Seven Bloom

Hi! I am a student studying animation and illustration at PNCA. This is my casual art blog to keep track of my progress through school. There's sketches, experiments, and works in progress. Maybe someday soon I'll have a real art website, but for now this is about the size of it.

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So I decided that it was finally time to retire my current journal comic sketchbook, even with so many empty pages left to fill, because I made it insanely small, even by my standards. Which means- time to upload some of the best stuff in it! More or less, these comics are how they appear in the sketchbook, with a few tweaks mostly in brightness/contrast, and adding digital text where my handwriting was particularly heinous. I'm currently binding the next journal sketchbook, with slightly better paper and a size and format more suited for panels and text.

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The tiniest charm garden! Paper clay mushrooms, reindeer moss, lichen, potting soil, purple Quartz. And a stick.

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Some really dark stuff from a really dark time a few years ago. 

I threw in some tags because some of the content is really dark.

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Old artwork, In the wind and the leaves, in the clouds, I am nothing

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A crazy doodle I did a few years ago. Very small paper. Markers, pens, gel pens. I worked on it for a couple days.

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Old artwork from high school. I have never not loved this drawing.

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I’m posting old artwork, buried inside my hard drive!

An old art doll, his name was Smokey and his jaw was able to move! You could put stuff in his mouth.

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Creepy old artwork! Cute animals on fire!

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Old comic art, musing on the nature of depression and thought distortion.

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A young girl finds herself in a dark and strange world, full of danger and old magic. Here she is only known as The Stranger, and she has a mystery of her own to solve. About me: My name is Seven...

My blog for my concept art project is now live! Please check it out, follow it if you’d like, I update it regularly and often! This project has been a lot of fun for me, and one of the first long-form art projects I’ve embarked on in a while. Under the guidance of my wonderful professor and mentor, Chuck Lukacs, I’m proud to say I’ve learned a lot about my own process and I hope to keep going on this project well after the semester is over.

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Making my art desk space nice for the coming eternal winter. Summer was too long and too hot, so I’m glad for the chill and the rains, but I’ve been in the Pacific Northwest long enough to know that making your indoor spaces as cozy and nice to look at as possible goes a long way to combat winter gloom.

I repotted my succulents, and finally found a home for my squirrel skull I’ve had forever. He’s nestled with purple and smoky quartz crystals, because I am original as hell and skulls+terrariums+pretty rocks are awesome.

What kind of little things do you have to make your spaces nice?

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I am having loads of fun with Hexels right now... but I really should be getting back to actual, time sensitive homework. Here’s a mockup tileset for a bigger picture I really want to do.

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I bought myself Hexels yesterday as a feel better present. I think that was a good idea. Now the problem is now I just want to make tiny Hexel worlds and not do my regular homework. Hexels, texture added in Photoshop.

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A quickie warmup of the pollinator garden out back. This is where rats who have passed away rest.

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Oh boy! Just a little something I'm working on right now... It's a bit of a secret for now because I don't want to jump the gun until I've got more finisher material, but I'm working on a project that I'm pretty excited about! I will tell you this- where she's at now, this girl is known as The Stranger, and not only is she completely out of her element, she's in way over her head.

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IT IS THE FIRST DAY OF HALLOWEEN. CELEBRATE THE END OF SUMMER AND EMBRACE DYING OF THE DAYLIGHT. BECOME A BAT. SOON WE WILL ALL BE CONSUMED INTO THE ETERNAL SHIVERING TWILIGHT OF WINTER. PUT A PUMPKIN INSIDE YOU. DYE ALL YOUR CLOTHES BLACK AND BURN YOUR FIELDS. ALL HAIL OUR GREAT AND MERCIFUL LORD AUTUMN.