Mira likes to think she's creative and clever

[<3 :] Mirannah :] <3]

I'm warning you bros and brosephinas in advance that this is gonna be incredibly long-winded.

So, I major in art and creative writing at college, but I don't talk about it much, and I pretty much never show my work because of how insecure I am about it.

It's like, even if I enjoy doing it, which I really do, just the fact that I like it doesn't make it good enough to actually show off and be like "look see, I'm an *artist.*"
Having to actually design a website and be public with work from my classes kind of, like, heightened that insecurity to a nasty, unbearable degree where I almost don't even want to claim being a creative anymore.

So in hindsight, being an art major was one of the worst decisions of my life, one that constantly leaves me doubting myself and whether or not I'm worthy of being called an artist, and whether or not my work is worthy of being called art.

But internal conflicts aside, because of college and because of how crazy I am (all of you can attest to that) I have a decent-sized body of work, that might as well get some use taking up space in this board. .-.

By my school standards, I'm a "traditional mixed-media student, with digital influences"---that's my official category. lol

Okay, so it's best to start out strong, right?

Something that I always have fun doing is paper-cutting-----yes, it's an official method of making art, and there are artists that specialize in it. It has, like, a crazy cult-following on the internet.

So the first two paper-cuts are actually inspired by the Dragon Age series, because I'm a major fan of it, and because I'm a dork that loves to obsess over things for indefinite amounts of time. The dragon from the first one is the actual arch demon from the game, and the second is *obviously* from DA2, which you'd know instantly if you played the game. (The statues totally give it away.)






This third piece was a metamorphosis assignment in which you were to take one thing and *clearly* transform it into something else, and be able to defend why you chose it, and what it means.
An art major is nothing but justifying to a bunch of people why your brain told your hands to make something. I'll let you guys wonder about it, perhaps it'll inspire some sort of life-changing internal debate. It will, at least, spare you the time that you'd otherwise have to fill with reading.
It's mixed media, with paint, marker, pen, graphite, and fake floral accents.

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I got pretty into papercutting for a while, and actually ended up offering a papercut character portrait up for a prize for a guild contest in IF. This was for Mel, taken shortly before it was finished--I couldn't find a pic of the finished piece.



This one was a request from an old member named Vij for his shaman, I have the finished work somewhere and will substitute this pic once I find it. It was done in watercolor, and turned out pretty well.



I actually started using wow-inspired art for some of my school projects. This particular picture of Morwehn, our old guild leader from IF started my monster-portrait and fantasy-portrait series.
I'll share more of it soon.

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...Everyone knows I love Ten <3 and every now and then I like to surprise him with little photoshop doodles.



I mentioned the monster-portrait series before--here's another snippet of it. There's a werewolf, a geist, a wight, a ghost, and a few others in the works. I counted the game forsaken as a lich to get away with using it.
This vampire isn't actually finished yet, I just got bored of working on it.



These two cameo-style graphite drawings were from the fantasy series, pink is high elf and blue is drow. The drow drawing didn't turn out so well when cut into cameo-frame---since her arm was outstretched in the drawing, it ended up looking like she had a huge shoulder in the frame. I'll fix it eventually.

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Jan 14, 2014 19:20:52 GMT <3 :] Mirannah :] <3 said:

This third piece was a metamorphosis assignment in which you were to take one thing and *clearly* transform it into something else, and be able to defend why you chose it, and what it means.
An art major is nothing but justifying to a bunch of people why your brain told your hands to make something. I'll let you guys wonder about it, perhaps it'll inspire some sort of life-changing internal debate. It will, at least, spare you the time that you'd otherwise have to fill with reading.

It tells me my Christmas lights are tangled vines with venomous fang that will bite me.

[Unsu]

Great stuff Mir!

[elze]

Every artist doubts themselves, I was in the art world for a few years. Great thing about being an artist now is that you don't look like a starving artist because all industries are starving