Wonderland: November 2015

So a lot of people have been asking me on ask on tips for typography.

Well, mainly it takes a lot of practise! Trust me. This was my very first piece believe it or not!

Compare it to this... gosh *cringes*

As you see besides practise, I like to get inspiration from other artists which i find on good type. I love to play around mixing fonts and some other times, I like to just use one type of font for the whole piece :D

Okay so down to business, a lot of you have been asking how to determine where to add shadows! Take a look at some examples below!

Okay I've been trying to import a video forever UGHH. Here it is! (I really hope it works omg)

Okay so basically, just position your 'imaginary' light source and where ever the light falls on, draw there :D (as what I have said in the video) So i hope it helps if not ill melt into the ground :'-)

Anyways, here my finished product!
You can take this for reference!

Tralala hope this small tutorial thing helps ><" I'm still really not sure how to explain that well (forgive me) It's just very instinctive to me so I'm still working on explain stuff :D

Anyways, thanks for reading! The next post will be all about water colouring! Stay tuned~

Wow it's already been about a year since I last uploaded a blog! Haha anyways for those who are new, WELCOME TO SENPAI NINA'S BLOG :D

For this post, I'll be posting everything about my basic and essential art materials. Basically materials which I feel are most useful and that I use most! Hope it helps =^__^=

INTO THE RABBIT HOLE WE GO~

1. Micron Pens!

My favourite and most used sizes for my microns are 0.5, 0.3, 0.1 and 0.05. They are amazing for illustration and typography as I feel they run really really smoothly! The only downside is that the 0.05 pen must be used really gently or you may break the tip :'-( I've broke it several ties too!!!

#RIP0.05

Mircon pens can be found in a lot of places! Even popular carries them :D I usually buy them at art friend for around $2 each!

2. Copic Pens

Many of you know copic markers right? Well they carry pens too! I'm kind of starting to fall in love with this set of my copic pens <3 Well, like the micron pens, they come in an assortment of sizes, they even carry 0.03! (Which I'm too afraid to use incase I break the tip) Copics are alcohol based pens hence they dry fast and apply really smoothly too!

I got this set for about $22 at art friend! (You're gonna realise that I get ALL my materials from art friend! heh)

3. Brush Pen

This reminded me of a calligraphy brush kind of pen! Its fully black and comes in other colours like silver, gold, red, blue, etc. However black is my favourite by far (duh)

What I love about this brush pen is the kind of style I can produce with it! It was daunting in the beginning learning how to use it, but after a while, it became easier and simpler!

The thing you have to be cautioned about using the brush pen is that when you need to supply more ink to the tip, you don't over squeeze it as you'll end up making it leak!

Art friend carries this for about $8? And they also sell refills! This is a demonstration on how I like to use my brush pen. Below is the end product!

4. Water colour pen/ Aqua pen

This has really helped me for illustrations especially for my art O levels! It makes water colour works much more easy!

Basically, this is my water colour set and to use the aqua pen, you just squeeze the body so a bit of water reaches the tip and you start to apply it to the dried water colour blocks as seen in the picture below! Its about $6 for one!

Afterwards, it's much like the brush pen where you just apply it to the paper. This aqua pen comes in small medium and large brushes! This is a medium tip i have if I'm not wrong, I've been trying to find a small tip D:

5. Assorted Brushes

Yea these are just brushes haha. Nothing much!

I use them mainly for ink works! E.g acrylic inks. I love the smaller ones (the emerald green bodied ones) as you can see I have quite a few. This is due to the fact that I do a lot of detailed work, small detailed kind hence I find the smaller kind of brushes better :D

However they're quite pricey but trust me, you won't regret investing in this if you like using brushes! This range of Daler Rowney brushes is BAE.

6. Daily Stationary

Last of all, your everyday stationary! NEVER OVER LOOK THE POWER OF UNIBALL PENS! I do most of my doodles with these pens :D

Never forgetting my derpy eraser and pencil!