Slight realism ~ Cumquat and Fern

 Here's a drawing of a cumquat and a fern because why not? :) Enjoy!

Drawn 4/10/2020

Emoji Animals As Humans!

 Yello! Today I'm gonna do a quick post just to share some drawings I did of emoji animals as girls. Enjoy!

Dog Emoji Girl

Cow Emoji Girl

Pig Emoji Girl

Drawing Challenge

 Hey! So today I tried this drawing challenge where you have to draw three different sketches of the same thing, but each drawing has a different time limit to draw them in. I decided to draw a cat. I drew the first in 6 seconds, the second in 60 seconds and the third in 10 minutes. 

Thanks for checking out my blog post!

Top Left: 6 seconds Top Right: 60 seconds Bottom: 10 minutes

Among us ~ An Explanation

Many people probably know what Among Us is by now, but I know a lot of people who have no clue what it is or they've just started to get into it. So I'm gonna do my best to explain the game.

Among us was originally made by InnerSloth in 2018, but the game has become viral on YouTube only recently. The game is about astronauts on a spaceship, who have to keep the ship running by playing minigames called "tasks". 

There can be up to 10 players in one game, most of which will be a "Crew mate", but one to two of them will be an "Imposter". The Imposters are basically aliens who have infiltrated the ship and have to kill all the Crew Mates.

The Crew Mates' job is to finish their tasks and figure out who the imposter is. If someone stumbles upon a dead Crew Mate's body they can report it and an emergency meeting will begin. You can also call an emergency meeting by pressing a button located near the centre of the map. In these meetings you can report suspicious activity, state your alibis and vote to throw someone off the ship. 

The Crew Mates win if they vote off the imposters or finish all their tasks. The Imposter wins if they kill all the Crew Mates.

Here's a drawing to show you what my character looks like. Enjoy :)

Dark Green Imposter ~ Drawn 1/10/2020

Time To Share Some Old Computer Art :3

Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon some of my old computer art that I thought was worth sharing. I originally made them to turn into stickers or post on instagram, but never got around to doing it. Enjoy!

Fish Girl ~ 10/8/2019

Tree Girl ~ 10/8/2019

Galaxy Girl ~ 10/8/2019

5 things I thought I'd share

Hey y’all,

Here are 5 things I thought I’d share for today

1. I started a new art book this week. Hope to share some drawings with you soon. Here’s the title page with my drawing of Totoro, a Studio Ghibli character from the 1988 Japanese animation My Friend Totoro.
2. I burnt some toast.
3. I watched Catwoman today. I am working on some fan art of Halle Berry as Catwoman.
4. Reviewed my previous blog posts from a couple of years ago. Check out my Mini Origami books and How I Made My Baba Yaga hut. :)
5. Working on more blog posts, so stay tuned!

If you’re seeing this blog for the first time, then Welcome!

S.

 

FNaF poem and drawing

Hey everyone! 

It's been two years since I last posted on this blog. Since then I started high school and started studying music and visual arts. But I've decided to upload more blog posts over the school holidays.

Today I wrote my best explanation of Five Nights At Freddy’s 5th game Sister Location in the form of a poem. I suggest playing (or watching someone play this game) before reading the poem because it might make more sense, but I attempted to explain each line of the poem and what it means. 

WARNING: THIS MEANS I WILL BE SPOILING MOST OF THE PLOT TO SISTER LOCATION. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. 

I call this poem Fried Eggs.

Written 28/9/2020

Drawn 28/9/2020

Fried Eggs

Eggs Benedict went underground

“Eggs Benedict” is the nickname given to Sister Location’s protagonist, Mike Afton, after the keypad he has access to in the storage facility’s elevator starts to glitch out, making it very difficult to type anything correctly, and proceeds to autocorrect Mike’s name to Eggs Benedict. 

Where the haunted animatronics were found.

Some of the animatronics in the storage facility are haunted by the children that William Afton killed. An example of this is Circus Baby, as she is possessed by Elizabeth Afton.

His first night consisted of electric zapping,

During his first night on the job, Mike must check on all the animatronics and make sure they are on stage and performing correctly. If Mike doesn’t see the animatronic on stage, then he must give the surrounding area a strong electric shock, which supposedly triggers the animatronics to return to their stages.

