zee tee art

I'm an illustrator and graphic designer from Maine, my name is Zoë but you can also call me Zee. This is my art blog! I work in papercraft, copic marker, ink, pencil, and digital media. Papercraft tag I am not taking requests or commissions at this time.

[noordzee]

Dancing to the Golden Record at 78 rpm, with apologies to Bill Watterson.

Attempting to figure out how to draw Rocky by just kinda scribbling with a brush pen. I had to switch pens midway through the dance sequence, though, so the line quality varies wildly, haha.

Also: the original sketch, which I liked the energy of too much to ink over:

[noordzee]

Got into Project Hail Mary, so of course now I gotta figure out how to draw Ryan Gosling

I wanna do papercrafts for phm so baddd but this step can't be skipped, haha :'D

also fun facts this is my first time editing scans in Clip Studio Paint, because trying to load my ancient copy of PSE12 onto my new computer nearly bricked it. I am free of adobe's tether and wandering into a brave new world...

[noordzee]

Item: The Prologue Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

What video game has the best opening scene or level?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Oh i see, so the game sends you asks! Very cute, clever way to get people chattering!

Anyway best video game opener is Super Mario 3: WARIO LAND. The whole thing played in my head the minute i saw this ask. idk why i as a shy peaceable kid loved this dumb game so much but mannnn it was just fun to play a big grinning brick whose goal was to punch things and gather enough money to build a mansion.

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 31 | Cold

This design was actually suggested by my partner @fortheninth for "Apart" but I'd already drawn a lion I really liked, so I saved it for this!

And with that, I'm finished with another Heraldecember! I'm getting better at doing these on-schedule! I had a lot of fun :)

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 30 | Garden

Based on Rebecca Sugar's song Everything Stays, about finding a stuffed animal lost in the yard which had gotten faded after months in the sunlight. It struck them that things can change even when staying in one place. Because it's a childhood story, I made the helm a little felt costume helmet.

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 29 | Gold

Referencing the phrase "selling shovels in a gold rush," a rather morally dubious but certainly lucrative way to actually profit from one.

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 28 | Road

I'm fascinated by medieval pilgrimage imagery, I find it charming how they would collect badges along the way. These aren't based on any actual holy sites, though.

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 27 | Leopard

The Latin says "Don't Play With Fire."

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 26 | Apart

More ludicrous quartering! More!!

This one really laid bare why you shouldn't have colors on colors, I filled out the braid on the torse in dim lighting and could barely tell the difference between the blue and green!

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 25 I Room

Hey buddy, gonna put anything else on there? No? Alright...

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 24 | Talent

A talent is an ancient unit of weight (it varied culture to culture, though) that eventually became a monetary unit as well.

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 23 | Ring

Bellchoir handbells and gloves!

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 22 | Mandarin

I looked up mandarin oranges and wound up down a rabbithole reading about citrus crossbreeds, which reminded me of elaborately quartered crests for royal family trees. So this is a crest for the lemon's lineage: a pomelo and a mandarin orange make a bitter orange, which is then crossed with a citron.

I'm on vacation, so it's phone photos for the rest of the month!

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 21 | Yesterday

When Paul McCartney was writing the song Yesterday, he didn't have the lyrics down for a while. Until he had it figured out, he would sing "scrambled eggs" instead. All I could think of when drawing this one. :'D

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 20 | Question

hi one quastion

hi i need to be loved AND i can't fuckin see in this helmet

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 19 | Exercise

Even a triskele must keep fit! The Latin approximates "no pain, no gain."

[noordzee]

@heraldecember 18 | Alley

A little bit inspired by Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats.