Skidmark Fan Art

This is my fan art of Skidmark from the Dreamwork movie, Turbo, and its TV series, Turbo FAST. I used colored pens, black ink pen, poster paint and colored pencils.I thought the movie was okay, but the series was greater than the movie. In the series, the characters, Whiphlash, Skidmark, White Shadow, Burn and Smoove Moove get more character development and they are lovable.

My favorite character is Skidmark, the blue snail who was Whiphlash’s feisty number two and the one with propellers on his racing shells because he is so smart and had a good sense of humor. The fact that he is a conspiracy theorist only made him more lovable.

I will tell more informations about him than wikipedia did, though I am getting ideas from wikipedia and add my thoughts about him and I’m sorry that I will not talk about the other characters. But don’t take this so seriously because I may have said something wrong.

He is very talented at mechanics as he builds racing shells that give him and his teammates speed and his racing shell has mechanical arms inside it, which he often use to build his invention quickly and used like hands. Skid is one of the funniest characters in the series and is shown to be enthusiatic. He the most intelligent and wisecraking of the crew as he come up with plans and ideas and can tell a pretty good joke. He is studious and an absolute genuis, but insane. His teammates often get annoyed with his fondness to conspiracy theories, despite most of them are true. He has the ability to see other people’s thoughts and knows that he is in a show as he sometimes breaks the fourth wall. Although he have an unusual behavior and slacks off at times, he is a devoted member of the crew and he proved that he have compassion such as saving innocent snails and insects from dangerous creatures, helping others and sacrificing himself to save his friends.

The series did not reveal his past life. I know that his real name is Skip Markovitch, but where does he come from? It said that he is an immigrant from a place called Shellis Island and his last name was changed. It was never mentioned in the series that he has any parents or relatives. Maybe he was found by Whiphlash and was the first one to be recruited to the crew and that’s why he’s the second-in-command. Maybe Whiphlash was his adopted father or guardian after he moved to him.

Some people say that ordinary snails can smart, but a snail literally has no brain. Does the makers of the series even know that snail don’t have brains? Skidmark said that he have a brain and keeps saying things about it like “it’s messing with my brain.” Maybe Skidmark didn’t mean an actual brain, but another organ that controls. Maybe he is the only snail that has a brain. I know that the snails in Turbo are anthropomorphic, but Skidmark is rather unique. Maybe the reason why he is a genuis was because he has a brain. This is not making any sense, but I just saying.

There is something good happened when watching Turbo FAST and Skidmark as my favorite character. Skidmark inspired me to study harder and to be smart. It really help me in school. I’ve been getting good grades because I’ve been studying really hard and I became smarter. I’m very thankful.

Contests at School

I did fruit carving for the first time when I was chosen to be the participant of a fruit carving contest at school last July. I was chosen because there was no one else can do something artistic. Before the contest, I look for methods on YouTube on how to carve a fruit. And then at the contest, I carved a watermelon to a swan. Some people said it was pretty, but I’m not quite happy with it and it’s not perfect. But surprisingly, I won second place. I was happy that I’m in second place and well I do think that mine was better than the others’.

When it comes to contest in that school, I was always chosen to be the participant of poster making contests and I always lost to a little kid. I never like it because they only give us two hours and it took me like five hours to make good art with my favorite medium that takes patients, so I have to work faster and impatiently with my least favorite medium, because that medium can be used quickly and doing this makes my work crappy. My least favorite medium are pastels because they are kind of messy and my work with it is dirty. Another thing that bothers me is when I was partnered with someone who is not an artist or someone I don’t have a good chemistry with because they don’t care about me and making the art that they end up making it crappy. The times when I got on the top three was when I was partnered with someone who may or may not be an artist but tried the best to make the art good and with a good chemistry with me. I have spend six years in that school and only three times that I made it to the top three out of six times a year.

And about that school I mentioned, I left that school because I graduated high school and I’m going to be moving to college and I will be taking fine arts.

Pencil Poem

My favorite brand of pencils is Faber-Castell for me the graphites are really good. I do still use other brand. I love to sketch, especially portrait, because it was really fun. A pencil can be used to sketch out what you are going to paint or color so you will know where to add color. I also use a mechanical pencil and it also good because its graphite is so thin that you can easily do details and small drawings. Have you read The Parables of the Pencil or the Story of the Pencil? Last year, my English teacher made us read that and ask us to make a drawing, painting, poem or anything we want to make on paper that is related to that and I decided to make a painting with a poem. I don’t have a picture of that painting and I passed it to my teacher, but I have a copy of the poem.

