Ubiquitous Art

Recently I have been doing some creative/artsy things... but I can't think of anything to really say about them as a whole... sorry. But I still wanted to show them off.... Plus, I haven't had pictures in my blog for a while so this way you get them all at once.
These are two figurines (about 2 in high) that one of my friends got with a game (based on Brandon Sanderson's . He said he wished they were painted so I volunteered. He has very high expectations and is pretty particular so I was a little worried he wouldn't approve but he liked them so that was good. Unfortunately they were a little too big for my camera to focus on the whole thing so the pictures are kind of blurry.
Medium: acrylic paint on plastic

Kelsier

Inquisitor

I have also been working on some illuminated letters for the first letter in my Robin Hood book. I thought they would give it an interesting medieval artistic field, but I in no way made them as detailed (or colorful) as real illuminated works. Here is one of them.

Medium: Gimp 2 (Raster illustration)

Also I went on a hike a few weeks ago and ran across some mountain sheep which was pretty awesome. This isn't really artistic per se I was just lucky to see them and the shoot and snap philosophy worked pretty cool, but yeah. I think it is cool that you can see how some of them have neck trackers.

Medium: Camera, Olympus

Finally, I have been finishing up my thesis and working on my presentation for my defense and thus, have been playing around some figures for that. Here are two of my best.

Medium: Inkscape (Vector illustration)

Illustrating different types of data I've included in the database. An early version of this one was already been shown in my blog here.

Illustrating the maps I used to create a master map for the Carnegie Quarry and how they overlap.

Alright, so after putting all these images I realized why I had a hard time relating them at the beginning. They are done with different mediums. They were all done for different reasons (just for fun, for a hobby, because the opportunity presented itself, for school (and to communicate ideas). Which is actually really cool. I think sometimes I forget how prevalent art can be in my life.