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My recent works!

Hello hello there!

As you can see I haven't been updating this blog for a very long time, because I decided to use facebook as a more efficient way to update my latest art and abouts.

You can follow and 'like' me here on Ariel's Asylum.

As for my other latest art and about, go vote for my T-shirt Design here.

But first, ya gotta go register here. My addict name is 'Ariel' by the way :)

Aaaand finally, go vote for my design by clicking on the pussyat image below >:-)

School's gonna start again in a week's time, looking forward to it!

This is the last post that I'll ever make here, it's been good and fun and I got to meet amazing people through it, but the Asylum is where I will expand my fan empire from now on :)

A wee TM sketch, Beyonce-esque anime Princess

I found this little ol' sketch lying round my room, if anyone wants it, bid for your life on TradeMe :) right here. Unfortunately i missed the Psych lecture of the week, but will need to do at least two pages worth of sketch next time!

Until then, oof.

I did this during Cognitive Psychology lecture

Can anybody pronounce cognitive? 'Cause I can't, like the time I can't pronounce apocalypse :)

Soooo, school's started yet again, got two COMP papers to do, one's video editing (Final Cut Pro) with Game Maker in the second module, one big fatty Design Paper (one part focused on Typography and the other just designy stuff), and an Internet Application paper, get to learn about Java.

I went to this lecture with a few friends for the hell of it, and got so bored that I scribbled an entire refill page of well, scribbles, inspired by Michael Jackson's song Dirty Diana, so I tried to create what Diana would look like, frankly I started with the girl on the left then to the right, but I still like the one that I started with the best.

The best part of this is?

When we came out of the lecture, a friend of mine said to me "You know the people that was sitting behind you, they were whispering to each other things like 'oh dear she's not going to pass this paper if she does nothing but draw in it'."

XD

I still intend to go, I mean, what better way to start scribbling than being in an environment of pure uncomfortable boredom? Maybe I should go out of my way to do something disturbing like an eye staring back at them or something, I should, and it can be my weekly Psych drawing class XD

I like where this is going.

Got my previous semester's works back, am thinking 'bout selling some of them, can't keep them all in my dingy flat :P

Enjoy the drawing, click on it for a bigger and better view :)

Sketches done for I Dream of a Baby Dragon

Ooof, it's way past bed time, I'll leave y'all to your imaginations shall I? Nighters!

New Art for sale!

I did this for my project, we had to use the programme Illustrator to create well, an illustration consisting of a dragon and a human being.

It is A3 in size, quality print and mounted on a black foamboard, ready to be displayed, it'd make an ideal present for anyone who has the hots for orange-haired boys and the squee for baby dragons!

If you're keen to take a look click here and it'll lead you there, but hurry the auction only lasts for 7 days!

On my next post you'll get to see sketches of the dragon and the human before it got finalised! Stay tuned!

Long time no post~~~

Hello, if you stop by and read me bloggie every so often, well I finally updated after all this time.

Updates:

• Finally got over the loss of MJ, now I can listen to his music and see imageries of him without feeling bwahaha.

• Finished one semester so got one more semester to go for this year, so am currently on holiday.

• I learned new skills, they are photo-manipulation with Photoshop, advanced Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, colour theory and some drawing.

Did I mention that I got an on going part time job as well? It's nothing to do with art or design but it does pay the rent and the bill. So now, I have the luxury to get one off freelance work but still able to spend moolah on art materials, I made a nebula guinea pig the other day, but I'll upload it some other time. I went hunting for one off jobs, got two actually, now I have to update my porfolio and CV as well as write two completely different cover letters, fun fun. Why am I updating this bloggie? I felt like ranting when I looked at my old CVs and was like whoaaaaaaaa what the hell is all this, there're so many unnecessary bits to be picked out and blaaaarghhh. Ah well, time to do a bit of CV clean up I guess.

Enjoy, and wish me luck with the jobbies :P

These are not my photos, but man are they adorable!

These are photos by the very talented Mr Tom and Steve, visit their website at www.tomandsteve.com, please bear in mind these images are copyrighted and the reason why I'm using them is for an educational purpose, I am currently doing an on-line based paper called Electronic Commerce at Waikato uni so I uploaded these pictures so a source can be provided for my practice web design.

Mr Tom and Steve, if you see this post and feel that your copyright has been breached, please let me know so I can take these images down. Thanks.

Meow.

TradeMe Listing Closing Tonight!

Heya!

This week's TradeMe listing is closing tonight in New Zealand time at 10pm!

