#the printmaking continues!!!

[nameless-is-nameless]

Good luck, babe!

[pallanophblargh]

I have a lot to do and not enough energy to do it just yet, thanks to holidays and a backlog at work. Have I always been this tired, or have I forgotten? A riddle to solve in this new year. (No idea how i survived the last one aside from being a vertebrate cockroach)

Anyway, I still don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to Linocut, so I need to walk myself through the print process like I am a toddler. At least the plate looks nice at this stage?

Hopefully I can get back to regularly sketching at the very least. It’s been a journey.

[wniemocy]

Title: Tale about Sun and Moon, linocut print, 2 out of 4 illustrations.

[yuunmao]

autumn is here ! autumn is here !

[cactuschewinggum]

Wanted to do a little ambidextrous piece. Right done with my left and left done with my right.

[palaeosinensis]

"Wild Hearts" - Continuing to think in linocut terms and imagining if I had access to silver and gold inks as well. Things like this would have to be REAL big. I find carving relaxing when all the artistic decisions are already made. I wonder if the local arts place would ever have a printmaking class that could walk me through their presses or printing technique...I can carve the blocks themselves just fine.

[itsukia]

I keep trying to think that I can't fight every disgusting old man I have to deal with in my life but I really don't want to go to tomorrow's or the day after class because I cant not listen to that old gross man talk any longer

[litholab]

Wooly Allah! (The Start of a print...)

It's been a while,

none the less,

lets finish the beast.

[oros-ash3s]

── ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ Character Bio ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ ──

Yara Reyes, the Lost One ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐

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Prophet girl / chosen by the sun / do you hear the gods whispering those silent stardust words?

Cursed daughter / uttering insanities no one believes / do you regret taking the vow?

ೀ Author Unknown (via Pinterest)

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Basics ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

Name || Yara Aeronwyn Reyes

⁀➴༯ Name meaning || Yara is a girl’s name of Arabic and Brazilian origin, and is defined as “small butterfly”. Reyes originates from Spain, translating to “royals” or “royalty”.

Nicknames || Pipsqueak (Aster), That Girl (Ryuji), Mousy (Kageko)

Age || 17-years-old

Birthdate || May 16th (Taurus)

Gender and Pronouns || Cisgender (she/her)

Sexuality || Aromantic, Heterosexual

Ethnicity || Danish, Dutch

Classification || Unknown, assumed to be human

Occupation || None

Role || Protagonist

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Personality ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

Yara is driven by her fear.

She has grown up in an environment that hasn’t allowed for her to be in touch with other people, that has left her mostly on her own. She, like many others in Seras, has been force to grow up too early, her childhood dedicated to living and surviving instead of growing and learning. She has no real friends or companions, none except for her trusty pet raven Mavros.

This has stunted her in a way. She’s naive and doesn’t pick up well on social cues, or understand most things that kids her age like or are interested in. She trusts too easily despite her caution, and has little to no knowledge of the outside world, having been stuck inside the borders of her childhood home for so long. The only thing she has to protect her is this ever-growing fear. It’s the one thing that has left her safe, alive. She’s determined to hold onto it until the day she dies.

But despite all this, Yara truly is, at her core, a kind and friendly person. Although she does have walls up at the start, with some genuine acts of care, she is very easily won over. It doesn’t take her long to warm up to people, and from then on she will be an absolute nuisance. She loves to chatter away, taking about anything and everything, and even with her fear of the unknown, she still has many skills and positive traits to offer.

She is a girl who has been subjected to loss at a young age, yet who is just hoping, secretly, for someone to pull her out of this loop of lonely nothingness and be apart of something grand.

୧ ‧₊˚ 🍓 ⋅ ☆

Currently Yara is set to venture out of the oh-so familiar boundary of her home and follow Aster, a strange boy who has introduced himself as one of the Immortai, the selected few who make it out of Noroi attacks alive. Yara isn’t too sure about him, but any place that will keep her safe from the Noroi is a place she is willing to head towards.

