My First Collage!

Hai. This week will be a little less depressing than the past two, this week I'm gonna show you my first collage!! For those who don't know what a collage is, it's basically paper crafting cutting out shapes to make a piece of artwork gluing or taping together. Some people go all out and use fabric and other 3D things like beads, buttons, other trinkets, sometimes pressed or live flowers, really anything to make a 3D piece of art. I personally used my drawing and painting tools and craft patterned paper I was given by somebody.

I'll tell you a little about what I used since I think it might be interesting.


First, I used printer quality cardstock, it's pretty thick, perfect for marker because it's super smooth but not spongy, it's not good for watercolor though. I used this to cut out the butterflies and the leaves on the middle flower. To cut out the butterflies I cut a smaller piece off of the cardstock and folded it in half drew the wings on one side and cut it out, when unfolded it was even in size and shape. Then I sketched the basic pattern on it and colored with sharpies and Bic markers along with a white gel-pen. I based the orange butterfly off of a Monarch though it's not really a Monarch, and the yellow butterfly is based off of a Swallow-tail butterfly but it doesn't actually look like one at all. I basically based the colors and type of patterns more than anything else. I did make a blue butterfly but it was too big so I gave it to my mother to play with.


For the flowers, I made the purple check-patterned one first, for that one I cut out each petal resulting in a variety of sizes because I did one at a time. For the other two I cut a horizontal strip of the paper I wanted, then cut a piece vertically off of it and used that as a template to cut and have all paper being the basic same size then. After that I piled and used a paperclip to keep secured, drew the petal shape and cut it. - Gluing I glued the petals on to the center part (all centers were made with cardstock) and I glued a scrap piece of cardstock to keep the flowers secured together.


I didn't plan the layout for anything at the start I used laid it out on the paper as I went along. I added all shading and details myself using colored pencils and markers. The background is watercolor, the grassy area is craft paper too.

All Supplies Used:

• 6 Craft Papers (Patterned paper)
• Cardstock (White)
• Mixed media paper – Base paper (what everything is glued on)
• 14 Colored Pencils (5 Prismacolors, 5 Crayola, 2 EK Memory Pencils, 2 Other/Cheap)
• 20 Markers (11 Sharpies, 4 Bic, 4 IDenti Pens, 1 Prismacolor Black)
• Watercolor (Off brand, Raphael)
• 2 Brushes (one flat and one round)

• Scissors
• Eraser
• Stick Glue
• White Pen
• Prismacolor 03 Pen
• Sakura 0.3 mm Pen
• Mechanical pencil
• Three 3D Paint Pens.

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~ God Bless ~


~ Firefly

Sketching and Inking Process - Scarecrow Wreath

This is a sketch/inking process for a drawing I'm working on. I'm yet to color it but at least you can see the process.

     Enjoy!

Sketch:

First, I block everything in. The wreath outline and the base for the body, including the head. I also put basic facial guidelines.

Now I add details likes hair and clothes on the scarecrow, and guidelines to other things like the cone flowers in the background and a soon to be sunflower along with a leaf (which I later get rid of).

After a while, I've added more details, fleshed out the face and drawn other things like the acorn and pine cone branch where the leaf was. And put leaves on the other side.

After I drew out everything, I lightened some lines and went over the whole drawing with a mechanical pencil. In so doing I also added a tree/wood pattern to the wreath.

Inking:

First, I used a fine-point sharpie that was older so the ink flow was thinner than if it was new.
I started on the clothes and hair, along with the hay-based hands.

Next, I inked more hair and added the bows, along with the face using a new fine-point sharpie which makes a bigger ink-flow. I inked the outer edge of the wreath with a 1.0 Sakura Micron pen.

I also inked the outside of the edge of the pine-cones with the sharpie then I inked the inside using a 005 Sakura Pigma pen.

After I inked the cone flowers with the new sharpie but the inner-part was inked with the 005 point pen. I also inked the sunflower but I forgot to take a picture.  After all that was done I added the wood with the 005 point pen.

In the end, I added some thicker lines and I erased.

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friend; Along With The Health Of Yourself, Family, Friends, And All Who Know You. ~ Amen

~ Firefly

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{Game Demo} Paisley Butterfly Virtual Piano

I've had this under my proverbial hat for a while, but never really took it out to play with...! But now I've done enough to release a demo. I hope you enjoy this brand new "game" by The Factoid Firefly Productions!

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Creator's Notes:

Features:

1. Can play up to 3 notes at once if using your computer's keyboard
2. 2 octave piano
3. Chord buttons for quick playing
4. Ability to either click the notes or playing using the keyboard on your computer
5. 1 Sound, that being an acoustic piano
6. Custom Cursor

Irritations:

1. Pressing multiple notes is buggy when including black and white keys together
2. Pressing more than 3 notes starts to get sticky and it will cut a note or 2 out.

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~ Firefly

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[Traditional Art] Inking Process - Il Gatto Con I Fiori Di Primavera

[Traditional Art] Inking Process  - Il Gatto Con I Fiori Di Primavera

This is the inking process of a new drawing I hope to actually finish without getting bored half way through...This isn't a "tutorial" this is just a walk through of what I did.

The pens I used are my "Prismacolor Premier Assorted Markers", the sizes are as follows:

• 005
• 03
• 05

Okay Lets Begin!

The drawing is this one here.

1:

I started on the face of the cat using my 05 pen, first the "hair" and then the eye and the top half of the muzzle. - On the muzzled I tried my best to do a swift but careful line as to make it smooth and not ridged, I started from the first indication of the "bridge of the nose" down and around until half-way through the mouth, then started from the end of the mouth until the end of the first line.

2:

I inked the bottom of the mouth and face along with the rest of the hair that I wanted to keep, the ears and the nose. - To make the hair look smooth and sleek I tried to do swift lines.

3:
Next I went to the cloth that's around the cat's neck (I guess it's a scarf) and the lady bug on the cat's head. - Again, using swift smooth lines with the pen, trying to keep the pen flat down on the page not on a slant.

4:
I inked the butterflies wings and body but not his legs and feet.

Now I have switched to my 03 pen and added the pattern on the scarf and the little ladybug. - I didn't worry about how perfect the pattern looked as the flowers look kinda sketchy and simple anyway.

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5:

I've now moved  on to the butterfly and added the rest of his details (legs, feet simple pattern etc...), and inked the daffodil.

6:

Next I inked the iris that's tucked behind the cat's head, along with one of the small butterflies and the ladybug on the iris.

7:
Afterwards I inked the tulip and the lily that is intertwined within the leaves, and the other butterfly along with the little ladybug on the lily leaf.  - At this point the initial lines are down and I'm almost done.

8:

Lastly I added the final details to the fur, thickened outlines on the flowers and cat, alone with tuned up the eyes; For this I used my 005 alone with the 05 and 03. - An I'm done!

I hope this was helpful or at least interesting! 


 

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~ Firefly

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