A missing clown child and a robotic kidnapping.

“Clown child” is referring to Circus Baby, the main Antagonist of the game, who doesn’t appear at her stage after several electric shocks. The “robotic kidnapping” is referring to the story of how Elizabeth Afton is killed by Circus Baby. We hear about this when we are hiding from circus baby under a desk. 

There he met a ballerina and a fabulous fox,

The Ballerina animatronic is called Ballora and the fabulous fox is referring to Funtime Foxy.

A bear and a baby with the body of a box.

The bear is referring to Funtime Freddy and the baby with the body of a box is once again a description of Circus Baby and her appearance.

He ate some popcorn and watched his favourite show,

At the end of each night Mike returns home to watch “The Immortal and The Restless”, a show that is actually a metaphor of his parents’ relationship.

Then on to the next night he decided to go.

Segue into the story of night two.

The ballerina with dark blue hair

Once again a description of Ballora,

Could not see, but was very aware.

Ballora cannot see, but that has just made her ability to hear extremely strong.

He crept past her stage and kept his head low,

In Sister Location, Mike must sneak past her stage via a tunnel leading to Circus Baby’s Auditorium.

Then the bear and the fox put on a show.

“The bear” and “the fox” once again referring to Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy, who share a performance area.

They hid in the darkness and taunted poor Egg,

When Mike has to fix the electricity in the facility, he must also avoid the Funtime animatronics jump-scare.

To make him pray and wish and beg.

This line’s sole purpose is to rhyme with Egg.

Across the third and the fourth gloomy night

Way of combining some of the events of the third and fourth night because I was running out of room on the page.

He was captured in a suit and locked in tight.

The Scooping Room is the room where the insides of animatronics are literally scooped out. This is where Mike is trapped inside a spare animatronic exoskeleton.

Ghosts and ghouls told him stories and tales how they were killed, his skin turned pale.

The animatronics, mainly Circus Baby, pretend to be the spirits of the dead children and want to help Mike, but are really luring him to the scooping room again.

The fifth night gave him a nasty surprise,

Wow ok almost at the end of the game now.

Hidden behind a masked disguise.

The “masked disguise” is actually a mask we see hanging on the wall at the control room between Ballora’s stage and the Funtime animatronics stage.

A monster made of wires, a party hat on his head,

The monster is actually a combination of all the scooped out insides of Circus Baby, Ballora, Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy. They collectively call themselves Ennard.

Scooped up Eggs insides, just like that he was dead.

They scoop him in the scooping room, with the intention of wearing his skin as a suit to escape the storage facility disguised as Mike.

Thanks for reading! ~S 

 

 

Tracey Emin's Distance Of Your Heart

Hey ya! It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded to this blog (18 months to be precise) so I am now eleven! I still love art and I’m about to tell you how I found out about an awesome artwork displayed it Sydney.

When my mum and I were walking to Circular Quay from the Art Gallery of NSW we spotted the Obelisk of Distances (find out about the obelisk here), it looked interesting so we went to have a closer look. When we got closer we saw something on the railing around the obelisk. It looked like a small metal clump, but when I went to see what it was it appeared to be a small metal bird. Then mum said, ‘I think that’s Tracey Emin’s artwork’. Mum had seen a recording of a lecture about this artwork.

The first bird we saw (July 2018)

The next day we searched online for info on the artwork, and found a video on the City of Sydney website about it. It turns out the City of Sydney chose Tracey’s idea for the artwork from 700 entries to be displayed in a public spot. The artwork is called The Distance Of Your Heart. The idea was to have about 70 small bronze birds placed around Bridge Street and Grosvenor Street, near Circular Quay. After I watched the video, I searched for photos of some of the birds and there surroundings on the computer, then I took photos of the computer screen with the phone and took note of the objects around them. I now had portable notes that showed me what to look out for.

My notes (July 2018)

You can use these notes too.

Can you find this bird near Macquarie Square?

We then walked down Bridge street to see if we could find any. We found our first birds on the roof of the Museum of Sydney. Then we saw a few next to doorways and ledgers, on buildings and lamp posts. We counted about 10 the first day, then we went back the next day and looked for them again. We have found 22 birds in total so far.

Can you find these birds too?

Here's a clue, there are 6 of them.

The bird bath says, 'The Distance of Your Heart'.