Currently the duo are headed towards the Seventh Sector, Aster’s home. He promises that the leader there will have the answers that she seeks, and help her figure out the curse that the Noroi apparently bestowed upon her. Neither of them have been able to figure out what the curse is get, despite the haunting visions that stir her awake continuously.

Yara isn’t quite sure if she even is an Immortai after all. It almost feels like as if she is something entirely different altogether….

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Traits || Lonely, resourceful, independent, creative, loyal, shy, really talkative once you get to know her

Alignment || Lawful good

Likes || The outdoors, sweets, travelling, sunny weather, trying new things, exploring, food, doing her 70 million hobbies, animals, birds, meeting new people, mythology

Dislikes || Noroi, small and cramped spaces, being alone, the dark, nighttime

Hobbies || Reading, crocheting, gardening, sketching, baking, writing, journaling, cleaning, printmaking, poetry, cooking, and so many more (a girl’s gotta do something while locked away)

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Appearance ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

She looks like what you’d expect from a farmer girl. She has long, tangled honey-blonde hair she always pulls into four loose bubble braids. Her bangs are swept to the side, with thick strands framing her face. She has a round face shape and peachy skin, a faint dusting of freckles splashing across her cheeks. Her eyes are big and wide, a gentle mint-green that appears to be faintly blue while in the sunlight.

She has a very small, petite frame, which earns her the nickname of “pipsqueak” by Aster. Despite being quite short, she’s pretty curvy and on the chubbier side, with a pear-shaped figure, and wide hips.

Small scars, pale and faded, can be found along her hands and arms, though they’re barely noticeable anymore.

Height || 5’6”

Aesthetic || Yara has a sort of twee vibe to her. She loves long, flowy dresses, a mismatch of fabrics, and clothes that are easy to move in while still comfortable. She also can be seen wearing a lot of jewelry, mainly bead necklaces and bracelets that she has made herself.

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Origins ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

Yara comes from the fifth region inside Seras, Dara, which was known for its long, winding Rockies, stunning mountainscapes, and beautiful greenery. Now, due to the rise of Noroi and fall of civilization as humans had known it, the Rockies are dangerous and tumultuous terrain, the sparkling shades of green that had once covered the mountains now shades of unforgiving gray and black.

Yara’s family comes from a long line of lumberjacks and hunters. Despite the forests being corrupted by the onslaught of the apocalypse, the wood is still harvestable. In recent years, there has been an increase of fruits that have begun to grow without the help of chemicals and factories, allowing for the poorer citizens to taste fresh vegetables again. Their family had even begun their own little garden, something Yara and her siblings were ecstatic about.

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Yara had a fairly normal life as a child. She was one of the older children in the family, raised by more traditional parents who held their values of family and responsibility close to their chests. As a young girl, she was instilled with the beliefs of independence and resourcefulness, always helping out around the house with chores, errands, and babysitting.

Her family lived up in a more secluded part in the mountain, with their only contact to their nearest town being through long day trips for work, meaning that the children were all homeschooled. It left Yara with only her family to keep her company, but Yara didn’t care. Her family was a close and tight-knit one, all the siblings close friends despite all their disagreements, and Yara couldn’t have loved them more. They were all she ever needed in the world, even if the ideas of adventure frequently called to her.

It was only on the eve of her twelfth birthday when her entire reality changed, leaving Yara’s peaceful life on the mountain disrupted forever……

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Here’s the thing, I can’t do anything right / Try as I absolutely, totally might / The bones are melting, the skeleton is ash / The clavicle detaches and falls with a deafening crash—

“Sweet Hibiscus Tea” by Penelope Scott

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Relationships ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

Oscar Reyes, father

Evy Reyes, mother

Kaia Reyes, eldest daughter

Yara Reyes, herself

Flora Reyes, middle daughter

Annika Reyes, second-middle daughter

Noa Reyes, youngest daughter

Coen Reyes, youngest son

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Yara comes from quite a large family. Second eldest to a group of six, she had a lot of responsibility from a young age to take care of the younger ones. Despite this burden, she was extremely close with all of her siblings, and had a good relationship with both of her parents, who she truly loves.

