Entry 14: Art Amino

   So a long while ago, I discovered an app called Art Amino. I totally forgot, but I really wanted to share it for people who are interested in it. Art Amino is a community of artists from around the world who post and share their artwork. It is a great app for absolutely anything art related: tutorials, advice, discovering new artists, critique, contests, sharing your own art, challenges, trades, etc. There are a lot of endless possibilities with this app and anything art related! I do use this myself, and I have met many wonderful people along the way and just enjoy everything about it. 

   Art Amino also has a whole other assortment of other communities, such as Cats Amino, Anime Amino, Harry Potter Amino, Makeup Amino, and a lot more that I recommend some of you to check out if you are very passionate about things like that. I just wanted to share this because I feel like it deserves much more appreciation and attention because it is just such a fascinating way to share what you like and express that to other people who feel the same way! Anyway, I hope that this can be helpful to any artists who are looking for a kind and helpful community, so goodbye!!! 

Entry 13: Favorite Artists

   I really wanted to share a few of my favorite artists mainly because I feel like they need to be noticed more and I just want to share my inspirations and influences. They are absolutely amazing artists and I hope someday that I can get on their level of skill. Please enjoy their artwork and what I have to say about them.

   First up is Ilya Kuvshinov. Ilya is a russian freelance illustrator and comic artist, but he usually draws personal illustrations for fans and uploads them online for free. He has been a professional digital artist for five years and gets his inspiration from his surroundings in Yokohama, Japan. His field of work relies on games and animations, being he is a lead artist and story artist for it. Kuvshinov's artwork is just so amazing and elegant! I love everything about it.

   Second in line is Sui Ishida. Ishida is a famous and well known manga artist for his series called Tokyo Ghoul, and his continuation called Tokyo Ghoul:re which was later adapted into an anime. He has just an amazing art style and the way he colors just makes it even more aesthetically pleasing to look at! I especially love it for how gentle yet how harsh it looks.

   Lastly is another Japanese artist, Shiho Enta. She mainly works on drawing book covers, illustrations, and drawing for manga. Shiho also creates and sells book compilations of her artwork. I discovered her from my cousins who bought me some of her books of artwork for my birthday. Her art looks so fragile and gentle, but also this feeling of strength comes off of it, I just love every bit of it! Her artwork is something that you just keep staring at and find something new every time.

Entry 12: Art of 2015

   For my first blog of 2016, I wanted to do a wrap-up of my artwork. It's a great way to see your improvement throughout the year, and using that to see how much you might change the next year. I am super excited to see how much I will improve in 2016, because I have been feeling really motivated in improving my style and trying out new techniques! Anyway, I'll be ordering these from the beginning of 2015, to the end. Let's begin!

This first one was made around August, but sadly I don't know the exact date. He is a character from a podcast called Welcome to Night Vale, and also features in the podcast creators' book that was released on October 2015.

This one was made on September 26. It is one of my characters that I made when I was struggling with trying to change my art. Honestly, it is seriously terrible and I want to burn it! Quite exciting to look back at old art, right? I really want to redraw this and do a side-by-side comparison.

You've probably seen this one already if you have read some of my previous blogs. It was from the three marker challenge and was made on October 6. Not much to say about this one since I made a whole blog post dedicated to it.

Aha, wow. I remember how much I messed up on this one. It was made on October 14 and this was when I really was trying to change my style or drawing. Now, the skin is tinted pink because I took the wrong marker for the skin color on accident, and now she looks like a tomato, but hey, what can you do! I did a lot of experimenting on this drawing, so I wasn't expecting it to come out to my satisfaction.

This one was made on November 15, and it's just a simple sketch that I don't really like. I was just bored and testing out new pencils that I had gotten. Not only that, but practicing at drawing hands!

I made a blog post dedicated to this drawing, as well. It was made on November 28 and was something really interesting to experiment with! It was also my first time trying out digital art and messing around with the settings on it.

This was created on December 20 and it was more for testing out on drawing hands. I'll admit, it's really simple, but I love the background of it!

Alright, this is the last one. I started drawing this around the end of December but finished it on January 8, 2016. It's one of my favorite drawings that I've done, and I love how I colored the hair. It'll be exciting going back to this at the end of the year and criticizing myself and seeing how much I will have improved! I hope you liked this small 2015 wrap-up of my art.