Got motivated by a friend of mine to create more artwork. It's been extremely hard for me this past year to get down and get creative. It's as if I've lost every ounce of creativity due to either stress, changes, health, who knows. I would think having a significant other who's an artist would allow me to open up more creatively, but it seems to do the exact opposite for me. Instead of being able to spit out new artwork of my own, my artwork starts to turn into something HE would make. Doesn't really sit well with me... I need to have something come from my OWN thoughts/images I have in my head.

So here's the start to a couple things I played around with on paper, then uploaded on my iPhone none-the-less (*rolls eyes* yeah, well I paid for some awesome art apps that I need to finally put into good use!) and used a program called Cartoon Art to color in, and another photography app called Photo Studio to add some cool effects. Technology is amazing now a days, and since I don't have the money to buy amazing, and yet expensive art programs for my computer, I figure this is the closest thing I have. Please bare with me, I'm a bit rusty not having drawn in a long, long while.

First one is a random plain ocean wave coming up towards an island in the sun. I was trying to make it look somewhat like a graphic design, just plain and simple. It didn't turn out at all the way I wanted it, but I thought I could possibly see this in a children's book or something.


Next one was a little tough for me, and I'm not pleased at all with the likeness, but I figured I'd just play around with it. It's supposed to be a caricature of the talented singer/songwriter that I have loved since middle school: Fiona Apple.