Hailey’s Highlights: Quick Thoughts on Cool & Creative Things – Drawing Supplies

https://youtube.com/shorts/L7PPF0d_sDc?feature=share Had some fun making this short video about my drawing supplies. I have lots of different tools I've collected over the years, and at first I was going to do a written post with pictures, but realized it would be more fun and interesting to make it into a video post. I took a…

Ready. Set. Project! Starting Work on My Mock Online Store & Campaign

I'm always looking to improve my skills as a graphic designer and create new and better work. I find the best way is through projects, especially ones that I can show off in my portfolio. The more realistic the project, the better. While on my way to work, I thought of a project idea that…

Hailey’s Highlights: Quick Thoughts on Cool & Creative Things – Painted Rocks

I come across lots of painted rocks and shells on my walks at my local park. It's a fun treat to find one among the brush, becoming a surprise treasure hunt. This is only a handful of the ones I've discovered. Thank you to all the rock and shell painters who make my walks extra…

Hailey’s Highlights: Quick Thoughts on Cool & Creative Things – Gundam Building

After finishing my sketchbook challenge, I took some time to build a Tallgeese model from Gundam Wing. There's so much quality and care put into these models. It's honestly impressive that hundreds of tiny pieces were designed to fit together perfectly, articulate, and make up the form of a mobile suit. I had previously built…

Hailey’s Highlights: Quick Thoughts on Cool & Creative Things

I'd like to introduce a new segment on my blog called Hailey's Highlights! While my blog typically focuses on my current projects and creative endeavors, there are times I would like to share some cool and creative things that may not fit into my typical blog posts. Quick posts of inspiration about new artwork, an…

The Results are In: My Super Special Sketchbook Challenge

Not sure what my Super Special Sketchbook Challenge was? Read about it here The results are in. I succeeded! I filled all 207 of the remaining pages of my sketchbooks, and I couldn't be more thrilled. The Good • I'm Proud of Myself - I've always tended to be a sketchbook collector. I'd buy a…

Inktober 2022

With another Inktober come and gone, I look back at the drawings I created, what challenges I faced this year and what I took away from the experience. The Plan With my sketchbook challenge taking up much of my time I decided to forgo an ink drawing every day for 31 days and instead do…

HK Monthly News: Sketchbook Challenge Update & Inktober Prep

Sketchbook Challenge Update As of this post: Page 43 of 207 I started off well, then fell behind by 10 pages. At first I was worried and upset, but reassured myself that if I keep to drawing two pages a day and pick up drawings as I go along I will catch up in no…

My Super Special Sketchbook Challenge

https://youtu.be/uI9WpqpVE38 I seem to collect sketchbooks, start them and never complete them, so I’ve decided to set a challenge for myself. By the end of this year, I will finish drawing in my unfinished sketchbooks. I have a total of 5 drawing books with a total of 206 207 unfilled pages. The end of the…

How to Make a Cardboard Boombox

Have you ever wanted to make a boombox out of actual cardboard that can play actually actual music that you can impress your friends with and tell them that you made it with your actual real hands? Probably not. But just in case the mood ever strikes ya... This cardboard boombox was originally made as…