Ville Valo is textual

ok so now i'm up to the TAFE era of my artistic existence.

we had to make a portrait out of text. this is meant to be Ville Valo, lead singer of the band HIM. all the text is song lyrics. 

it was oh so fiddly! but rather fun.

man's best friend?

this was a 'metamorphosis' project for TAFE.

i think i used gauche to paint it?

then afterwards i decided to add the text to give it more of a concept.

humans are idiots and shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

i think this was one of the first 'designy' type things i did... can't remember when but it is distant in my memories.

its a bit cute

i really like anime/manga so i decided to attempt it. it took so much longer than i thought. damn simple lines. this was a few years ago now

more orlando bloom moments. this was going to be the ned kelly gang but i clearly only found it necessary to draw orlando's character, the young joe byrne.

but damn he looks good with a beard. shit.

shirley barber is pretty much my idol. this is one of her mermaids i copied because it was just so damn pretty to look at. mine does not do it justice at all.

this little girl is the protagonist of one of her other books i have. i honestly used to believe that it was me. obsessed.

clearly i didn't paint the picture below. shirley shirley shirley.

this faerie is probable one of the ugliest i have ever seen. and for that reason i have come to the conclusion that she is a fake, and simply a human posing as a faerie. as a real faerie surely would be more beautiful and enchanting.

i used to draw soooo faintly! which is funny as my brother is the complete opposite, his drawings you have trouble rubbing out, my ones you have trouble even seeing.

this is very faint and very incomplete but i ended up painting this dragon as part of my year 12 major work. i am guessing this was one of the initial sketches.

i think i did this at hong kong airport when we had a long stopover and i couldn't sleep. 

this is a sketch of achilles which it appears i never finished.

a wraith i drew for my brother? i don't know... i have it saved as 'ben's wraith' which indicates to me... nothing at all really.

the firebird. a mythical creature hatched from an egg, its feathers are the colours of fire.

and when i say mythical i don't mean mythical at all. i am simply too tired to think of the correct word.

count von rothbat (?) from swan lake

a faerie godmother type thing.

sleeping beauty.

harry ron and hermione, emo style. oh the emo culture, how you make me cringe. 

im pretty sure i thought this was sooo cool when i did this.

ok so i used to have this mad obsession with orlando bloom. i am not ashamed. my wall was covered with posters. my school diary was plastered. 

he may be a douche now that he's all famous and dating models, but back in his LOTR days he was mr mcdreamy in my eyes.

i cant imagine anything more attractive than an elf with gorgeous long hair and tight leggings prancing all over the countryside. and no, im not being sarcastic. legolas is honestly a BABE.

dragons are AWESOME.

this is a 2004 attempt at a mythical moonlit scene. 

hey i was still learning.

this only makes me LOL.

and shake my head in shame.

note the sleeve tattoo bearing an uncanny resemblance to that of Ville Valo.

this one is SOOOO lame. but i do slightly enjoy the rips in the heart, because if they were a bit more realistic they would gross people out :)

and that is, after all, my goal in life.

this one i actually made into a singlet. i just attempted to find a picture of me wearing it and this was the best i could come up with... you cant even see the singlet properly, its really just me being a retard.

this simply brings to mind...

"lazy butterfly, 

napping on me

dreaming of the sky

and rolie-polies"

-devendra banhart is fantastic. 

in case you hadn't discovered that yet.

a burning heart. my life is a black abyss etc etc

now this one makes me snicker. how truly original nicola to draw an eye, that is crying. how ever did you come up with such an original concept.

so i mentioned before my 'poems' i attempted. this is from one of them i believe. i think i thought myself quite the emotionally tuned young thing.

next page was some ballet slippers. the scan-in quality of these all is very poor, i know i could photoshop them up nicely, make them cleaner etc but i don't feel it is worth it.

this is page two of my mini emo book.

one of my friends really liked this and wanted to get a tattoo of it! i was flattered. she ended up making a t-shirt of it with a little 'copywrite nicola' down the bottom. you're a sweetie michaela.

i figure i may as well do this in semi-chronological order, although this means there will be some things on here i am not entirely proud of, i feel like i would like to show (and this is mainly for myself) how i have improved and grown as an artist.

so i shall begin with this piece of 'art'.

i had this small notebook that i would draw little drawings in when i was in my semi-emo stage, probably about year ten. i find these highly amusing to look back on. most of them accompany one of the poems i attempted to write. and failed at.

oh the joys of teenage life.

Sharesies

blogging is an entirely new concept for me. 

I would like to upload artwork to share with people but this task will most likely take me any number of months due to my lack of time and ever-dwindling memory. 

I am also yet to discover if this is at all possible?

I hope so. 

I also feel this is a nice place for all my insane ramblings, thankyou Internet for not having the capability to tell me to shut up.