☸ Ishnia

[Ishnia]

Day 1
Theme: Peony
Time spent: ~1.5 hours, i never check the time rip





Comments: Traditional Chinese Tuanshan (round fan) for women with a peony design.
Open in a new tab for full size, zoom in to see stitch texture lmao.

 

[Ishnia]

Day 2
Theme: Hydrangea
Time spent: ~1 hour, probably less





Comments: Hydrangeas always make me think of rain :')

Tried to work on light values/contrast while just using one brush? It's weird not to have defined lines for stuff...pretty ambivalent on the end result, I would have liked more definition, but whatever LOL

 

[Ishnia]

Day 3
Theme: Draw the event mule
Time spent: ~15 minutes for sketch, ~15 min for color





Comments:
me: *wakes up from a depression nap*
me: *realizes it's nearly midnight*
me: *surprised pikachu face*

anyway, sorry if colors are weird. i have flux on which makes everything tinted, and it's way too late for me to turn it off (blue light gives me headaches rip )

 

[Ishnia]

Day 4
Theme: Lotus
Time spent: ~30 minutes





Comments: i tried to do something along the lines of a "grayscale" -> "color" tutorial i read a while back, but man....ugly colors...no definition LOL
i guess i just don't have the patience for digital painting, or much experience in it. maybe i'll try it again, when i'm not also trying to do hw haha

but i guess i should be glad that i tried! broadening my horizons and all? anyway, i don't want to look at this anymore so onwards and upwards to tomorrowwww

 

[Ishnia]

Day 5
Theme: Redraw an old drawing
Time spent: ~30 minutes





Comments: [july 2015] — [feb 2021]
random character design, i think i was thinking of making her a beastmaster? vaguely remember that i used a pose reference, maybe from sailor senshi? that one deviantart account? anyway, i still think her design is cool haha

went down a little rabbit hole looking at where i used to post all my art. honestly, it was fun! used to do a lot more traditional art, which i kind of miss.

but also? it was a huge bummer LOL i feel like there were some pieces from over 5 years ago that look better than the stuff i draw today. in a way, i guess it's to be expected, since back then i would draw nearly every day/actually liked drawing, but now...not really?

they say that looking back at old art and feeling embarrassed about it is a sign of improvement, but i really...don't....i mean, other than a few obvious anatomical errors (and i'm still horrible at anatomy), i honestly liked most of it. i guess i should be glad i can look fondly on my old art? and i do think i've improved/gotten used to digital art more, which is nice.

but i just feel so stagnant. maybe i just need more time. who knows.

well, now that i've actually drawn it...
at least i've gotten faster? though it was just a sketch. if i actually wanted to line/shade it, who knows how many hours that could have taken...

 

[Ishnia]

Day 6
Theme: Peacock
Time spent: ~15 min




Comments: gosh, i love all of these flower themes! way a great way to branch out (hah) of my usual "circle and five leaves" flower. but no snapdragon this time, since i wanted to draw a friend's OC!

[or rather, i will, once i have a chance to come back to this]

well, i was going to draw my friend's OC but i lost motivation rip
this weekend has been tiring, to say the least.

 

[Ishnia]

Day 7
Theme: Acropolis of Athens — Athens, Greece
Time spent: ~20 minutes





Comments: aiyah, im behind once again~
i'll be back for this day later adjkslfsda
[reference]
a very quick, loose sketch. i'd like to work on some more time-intensive stuff, but. man.
well, whatever. not sure if this was good practice (due to how rushed it was), but at least i got a chance to work on backgrounds/landscapes/buildings!
would also like a chance to work on perspective. and more color-theory-esque stuff. i dunno ahldsfjkasf
the technical stuff isn't as fun, but i need to do them to get better...

 

[Ishnia]

Day 8
Theme: Spirit Challenge (part 1)
Time spent: ~1 hour

[open in new tab for full size! here is a transparent version without the text]


Comments:
would have gone back to finish the days i missed, but...this is my first time ever participating in a spirit challenge & i'm too excited :P
hope i did everything correctly orz

My OC, his alias is Jade!
He's a gentle-mannered merchant and information broker in his late 20s. Can hold his own in fight, but really more of a art, nature, and tea kind of guy.
Generally, he wears fantasy-esque hanfu, which is quite flowy, loose/has many layers, and androgynous (at least when compared to Western clothing).
Feel free to change up his hairstyle — but he almost always wears some eye makeup, tassel earrings, and a hair accessory.

Here is his full gallery of information, here are some outfit ideas/inspo, and here is a general moodboard/aesthetic.
But don't let that limit you! Do whatever you'd like to him—and have fun~

 

[Ishnia]

Day 9
Theme: Spirit Challenge (part 2)
Time spent: ~1-2 hours total





Comments: whoop.

 

[Ishnia]

Day 10
Theme: Finish/improve an earlier work from this event
Time spent: ~20 min





Comments: *slides in before the deadline*
so glad im on easy mode LOL
just added some color to the "redraw" sketch, since i liked it :p
also, this is my first time drawing sm with vitiligo, so please let me know if i did anything disrespectful/incorrectly ;;

+ bonus outfits for jade! all sketches, it doesn't count since a few of the outfits were from the day of the spirit challenge anyway, so. just sharing for fun!

whoop, saw in the thread to reference what you finished/improved upon to help mods keep track, so here's a link to the original post
also messed around a bit with gradient maps after—may like the second version more? *thinking emoji*

 

[Ishnia]

Day 11
Theme: The Forbidden City, Beijing, China
Time spent: ~30 min





Comments: messy lines / bad line quality and no patience to make things look nice!
but oh well.

this is the temple of heaven located in the forbidden city—adding just in case someone googles "the forbidden city" and doesn't see this image pop up ORZ
trust me, i know what i'm drawin' LOL been there many times myself.
anyway, just because i've been there doesn't mean i have the building memorized: here's the ref image i used.

 

[Ishnia]

Day 12
Theme: Halloween
Time spent: 10 min, max LOL





Comments:
so once in middle school i was a pumpkin for halloween and i was trick or treating with my friends
and this one classmate of saw me and was like "[real name]....ur a pumpkin?"

and idk that comment has really stuck with me over the years

 

[Ishnia]

Day 13
Theme: Izu Islands, Japan
Time spent: 10 minutes





Comments: at first it was just messy blocks of color, but it looked too plain so i slapped some linework over it rip
i guess it has its own charm?

ref image

 

[Ishnia]

Day 14
Theme: Personify the season: Winter
Time spent: ~30 min





Comments: ~20-30 min on the first one, ~5 min on the second one
not sure what i was trying to do, but i'm so bad at chibis....
i know many artists like chibis since they take less time than regular art, but man....chibis are my weakness...
i wasn't trying too hard on these anyway, but still....ugly ! ! i don't wanna look at you!!!