Introduction

     Hi! I'm Dan Fenn, a beginning artist with a lot of ideas. Online you may know me as "BlurryGrawlix", for that is my username for most things. I mainly do digital drawing, but I also do traditional art if I'm in the mood for it. For traditional art, I mostly do acrylic painting and pencil drawings (black and white, because colored pencils are too expensive D:< ) and sometimes even watercolor! I'm working every day to try to improve my art and follow my passion. 

     I guess I'll tell you about myself... I'm 14 years old. My username comes from my love of Twenty One Pilots and my compulsive habit of swearing and having to censor myself. (If you can't put it together, Twenty One Pilots' singer has an alter ego called Blurryface that you can look up because I don't want to explain it and "grawlix" is the word for the list of symbols that are used for censoring things. I.E. "That son of a #@%&*!") I have two cats and one dog and they're all my best friends. I'm super awkward and I prefer to be alone. I want to pursue psychiatric studies in the future. I like video games. Geez, if it weren't for art, I'd be super boring. I'm running out of things to tell about myself. Uh, mY fAVOriTe ColOr iS bLUE! (Oh geez, that didn't go well >.>)

     I have a lot of ideas for art. In the future I want to do a lot of fan art and also a lot of "original character" drawings. I have some ideas for symbolism in my life that has a specific meaning and interpretation for me, but I will leave up to the viewer to decide their interpretation. The relationship held between the artist and the viewer is very strange. The artist creates something with their own intentions, but the viewer takes it however they want to. The viewer can latch onto these meanings and interpretations and help them feel like someone understands what their going through, even though no one really understands exactly what they're going through. The artist and the viewer may have the same pains, but not one situation could be exactly the same. Pain is perceived and received and dealt with differently for everyone, but the pain might be a little less if you have someone to go through it with you, in this case, the artist. 

     Woah Dan, hold your horses, YOU'RE NOT A PHILOSOPHER. Heh, I have my thoughts but I just can't put them together very well, going from thought to thought without thought. Connecting thoughts that have no connection. Okay. Stop typing, Dan. Okay. Back on track. Like I mentioned before, my passion right now is art. This may seem weird, but romanticizing death also comes naturally to me, which I occasionally put into my art. So uh, since I've been all over the place trying to string my thoughts together, how about I show you some of my art? (These are all out of order from when I did them so bear with me)

This was kind of a joke-y drawing, but I still like how it turned out.

This one is really old, like Dan-drawing-traditional-art old!

I'm pretty sure this is the most recent one I've done. Not much to say about it I guess.
TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!!!

*ding*

I think this is the first digital drawing I did, evidence by the sub-par line work and shading :/

This one is also pretty old. Link likes cats!

This is pretty recent, but I only put, like, 60%ish effort into it because my computer crashed and I lost a lot of progress and my favorite villager in Animal Crossing moved away so I wasn't emotionally committed to this drawing like the other ones.

This one was done a day after the other traditional art piece on this little list, but I did some digital touch ups and even a watermark signature thingamabob.

"Now senpai will never love me..."

(Semi-recent)

Comic strip that you probably won't understand unless you've played Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright.

There's a date on this one(!) so you know the exact day that I did it!

This one was one of the first ones I did, taking inspiration from Mulan (for the character) and "Black Butler"'s (favorite anime!!!) Ran Mao (for some of the style, mostly the style of the eyes. I'm just noticing that both characters are the same ethnicity and I'm surprised I didn't notice before. I'm a little slow sometimes.)

     This is just the artwork I've done digitally/happen to have on my computer, so the portfolio is a little small. Maybe I'll add some of my traditional art from, like, elementary school? I don't know, I had a pretty good (unfinished) realistic drawing of John Lennon from sixth grade. *Shrugs* I guess we'll have to wait and see...

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)