking promising for them Listen to them at www.myspace.com/postmodemn
Anyways, she wanted a robot playing piano with bold colors, and those were pretty much my only guidelines. We liked the idea of it being a little messy and home-made (lucky me, they even liked the smudges).
A very late Christmas present for my good friend Betsy, who is in culinary school and could always use another apron I'm modeling it in these photos cause she happens to be 1,000 miles away >.>
And the reverse side, because reversible things are extra cool :3 Featuring not just my holy-crap-it's-3-am-face but also my ETERNALLY CLEAN SPOON! I felt like I should be holding a kitchen utensil, but all I had was this spoon. Which is ETERNALLY CLEAN!
Close-up of fabric/pocket detail (with some not-very-well-trimmed threads as my vision gets fuzzier and fuzzier every minute I stay up past midnight )
And the insides of each pocket are lined with the fabric from the reverse side! UNDERSTITCHING IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.
My boyfriend has gone crazy for Super Meat Boy lately. It's an indie game so no shame if you haven't heard of it But it's considered one of the hardest platformers, like...ever so of course he had to beat the living daylights out of it. Along with his obsession came the desire for the plushies he's seen on teh internetz. Except they're generally way overpriced, often out of stock, and not necessarily his favorite "style." Luckily for him, his birthday's coming up, but I was NOT going to pay out the bum for a little toy I could make myself for a fraction of the price. So we went to the fabric store and got some fabric and he found reference pictures for me and his very own Meat Boy was born! With his girlfriend Bandage Girl, of course!
I've never made a toy before, and it took me 3 tries to get Meat Boy right (third time's the charm!) so I'm pretty happy with them even though there are some wonky details. Each of them cost about $3 worth of materials each, not including what I already owned (thread and a little white paint). Way better deal than buying them elsewhere, and this way he got to choose practically everything about them, down to the angle of their mouths
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Took all day standing out in the sun, but I'm super happy with it and so is she! C&C weclome of course 
so of course he had to beat the living daylights out of it. Along with his obsession came the desire for the plushies he's seen on teh internetz. Except they're generally way overpriced, often out of stock, and not necessarily his favorite "style." Luckily for him, his birthday's coming up, but I was NOT going to pay out the bum for a little toy I could make myself for a fraction of the price. So we went to the fabric store and got some fabric and he found reference pictures for me and his very own Meat Boy was born! With his girlfriend Bandage Girl, of course!
