Category: Drawing and Painting

Posts about drawing and painting

Chinese brush painting of a mountainous landscape with a waterfall covered in clouds

Chinese Landscape Paintings

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Nicki Chaput

Three Chinese brush paintings of landscapes I made from the end of May to June. I’ve never really done any kind of landscape painting, let alone Chinese brush painting, so I’m pretty happy with how they turned out!

digital drawing of Jessica Rabbit serving Roger Rabbit carrot cake

Two Videos on Neo-Noir

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Nicki Chaput

Long time no blog post. Here are my two latest YouTube videos, both about neo-noir films.

And here are the pieces of art from the videos:

What is Film Noir?

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Nicki Chaput

I’m back converting school essays into video essays! Take a shot every time I pronounce a French or German word/name incorrectly. Or don’t, if you value your health. I couldn’t get OBS and Photoshop to work at the same time, so there’s no speedpaint in this video. Here’s the uncropped final artwork though:

cartoony drawing of a mouse that radiates stress with the caption "timidness/nervousness"

I Made a Zine!

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Nicki Chaput

It’s 2022! My last semester of college starts next Wednesday. I can hardly believe it. I wanted to share something I made last semester for my disability studies class: a zine! I’d never done anything quite like this before, but I’m super happy with how it came out. Check out a PDF of it here:

WG241-Zine-v3 Download

And check out this YouTube video of me reading it and talking a bit about its production here:

End of Year Drawings

Posted on January 17, 2022January 26, 2022 by Nicki Chaput

Some pen drawings and sketches from the end of last year.

kudos if you can figure out who this 80s hero is

Art Fight

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Nicki Chaput

Here are the rest of my drawings from Art Fight 2021! I mostly stuck with anthro characters, how unexpected. I had a good time experimenting with slightly different styles and converting others’ characters into my own style. I definitely procrastinated, and I would love to do more detailed pieces (and possibly draw more characters) next year!

drawing of an anthropomorphic Siamese cat — Hakura

drawing of an anthropomorphic rabbit with one eye and one severly bitten ear — Hakura

I also sketched some friendly fire that I may end up completing at some point in the future:

sketch of a young girl in a sailor top with her eyes stitched shut — Carrie

cropped version of a Chinese brush painting of a sunflower and bud

Chinese Brush Paintings

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Nicki Chaput

These past few weeks, I’ve been taking an intro to Chinese brush painting class. While I’m accustomed to Western-style watercolor, this medium is a whole new ballgame. Here are my first few finished paintings!

Week 1: Hellenium Daisy

Chinese brush painting of several helenium daisies and buds

Week 2: Black Swan

Week 3: Sunflower

Chinese brush painting of a sunflower, bud, and leaves

drawing of a creepy-cute anthropomorphic rabbit

Art Fight Begins!

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Nicki Chaput

The annual Art Fight competition (if it can truly even be called that) is something I have heard about for years but never really understood. But this year, I bit the bullet and signed up, uploading a photo of Klaasje I made a while back as reference. I’m super inspired seeing tons of cool character designs, many of which I can’t wait to draw! The first of those was KrazyKay’s Snowbelle. Her design is so cute and reminds me a lot of my first Living Dead Doll Posey. I’m not 100% satisfied with how it came out (I ambitiously tried to do some foreshortening), but I am super proud of myself for being able to sit down and bang out a drawing, a trend I hope will continue for the rest of the month.