Ellyse
Walker
Walker
I love making art and being creative. The mediums I feel most comfortable with are pencil and paper drawings and digital drawings; however, when it comes to new art mediums, I am a quick learner so that is not the only art I can be successful in creating.
One of my favorite things to do with digital art is create profile pictures, wallpapers, banners for profiles (like Facebook and LinkedIn), though I would like to grow my abilities and focus on making realistic people, animals, and flowers.
In the past, all my digital art was created with the app ArtFlow, but after graduation I would like to learn how to do realistic shading in Adobe products so I can do all my digital art in Adobe products. With ArtFlow, I was drawing and shading everything with my finger, and the app did not have a lot of the helpful features I've come to appreciate in Adobe products. I will be excited to finally be able to create digital art with smooth curved lines with uniform thickness.
Unless otherwise noted, all digital art was created in the ArtFlow app.
Cultural Self Portrait made in the art class
I took my Senior year of High School
Portrait of my sister made in the art class
I took my Sophomore year of High School
Artwork for Easter
My first oil painting
Still life drawing made in my art class
I took my Senior year of high school
Logo for fictional company made for my graphic design class. Created in Adobe Illustrator
D&D character art that is work in progress. Created in Adobe Illustrator
My profile picture for GitHub
My phone lockscreen
A profile picture someone
commissioned me to do
A phone lock screen someone
commissioned me to do
A work in progress
tulip digital drawing
A drawing of the Holland
Tulip Time Dutch Costumes
A drawing of the Zuid Beveland
Dutch Costume
A delft inspired vase
I made in 8th grade art class
In my spare time, I also play video games. The video games I play must have a creative outlet, so games that allow customization are my favorite. My favorite video game is Sims 4 because it allows me to create buildings and decorate interiors.
Although I like playing the game, one of my favorite things about the Sims 4 is the custom content and modding community for the game. Custom content in the Sims 4 are clothing, wallpapers, furniture, and other game assets created by players. Due to the size of the community, finding resources to learn how to create your own game assets is very easy. Sims 4 Studio is a program that will allow you to export textures and meshes from existing items and import your own textures and meshes, and I used that program to make my own items for the game. Currently, I only know how to make textures for meshes already in the game, but I plan to learn how to use Blender to create my own meshes for the game.
In the image carousel below, I have textures that I have modified from the original, as well as comparisons between the original objects in game and my own version. All textures were modified in the ArtFlow app.
Left: Original dress in the game
Right: My version of the dress
The texture of my Dutch Dress Custom Content
Left: Original tea set in the game
Right: My version of the tea set
Texture for my delft tea set custom content
Top: Original items in the game
Bottom: My version of the items
Texture for my delft plate custom content
Texture for my delft vase custom content
I enjoy working on embroidery projects, and I am trying to learn how to sew. My goal is to be able to make my own clothes and embroider them. Currently, I am working on embroidery kits, but after those are complete, I will work on creating my own designs and embroidering those. Each embroidery kit takes me over a month to work on, so it is a slow process.
I love learning new languages. My goal is to be fluent in both German and Dutch. Growing up, I was proud of my Dutch heritage, so I always wanted to learn Dutch; however, it was not offered in school so I took German instead and I ended up falling in love with the German language.
In High School, I changed my google account and chrome settings to German, I watched German gaming videos daily, tried to read my favorite books in German, and found 8.5 hours of German songs and put them in a Spotify playlist. In college, I took German classes and got a German minor. After college, I hope to find ways to use and develop my German skills.
Although I do not currently know Dutch, I am able to read a few words here or there due to my knowledge of German. I plan to expand that knowledge even more in the future. I have two Dutch grammar books and will use them to study the language, as well as find online resources to learn, similarly to how I found so many online resources to immerse myself in German despite not living in the country.
In addition to Dutch and German, I am currently trying to learn how to read Hebrew, and eventually I will want to learn how to read Biblical Greek.