A pencil is life
You make me creative
Whether to write or draw
No matter how hard is it

I have been worried
But you give me hope
You never give up on me
Your life is just like mine

Watercolor

I have used watercolors before acrylics. It was a part of my childhood and I fell in love with them and I used it when I was a child and this what made my mother to take me to painting lessons. Though my paintings, when I was a kid, wasn’t as good as now, but I’m having fun and it is a good way to start. Those watercolors on the picture are cheap, but good and pigmented. The pan set was chalky, but still good.

Acrylic

I fell in love with acrylics and they are my favorite medium. I first use them when I was taking painting lessons at a young age. Acrylics are not too expensive, which was a good thing because I’m not that rich of a person, and they are easy to use. On the painting lessons, I have learned a few things, but for me, being self-taught is better because I have learned much more in making art when being taught by myself than by a teacher. They gave some rules in painting but I end up breaking them after the painting lessons. Don’t get me wrong thought, if I didn’t take painting lessons, I was never would have known the basics, the shadows and highlights, the types of brushes and the use of a canvas and an easel. I should know them before making art professionally. Acrylics dry very quickly, but I’m used to it. Those acrylics on the picture are cheap kinds of brand and Reeves brands are the ones that I could mostly find here in the Philippines.

Wander Over Yonder Fan Art

This is my Wander Over Yonder fan art. It is in my sketchbook and painted with acrylic paint. I’m posting this and I going to further tell the story behind this fan art.

WOY is an animated series created by Craig McCracken. It’s about two intergalactic travellers, who help people to have fun and live free. I really love the show and it became my favorite because it was charming and funny. It’s like a show that I always wanted to watch and the main protagonist, Wander, is really funny, a character that I like to be the protagonist, and the deuteragonist, Sylvia, was a tough female character and that is something I like. As an artist, I love the animation because it’s colorful and a beautiful work of art. When I watched more episodes, something changed my life forever. The show was more about helping others and doing good and it inspires me to do so. It shows the true meaning of helping. When I help someone, it feels good. I become a better person. If you help others and do good, I know you will be rewarded like the people will help you back.

This is my favorite WOY fan art that I have ever made. This is a picture of a girl that looks like me, but it could be anyone, with her cat witnessing Wander and Sylvia. I may want to allow the fans to make their own version of this like changing the appearance of the girl to make her look like them and also change the cat to whatever their pet was. I share this on twitter, but I don’t know if someone make their own version. But I don’t want anyone turning my idea into theirs. I came up with this picture after the show was cancelled. I was sad and angry that it was cancelled because the show had become a part of my life. Think of the good things the show have done to me and how it helped a lot people. I made this fan art to express how I love it and how much I miss it. I write a short poem for this.

Is it the sun, the moon or a star?
I witness something that came across it
I know no one will believe me expect my cat
But what I’m seeing is just wonderful

Prayer Painting and Poem for God

This painting is called “Prayer.” It represents faith in God. I painted it with watercolor. We can communicate with God and come closer to Him through prayer. When I started studying at St. Mary’s Academy, I’ve learned more about God, His good deeds and how great he is. It inspires me to be faithful and makes me a better person. I have an inspirational book with poems that send messages of hope and joy to all who have faith in God and I love reading it when I was a kid and it has pictures of beautiful watercolor paintings. My grandmother, have book like that and I also love it. Here is a poem I write as a tribute to God. This is titled “Peom for God”

I believe in God and I pray
He help me become a better person
He showed me what it truly means to be great
And it made me even happier

God was there for when no else is around
Especially my loneliest of lonely times
He is our creator and our Father
He always forgive us when we did wrong things

God give strength to the weak
And cares for the poor
When life gets hard, we pray
God protects and guides us wherever we are

He loves us with everlasting love
He will help us with our troubles
And comfort us with our pain
We are thankful to God for everything

Yellow Submarine Fan Art

This is a Yellow Submarine fan art that I painted with acrylic painted and it is another project in school. I painted it, but I didn’t come up with this picture, someone else already made this so it is not mine. I recreated this to have a project at school.

This is another project in school. This one I also used acrylic paint. This is a painting of a park was inspired by Leonid Afremov.

The Kitten at Home

This painting is a project at school. I don’t have it anymore, but I still have the picture. I painted this with acrylic paint. This was an original called “The Kitten at Home.” This is based from where I live. We have a garden, there are a lot of maya birds and chestnut munia in there and I have pet cats.