#rieley draws

[astralibrary]

for the 2022 @natsume-ss i was @gaytypo's secret santa!! ey asked for natsume/tanuma/taki so i drew a cute lil everyday type moment between the three of them ♥️

the scenario i had in mind was something along the lines of: taki is bored and wants to do something, so they're discussing possibilities; simple but sweet! i hope you like it, and i wish you all the best for the new year! 💖

nicer quality png version ☺️♥️

#natsumess2022 #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #natsume takashi #tanuma kaname #taki tooru #nyanko sensei #tanunatsutaki #dont ask me whose bedroom this is i made it up. it's an airbnb #i realized too late that instead of a bed i shoulda put a folded up futon u_u #(imagine nyanko sensei sleeping on it 😭) #anyway!! this was a fun lil moment! man i miss drawing these guys #love them.... love these kids ♥️ #rieley draws #digital #fanart #(sorry for the wait btw; i hope this was worth it! 🙏)

[hesfrombarcelona]

The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague, by Julia Finley Mosca

Genre:

The Girl With a Mind for Math is a non-fiction picture book (informational or biography category).

Target Age Group: This book is written for elementary grade readers, generally ages 5-10.

Summary: The Girl With a Mind for Math tells the true story of Raye Montague, an African American woman who became a design engineer for the United States Navy in the 1960s. The book covers Montague's education and career from the time she was in elementary school though her retirement.

Justification:

This book was awarded the Amelia Bloomer Book List Award by the American Library Association in 2019, and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.

Evaluation:

For this book I will be evaluating the illustrations, content, and style and language.

Illustrations:

The Girl With a Mind for Math is illustrated by Daniel Rieley and features rich colors and a simple, somewhat whimsical style. The drawings of classic "lollipop shaped" trees and people with one-line smiles on their faces give the feeling of children's art in a way that might make the book feel more familiar and accessible to young people than the subject matter would generally suggest. Even the impersonal and industrial machines depicted, including a submarine and an early computer, somehow look cheerful and approachable in these delightful illustrations.

Content

This book focuses on the hard work and accomplishments of Montague, but it does so while addressing the barriers she faced as a result of the blatant racism and sexism of her time. In child-appropriate language the story explains how the system of the time was "unjust" and "deplorable" and the negative effects that it had. At the end of the book there are helpful references including a timeline, bibliography, and an interview with Montague.

Style and Language

The Girl With a Mind for Math is written in verse, which adds to an overall fun and upbeat tone. Some of the rhymes feel slightly awkward and forced, but most flow well and have a fun energy and momentum. Word choices are specific and accurate enough to introduce some new vocabulary to younger children, but not so advanced as to be frustrating or difficult to understand.

This book hits the sweet spot between educational and entertaining. The fun illustrations and bouncy verse make it perfect for reading aloud either at home or in the classroom. The reference materials included can help caregivers or teachers to answer questions and expand on the topics for further learning.

References:

American Library Association. (2023). https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/girl-mind-math-story-raye-montague

Kirkus Reviews. (2018, July 15). The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague: A fun read and an uplifting story. [Review of the book The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Raye Montague Story, by J. F. Mosca].

Mosca, J. F. (2018). The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (D. Rieley, Illus.). The Innovation Press.

#childrens literature #k-6th

[musicaltincan]

girls night

#keep your hands off eizouken #eizouken #asakusa midori #kanamori sayaka #mizusaki tsubame #aaaaa i ended up spending way longer on these than i meant toooo #but im rly happy w/ the result so its okayyyyy #rieley draws #digital #i picked my own colors this time gkgjdkgdj #i think it worked out well enough #mizusaki's ended up bein real cute

[de-collada]

Cornetto Cupidity | Drawings & Dreams from Jamie Muir Films on Vimeo.

"Two young lovers begin corresponding through drawings and photographs, sending one another their hopes and dreams for the future. Though un be-known to the boy his drawings are going to the wrong girl... But is she actually the wrong girl?"