I think this is a great idea for an artwork because it also doubles as a treasure hunt for kids.

It feels great to get back to blogging and I hope I’ll be seeing you soon, S.

Christmas Update

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I haven’t updated on this blog for a while so on this post I’m going to roundup all the things I have done between now and my last post.

12/11/16

The 12th of November was my 10th birthday and it just so happens that the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) was having their 25th Anniversary cake cutting on the same day! And since they are quite famous they got the PM (the Prime Minister) to cut the cake! And since it was my B-day they got me to cut the cake with him! If you are one of my close friends then you have probably heard this story before.

4/12/16 

On the 4th of December the Kids Committee had a christmas party where we played games, had christmas lunch and of course made art. It was really fun and if you have an arty family I recommend that you join the Kids Committee in 2017.       

20/12/16

On the 20th of December my mum, my mum’s friend’s family and I went to the Sydney fireworks at Darling Harbour. They looked very arty with all the lights and the water below. 

I hope you enjoyed today's post. Wishing you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year,S.  

New stuff at MCA

Hi everyone! Last Sunday my mum and I went to the MCA for a Kids Committee meeting about the Family Tours of the exhibition Today Tomorrow Yesterday and to try the Family Space that is based on a new exhibition called Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect With Everything. Tatsuo Miyajima is the first exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere for this artist. It's about numbers counting down from 9. At the end of it, it left me wondering. 

In the Family Space there is a room which has white circles on the floor that you jump on and when you jump on them they make a sound and draw a line on a screen and if you jump on them a lot the lines form a big prism. At a particular point the room goes dark and the white circles turn into lily pads and a recording of a guided meditation comes on and if you move on the lily pads they change colour but if you stay still they stay the same. In another room there is a magnet board where you can arrange magnets to create numbers and there is a camera that takes a picture of the magnet board every 9 seconds and plays the pictures really fast to make a stop motion film. In the same room as the magnet board there are tables where you can make light drawings by punching holes into a black circle of paper and you can contribute your light drawing to a shadow constellation by hanging it up with everyone else’s in a hallway near the room or you can take it home. And if you want to find out about the Family Tours or you want to book for one (if the tickets haven't sold out already) go here.  

I recommend going to TodayTomorrow Yesterday. 

I hope you liked this week's post. See you next time, S.

PS. I'm one of the two voices that you might hear for this exhibition on the MCA app! 

Today Tomorrow Yesterday Exhibition

Hello creators!!! Two weeks ago my mum and I went to a tour of the new exhibition Today Tomorrow Yesterday at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). At the exhibition there was an artwork called Untitled (Clock) 2014 which was a big clock that went twice as fast as  a normal clock. Also you could see how it works at the back of it and there is a small globe turning at the back as well. There was another work called Minyma Punu Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Tree Women) 2013. It was made by seven women living in the Tjanpi Desert. It is made out of bound grass, raffia, fencing wire, feathers and wool. In it there are seven figures. The figures are half tree half women.

Minyma Punu Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Tree Women)  

I really recommend going to this exhibition. I can't wait till next time, S.

MCA Wall Labels

Ahoy there!!! On Sunday my mum and I went to the MCA for a Kids Committee meeting. First we went through the new exhibition, Today Tomorrow Yesterday, and the leaders asked us questions about the artwork. There were two people recording our answers to put onto wall labels. If you don’t know what wall labels are, they are the little white squares that are next to artworks in an art gallery. And the recordings will be on the MCA app that you can listen to as you go around the exhibition.

wall labels, Objects At Night (from AGNSW)

wall label, The Breakfast Table (from AGNSW)

       

I hope you like this post. see you next time, S.
 

My First Magazine!

Hello! I’m back! I haven’t been posting on my blog lately because I have been working on something special. It is a kids magazine!!! This magazine is called Kids News, and I made it! It has got stories, activities, articles and so much more! And here it is.

I hope you like my kids mag (feel free to print it out!). Goodbye for now, S.

Things to try

Hi ya people!

I’ve realised that I haven’t posted for a few weeks now and also that I haven’t done many links to things you can try at home. So today I have picked three different things you can try at home to do with nature (I hope to try these this term). And here they are. They are all from the My Place website.

rock painting

reed puppet

bush mobile

If you want more things to try at home I've done posts on how I made a Baba Yaga house and how I learned to draw manga characters and also how I made mini books.

