Jessica Backup

I was going to make something that wasn’t digital this time… I was going to paint, on an actual (fabric) canvas and try something new. And I did try it! It went horribly. Nothing turned out like I wanted it to and I left the paints so frustrated and mad that I actually decided to never paint again. Well, I might actually paint again. That was a bit of a heat of the moment-thing. But still, I needed some time to cool down so I wasn’t really going to pick up the brush again this month. So I returned to my trusted computer, and started to brainstorm ideas on how to interpret the word “fabric” digitally . It wasn’t really obvious to me, but in a moment of utter hubris I decided I was going to draw flowing fabrics in Illustrator. As if I would’ve been able to do that…….. But I never got that far, because while I was looking for advice on how to draw fabric I came across this tutorial on how to make a satin texture in Photoshop.   An...

So I seem to have had some kind of mental hangover after my very intense day of video making last Monday. Like I filmed (and filmed way too many retakes because I was nervous) and edited in one day. And so right after I had published it I just got super sad and wanted to delete it and everything was stupid. So weird. Anyway, this also meant that I forgot to publish My Creative Life last Friday. I don’t have like a set rule to publish them on Fridays, but I like to keep some routine for them. Well, we’re gonna have to live with it being a Sunday-post this week! Let’s take a look! Inspired by my mountains that I made last week I made a full piece with just the triangle pattern! I actually didn’t make this one for it to be an outstanding piece of art in itself, but because it’d look cool on pillows and stuff. Which it does! And also it was v fun to make. 😀 Here’s a link to the super cool pillow if you want to purchase it.  I also continued making ...

I’ve made another video!! It’s only been like two months since the last one, but aaaaaaaanyway! Here it is! I was at a Youtube event organised by Influencers of Sweden last week and got SUPER HYPED about making videos! So hyped in fact that I filmed and edited this video in one go, like I had some lunch but no breaks haha…. Probs not the best way to do it, but I just wanted to get it out there. Anyway, I’m discussing what an artist is as well as what it’s like to call yourself an artist in this video! I really struggle with that last part, and it’s kind of annoying, so I wanted to help EVERYONE but most of all help myself because that’s how human beings work!! Hehe. ANYWHO. ENJOY.

I almost summarised my creative week in my mountain-post yesterday , but I thought we’d go through everything anyway. Well not everything, if you want to see all the mountains you can just go there. But yeah, I tried to make a buddy for Cosmic , but it was kinda hard. I mean this one is kind of the same style but I don’t like that it’s more naive in a way? Also I just noticed the stars are pink haha how did they turn pink!!!!!! Let’s pretend that was on purpose. :)))  So I made this attempting to not be as naive, but I’m still not that happy with it, so I don’t know!! Anyway, I also made something completely different – this is “Monstera”! I had this ~vision~ of a geometric leaf, and monstera was what came to my mind. I tried to make another one yesterday but it turned out absolute crap. I tried to combine the pattern on the leaf with a triangle pattern but it was just a mess. Also I think the shape of this “leaf” is ...

My sister has been obsessed with mountains for as long as I can remember. She’s a skiing enthusiast and loves snowy peaks and snowy slopes and just snowy anything. (When she turned 18 and got a pair of skis she kept them in her bed for a few weeks :)))) Anyway, she’s gonna have to share mountains from now on, because I’m obsessed too!!! My most recent mountain is this one – “Cosmic” (named that because I was listening to Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine  when I named it – my naming process isn’t that complicated haha). I’ve liked the kind of low-poly look for a while, but haven’t really explored it in any 3D-software yet, but you know what, I can make triangles happen in Illustrator too!! I then added different parts of this image from a while back to every triangle. It actually all started with this picture for The Crate Challenge on Hitrecord , where I thought the distorted image I used would look cool as a mountain ...

So I told you in my creative life #9 that I had been struggling creatively that week (I’m not anymore – I’m on FIRE right now) and that I got the advice to use a different material to get the creativity flowing again! So I took out my Super Sculpey clay and made a little fawn. I HAD SO MUCH FUN!! Well I had fun making the clay shape, not so much painting it. Stupid paint. Anyway, here are some very fancy pictures of it.   Fawn + fern = <3  I’ve actually put it under a bell jar! Cute huh? I want something for it to stand on though! Put my bunny under the other bell jar and now they’re stood in the living room being all cuuuuuuuute!! I struggled so much when I was making it for it not to look like a 1) dog 2) fox 3) idk. But I think I got there in the end, even if the head isn’t perfectle fawnshaped. But yeah! I’m happy! And that was it for this time!