Directed by: Jamie Muir Written by: Shadi Hamta Produced by: Jack Goodwin Production Company: Kode Media Executive Producers: David Alberts & Rebecca Sykes Director of Photography: Joe Cook Line Producer: Uluc Kecik Editor: Jamie Muir Colourist: Toby Tomkins Art Director: Roya Fraser Sound Design: Greg Niemand Focus Puller: Tufan Kilinc 2nd AC: Volkan Simsek DIT: Deniz Taskin Camera Trainee: Bulent Akcali Gaffer: Mehmet Tuna Art Assistant: Ece Bulut Costume Designer: Roya Fraser Sound Operator: Sertac Toksoz Production Assistant: Onur Isik Canturk Production Driver: Kemel Abi Fixer: Emre Unal Equipment Driver: Yusuf Tarhan & Sedat Kibar Language Consultant: Ozi Oshiro Casting Agent: Uluc Kecik Location Manager: Akif Keskin Script Translation: Sezin Tugen & Uluc Kecik Illustrator: Daniel Rieley Camera & Lighting Rental: Lokomotif Kamera And STM With Thanks To: Uluc Kecik Production

Cast: Oyku: Gozde Filinta Ege: Emrah Altintoprak Selin: Begum Tabak Grandma: Asuman Ozdemir Cupid: Yalin

[astralibrary]

style challenge! feat ayuri this time 💖

i also included reference boards so u can compare my drawings to the styles i was trying to emulate and decide for yourself how well i did! and also bc most people probably aren't familiar w most of these styles gkjsdkfj

personally i think my weakest is dress-up darling (it was WAY harder to capture than i expected??) and my strongest is teppen- but that's just me :3c

(prev style challenge!)

#art style challenge #pretty boy detective club #bocchi the rock! #my dress up darling #teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #terada tera #shikimori's not just a cutie #rieley draws #digital #ocs #ayuri #fun fact. for the bocchi text i had to use a different font for ''ED'' #bc in the font i'd chosen the E was rounded like a backwards 3 and the way they lined up made it look like straight up A Peen #so there's a fun lil discrepancy there :) #anywayyyy #i had to improvise on the ears for like all of these since there were no animal refs #so the design varies between each one #and i just went straight to ayuri's simplified alt outfit for tera terada #bc it matches the kind of stuff their characters tend to wear way more closely #i think it worked out nicely! #one thing that tends to throw things off (and this is a problem i had in my last style challenge too) is the eyelashes #bc ayuri's eyelashes are like bright blue (the color of her hoodie) but anime characters always have just black #and since eyes are such a huge part of art styles it can rly make a big difference in how much the drawing Looks like that style #(that's part of why the kyoani one gave me so much trouble last time) #so i was v happy doing the tera terada one in which the eyelashes always have a splotch of color on the ends #just happened to work out perfectly! #i ended up doing that for most of the others too #but next time i will def try to pick a character w normal lashes For Once. make things easier on myself For Once

[astralibrary]

all my pieces from art fight this year o)-<

someday i'll learn it's ok to not do fully lined/colored pieces every single time 🥲 but i really enjoy how some of these came out so!!

in order:

Bun for Skysumi

Lucy for Kenoops

Tina for Duckstuff2008

Ivy for cowdy

Dunce for duncism

Kagan for Zebra_Zee

Kieru for blackcatbard

Leo, Kat & Vio for Fourlegged_Potato

#artfight #artfight 2023 #team werewolf #kept forgetting to post these! for a whole month #rieley draws #digital #other ocs #my faves are 1 3 & 8 #kinda wish i coulda drawn more non humanoid characters but the revenges had me fighting for my life #every single one of these is a revenge except for the 1st one gnhfngfn #next year i will come prepared you'll all see #i'll have more ferals i will put some funny dogs on there for sure #& no drawing for a year before it starts (good idea)

[astralibrary]

another year another silan portrait babey.... a few days late this time but we still ballin'

i've been very into manga cover design lately (studying them, making my own, etc) so it only felt right to incorporate that into this year's portrait, right? and go way overboard designing the entire front, back and spine including a blurb and barcodes and retail/publishing info, right?? and then go all in on making a matching japanese version with its own alternative blurb and barcode area bc u can't have one without the other, right?? obviously!!!!

