Nina's High School Sketchbook, Vol. 4

For this week's Sunday Artday post, I've got a few more from 2003 to share! I've got a couple of silly ones today. Enjoy:

New Pen Explorations

India Ink Pen
Whenever I used to get a new set of pens, I'd go nuts with them. It was my default thing to sketch with before digital tablets were a thing! Here's a nice one which I remember doing to break in a new prismacolour ink pen set.

Nina, Warrior Empress

Sharpie, Photoshop
The only thing that's accurate about this photo is the clothing style, makeup, and hair - I was quite a large kid, so whenever I drew a self-portrait I tended to embellish quite a bit... but it's a fun design anyway!

No Worries

Pen, Coloured Pencil
Just a knight and his dragon, taking a snappy nap! Someday I'll get the opportunity to illustrate a kid's book that actually gets published, I hope.

Organic

Graphite Pencil
This is yet another sketch of an actual organ in the Bay Area- I can't remember exactly which one but it was a large organ in a small church in the East Bay. Having had to sit through many an organ recital growing up, I probably could easily fill a coffee table book with organ sketch studies! This one has Snape playing at the console just for some fun.

Ribbit

Gouache, Ink, watercolour
My stepmom is also a fantastic illustrator, and she frequently uses a technique called ink-wash in which you paint a negative image on a certain kind of paper stock with white gouache, then cover the whole thing with India ink to black out. Once it's dry, you run the paper under a water stream, which washes away the gouache, leaving crisp white regions of paper. It's very similar to making an oldschool print in terms of approach, and was really fun to learn. I lucked out in that I have a pretty cool stepmom who was willing to teach me this stuff. Unfortunately however I have not been able to get a good photo of this one, as it's in a frame and it's fairly large. But I think it's cute, and it's the first time I did anything in this particular medium.

I got one more batch from 2003 to share with you next week, then we're on to 2004! As always, thanks for checking out my art and I hope you get some pleasure out of them :)