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myousa taught university art for a long time but she got tired. this is the art blog. grown-ass woman who makes art sometimes.

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Day 11, And I Think My Brown Paper Sketchbook Is Getting Crinkly From All The Ink Washes. That's Okay;

Day 11, And I Think My Brown Paper Sketchbook Is Getting Crinkly From All The Ink Washes. That's Okay;

Day 11, and I think my brown paper sketchbook is getting crinkly from all the ink washes. That's okay; I bought it at a hundred yen shop in Nagano in 2008. The prompt was yokai, which is a bad thing, because I am such a huge enthusiast (read: big freaking nerd) about everything yokai that I got distracted in my Mizuki Shigeru encyclopedias and couldn't decide, which is why I ended up doing two of the most stereotypical yokai choices I could manage. This is an uncommonly skinny tengu,  and chochinobake, whom I accidentally gave two eyes to instead of one. Call it unreasonably high expectations, but I didn't manage to pull off my desired image quality here.

I should probably just do a month of yokai next time instead of a monster challenge. It'd get it out of my system. 

Edit: Herp derp, this is 12, not 11. 

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Day 10. Prompt was ghost/phantom. I like drawing ghosts and wraiths. My sketchbooks are full of them, funny enough. 

Brown paper, ink, white paint, so forth and so on. 


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10 years ago

So I got to see a super cool friend of mine this weekend, whom I haven't seen since 2008, and while I'm really happy about that, I am currently full of all kinds of conflicted emotion.

I haven't the money to go back and visit England, because I am poor, and the visit that was going to happen has been cancelled for reasons. My intention to spend Bonfire Night with friends just doesn't look like it's going to happen, and that is crushing inside. 

Basically, nearly all of my friends live far enough away that getting to them is impossible for me at the moment. I suppose it just burns all the worse when you get to be near one of those friends and then distance happens again. 

I am thankful for the friends that live here, but it still feels very isolated. 

In short: 

So I Got To See A Super Cool Friend Of Mine This Weekend, Whom I Haven't Seen Since 2008, And While I'm

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10 years ago
Number 23. Monsters Return. This One Isn't As Exciting Or As Full Of Research As The Previous Few. Folklore

Number 23. Monsters return. This one isn't as exciting or as full of research as the previous few. Folklore and mythology's really my dig, and I can and have written huge old papers on the subject. 

The prompt today was vampire. I basically just wanted to make a lady vampire that wasn't turned into an objectified sexpot, and who was also kind of like a boyish ladykiller. There you go. Chapstick lesbian Dracula. 

Ink brown paper words words


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10 years ago
Number 24. Sea Monster.

Number 24. Sea monster. 

I told you about the yokai, right? How I could do a Japanese monster every single day and be moderately pleased with it? I told you. Don’t say I didn’t.

This is Umibozu, a dark and towering figure that appears in the ocean and then terrible things happen. This yokai is very famous, but here’s the wiki link anyways. 

Brown paper and ink, with a new red ink that I don’t like as much because it bleeds like the dickens.


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