Valentine ATCs and Playing Cards

 

A whole bunch of ATCs I made this weekend for various swaps on swap-bot.com. And my first playing card ATCs!

 

Anubus & A Bulbous Bouffant

This is an ATC I made for a Halloween swap on swap-bot. I just love how the "ghost" turned out. :D I love the kinda jackel-shape it has, like Anubus. It was an accident, but totally fitting!

Just another seahorse ATC I drew. The seahorse is tinier than normal, though, so I had more room to add seaweed and currents around him.

This is for an ATC swap on swap-bot. The theme was purple mermaids. I like her "bulbous bouffant" hairdo!

2 ATCs

This is an ATC I did for a seahorse swap I just did on swap-bot.com. I wanted to do something a little bit more imaginative than my normal seahorse which I've done a million times, so I added another fish! He ended up being a betta fish, cus, why not? I think it turned out really cute. :D Plus, see the coral-stuff same as before?

This is a collage ATC I did about a week ago for a Halloween Cupcake ATC swap on swab-bot.com. The purple in the photo isn't quite so blue looking, I'm not sure how the colors got so messed up in this photo. Anyways, this was a lot of fun to do.

Some Drawings from this Summer

5x7 drawing I did about a month ago. I think this will be the back of my new business cards. :D

I drew this while staying at Cannon Beach, OR this August. Its about 5x7. I'm trying to scale up to larger drawings more often. Its different than drawing on a small tiny scale.

This is a Betta I started long ago, and finally finished in August, at Cannon Beach, OR. I'm proud of myself for drawing a sorta accurate betta fish without a reference. Yay! I also like how the "coral thing" turned out. It's a lot more interesting  and textured than the swirling seaweed I usually have in my fishy drawings. This drawing is about 3.5x4.5

Venus Flytrap

I found this plant on etsy.com,

OK, so how cool is that? I want to buy a live venus flytrap! :)

This afternoon I started on a drawing of a pig. The form will be loosely based on a little statue of a pig my sister got on her mission trip to Haiti a couple summers ago.

A short stumpy pig, with a half-curl tail on the rump!

I can't wait to finish him. But in drawing his outline, I found my thin tiny detail Sakura Pigma pen is running out of ink. I hope I can buy a new one tomorrow or Wednesday. I can always print out one of Michaels 40% off coupons, so it'll be about only 2 bucks. Yay!
I also posted new art on ETSY! The oldish drawing of a seahorse aceo.

He's on my etsy shop.

Peacocks, Seahorses, and Octopi, Oh My!

I drew this awesome peacock feather! I just adore peacocks! They have all my favorite colors combined into opalescent awesomeness.
It's a proper 4x6 inches. :)

And I got some good ol' color into it. I'm not used to drawing with multiple colors! It takes different brain power.

A close up of the color. Pretty cool isn't it?

Not posted to my etsy yet, but will be tomorrow.

Instead, I posted this slightly older drawing of an octopus. Its ACEO size (2.5x3.5). :)

Swirly the Octopus, as named by Sister. :D

I think I drew him last week. Octopuses (octopodes, octopi, octopus) are fun to draw, cus of the eight swirling twirling curling legs. Yay!

AND last but not least, Wednesday night at prayer meeting I drew this seahorse ATC. It's for a trade on atcsforall.com.

BTW, for those of you who keep asking (VICKSTERS!!!), ATCs and ACEOs are "Artist Trading Cards", and "Art Card Editions and Originals." Basically, trading cards for artists! Always 2.5x3.5 inches, and no other rule besides that. The difference between ATC and ACEO is that ATCs are traded, and ACEOs are for selling/buying.