| Creep creep creep. |
[28th Feb. 2009 • 01:03] |
( Seriously, I'm not into hacking off your limbs. :( )
Long time no see! This watercolor makes me look like a psychopath. Also, the lady within is based on ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scansion's character; I attempted the twin brother and failed. Alas.
MEDIUM: Watercolor, pen and ink.
DATE: 28 February 2009 |
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[28th Feb. 2009 • 01:01] |
FANCY NOTICE WHATEVER:After this particular post, I'm deleting all my academic art and directing you to my professional portfolio, which is here and will be up shortly! This will be where I put my RP art, commissions to friends, &c. TAKE LUCK, HAVE A GREAT DAY, ETC.! |
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| My favorite song ever came up on shuffle today. It was good times. :] |
[27th Aug. 2008 • 21:06] |
( Pakistani children play locked inside of the courtyard all day. )
So, I've gone off to art school. What's more, I go to art school very early in the morning, which is when these drawings have been sketched. Basically, it's in that special dawning hour of 8:30-8:45am, when I'm trying to wake myself up while drinking tea and waiting for Creative Processes to start. The first sketch was today and the second was drawn on the 25th.
The last? Special for pronto as a glareminder to do certain characters/reminder of the sexy rewards. (HINT: It might have something to do with me and drawing.)
Anyway, I'm thinking of doing a few things with these. One: watercoloring for the hell of it. Two: hold a caption contest for our special lady in the middle. HOHOHO!
MEDIUM: Graphite.
DATE: 25 and 27 August 2008 |
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| ... but neither can he explain dominatrix tendencies. |
[27th Jun. 2008 • 03:45] |
( Rudie can't fail, oh no! )
So once upon a time, I did a phone log with Marie, wherein Trance tries to give hints to Punk about what kind of awesome her LP record gifts contain. These hints involve mentions of rude boys, which was meant with all due innocence to everyone's favorite musical movement -- really!
Yeah, yeah, tell that to Punk, the dirty bastard.
MEDIUM: Graphite.
DATE: 27 June 2008 |
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| But at least he meant well, Charlotte. |
[18th Jun. 2008 • 01:07] |
( A lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying. )
This is for an art trade for neruda -- apparently, I'm getting gorgeous photography in return! At any rate, this is probably not the most beautiful thing I could give her, but it is probably one of the most enjoyable caricatures that I've ever drawn. Shay, babydoll, I will totally give you something that is actually legit if you want, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to draw Emo at the prom. I just couldn't!
MEDIUM: Graphite.
DATE: 18 June 2008 |
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| One should not be proud about the color accuracy of bruising, but I am. |
[3rd Jun. 2008 • 18:43] |
( I will be your accident if you will be my ambulance. )
I'm not entirely sure what it says about my personal character that I decided to draw a rather bruised and bloodied depiction of a character I created. If, for some strange reason, you are invested in not knowing anything about potential plot that I'm planning for the character mentioned in the tag, then don't click on the LJ cut. It's not anything big, but some people like surprises and the setting is... a surprise!
Anyway, let's get down to medium talk. This is the first watercolor that I've done in four years, so I'm pretty pleased with the results; about my only complaint is that I think that I could've painted a more even coat of black on her hair, but this is easily rectified. I guess watch this place for updates? (Oh, and yes -- I used pre-mixed black. If this is painting wrong, then I don't want to be right.)
MEDIUM: Watercolor, graphite.
DATE: 3 June 2008 |
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| What kind of fucking lyrics do you put for a ceramic pot? |
[25th May. 2008 • 02:02] |
( They see me rolling. They hating. Patrolling. )
Although I love ceramics like fat kids love cake, I fear there is little to be said about this pot. The objective of the project was to construct a coil piece with decorative stamping on one side of the vessel and a smooth side on the other, with the intent of one side being glazed and the other left plain to display the pigment of the clay. Mine turned out delightfully floppy; I explained it away by saying that it was "organic."
Moral of the Story I: You can get away with anything in critique if you bullshit enough.
Moral of the Story II: This is currently being used on my dining room table.
MEDIUM: Red clay, glaze. (Every ceramicist will hate me for writing such a generic description.)
DATE: 2005-2006 Academic Year. |
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| See, I can do portraits too? |
[25th May. 2008 • 01:57] |
( So, what do you do? Oh yeah, I wait tables too. )
Again, there's just not too much to say about portraits produced in Drawing class -- but, this one has a special story! Now, everyone in the world knows what my first college roommate looks like! Oooh, isn't she cute? Awwww, ad nauseum.
MEDIUM: Conte crayon.
DATE: 2005-2006 Academic Year. |
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| So, anybody want to go to Wupatki? |
[25th May. 2008 • 01:53] |
( As timeless as the carving on the stone. )
My Drawing I and II instructor was an illustrator by trade; as such, we had a lot of "projects" wherein we did things like "travel posters" or other things that I'd much rather forget if altogether possible. (There's a reason why they didn't make portfolio.) The sad thing is that the actual piece was not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as the above sketch was, but sometimes you just have the magic and sometimes you don't.
MEDIUM: Ballpoint pen.
DATE: 2005-2006 Academic Year. |
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| Crumply paper is secretly art. |
[24th May. 2008 • 23:12] |
( But one time out of ten, everything is perfect for us all. )
Normally, I am utterly convinced of my incapability of doing photorealism. It's mostly because I haven't the patience to sit and sketch something to that detail; I suppose I'll have to do so this summer courtesy of portfolio requirements to prove that I'm not a total fail before Herron, but the general thing with my work is that I do not sit in front of a piece and observe its minute details.