like i said i've been really into manga design-

thoughts & details belooow

funnily enough this ended up being an actual portrait again after i did away with them in favor of illustrations in recent years, but ig it's fitting since this is the 10th one, right? (more on that later i wrote this out of order-) a callback to the first one all those years ago... the other reason it's a portrait is bc art has been fighting back lately and a full illustration probably would have been a lot; most importantly tho i just thought this composition would make for a cool dramatic manga cover heh heh

anyway bro the impossible happened i fully rendered flowers AND completed the portrait this year hello??? this has never happened since the v first year wait i just checked it happened in 2019 too this has not happened since 2019 wowie!!!! i put my whole ass into those flowers pls observe them (except the tall purple ones don't look too closely at those. look at the pansies they're my fave ♥️)

this year we have morning glories taking center stage, surrounded by pansies, forget-me-nots, some kind of nondescript purple perennial or perhaps lavender, and some kind of pink blossom (idk that one was just a space filler). don't ask abt the random petals on his mouth & collarbone uhh theres some kind of flowering tree growing just offscreen it's possible

anyway the morning glories are significant bc they represent sythra, silan's twin sister; in my mind her colors are blue & yellow and it seemed like such a good fit, so i'm officially adding it to the Flower Lore (there is no flower lore)

there is, however, Twin Lore; silan's eyes are brown and sythra's are blue, but when they're telepathically linked their left eyes exchange color (so silan's becomes blue & vice versa). the flowers here are meant to represent that, like sythra isn't here but at the same time silan carries her with him wherever he goes... smth like that

the plot described in the blurb is like, sort of what happens but i simplified things for the sake of a neat little fake manga blurb. nobody asked me to do this yet here we are. if i were being realistic abt it this would probs be like vol 2 BUT i made it the 10th volume bc this is?? the 10th silan portrait??? i did the first one in 2014?? hello??? time is fake (my hc is that it's a slice of life club manga about flower pressing for the first 9 volumes but it pivots hard in vol 10 bc the author got so sick of drawing flowers no i am not projecting-)

now regarding the japanese version: i tried my best*

*(if u or a loved one know japanese ur not allowed to make fun of me ok orz i used 姉妹 bc theres no way for silan & sythra to know who's the older twin & idk what u would do in that situation like do u just pick one & go w it or is there another hierarchy-neutral word for sister, 姉妹 is the best i can do w my limited knowledge and even then it probably just sounds like silan is having twin girls which like good for him but even so if i sound like a dork keep it to urself ok but actually do tell me if u know bc i would like to Learn ik this is probably the least of my worries when it comes to that entire paragraph but rn we are just going to focus on the issues i know about and pretend that everything else is fine as is ok thank u for ur time & have a lovely day ur a star ⭐️)

misc fun facts aka u learn how unhinged i was abt this:

the title is May 16th bc that's just what silan's story has always been called. luckily i have that up my sleeve or i'd have had to come up w smth out of my ass like The Silan Portrait or some shit

the author and publishing company are both called astralibrary yes that's me (it has a nice ring to it as a manga publisher name don't u think). i made up the logo on the spot it's my best work. especially the one in the bottom right of the japanese bar code area where i just typed the name and put a star next to it bc that makes it look professional somehow

i stole borrowed the barcodes from existing manga i have good pics of (bc i have an entire folder in my gallery dedicated to manga covers & jpn typography, unrelated); the english one is hanako-kun vol 4, and the japanese one is after the rain vol 10. i changed all the numerical codes tho (variations on the date 5/16 repeating)

i made up the english prices but i picked ¥640 specifically bc that's the price of the natsuyuu volumes i have in my manga covers folder, my only possible point of reference,

rated teen even tho in my mind it'd be targeted more towards young adults; it doesn't have anything in it that would warrant a mature rating but it does feel strange to categorize it in this way even knowing these ratings don't necessarily dictate the target audience

i thought about messing around w the design of the japanese version more to reflect some of the design sensibilities i've observed in japanese manga, like different placement of the text on the cover or a different spine entirely (since they tend to differ a lot between jpn and eng versions)- i even thought about trying to design an obi (long strip of paper that wraps all the way around the bottom portion of the book, usually has announcements & promotional stuff on it), but that is a whole ass project for another day i think this'll do just fine for now skdjlfkdg

and there u have it, thank u for reading my yearly essay abt drawing i did! sometimes u need to go aaaaaa about smth u drew and that's ok 👌

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edit: oh yea i forgor i should write transcriptions of the blurbs here we go

ENGLISH

Alone with his thoughts? Not necessarily...