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Apart from her family, she has built quite a life for herself at the Seventh Sector. Despite not being liked by all, she does have two close friends, Aster and Anya.

Aster was her first friend, and is still her best. He found her and rescued her from Noroi, and is a person that Yara found herself instantly attached to. He’s loud and rambunctious where she is quiet and reserved, and the two click like a puzzle piece. She doesn’t trust someone more in the world than him.

Anya was someone Yara met her first day at the Seventh Sector. A younger recruit, she’s bubbly and talkative, but shy at first, just as Yara herself is. Where Aster and Yara contrast each other nicely, Yara and Anya couldn’t be more similar. It’s a match made in heaven.

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🌸 𐙚₊˚⊹ Extra Tidbits ⊹꒦₊˚ɞ🌷

Yara has a pet raven named Mavros! He randomly passed through the barrier one day after her twelfth birthday, and has not left her side since. She adores him to death.

She’s read all the books in her house so much that she’s memorized all of them. Aster can hold the book up and she can recite them word-for-word.

She was closest to her mother.

She hadn’t ever had sugar before she met Aster. He brought her to a candy shoppe and she went NUTS.

Despite encountering Noroi on a day-to-day basis, she cannot fight to save her life. Aster is always swooping in and saving her (with much dramatics might I add).

She scares REALLY easily. Something which Aster takes full advantage of.

She has a beautiful singing voice. Her mother did too, and it brings Yara a strange sense of belonging to sing. (Mav even joins in sometimes.)

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[calamitys-child]

Printmaking adventures continue! I wanna do some more with coloured inks on the bandana but the supplies I've got rn just ain't working for it. Still overjoyed with this test print though

Insp:

[vomittedsoap]

Watching AMC's The Terror has caused me to add a LOT more time into my diary entries for the sake of mystery... "It's been three weeks since the incident.. I don't know how I can continue with political relations as they are" (I got in trouble for goofing around in the printmaking studio and now the professor hates me)

[mybeingthere]

Kim Lim (1936-1997, Singaporean/British)

In 1954, Kim Lim left Singapore for Britain with the aim of studying art and becoming an artist. In London, she enrolled at St. Martin’s School of Fine Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, studying printmaking and sculpture with equal enthusiasm—two approaches that formed the basis of her work in the four decades that followed. During those formative school years, Lim studied under Anthony Caro and befriended other artists like Tess Jaray and Julia Farrer. She was particularly fascinated by the work of Brancusi, a shared affinity with William Turnbull, who became her husband in 1960. Lim began exhibiting work relatively soon after finishing her studies, with her first solo exhibition at Axiom Gallery in 1966 where she displayed early, colourful works such as Borneo II and Candy (as seen in the studio shot below), acquired the year after it was made by the Arts Council Collection. She exhibited regularly through the 1970s and 1980s with Nicola Jacobs Gallery.

Much of Lim’s early work can be characterised by her engagement with materials such as wood and bronze. Her printmaking practice was equally pervasive and prominent from the beginning. Works such as Abacus I and II (1959), two sister relief sculptures, modelled after the ancient Chinese calculation tool, employ a poverty of material and reveal Lim’s ability to transform fundamental shapes and concepts with an elegant gesture. Made of plaster shapes hung on wire within a rectangular wooden frame, these works eschew “high art” material for simplicity of form. Both works are now in the collections of the Singapore National Gallery and M+ in Hong Kong, respectively. Lim extracted inspiration from her own personal journey from the East to West, with the vernacular of those artists she admired from the West such as Giacometti. Importantly, Lim looked outside the “canon” of art as well. A keen observer of nature and of natural forces, she would echo the sinuous curves of a vast desert plain, the waves of a silent sea breeze, and other experiential moments of life in her work. The strength of a Gingko tree’s trunk, for example, as seen in the 1989 sculpture titled after this living fossil, in which a monolith of rose aurora marble fluted and carved by hand rests on a Portland stone base.

