The Arty Side

I know this is a book blog. 

But resting inside me is an old love for drawing, and so I thought I’d document it on this page – especially since the majority of it is bookish fan art. I don’t draw as much anymore, only really doing so in my bullet journal. And even when I did, I was by no means an artist. Still, whenever I’ve mentioned it in the past people have been interested, and so I decided a long time ago to compile this page together.

I’ll keep the most recent at the top, and update it whenever there’s something new, so the further down you scroll…the older they are. (You might want to stay near the top). If I haven’t updated in awhile and you want to see more, feel free to leave me a comment reminding me and I’ll be sure to update it soon! This won’t be everything I’ve done over the years – not by a long shot – but honestly we’re just choosing the best out of a mediocre bunch here so go with it ok 😆

This will be a very long page no doubt, so if you don’t want to look through it all, I recommend just having a quick look through this year’s, since that’s the latest!

30th June 2017. A drawing of a wolf I made for my Nan.

28th May 2017. A quick painting I did of a character for my small writing piece, In The Few Minutes It Takes. Done with acrylic paint, watercolour paint, and a black fineliner.

Throughout 2017 I’ve been bullet journaling, so I do small tidbits of art every month in here. There a mix of drawing, painting, calligraphy, mood mandalas, all sorts. I have a playlist on my booktube channel where I add flip throughs and tutorials (though there’s only a couple at the moment – more are coming!), so click here if you’d like to see!

Fan art for Christine Spoor’s debut novel, The Changeling’s Journey. I drew and painted these entirely based off her pinterest board and many questions about specifics (hair colour/eye colour etc), since it’s not released until Summer 2017. Painted with acrylic paint, black sharpie used for outlines and detail.

November 16th 2016. Recreation of the cover for The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski. Part of a book cover recreation project for college – previous two shown below.

November 10th 2016. Recreation of the Blue Lily, Lily Blue book cover. After the recreation of The Creeper Man cover (shown below), I did a few more recreations for a college photojournalism project. This one was done with acrylic paint (do not recommend, is a pain in the backside to get off face once dry) 😆

October 25th 2016. Make-Up imitation of The Creeper Man book cover. Wanted to play with makeup art in the run up to Halloween, but with something different this year. I decided to replicate the cover of one of my favourite horror books – The Creeper Man by Dawn Kurtagich.

August 29th 2016. Calligraphy. My first try at calligraphy, imitating the typography/fonts from the covers of my most anticipated reads at the time.

July 29th 2016. Bibliophile Canvas. Made with acrylic paint, a black fine liner and a small stretched canvas. Click here to see a blog post on how I made it.

  

July 10th 2016. Lady of the Night Court painting – Fan Art for A Court Of Mist And Fury by Sarah J Maas. Done with acrylic paint.

June 4th 2016. Watercolour painting of a random made up fantasy style mountain landscape.

May 31st 2016. Wall quote for my bedroom – “To the people who look at the stars and wish. To the stars who listen – and the dreams that are answered.” A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas. Each individual letter was painted, cut out and stuck to the wall (the last line was actually adjusted a bit after the photo, since it looks a bit wonky). Sarah J Maas actually retweeted this!

May 22nd 2016. Wall quote “Rattle the stars” – Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Each letter individually painted, cut out and stuck on the wall.

May 14th 2016. Arm tattoo design inspired by the A Court of Thorns and Roses cover. Drawn in liquid eyeliner.

April 12th 2016. Peacock drawing, coloured with felt tip pens. I named this one Henrietta, because I was going through my Raven Boys phase and the feathers reminded me of the series.

 

April 5th 2016. Fan Art of Aelin from Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas, taking a break to satisfy her fondness for chocolates and shopping. Drawn with a black ink pen. Sarah J Maas retweeted this and told me she loved it, so that was a major fangirl moment for me!

March 5th 2016. Fan Art of Winter from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Done with acrylic paint.

February 12th 2016. Arm design inspired by A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. Drawn with black pencil eyeliner.

 

January 30th 2016. Stained Glass style acrylic paintings of Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Rapunzel (Tangled) and Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs).

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Unknown date. Pencil drawings of Aurora, Belle, Merida, Rapunzel and Snow White (Disney Princesses). I really like drawing dresses and hair, so that’s basically all this is.

Unknown date. Acrylic painting on canvas inspired by the Mockingjay symbol from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

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Unknown date. Drawing of an eye, done with fine liners.

Unknown date. Drawing of a feather, done with fine liners.

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Like I said before, I’ll update this whenever I have something new worth sharing!

Be sure to let me know what you think!