mask

(HB pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard) It's not surprising that the pandemic would inspire me to do a work such as this. How could it not? It shows both the growing need for social interaction people have in isolation, along with the need to protect themselves. These two things have come together in a piece depicting a strange group of gate-crashing party-goers.

This was my very first artwork in the quarantine-time. It started as a normal manga-like pic of a girlie, but later as this virus came, i continued with drawing a mask on her...

Hannya Mask

Throughout this doodle I was thinking of graffiti, and how today’s world tries to mask its pure urban roots.

Girl with Mask art

Inktober drawing

My version of the Sri Lankan mask while travelling.

Went off a different prompt list today because I really wanted to draw something chill. Also I wanted to do some reference pose practice. PIntrest is a god send for trying to figure out how body's move. XD. This one is much more simple since I wasn't too focused on finishing the full color. Instead I played around with a few of my drawing programs tools. Tried to use its coloring mask, patterns, and texture brushes to get a simple yet readable mood.

I am travelling in Sri lanka and this is my version of the Sri Lankan masks.

Part of Paintable's intro to digital painting course; quick exercise on layering, masking, color choice, and texture. Was provided line art of a cactus and brushes. Source: https://paintable.cc/

A mask I tried out drawing. I think I'll likely be uploading more later.

Mixed media on paper.

Costume design for a Beauty & The Beast painting project. The mask is inspired by Baroqu-era gargoyles and grotesques. Had the pleasure of this image on my phone scaring the hell out of my favorite bartender, whose voice is usually low enough to be the voice of God...usually. XD

With Red Feathers

Special Caramel Facemask

Here’re some ideas for costumes this Carnival.


maybe next time I will make it without using a mask

Some of these started out as illustrations of masks and developed bodies or other characteristics.

Here are some more from the masks series! They were so juicy and interesting to draw.

I spent a chunk of my New Years break rendering masks in ink and watercolor. I can't get over their shapes and the emotionality of them.

APencil drawing using Faber Castell Polychromos (Black and Cold Greys) on Strathmore Smooth Bristol paper (300 series) Many thanks for looking.

The innocence within is suffocated by societal wasteland gas. You're gonna need your gas mask to survive.

I like the notion of Poison Ivy from Batman being a sort of vengeful Mother Earth. I sometimes wish Mother Earth would give us the smackdown. We deserve it.

I used a reference from Flickr Commons to draw this. Rawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwr.

Bauta Tricorna , Carnivella and Punch & Judy all inspired by the mask shops in Venice... amazing!

I collaged "Krampus is Coming For You" together with my own monoprints as well as one of my drawings of Japanese Noh masks that I cut out of an old sketchbook. For the second piece, I had a drawing of Marie Antoinette as an ice cream cone, so I gave her a dress, put a background of my monoprints on her, etc. Then I added more cherries, and the circle reminded me of a clock, so I inked in the arms accordingly.

Noh Doubt About It: I drew 20 masks today.