Silan has finally discovered the source of the mysterious voice in his head- the long lost twin sister he never knew he had...?! She calls herself Sythra and she has a serious grudge against him- but they need each other in order to uncover the hidden truths about their past.

Why didn't they know about each other? How were they separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?

And... What else don't they know?

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JAPANESE

双子の姉妹がいる⁉︎

サイランは頭の中の声の衝撃的な正体を知るーーどうやら双子の姉妹がいるらしい⁉︎しかも、なぜか嫌われているようで…頑張れ、サイラン！

どういうわけか、この二人は謎に満ちた過去の答えを一緒に見つけるでしょう。

なぜお互いのことを知らなかったのか？どのようにして離れ離れになったのか？なぜお互いの考えを聞くことができるのか？そして…他に知らないことは…？

待望の第10巻がついに登場！

INTENDED TRANSLATION:

I have a twin sister?!

Silan learns the shocking identity of the voice inside his head- apparently he has a twin sister?! And what's more, for some reason she seems to hate him... Hang in there, Silan!

Somehow, these two will find the answers to their mysterious past together.

Why didn't they know about each other? How did they get separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?And...what else do they not know...?

The long-awaited 10th volume is finally here!

#body horror #eye horror #rieley draws #digital #original #fake manga #ocs #silan portrait #silan scott #may 16th #i'd been binge reading nozaki kun before working on this #and all i could think while doing the flowers was god i wish mikoshiba was here to draw these for me kgjlsdksldkj #i know he doesn't do color but even just sketching them out would be enough o)-< #spent the whole time trying to channel his power.... king uses reference so at least i'm on the right track #(also idk why tunglr is inexplicably washing out the color slightly on the first image but it is annoying that's for sure! #completely inconsequential for viewers but utterly fatal to the artist OTL)

[astralibrary]

week 1 of artfight let's gooooo

it worked out that my first two attacks happened to be of sibling pairs, so that's a fun lil bonus theme 👌

characters are:

doodle & luna for Zebra_Zee

cowdy & lavender for cowdy

#artfight #artfight 2022 #team wither #other ocs #rieley draws #digital #''week one'' she says posting halfway thru week 2 #im fighting for my life out here man im just trying to SURVIVE #i haven't been able to launch any of my own attacks bc ppl keep hitting me first so all i've been doing is revenges gkjsdkfjkd #it's rough out here on the battlefield 😔 #anyway if y'all got artfight im astralibrary there too! #(and if u don't it's not too late to join wink)

[astralibrary]

my yearly tradition continues with the 2022 silan portrait/illustration! needed an extra day to finish it off but He's Here

couple of fun things this time: technically this has been a thing since last year but because of the angle you couldn't see it, but both of his eyes are brown! normally silan's left eye is blue, and i haven't done away with the heterochromia entirely, but for ~story related reasons~ they are brown by default now hehe

i also gave him a new hobby, which is flower pressing! since i've always associated flowers with silan (to the point that it became one of the main themes of these illustrations), this felt like a very natural progression to take with his character. so i've given him a bookmark he made containing a pressed pansy, the flower i associate with him the most.

flower pressing also plays into the developing themes of silan's character and story; there's a lot of focus on memories and nostalgia and the influence of time. in my mind, the flowers are like precious memories he's trying to preserve, pausing time and holding onto them in their most beautiful state.

last year i went with a quiet, contemplative mood, which i carried forward into this year; i think this one has more of a bittersweet vibe, like the lamp turning on as the sun goes down is signaling that this moment will have to come to an end, but at least before that happens, we can appreciate its beauty. i find it a very fitting encapsulation of all the themes & ideas i've been playing around with lately ❤️

so that's a wrap on this year's portrait! as always, looking forward to what next year will bring; who knows, maybe i will even let silan be happy again! Only Time Will Tell

#apparently i started calling these illustrations last year i completely forgot #well i wasn't wrong!! #rieley draws #ocs #silan portrait #every time i draw a yellow top and blue jeans all i can ever think is arthur i hate it gkjdkfjskjgdsdk #i literally went out of my way to avoid it this time by making the jeans gray but somehow when i did the shading they turned blue again im #the arthur effect....... no one is safe #im sorry silan u____u #me in the post: yea this is a super deep and emotional piece w so much symbolism- #me in the tags:

