Figure Drawing. I'm Not Great At It.

I just gotta keep practicing! I'm so disappointed in myself that I haven't been drawing. I feel like all the pressure to produce good works is making me feel to stressed to draw, so I haven't been. I feel like it hasn't been a positive semester. At least it's spring break now! No chilis. No school. Imma spend my time studying art and anatomy and sitting on the balcony painting the mountain. We'll see how that goes.

Rabbit Versus Kitten: Apartment Turf Wars

So one of my many current residences includes the apartment that my boyfriend has started renting with  his best friend Trevor. I happen to like it alot. I like the freedom to come and go, I like the location and most of all I like Trevor's kitten. Now, normally I'm allergic to cats but I've been doing pretty well with this one so far. I think the little guy is adorable.

The kitten, understandably, is questionable about the lil dude. He seems to confuse the kitten. Like the cat is aware that lil dude is a giant rodent and that he should be easy prey....but he's not. Lil dude, on the other hand, seems smitten with the kitten. He seems to want to be his friend. He likes to wait for him. He likes to sniff him. He likes to follow him. It's real adorable. What's most entertaining is seeing them take turns chasing each other around the apartment.

Painting Kicks My Ass

So I haven't posted a whole heck of a lot since school started...I actually don't think I've posted at all. I've just been so busy with all the homework. There is so much painting. Arg! And I'm not that good at it. I wish I had examples to post. The only thing I have at the moment is this pretty sweet painting of an apple painted in the Zorn palette (This palette consists of black, white, cad red and yellow ochre). This is the only successful piece so far this semester. All my drapery studies are pretty shitty. However, it is a learning process so I'm completely all right with failing so long as I know why. Learning from mistakes. Yea! School! F's for everyone! But at least you grew as an artist. Hahahahaha.

So School Started...

...and apparently I like to draw fan art instead of practice classic techniques and do homework... I just wanna read comics all the time...is that so bad? And then when I'm not reading, I'm drawing them. That's cool right? I'M COOL!!! SO COOL!!! Validation!!!

I'm so cool that the guy at Hijinx Comics remembered my name the other day. Oooooh I was so excited.

Random art dump. These are some of the pictures I've come up with.

This is me and Eric dressed up as our fav superheroes while reading comics. We actually do this, in real life. Also we fight crime. I am Powergirl for reals tho.

Sailor Jupiter. It is my goal to paint every sailor scout in photoshop!

I was so proud of this one! It has story. It has expression. It looks like a comic panel taken straight from a comic! Looooooove it!

Amethyst got all sassy. What the hell iiiiiiis that thing. I know its woven out of mist but what IS it?

Day 24....Horses are hard to draw.

For day 24 I didn't even want to do a horse. It just sort of happened.

On the list, day 24 reads as "a multiple legged monster" so originally I wanted to do a creepy crawly. I was looking at shrimp for inspiration because I love the way they move. However, I found that after scribbling a few shrimp, I just wasn't into the idea.

For whatever reason my next idea was a watermelon with spike spider legs. I'm not sure why. It was a really random idea. I didn't go into that idea because for some reason I was convinced that the design I had in mind already existed. I think that I was thinking of the water melon called walter melon from the aqua teen hunger force movie. Ha! So i nixed that idea.

Lyndsay has been talking a lot about how she's looking into buying a pony so I've had horses on the brain for a while. I ended up drawing a pegasus for today's challenge. It's not really a monster I guess and who can tell if it's even female. Oh well. It's alright. I like it ok. I'm quite sure its the best horse I've ever drawn. I think what I liked most is the red lines in contrast with all the greens.

She's a cubby one!

Day 23 Yokai...And Bad Imitation of Ink Painting.

So according to the all powerful wikipedia, a yokai is a catch term for all japanese supernatural beings. There are so many that I ended up picking one that sounded the most interesting.

A kitsune is japanese for fox but within the realm of yokai, a kitsune is a shape shifting fox that varies in personality. Kitsune often shape shift into young girls, beautiful women and old men. It is said that if you come across a beautiful women alone in the forest, she is a kitsune in disguise.

For my yokai picture I wanted to go for a sumi-e style of painting. I was aiming toward a Hokusai-esque digital painting but...haha....of course one can only ever aim for Hokusai greatness but can never obtain Hokusai greatness. I chose a brush that I hoped would imitate the undulation of an ink brush line but it fell short. However, I have a fondness for the piece, despite it not coming out quite right.

Day 22. Flying Ninja Rabbit Jerks

I'm watching my rabbit fight like ninjas right now. Man, they really don't get along. Rabbits are adorable little jerks and I'm pretty sure they are aware of it! I really should do a rabbit monster. I could make t-shirts with that image! lol

Day 22 is a canine girl! I wanted to pick a specific dog and showcase a specific trait of that dog. I chose great dane as the breed. Great danes are known as racing dogs so I wanted to showcase dog ability to run great distances. I went with a girl runner character. This is dear to my heart because 1.) I used to be a runner and 2.) I used a sketch of the east bay hills as the background. Great danes typically have slender waists and muscular thighs, both of which are traits that I carried over into the character design.

What I like best about the piece is the composition specifically in relation to the background. I thought it would be interesting to have a low horizon that showed a vast background but then trapped that background within the confines of a square box. The character is not confined to the box which I feel pushes the character forward in space.

Eric pointed out the irony of a dog girl taking herself on a walk. I love it! Unintentional!