I’m at the taco bell- I’m at the drawing club- I’m at the combination taco bell drawing club-

Got some better photos of my paintings from this spring semester, will be uploading them to this thread! Starting off with my Final assignment, a full body self portrait--30"x40" oil on stretched canvas

Finished piece! Done with all my finals for this semester 🎉

Sydbees@sydbees.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In the home stretch of my last final for the semesterrrrr, once again painting thru the night 😅

In the home stretch of my last final for the semesterrrrr, once again painting thru the night 😅

Final illustration for this Spring's Illustration Studio course! A companion piece plus a spot illustration for a poem, I went with Emily Dickinson's "From Blank to Blank" for its abstractness that lent itself well to surrealism :)

Poster Assignment for my Illustration course! I'm still figuring out digital painting, this is a combo of scanned in line-work and going crazy with smudging colors. Prompt was to illustrate the definition of a silly-sounding word, specifically from a book called "L is for Lollygag."

🚗💨beep beep! New zine comin thru! My very first zine "Road Trip" is now up for grabs on Kofi! Limited quantity, these are Risograph prints of a little picture-book story, developed through a production class this semester. If you would like to purchase one I have set up a Kofi page 🔗 in my bio!

This week's homework setup, double self portrait in a limited palette. Block-in is hella saturated and green, gonna try to push luminosity and variance in blues v. yellows in my next steps!

The things im doin at midnight for art school...

On my road trips between the bay area and socal i always see this slab of concrete that someone grafitti'd "the world is flat" on, meanwhile it overlooks a valley and foothills clearly not flat. Iconic. I finally got a picture. Honestly this should be a public monument imo.

Big work in progress tonight, trynna bust thru this 30"x40" painting for my midterm tomorrow 🙇‍♀️

Alligator Magazine Covers! Prompt from this semester's illustration studio, I had a lot of fun illustrating three differently styled gators 😊

It's been a minute! Can't believe February flew by! The semester has been a doozy so far, here are some recent self portraits done in oil paint for my life painting course. Left is done with double primaries, right is done in only secondaries.

Happy Valentine's from a coupla love bugs! 🐛💗🐛

First figure paintings in oil! Jumping back into oil paints this semester, last time I worked in oils was two years ago now 😅 but i'm trying to really get back into paints now that my arm injury is healing up! here's my first in-class work plus an attempt at a self portrait for hw

ワニー・ベルジェールのバー マネのフォリー・ベルジェールのバーのパロディです。 🐊<アタシは気安く触っていいワニじゃねぇわよ。

Seagull drawings as the first intro project for this semester! An icebreaker exercise, where we had to do one image in our least favorite medium and the second in our favorite one. Digital is still my least favorite for now... Prompt was to create a character based off a list of food items. 🤭

fuck ice, protect your neighbors

finishing up my week of seal sketches with bubble pic🫧 my sketches def got higher saturation of colors as the week went on

Another seal sketch ❄️🦭 back in classes this week, trying to keep up my momentum for personal little sketches like this on the side

Today's sketch got pretty muddled, went in with colored pencils to try to add some depth but I definitely need to try again another day. The new Ross seal is just so cute i want to keep painting them!

today's morning sketch -- i meant to leave the ends of this seal's body vague as the ref pic went out of frame, and somehow I ended up with almost like a rabbit tailed body 🐇

Small sketches in the morning, attempts at a spotted angel wing begonia on my desk that is a conundrum of complementing colors. Trying to paint something that is red and green at the same time, while not muddling the colors, has become my lil personal challenge :)

House of Windows: ABC Flash Cards for my Illustration course, Fall '25! I made 20 cards, with my chosen theme of Windows from literal to figurative. My little extra credit add-on was a packaging mock-up :) Letter forms are in the composition, alt text has full descriptions ✨

2025 grid for the year! 💫 Trying to be more active with posting art again, my energy was quite zapped this past year. I lost my soul dog over the summer, so finding motivation again has been a battle. I am so inspired by fellow artists on here tho--looking onward and upward for the new year!

Some recent drawings during my work hours :) trying to sketch more as my tfcc tear continues to heal up 💪

Some fun digital sketches of Mr. Beans--my brother's cat! Making these into little stickers to include as stationary with a recipe journal I'm gifting for his wedding :)

Here's a colored version I made of this bouquet! Colored-in digitally, all new for me but I had fun with lots of spray paint tools lol I originally designed this for a school assignment. But now that I have the design I'm using it to customize a wedding present for my brother and new sister-in-law!

Sydbees@sydbees.bsky.social · last yr.

Floral bouquet line-art I worked on for my brother's wedding this summer! Ceremony is in a dahlia garden, the rest of the florals are a collection of birth-month flowers and favorite flowers of both the bride and groom 💐 🌼

Super cute new pot holder from @phreinne.bsky.social !! Love it so much!

Local cake swap is simultaneously a no kings protest, i love my city ✊ hell yeah long beach