objectifying

Paintings from Figure Painting Class

2011-05-11T01:59:00.003-04:00

Digital Drawing: Surreal Project

2011-02-09T11:39:00.003-05:00

software class

2011-02-08T17:31:00.002-05:00

Concept Preview

2010-10-19T23:11:00.003-04:00

It's getting past my bedtime. I'll be posting my process for this picture and an update of it either tomorrow or this weekend. Until then. . . .

Illustration Class

2010-10-19T22:37:00.015-04:00

I'm in Illustration: Drawing and Painting this semester with a Mr. Stephen Alcorn. Everyone in the department knows that this is supposed to be the painting class but our professor wants us to focus on drawing. We have been working on the same project since the beginning of the semester (this is basically unheard of in school, it seems). Our project was to take something we liked, that spoke to us in some way... but it had to be a piece of literature or a song or something along those lines. I REALLY wanted to do a song, but he wanted me to do Elizabeth and Darcy. So here are some sketches of what I started with, where I went, and where I am now.

So I wasn't excited about this from the beginning. It IS my favourite book, but, I mean... no. I just wasn't all about it for an illustration. I also wanted to do something stylized. Something that *I* wanted to do for once, you know?

But I kept going and tried to work things out....

Didn't last. I finally put my foot down and chose "Skeleton Key" by Margot and the Nuclear So and So's to illustrate.

and onward go trying to figure out everything I want to incorporate. From the horns that show her partner's infidelity, to the pears that show the carnal desires he fell to.

we had a class to go outside and draw... but Franklin Street's just too pretty in the fall.

He thought that the pears should be more stylized. I'm not sure that I agree, but we'll see. I really liked this sketch, but he thought the other was better.

so I kept with it and this is the drawing I'm probably sticking with. I'll probably still try to rework the face.

but I'm trying to focus on colour at the moment. I'm doing watercolour with colored pencil... possibly ink (or ballpoint pen).

watercolourin' fool!

and don't worry, the face will DEFINITELY not look like this. Now that I don't love colours... I just don't want it for this project.

next post will be for Concept Class!

I'll See Your Heart, and I'll Raise You Mine...

2010-07-20T01:44:00.003-04:00

song by Bell X1. On Repeat throughout this thang. I just wanted to finish it. It's not what I expected it to turn into. Part of me feels like I took the easy way out with this one. I feel bad, but I've been in such a rut lately; it's pathetic.

btw: sorry for not posting for a while.

Gill Sans ULTRA BOLD

2010-04-29T15:51:00.003-04:00

A project for typography class. We had to choose a typeface, make a poster, show the uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and a brief history. Professor told me to just put in the history for Gill Sans.

Oh, Scary Lady...

2010-04-20T19:43:00.002-04:00

So my printer not only ate it, but it is also not long enough to scan all of it at once. So I had to scan it twice, and the top half would never come out completely in focus. I apologize. And I thinkt he colours are better than this. :/

There's more I need to upload, but, meh. I'll do it later.

Clothing Store Tag Poject

2010-03-29T18:26:00.003-04:00

For design class.

We were to design a tag for a clothing store named "icon." After we did that, we were supposed to mess around with different colour schemes. Complementary(or split complementary), analogous, monochromatic, tints, shades, etc. Here are mine thus far. I've cleaned them up a bit since I first posted this. I also realized that my split complementary wasn't actually a split complementary. I have no idea where my mind was. Probably got up in this recent "thing" I have for cyan and magenta.

You might have noticed that the split complementary isn't soooo traditional. This is because of a recent lecture I attended that has totally redefined my colour wheel. The opposites would now be: yellow and blue, magenta and green, red and cyan.

Let's hope critique goes well tomorrow!

Self Portrait for Kappa Pi

2010-03-23T17:33:00.003-04:00

I've recently been accepted into an art fraternity. One of our first assignments was to do a self portrait. It wasn't supposed to be anything big. Don said 2 hours.... I did a bit longer. I would finish it completely, but I have to go model for my friends for figure drawing class. :/

done from life instead of by a photograph. Not thrilled, but not upset. Hmm.

Late Night Computer Drawing [EDIT 2/27]

2010-02-26T03:52:00.004-05:00

EDIT: I started colouring tonight. I'm trying to keep with a tight, limited palette. we'll see how it turns out. My friend's birthday party is tonight. All I want to do is stay here and keep painting. I don't want to walk all the way over there in the dark.... but, alas! I told him I'd be there, and I'll be there.

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So after I posted that last post, I decided to start doodling free hand a bit on the computer. I need more practice since I feel like I'm still not where I was a few years ago. I just need to get used to it more. This song by Bell X1 came on and I kept going with it. I do this really dumb thing where a song will put me in a certain mood, so I have to put the song on repeat to keep the mood.... and keep it on repeat until I come to a stopping point in my drawing/painting/whatever.

So yeah, tonight was "I'll See Your Heart and I'll Raise You Mine" by Bell X1. I originally got their CD for the song "Next to You" which is AMAZIIIINNNG (I love that song SO much) but I didn't really get into the rest of the album. I guess I just didn't give it a good listening to because I really enjoyed this song. :/

I definitely ramble when I'm tired. Bleh. Here's what I did. And OMFG I drew a MAN?!! He looks so.... manly.... in the face. D: I didn't think I was capable of that. I hope I like this in the morning. I'll definitely finish this piece over the weekend at the latest. I'm pretty into it. F*ck hair. I have no idea what to do with hair in this. uuugggh.

glimmer

2010-02-26T01:04:00.005-05:00

thought I'd fool around in photoshop tonight with that sketch I've already posted.

