HELLO I’M ALIVE I’M ALIVE
AND I DYED MY HAIR
(and for cheap too which is always nice)

i havent been drawing much but ive been busy with some odd jobs here & there to put more pennies in my pocket to be squandered on beautiful shoes that i will fall out of love with once they land in my hands (shh dont tell my boy, who already thinks i spend a ridiculous amount of moneys to torture my feet but well, the men just dont get it, do they?)

once i clear my obligatory duties, i promise to come to my senses and post more art!

in the meanwhile you can admire a drawing i did 5 years ago when i was young, stupid and emo:

WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME ENOUGH TO STAY WITH ME ©2005, nataliette. sketchbook drawing.

january is such a depressing month.

and now i need to eat before i die of hunger…

but ’til very soon folks! I WONT BE A DILETTANTE.

hi peeps!
sorry for the quietness on the art front.
busybusybusy preparing for my first solo exhibition.
i’ll be showing several new works as well as some of my old pieces.
i’m VERY excited.
been drawing/painting practically nonstop.
watch this space for more details!

meanwhile here’re a few sneakpeeks at some of the new works i’ll be displaying!

ps. i’m in germany at the moment. the summer weather here is GREAT.
pps. if you miss my absence too much you can always find me posting at randomness at my tumblr. :)

ABSTINENCE / MY POOR SISTER, PART II. ©2009, nataliette. digital painting.

the shoes she’s wearing is actually modeled after my very own shoes (yes they do have a shiny gold coloured heel!)

i had a lot of fun colouring the wine glass. although that object itself consisted of no less than 7 layers! *obsessive compulsive* yes, this is my biggest PSD ever. and as always i also enjoyed colouring the face (especially the folds of skin around the eyes) and the collarbone (im a big fan of razorblade collarbones). yup i also have a penchant for thick kissable scarlet lips!

ps. i want to thank the few special people who’ve always listened to me ramble on and on about art, and who’ve been encouraging me to colour in my work (lawd knows how impatient i am and these things take CRAZY LONG). yall know who you are :-*

click to see closeup details!

this is matt (he normally looks more kiampa than that i promise! hehe) and that is me (circa 2008 when i had my bangs and long side ponytail)

i am growing tired of my clean lineart (henceforth labeling them “the PORCELAIN INNOCENTS series”)

so now expect more traditional, dirty, nitty gritty pencil drawings of stuckup older-looking haggardly scrawny bitches in a new series of mine called “the PRUDE BITCHES series”… a la my previous post and also available for your viewing pleasure here:

The Wary and The Thief pencil on paper

the nice one is warning her naughty twin not to steal.

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A Very Brief Stranger's Glance pencil on paper

everyone likes to look at a gorgeous lady
but what happens when the beautiful observed
suddenly
turns
around
and catches your eye?

…any thoughts and warnings and screams of protest/encouragement? i like these newer faces for their uppityness than the melancholic stares of the previous series’s… no idea if i will continue them longterm but for now theyre mighty fun to draw! somehow i can live with getting carbon under my nails.

"There's Always A Surlier Sibling"
pencils and pastels on a paperblanks pad.

"All The Duke's Daughters"
pencils only, on paperblanks pad.
there’s the unconventional one,
the scowling one,
the prudent one,
and the tamest but plainest one.

CLICK FOR LARGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~~

my monkey face and dirty fingers and "There's Always A Surlier Sibling" drawing. and my stubby pinky.

uh, dont be fooled – the drawing pad is pretty small actually – about the size of my palm and fingers if you were to draw a square around them. also, my stubby left pinky (the result of a childhood accident) makes her debut! :D dont worry it doesnt look too abnormal considering my other normal pinky is also astonishingly small/short – and i’ve had friends not notice my ‘disability’ for years.

i am totally looking forward to today: removing the stitches in my gums (i had all 4 of my wisdom teeth plucked out last monday), meeting a very dear old friend for chitchat and coffee, and MOST IMPORTANTLY I CAN EAT NOW. YAYAYAYAY BRING IT ONNN. i miss the bacons THE MOST.

i take a moment here to say RIP michael jackson.

…

also, i might have a flappy gum due to premature falling out of a stitch. flapflapflap. dave says doesnt wana kiss me now cos i taunted him by saying i have TWO TONGUES NOW. hahahahahhah… oh BLEAH. does anyone know what will happen to it? will it fall out? will the dentist cut it off? (OUCH) will i permanently have a mini tongue? thats pretty cool actually.

THE FAILED VIOLINIST // by me.

i dont mean violin, its a metaphor for music in general. always wished i could play some musical instrument! i had a toy keyboard once and i loved it and made several annoying noises with it all day but it disappeared while i was growing up, i dont know what happened to it, boooo.

and that thing hanging off her unsevered shoulder! is a balmain jacket! the hottest item this season. i looove the structured shape with those crazy shoulder pads. somewhere i read that balmain “redefined the silhouette”. sounds crazy like everything else associated with fashion! but damn that looks good. feel like committing robbery for the £2,716.87 to buy that. why o why doesn’t money fall from the sky?!?!??

in other more down-to-earth news, uhhh i suddenly am crazy inspired. have ideas for 2 more drawings! wow! welcome back muse! you’ve been fucking sorely missed, ok. also i have several prints lying around the house, i might just give em away instead of having them lie forgotten…somewhere in my room. does anyone want one? they’re all a4 and professionally printed and are glossy and shiny and pretty! you can have it for free but please pay for the postage, thanks :D