Sydbees

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Hello! Just another 30-something-year-old art student 🎨 Kofi 🔗 https://ko-fi.com/sydbees/shop . Here on Bluesky for following indie game devs, concept artists, silly animal pictures, and haikyuu fandom shenanigans!

My favorite of my smaller portraits! This was actually the third portrait of the semester, made with a double primary palette. Oil on canvas board, 9"x12"
Close up of portrait
Final Self Portrait, oil paint on 30"x40" stretched canvas, full body portrait. Hands and knee pressed against a transparent plexiglass for the pose, and the border I used reference photos I took of the streets around my apartment :)
Mixed media illustration of an hourglass surrounded by a fractal wood frame. Bottom half has a figure-shaped form made of sand that is hugging their knees. Top has swirling and stormy sand pit with a smaller figure walking toward the center.
Poster illustrating the definition of a funny sounding word. "Nosey Parker - someone who sticks their nose where it does not belong." Image shows a dog pulling on a leash through a bush, their nose winding around branches to get to a pizza slice already being grabbed by a rat.
Oil painting of still life set up similarly to a master copy. Contains two mugs, two stacks of dishes, condiment bottles with red lids, a fried egg, a dish towel, and chopsticks.
Still life set up on a desk with laptop showing a reference painting. Still life consists of some mugs on plates with a fried egg being sacrificed with onlooking condiment bottles in the back
Selfie next to slabs of concrete.
Set up of oil paints in a hallway surrounded by mirrors. Large canvas 30"x40", painting of a figure sitting is blocked in with a revision drawing on top.
Vogue magazine, sleek alligator with long nails. Done in pen and ink with a gouache background, type set digitally.
Self portrait with one hand, oil paint on canvas board, double primaries (cold and warm hues of red/yellow/blue).
Colored pencil and watercolor sketch of two love bugs (caterpillars with heart antennae) sharing one giant leaf
Oil painting of a figure sitting, arm across their body. Made with primaries only
Three seagulls in a trench coat ordering fries, created digitally
Sketch of harbor seal popping up through bubbles, reference picture from mark.smith.photography on ig! Doodled with water colors, ink wash, and colored pencil
Ross Seal small sketch, little face peaking under water. Water color and ink wash with colored pencils.
Ross seal sketch! Derwent inktense and colored pencil
morning sketch with watercolor and derwent inktense Seal portrait with a stout body
Sketchbook open to drawing of foliage, surrounded by art supplies of water color and colored pencils
F - Floor to Ceiling Window, letter form is in more saturated blue windows G - Glass block, letter form is in the white shine or highlight J - Judas Window, letter can be seen as lower case or upper case: upper case includes the edge of a castle grate at the top and continues through the small window into the highlighted area in the castle door. Lower case uses the small window as the dot of the letter form L - Leaded Glass, letter form is created in swirling designs M - Microsoft Windows, letter form is in the waving logo design
Full Composite of All Letters, only 20 out of 26 made. Descriptions in smaller 5-card images.
9 box grid, selfie in center surrounded by art I made over this past year. Top to bottom+left to right: "cringe" editorial, three little houses instead of three little pigs, floral lineart, gecko crawling on a fridge door, selfie, "5 styles in 1" figure, silicon valley fruit crate label, stickers surrounding a smiley-face balloon blowing up a skeleton's chest, and a wizard running late for his bus
Colored pencil sketches of figures jumping and rushing
Colored variety of the sticker sheet, 7 different poses of Mr. Beans the tabby cat. Includes a bean burrito option and a chef hat option.
Bouquet of flowers: traditional pen line art then digitally colored. Flowers present are a Dahlia, a Morning Glory, Asters, Delphinium, and a Stargazer Lily. Lettering added in for bride and groom's names.
Sign at a water bottle station, No Kings logo along with text that reads: Free Water, NO ICE This event and some of its vendors have been directly affected by the ice raids (broken heart emoji)
Photo of final art board lifted up at an angle to show edges of collage curled up surrounding the drawn figure. Collaged stickers were drawn in crayon, then copied+printed to collage. Background is a feint blue version of stickers xerox-transferred behind the drawn figure. Skeleton drawn with colored pencils has an enlarged smiley-face balloon expanding the chest and lifting it up.
Patterned image of multiple stickers, drawn with crayon and collaged digitally.
Line-art bouquet done with Faber-Castell pen, flowers from top to bottom are: Aster, Delphinium, Stargazer Lily, Dahlia, Morning Glory.
Oil painting 24"x36" fuzzy green monster in a cave in the background, foreground in purple hues has rocks and broken doorway with "scientist" character looking back at the creature
Black and white illustration, 20"x30", mixed media on cold pressed crescent board (oil pastel, white conte, water soluble graphite, charcoal, india ink, and black colored pencil). Style studies top to bottom: Cubism(Braque & Duchamp), Impressionism(Degas), Art Deco(Erte), Art Nouveaux(Mucha), and Surrealism(Magritte)
Furrowed brow colored pencil render
Colored pencil study of fabric folds and shadow edges
Watercolor underpainting