Lim’s 1970s work is marked by a deeper experimentation into concepts of “form, space, rhythm and light”. Her series Intervals, which refers to both sculptural and paper works, employs negative space with equal detail as it does with ideas of density and volume. The year 1979 would prove be a watershed moment for the artist, culminating in a mid-career survey show at The Roundhouse where Lim would exhibit works from every period in a non-linear and non-chronological method, partly in response to the venue itself, a circular gallery space. This was also the year that Lim moved toward an embracing of stone and marble mediums, materials that would remain present in her practice until her untimely passing in 1997.

Continue reading https://www.turnbullstudiokimlim.com/kim-lim

[reejindeed]

seeing how your art has changed in your blog over time is absolutely delicious. Do you have any really early old art or art progression pictures? Idk if that makes sense.

Sure!

I'll just throw a bunch of different stuff from over the years in here. My work has always kind of been split in two, between the more academic/"fine arts" work and the more highly stylized, comic book-type work that I make.

The earliest stuff I have is unfortunately just from when I was 12. I'm sure there is art my grandma kept somewhere from when I was younger than that, but I've yet to see it.

So for now these are the earliest drawing of mine that exists on the internet, I believe... This would've been roughly 2008 or 2009.

I was both highly inspired by drawings of anime girls on the internet and Dali. And also Jhonen Vasquez.

This was around 13 because y'know. Vocaloid.

Then these were all from the latter half of high school, so anywhere between 16-17 where I was doing work in school and fanart/original art in my free time.

I was doing a LOT of these loose gesture drawings every day, and then got into acrylic painting as a senior (though I didn't pursue it through college like I expected to)...

... And a WHOOLE lot of these digital drawings in my free time. Ironically this was also probably the last time I really tried my hand at digital painting, too.

I continued this trend through college, where my life was balanced between digital and traditional art, and even then became a balance between digital drawings, ink drawings, charcoal gestures and printmaking (plus whatever else I was doing at the time, so like... Metals/jewelry casting and wood engraving. Unfortunately I never got to try my hand at blacksmithing, though I really wanted to).

After college things steadily dropped off, so it got to a point where I've ONLY been doing the fandom/comics side of things and over the years I've really found myself burning out on it. That's why I'm trying to regain that balance again.

[brian-in-finance]

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[k00325957]

Week 4: Movement. Printmaking.

I continued experimenting with printmaking, creating images of space, the universe, stars, and planets: something random, just like drops of white spirit falling onto a well-inked transparent printmaking film.

[blue-willow-tree]

Hii :3 Hope ur having happy holidays ^-^ I stumbled across ur blog and it rules! Ur style of dominance makes my brain go all fuzzy n puppy >w< u also seem rly nice n cool

(Can I take 💿 pls) also a lil abt me: I’m a 19 yr old musician and artist (i play guitar, bass n sing) I also am a film photographer and printmaker:3 I’m transfemme genderfucky butch (she/it/he) and self proclaimed ditzy puppydyke. I could go on but don’t wanna take more of ur time <3 have a nice day ^-^

Hello there love <3 It's been a while, I deeply apologize for not having responded to it sooner, things have been a little on the down side lately but I'm back and I hope that you're still wanting to be an anon of mine <3

I'm so glad that you enjoy the way my posts are, angel, I hope that I can continue to make your puppy brain go a little fuzzy <3

Wow, you sound so talented! I'm incredibly impressed! If I knew you in person I'd ask you to teach me every single one of those talents of yours, haha x I'll add your age and pronouns to my pinned post right now, thank you for sending them to me <33 Don't you worry your pretty head about that at all, I'd love to hear more about anything you'd like to tell me x I hope the year has been treating you well so far!