That being said, this is an example that I am capable of doing such, and with admirable results. You can also tell that I was taught by an illustrator -- it explains the THICK FUCKING LINE AROUND EVERYTHING.
MEDIUM: Graphite.
DATE: 5 October 2005 |
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| Yawn yawn, bodies bodies. |
[24th May. 2008 • 23:08] |
( It's something I said, or someone I know. )
There's not much you can say about pieces from drawing courses -- "Oh man, I stared at this person, and I really suddenly had this artistic vision of them lying on the ground with her arms folded over her abdomen! Isn't human anatomy beautiful?!"
MEDIUM: Conte crayon.
DATE: 2005-2006 Academic Year |
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| Scribble scrobble scribble scrobble. |
[24th May. 2008 • 21:32] |
( Vaseline over the lenses. )
The first thing I ever drew in a college art course. True story.
MEDIUM: Conte crayon.
DATE: August 2005 |
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| I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. |
[24th May. 2008 • 15:04] |
( Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. )
I was going to try to keep up with the pretentious tone of my summaries, but then I remembered that this wasn't an official portfolio and I don't have to do snooty artist statements. Enter a simple explanation: this is a tree made out of sweaters and pants. It looks like Dr. Seuss made it.
MEDIUM: Khaki pants, sweater, poncho, tube scarf, chicken wire, wood, fishing line.
DATE: November 2006 |
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| This was once called hobo couture. |
[24th May. 2008 • 14:52] |
( The streets are strangely quiet because everyone's away on holiday. )
When my professor introduced the modular unit project, most people were thinking of different building blocks for the end of their means. One girl drilled a series of holes into a tree trunk and stuck twigs into the base, another used goldfish on a tower (which created quite the scandal with most of the campus), and I tore magazine pages into quarters and used them to make a hat and scarf set.
Let it be known that paper is not a kind mistress when it comes to sewing.
MEDIUM: Magazine paper, cotton thread.
DATE: November 2006 |
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| Is bunchy fabric a proper disguise? |
[24th May. 2008 • 14:04] |
( All you scientists can hold your breath. )
Once upon a time, I was going to be a fiber arts major. This explains my 3-D Design work, which will be shown in this and the next two subsequent entries. The objective of this project was to take any ordinary item and sufficiently wrap it in any found object in order to transform its identity from the mundane to an object of art, &c. &c.
The former identity of this particular piece was a tiny sports water bottle that cost $0.99 from the Wal-Mart (which, alas, was the most sophisticated art supply store that Nevada, Missouri possessed). What I meant the piece to "mean" is long-gone and not particularly important; something involving juxtaposition of environmental landscapes and all this crap, as it was more of an experiment to even see if any of what I could do would even work. I'm not quite sure whether it did, but it was fun as fuck to make.
MEDIUM: Cotton (hand-painted with acrylic wash), embroidery floss, plastic water bottle.
DATE: August-September 2006 |
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| Hired guns and so forth. |
[24th May. 2008 • 03:15] |
( Don't come any closer -- that's good enough. )
For some reason, karma decided to grant me the peculiar gift of a plethora of art supplies today. As one is want to do when given a dearth of new toys, I decided to try out some of my new supplies in the form of a new piece. The playthings in question were sumi-e ink and a bamboo brush set; I'm not about to pretend that I actually know how to use either as they were originally intended, but nor will I pretend that I didn't like the effects the way I used it. Sorry, traditionalists -- I fully intend on using things for my own ends.
It must be noted that the scan is actually awful; my scanner is not nearly large enough to capture the entire portrait, which conceals a nice frame of smoggy smoke stuff that I did around the subject's face. Another note: this is someone else's character who just happened to lend herself nicely to the composition I had in my head. Besides, she's a bamf, so there we are.
MEDIUM: Graphite, sumi-e ink (applied via bamboo brush), watercolor paper.
DATE: 24 May 2008 |
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| Champagne, etc. |
[16th May. 2008 • 08:17] |
( And I know my face looks crazed and wild, but I've got her eyes -- a mama's child. )
Figures that my return to computer coloring is courtesy of maimedmods, which technically got me computer drawing and coloring in the first place (or, well, it seems like it has, at any rate). I have a few reservations about the hair coloring technique, but it's really grown on me, I suppose. Worse comes to worse, I still have the line art... right?
I've this sketch kicking around in my book for a bit, but I decided to color it after a friend had a bit of a rough patch. I'm not saying that this would be much of a YAY PRIZE or whatevs, but I figure that it's always nice to have a bit of a token that someone's been thinking of you during a difficult time, etc., especially since words can (in my experience) sometimes make things a little more awkward. But calloo callay for it being the inaugural piece, so on and so forth. (Now I want to go to sleep, so I'm wrapping this up.)
MEDIUM: Mechanical pencil, gel pen, Adobe Photoshop CS
DATE: Early parts of May, but finished 15 May 2008 |
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| Someday! Somewhere! Someday! |
[4th Apr. 2008 • 15:43] |
Someday, this journal will have examples of my artsy fartsiness. There may be snippets of my portfolio from my Cottey days, retarded Cinco de Mayentines, or other such tomfoolery.
That day is not today. This is just a filler entry until such a thing is the case. |
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