This has been a short post but I hope you like this selection of things you can try at home and I hope everybody (in Australia) had a great school holiday. 

I know I did. See you next time, S.

Scratch

Hi everyone! Boy, have I been busy!

I have been coding games and animations on the coding website called Scratch.

The thing I have been working on on Scratch is a selection of animal drawings I have drawn on the computer. You can do lots of things on this website like animations, games, stories, make art, music or just look at other people's work. 

I have learned a lot of things from Scratch and I really recommend it (Mum note: Scratch still needs some supervision since it’s a public forum. However, you can download the free program to work offline.) 

Thanks mum. Anyway, that’s all for this week’s post. See you next time, S.

The MCA Zine Fair and review

On Sunday my mum and I went to the MCA for the Zine Fair. It was what I expected. Normally you see lots of artists sitting behind desks, waiting for customers to sell their zines to. A zine is a self-published magazine that is usually photocopied. Some have real information about how to help with life but others have cute cartoon drawings. 

A lady there called Ralpi was really clever and made it so the drawings on each page of her folded book connect up when you unfolded the book out to one page. I bought her book. It’s called Frank, the Long Necked Cat and she gave me another one called (little) Face Book. (little) Face Book has drawings of lots of faces with different emotions. 

I’ve been inspired by these books to create my own. One is called The Magical Swing and the other one is called The Animal Book which is filled with lots of drawings of animals. These books are not quite finished but they will be before the next zine fair which I hope to be in.

The stretched out book on the left is made by Ralpi and the one on the right is mine.

Also you might remember that I mentioned I was going to be doing an interview with the artist Jumaadi for the MCA blog. Well, here is the link to the finished product.

Till next time, S.

P.S. Here are a couple of videos showing how to make two types of folded books from one piece of paper:

A drawing a day #7 and #8

Ahoy there!!!

Again I was really tired on Tuesday so I’m posting today. Anyway, here are drawings #7 and #8. For those who don’t know I have set myself the challenge of posting a drawing once a day on this blog. And today is the last day of the challenge. It was just something to do that was fun. It was a bit difficult sometimes to post on the blog everyday but it was quite easy to draw. I recommend setting yourself this challenge. It may be hard but it’s really worth it because it helps to get more art into your life when you have something to work on each day.

This drawing is a still life which my mum set up for me to draw.

And this one is a watercolour which I like because of the sunset and the contrasting colours.

I hope you have a good weekend, S.

A drawing a day #5 and #6

Hello everyone! Nearly 48 hours have passed because yesterday unfortunately I was too tired to post. So here are drawings #5 and #6. 

#5 is a drawing I did yesterday in the MCA Kids Committee meeting where we had to keep our pencil on the page once we put it down. It’s a drawing of my mum. I think it’s bad but mum thinks it’s adorable.

Drawing #6 is also of my mum. It’s something I’ve been working on for the last couple of days which will be entered into something I’ll reveal to you once it’s been done. 

We’re quite busy so that’s why this has been a short post. Tomorrow will be the last day of this drawing challenge and I hope to see you then, S.

A drawing a day #4

Here it is! Drawing #4.

This drawing is based on the drawings of Jumaadi who I will be interviewing tomorrow for the MCA blog. Jumaadi has a shadow puppet show which I’m excited to see. I thought it was very interesting the way Jumaadi draws two eyes on one side of the face, sometimes three or four eyes! I’ll have to ask him about that tomorrow. 

Also our next MCA Kids Committee meeting is on as well. Tomorrow is going to be VERY busy and I’ll report back to you tomorrow night. See you in 24 hours! S.

A drawing a day #3

Hi! I am proud to present drawing #3!!! 

For those who don’t know, I have given myself the challenge to do a drawing once a day and post it here. I’ve posted this a little bit late today because I just had my ballet class. Then I had dinner. THEN I did the drawing. I drew this picture mostly because Mum suggested it but also because I like drawing in black and white. This is a still life and I think this round vase did a pretty good job at staying still!!! Seriously, I really like the shadow and I tried to look really carefully at it. Charcoal is really messy. I accidentally put my thumb on it and now there’s a big fingerprint on it.

Have a good weekend everyone, S.