GUESS WHAT GUYS! :D

I'M SO HAPPY I COULD WRITE THIS ENTIRE BLOG IN CAPS! XD

But I won't so it won't appear as if I am shouting at you, out loud, or however you take capital letters in EVERY word, sentence, paragraph, you get the gist.

So the BIG NEWS is.....

I got a new tablet x3
It's the Wacom Intuos Medium graphics tablet, pen and touch 8)

And let me tell you...
it's shiny!!
That may be because it just came out the box, but I mean 'shiny' in terms of it's my new baby! 
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There are so many appropriate Austin Power GIF's... (JIFF! yes, JIFF! not -g-iff. Jiff like how the man himself said it's pronounced.)

My next reaction is again Austin... dancing ;)


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Okay okay okay(!)

Here are some photo's of the lovely thing...

Hand for size reference.
That box was humongous!
And there it is right on my desk. I obtained it by throwing a pokeball at it to catch it, and then it became my new best friend. Don't worry copics, I still wuv chu v.v


FIRST IMPRESSION


It's a tablet that's pretty much up to date in terms of technology, it's no cintiq but heh, they're a bit more expensive as to what I can (actually) afford.
So in terms of size, I think it's decent for my size screens (they're about 21" I think...), as I like a bit more room to draw when on a larger screen.
        My previous tablet (wacom bamboo pen fun and touch) is a lot smaller and the size of the tablet pretty much fits inside the drawing space on this new one. The small one I obtained when I had a laptop :)

Going onto how it draws, I think it draws amazingly, it feels like real paper, and the rubber actually feels rubbery against the tablet. With the pen you can hold it at different angles, and on photoshop it draws on that angle! I don't know if it works with other software like SAI...

On my prevoius wacom I didn't really use the quick access buttons, but I may start using them on this one. I set the pen to how I had it on my old one, where I have hand/pan tool on the first button, so I'm just getting used to it and the settings I can adjust. As you can see on the last photo, there's a very handy(! ;) heh, get it, HANDY?) pen holder, and inside that there are extra nibs! (which I haven't checked out yet...)

One of the best parts of this tablet is that fact is it can be WIRELESS! I don't know about my fellow readers, but when there were wires everywhere I just kept getting tangled in it when I took breaks or moved, which proved to be a bit of a pain in the ... :) honkadonk.
As with every wireless object, it needs charged. So it comes with the suitable wires, and the other USB's for setting up wireless. OH OH OH! In the side of the tablet, it comes with a USB holder, so when you're travelling pop it in there and it won't get lost! I was confused when I first saw the hole with nothing inside... So it's easily transportable. I heard you can just use a laptop bag to carry it... (perhaps I should dig out my Totoro one and see if it fits so it can sits) :D

Now here's an impression of how the tablet reacted to me;




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Here are a few snapshots of my quick practice... don't laugh :< I'll be better, I swear :<
Just go look at my website if you want to see real art xD website instagram facebook

Thanks for reading my review, feel free to follow me, and hit me up. Sorry for the overuse of emotes XD I'm just... excited.

A new project is up and coming!

That is right! New project coming right up!

My next project involves box making, leaflet and sticker making, super excited!

It's been awhile since I've been able to 'design' something, and by this I mean more graphic design, sure I'm an illustrator but it is nice to do something else for a little bit. Here are a few shots of my latest;

This project is about saving the bees, since their numbers are falling it is very scary (and horrible.) Without the bees we will have no pollination which mean no plants- vegetables, flowers, fruit etc. Farmers jobs would be going down because there'd be no plants.

And since there is a decline in bees, it is such a shame since we need them and they need us, even spiders play a job in the world (eating your spiders in your house for once. I like to keep my pet spiders in the corner so they eat the flies in the summer when they come ;) )

Adult Nursery Rhymes

My latest project has been really fun! The task was to make an adult rhyme book. It shows the story behind the poems, the hidden meaning behind these children's rhymes, maybe you haven't thought about it before, but fear not, here you can see!

My Quirk.. USP

My Unique Selling Point...?

I'm the Pied Piper of cats of course!
I am the Cat Catcher of Hamlin!

New Year x2 (updated :))

Heh, heh :'D Happy New Year... Again! Okay, I'm going to update this blog :)

Please visit my freshly, newly re-designed website! It went for a revamp: www.lisakerrillustrations.com

Book cover design for Penguin, A Clockwork Orange

Book cover design for Penguin, Emil and the Detectives (A fairly good read)

A project covering local history, it was a school for girls

The inside of the building, 2D dollhouse format

A map for uni I designed

A digital comic of a walk I had, one of my favourite pages

A mirror image from part of the walk comic

Happy New Year! And news updates

First of all I hope you all had a good christmas and happy new year celebration!
I don't think I will set a new years resolution because I always fail to do them! Instead I will be keeping small goals to myself, one thing at a time, maybe I will stick to it that way?
What are your resolutions?