This one's got two watchers on it already so keep your eyes out for it!



Exciting exciting :3

Vinyl Works

What's this? A rope?




A noose? A gnarly tree hole?


No, it are vinyl artwork yo.


And here's the bum bum bit.



And yes, this is a big fat post.

They were all photographed on an A1 sized cardboard, I know, it's a lame justification of of an explation of forgetting to measure them as I photographed them, reaaaaaaaaaaal smart.

Little vinyl works, gotta set up my Paypal account before I can sell them on Etsy, don't wanna use Credit card :P Oooh scary, American dollar conversion.

If you click on them to enlarge them you'll see that they're vinyl stickers still stuck to the adhesive paper they came with and I just cut away what I choose to get the resulted imagery.


Yellow Lotus Chicken Head Crowny.... yes, I don't like art titles.



More shots.


More saturation to pimp it up.




Tadah, the whole body.


And the bum bit.



Next we move onto reddy goodness~~



Chunky roostery peacocky alchemy animal.




Close up yo.

Introducing the chunkilicious chunky Ms Red.


The entire robuest chunky Ms Red.



I see so much red.



Green twins, I calls it.


Oooh, chunky crop?




No, it are wolfie woggie creature amalgamated togezor.




Wolf wolf woofie woof woof, lines lines lines.



Ooooh chunky chunky bark bark.

It's ovahhhhhh!!! Will let y'all know when I put 'em on TM!!!!!!!!!!

I mean Etsyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

OK, where do I begin?

Oh hai thar! (Sorry Rache I knicked this off ya).


It's been over a month since I've last updated, so I'm going to take this chance to update what I haven't updated but which should have been updated so now updated, finally.

First up, my submissions to FEW, never before seen images! As you can see the two Taniwhas have already been purchased :) They're all done in pencil/pen but pimped up via Photoshop.

Hmmm for some reason the Taniwhas always look shoddy when I upload them via blogger.

I've also created a new Facebook "fan page" that seperates my business from my personal life, if ya become a fan you'll have access to my awesome artworks :P also the latest news of art sales too.

Eat your eyes out!

Hey guys!

Sorry for not updating for ages!

Just gonna quickly post a TM listing here~~~~

I know, I'm mean for not showing you the front, if you live in New Zealand give it a click, who knows, somebody you know may liiiiiiiiike it~~~~~~

Still, I'll give you a hint:

One of them was hung in the Metropolise Cafe in Hamilton.

It's something you use to fix things, or to hold things in place.

If you can be stuffed, leave your comments so I know if it cramps your style or not, if not, sweet.




Took some proper photos of my vinyl works today, will list them up tomorrow (slack), still, afternoon tea calls!

Ooooh I start work tomorrow, (part time, but full time training!) congrats to meeee!!

SOLD!

Wow, that was quite a roll on TradeMe, really encouraged me to go back and list some more on there!

I'm happy to announce that I've sold the following artworks, as shown here:






Thank you Cydonia and the other buyer who bought the girl and the wolf!

Going to list some more artworks up now!

Whoop!

Another week of anticipation awaits!

I'm Selling My Babehs on Trade Me!

How reasonable are we talking about?

The A4 B/W pen drawings are at a start price at $5, Buy Now at $15.

There is one with a wee stain on the left, so the start price s at $3.50, Buy Now at $13.

There are currently two mixed media ones (pen and water-soluble colouring in pencils) with starting price at $20 and Buy Now at $40.

Here I drop you this link here~~~

Ariel's Trade Me Listings!

Play the doom doomity doom doom biddy bid bid game, or, Buy Now XD

Have yet to set up a PayPal account.

All sales will go towards funding my Emergency Counter Doomsday Device (i.e. dark Arabica coffee beans and chocolate), and flatting costs like toilet paper, it's a sad sad day when you ran out of money and toilet paper, very sad indeed.

Without further ado, click away people, and I'm here for any questions at all!

For those who don't know what Trade Me is, it's a New Zealand version of eBay.

In future I will register myself a PayPal account, expand expand expaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!

Click on either the picture above or the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink to get to my listiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings.

Most recent pics yet!

I drew this one while watching Dilbert.

This is the sketch for my Maya project.
"All dressed up and nowhere to go...." XD

Enjoy!

Belated post!

Hey Guys and Girls!

Sorry, but I've been learning how to code, so much that my finger tips are tender as veal~~

I've just recently completed a website design assignment, so I designed the website that I'd like to own one day, portfolio site duh, with real domain name and everything.

So here you go!

Enjoy!