Spider love

Quick little doodle I did during one of my many bus commutes back home.

Basic miscommunication of love in this picture.

Bruce (left spider) is expressing his love for Cindy (right spider), who apparently thinks he is expressing it to the potted plant leaf hanging on the ceiling (don't ask me why it's hanging all the way up there within spider's reach...it's just the way this drawing came to me on the go!)

That's why Cindy has the little thought bubble depicting "a leaf equals love?" symbol

I put the desk on the bottom to bring a bit more rough perspective to the scenery.

I think the story makes this picture humorous and less confusing.

So Andy Warhol

Hello (x4)

Wild and personal spaces.

Yes, this actually DID take me as long as it looks like it took!

I think I took longer on this than my first ONE of these extensive so-collages (a.k.a. sollages) - smart, right? I decided to call my series of art collages under this little nickname since I realized I actually LOVE creating these and would like to make a project out of it to make more.

I called my first one a "nicolepiece" after masterpiece, but I think a sollage/SOllage is a good little go to name for now.

Even though I roughly sketch out collage/freestyle doodles like these all the time, I consider this a definite SOllage.

SOllage- a collage artwork created by me (nicole SO) that usually takes a series of different days/moods to complete. Procrastination can be a team player, but not a star.

So, this one is definitely more character based and significantly more of a clean-cut/digital art feel type of finish. It's a pretty solid piece compared to my first one, which was more raw, sketchy misc. flower/plants theme with the idea of it being like a variety map of different fragments of personalities all in one page. That was more of a self expression piece than this one.

I absolutely love how this turned out and I think it definitely shows I had a lot of fun with it.


Behind the SOllage:

It really started out with a fairly simple idea/impulse to do something with simple but solid shapes and characters of some sort. Then, shortly after, the idea of kids cleaning up their room on the outside but really stuffing everything and anything messy inside their closet came about.
Then I thought about it mutating into this wild jungle of miscellaneous crap that's both crazy awesome and beautiful at the same time.

Then somewhere along the line of me coloring in Photoshop and adding additional things here and there, I realized this could also be interpreted in the "coming out of the closet" ideas. The wild and flamboyant self wanting to break free into the (hopeful) acceptance of society - this, from the bottled heart of an insecure boy/girl. 

This could really be a nice self expressive art piece if I was secretly gay (not). I think the only gay I could qualify for is the kind where you love colorful rainbows and flowers and cheesy romantic comedies :)

Anyways, going back to the simplicity ideas of where it all began.

The drawing started out real simple too (as did my first one). Then, like the drawing had a mind of it's own, just piled on with ideas periodically. It took a series of different days and phases to complete. Procrastination played a good role here as well as creativity juice flows. I honestly think if I had finished this in one day I would have a different image above and more like the image below.


What it originally started out as:

Lots of minimal changes happened with the overall idea during the clean-up stage, but BIG changes happened when it came to the coloring stage because at least 60-75 percent of it wasn't how I saw the color go down in my head at all. 50 percent of the creativity was improvised in Photoshop on the spot, with the brush tool (this also happened during the coloring stage). 

I think, in conclusion, color inspires more rambunctious ideas for me and makes my work process pretty spontaneous, which is, I think, the most exciting part of this piece that I can confidently confirm/believe. It can also make me look at my art in a totally different perspective like the gay factor I mentioned above.

Kind of funny how that I saw that after 95 percent of the coloring stage was complete! 

Piece of cake.

Inspired by many difficult moments in my life solved with cake. I was going to do a tribute to my all time favorite mood lifter - ms. strawberry ice cream, but I think I compensated with the fact that this illustration is all strawberry flavored.

So why is it murder of cake? Simple. Because every time I order a strawberry anything cake it looks like it's been doused in its own syrupy blood. AND they aren't shy about it either because it literally IS drowning in saccharine plating settings. This can be both a good and a bad thing.

I don't think I've had a good piece of cake in a while. I've had many good scoops of strawberry ice creams though.

All about SNAILS.

Snails and slugs.



A doodle I did a while ago.



Snail Trapeze.


Snails are very nimble creatures.


They can also travel on the sharpest plains (like a blade or a sword) and come out unscathed.


I think that's where this little doodle stems from. The idea that snails and slugs alike could very well be invincible in a human-less world.


Also that they're both terrified and confused at the same time but ignorantly so. Though in this picture kind of looks like it's insinuating that sea slugs are kind of a bit more dense than regular snails.  I have no idea if this is true.
I just always imagine snails carry all that knowledge in their mysterious shells whereas slugs are kind of on their own.

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I was going to make a snail comic at one point. I think the general concept/ idea wasn't solid enough from what I remember. Though, now I kind of want to make a snail comic after seeing this again.

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I often do these kind of free sketch trips. I would start out with a simple but interesting shape that I would like to work with (depending on my mood of that particular day) and work my way across the page. In this trip, I started on the near the far left side, the swirly snail shell with the shish kebab looking like picks sprouting out of it (on top of that miniature tree branch).

I personally give my favorite eye glances over to the bow tie snail near the bottom right and the bunny rabbit blob piece looking unsatisfied with it's accordion belly on the top right. And of course the shish kebab shell plant (which I stemmed out from) and a bonus glance over to  the rather large snail donning a lovely bonnet (you go girl/guy -you rock that bee bonnet!)

COLOR ROAR

I think this blog's been barren enough hm?

So this appropriate doodle I did above should be a nice and refreshing change of beat in this corner of drought I have so done a great job at harvesting!

This art was brought to you by colorful nail polishes and a black micron.

UPDATE:  Took this picture in my car. It's surprisingly better quality in some ways. A bit less saturated but yeah, real time, real life photos taken by your iPhone are the way to go sometimes!

My statement as an artist.

Awesome.