[astralibrary]

artfight weeks 2+3 babey ✌️

so many dnd characters, y'all are Out Here ✊

in order:

Boe for EdiSlendering

Dante, Milo, Dimitri & Eden for DoodlesIGuess

Lumi & Grace for Maymagic

Lance for Duckstuff2008

Breeze for @fourlegged-potato

#artfight #artfight 2022 #team wither #other ocs #rieley draws #digital #theyre not all dnd but Most Of Them #1st and 3rd are the only ones that aren't #(the 1st one is my fave hence why i put it first) #all of these are banger characters jsyk

[astralibrary]

final week of artfight! i'm a little sad to see it come to a close (it went by so fast!) but that just means i'll have that much more excitement saved up for next year ✨ GG everyone!

this time we got

keyra for yourcupofchii

neve for AnnoyingMoth

sunny for elessar

#artfight #artfight 2022 #team wither #other ocs #rieley draws #rieley pixels #digital #in the end keyra was the only one that wasn't a revenge this year gjdkfjskdjgkd #which is gr8 i love revenging #but maybe next year i should give myself a week dedicated to launching my own attacks hmm.... #anyway!! artfight fun. thank u

[astralibrary]

smoochin’ & scootin’

#sk8 the infinity #sk8 #hasegawa langa #kyan reki #renga #langa was not keeping his eyes on the road 😔 #wear ur helmets kiddos #anyway i like to think langa can easily pick up reki #& reki goes bonkers for it #reki can have little a stacked boyfriend #as a treat #rieley draws #digital #fanart #(hint hint all these different iterations are types of commissions i'll be offering 👀 #wink wonk hee honk #except for the bonus doodle thats just. a bonus)

[astralibrary]

last natsuyuus of the year ✨🌟

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #natsume takashi #nyanko sensei #madara #things i drew but never found a chance to post #rly happy w the coloring in all three of these ;w; #rieley draws #digital #fanart #i think that natsuyuu is a story about natsume & nyanko sensei picking each other up #not metaphorically or emotionally or whatever just like they see a little guy and pick him up. thats all

[astralibrary]

madara but make him l o n g

#except for the 2nd one that ones just 4 laffs #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #natsume takashi #madara #nyanko sensei #hey guess who misses drawing natsuyuu stuff ✌️ #big sensei big fun 2 draw #cant get enuffa this guy honest #rieley draws #digital #fanart #why r they in a cave lol 😂 #whyd i randomly force myself to paint a cave lol 😂😂😂

[astralibrary]

you fly so high without me.

#sk8 the infinity #sk8 #hasegawa langa #kyan reki #renga #sk8 fanart #:((((( #rieley draws #digital #fanart #HUH me drawing angst???? i cant believe it #i love reki so so so so so much #i need him to understand how special & important he is :((( #ESPECIALLY to langa #him believing that he has no place next to langa bc he can't keep up anymore #like it's his own personal failing that he's being left behind #it breaks my HEART #@ bones fix this immediately #tell him how important he is to langa GET HIS ASS #jdgdjdjf reki in the group chat: im nothing compared to u guys :( #everyone else: TYPO IN THE GROUP CHAT!!!! GET HIS ASS #*flood of heart emojis and cheesy line stickers*

[astralibrary]

hey @dafukdidiwatch, im your @pnatsecretsanta!!! i did some rave spider for u bc how could i see this guy and NOT wanna draw him LOOK AT HIM

you mentioned that his tool is a disco ball possessed by an armadillo and after conducting some Very Scientific Research i didn’t see any established design for them so if there IS one and i missed it I APOLOGIZE but i went ahead and had a little fun with the concept myself 👉👈 i hope that’s okay! (ive been calling them armadisco in my head but again if u already have a name for them then simply DISREGARD THIS,)

anyway this was REAL FUN and i hope you like it as much as i enjoyed creating it! happy holidays and have a wonderful new year!!! 💖💖💖

#pnatsecretsanta #paranatural #rieley draws #rieley animates #digital #fanart #uaaaaa sorry it's a few days late pls forgive me 🙏 #this is a v fun character i hope i did him justice in ur eyes #(btw ive really enjoyed ur pnat liveblogs i was like !!! when i saw u were my giftee this year gkjdfkdjs) #I HOPE U LIKE IT !!!!