So I'm finally in my second year of university, I feel I have waited for forever to get here! 
So thank you to any supporters (?) on here and my facebook page @ Lisa Die Kunstenaar, I know I don't update much, but I do on occasion post new stuff - mainly on the facebook page because it's easier. And just to let you all know, one of my projects was to build a website and hook it up! So if you are interested, please do go have a look. I will be redesigning it over the summer when I have the spare time - redesign it so it will look better, I'm not so sure of it myself.

So please follow this link, there are some stuff I haven't posted on facebook or here that's on there, like some of this years projects.
lisakerrillustrations.com

So since I haven't posted any art from this year, I'm going to share something I've been working on over the holidays. I found a tutorial for this new technique I just learned and had to try it out!

This is a self portrait of me. Of course I need to work on my new found skill as it looks very rough but for my first attempt I think it's pretty cool.

Another project I've set myself is to learn about the program 3DS Max! I really look forward to the day where I can finally build cute, and not cute, diverse characters, and scenes, and lots more things! I'm very much excited and keen to get on with it, so wish me luck!

Life Drawing - Art Dump

Hi, all! 

Well I'm not going to upload all 57 photos again, it took too long and some of them uploaded upside down! 'Twas a pain to straighten up individually -_- So, this is an art dump from my life drawing class. The mediums I used are: quink ink, graphite/pencil, acrylic paint. 
I know the quink ink looks like coffee.. :/ I don't like it for that but the results right after painting it are great. Maybe I should stick to indian ink, but that quink ink cost a lot... -_- 

Some of these drawings/paintings aren't great but it's just myself learning the human form. This is a great way to practice and better my skill.

Also, be sure to check out my facebook page and follow me for daily-not-so-daily posts :D
(I update that more than this v_v)

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Life Drawing

Hi, everyone

I should really post more often! I do apologise.

Well, here's an art dump of the past few life drawing sessions I've had, I haven't got photos of all my work but at least you can see what I've been up to and how much I've improved/what skill level I'm at. Also, that's Quink Ink I'm using... It's great for...ink drawings, but it does change colour after awhile...

As you can see; we've just started on colour! Warm tones bring it  forward, cool tones make it appear distant. The second attempt is more of a rendering of skin tone/colour. I really enjoy life drawing, however stressful, I get a great feeling afterwards - accomplishment!

Also, here are a couple other drawings I made (copies) from a previous project. I had to make them as accurate as I could!

And last but least; check out this cool ink bubble that formed on my art book! 

I wish I could do it again!

It's been awhile... v_v (Vanellope and life drawing)

Ohh, dear!
I do apologize!

Hmmm.. well, let's start off with Vanellope from Wreck-it Ralph!

I used Ai Illustrator CS6 to recreate Vanellope when she turns into a princess! Or, restored, really.
I was told to use patterns and gradients. I think it all ties in well.... :3

Next up; life drawing!
I had so much fun in my last session. Here's a ... Here's plenty of drawings for you.

In these sessions we were playing with tone, I really enjoyed that as it gave my inspiration. I like how rough and fast the sketches are, creates a raw image but you can see what the artist (I) is (am) thinking.
It's been 2 years since I last went to a life drawing class..
And I can honestly say I'm so happy to be back!

June Tabor - The Scarecrow ~~ Making an album cover ~~

My lastest project is to make an album cover, as stated, to which June Tabor sang.
Here are some images in the making

As I make more, I'll be sure to upload them! This post will be edited, so definitely, please come back :)

Eerie Silence...?

Ghosts...murder...the dead...morbid....blood...gore...truly horrific images...axe

Is the genre of my comic.

The Amityville Murders.

The Amityville Horror - Is a movie based on the true story.

So my project for Nick is to make a comic/story board based on a poem I chose from the list which is situated below.

I'm not entirely sure how I got from that poem to Amityville based, but hell, it's given me one hellova booster, I'm really excited to start and finish this because I feel it's very very different from what other students have done in the past.

I'm still not sure If I'll have characters in my story, but since Amityville is a story about a guy  whom had, let's say bad childhood ends up killing his father along with the rest of his family. I've read all kinds of stuff on this story on this website, just roughly, mind.

    In the movie the main character finds out the house was built on an Indian burial site... Now that sounds about right but I can't be sure until I've researched this more. I'll come back to it when I have more information at hand. There is a DVD and a book  I want to watch/read as they're documentaries on the Amityville Murders' themselves; DVD, book.

Now to really help you/me visualise this, here are my moodboards.

I made another one because I felt I needed to, which is the genre.

To help you visualize the style/aesthetics moodboard, here's the grayscale version to keep in with the morbid scene

Alriiiight, my next task to make one of the following;

A) 2 A3 model sheet of assorted characters (If I end up going with the idea to have some)

B) 2 A3 non-character design sheets of visual elements, style experimentation.

When I was first assigned with this task I wasn't very sure what I wanted, I just knew this poem was psychedelic in a way and needed that element. I didn't think I would need characters but... Yep, Amityville has changed my mind and I am now stuck :'D

Wish me luck!

...P.S. I'm poop scared from looking at all those images.