I'm submitting my "portfolio" tomorrow for Kappa Pi. I still have no idea what I should put in. This year's sucked as far as making things go. Mehh. Kendall said to just put stuff in that show my skill level and what I'm about. :/ I feel like my sketchbook is going to be the biggest thing. We'll see how things go.

btw: this chick has a lazy eye. mmmmm.

Finally! A post! Sadly, There's Not Much. :[

2010-02-19T04:30:00.010-05:00

So all of the drawing that I WANTED to happen... didn't. There was so much traveling over break. I hate drawing in front of people, and I was in front of people all the time. I did, however, log about 100 hours on pokemon diamond. Take that however you want. Heh.

I haven't done much work in my sketchbook since the semester has started, either. I couldn't get into a figure drawing class this semester because VCU seems to never be able to have enough room for their students. :/ And that would have bee the only drawing class I'd have this semester. It's irritating, but I can't do much. Hopefully I'll be able to take it over the summer. I have a design class and a typography class this semester, though. Not a lot of drawing takes place in these classes, sadly. I'm basically moving type around in one class, and making icons in another. I don't find either of those things interesting enough to post on here. Not to say I'm not learning!! I'm learning! Just not making anything interesting, I suppose.

I was up tonight drawing. I inked on of the drawings I already had, too! Nothing's coloured, or final, and the pictures are a bit yellow due to lighting... but I figured anything was better than nothing since I haven't updated in forever. I'm going to take some time out to work more in my sketchbook and maybe do bigger projects. I'm not nearly as busy as I was last semester. I'm still trying to find a job since I have all of that free time... but no dice. :[ Even work study is impossible! BAH!

I'll just post the pictures. I'll describe/explain them in the next post, when they're coloured. Except for the only one in different colours.... that's a drawing game between me and my friend Clinton, who is awesome. enjoy.

indefinite

2009-12-19T01:21:00.003-05:00

finished this tonight.
it was on one of the pages I covered in printing paper. I used ballpoint pen and watercolor. I really like it. It's been forever since I've been able to draw any of my girls the way I like/they help me. Suddenly they've come back... and I hope they stay for a prolonged period of time because they help me get so much out.

More pages!

2009-12-17T01:27:00.015-05:00

Here are those sketchbook pages I promised. I forgotten that I hadn't uploaded them yet. so three pages that I WOULD have taken pictures of... didn't get their pictures taken. They were so terrible that I rubber cemented blank paper over top of them, hahaha. I haven't drawn over them yet, but I did draw over over two of the pages after they were graded... but you'll see that.

(and don't worry, the better stuff is towards the end.)

I think I got lazy? I don't know. It was a happy moment that I wanted to capture. A state of contentment that I wanted to put down to remember.... buuuuut.... laziness set in. I probably also had to suddenly leave. Doesn't matter. I shouldn't finish this for a few, rather personal, reasons.

This wasn't intentional.... and then it was. HAHAHA! I was trying to make something out of watercolour splatters, and Dr. Venture appeared out of thin air! Don't know who Dr. Venture is? Then you need to start watching The Venture Brothers on Adult Swim. You're seriously missing out. SUCH an awesome show. This past season hasn't been so great, though... imho.

This is another thing that appeared randomly. Pierce said it looked like someone we both knew, but I assured him that it wasn't. And even if it MIGHT look like her, a little bit, it was COMPLETELY unintentional.

Those two girls I posted in the previous post.... you insert those here. I am not repeating them in this post.

The Drawing Game. I imagine this would be a fun thing to do with other artists that consider themselves artists. You start with a blank sheet of paper and draw a mark or two on it. You do not draw anything completely (like a whole unicorn or something, yeah, you don't do that). After making a few marks, you give it to the next person. He/she then proceeds to put down a few marks added onto yours or not. You go around to each person over and over again until you think your drawing is complete.

This one was done at about 2AM at an IHOP with three boys and myself. They were fairly tipsy, I will admit. I feel that boys + beer + drawing is bound to equal penises SOMEWHERE. I really love doing these with people, though. You never realize how crazy their imaginations are! I try keep my marks similar to theirs, too... for consistency. I don't think that's a bad thing, is it? People get self conscious about participating in the drawing game when they find out you're an illustration major. I feel like the key is making them comfortable and not trying to show them up. They usually come out looking more aesthetically pleasing... but I love all the ones I get to do with people. It's always so much fun.

Oh, Ballpoint Pen, how I've missed you.

White gouache was put down first, then I draw over it and put light watercolours ontop of that because it was out while I was painting. I love sitting under trees in the fall. It's one of my favourite things to do.

This was originally a very very terrible page. But then I draw over it in pen and made it not AS terrible. :D

This was an even WORSE page... but then I covered it in sheets of notebook paper. Ballpoint pen, again. I swear, it's like a monster comes out of me when I use ballpoint pen--especially blue ink ones!! I really like this image. I just wish it was cleaner. Meh.

The page before (that was covered up with notebook paper AFTER doing this) did this. :[ I draw with prismacolor marker... and it bled through. It's a shame because I was really happy with this. I don't know whether to go back over it in ballpoint pen or not.

And Sybil. Just another of my girls I decided to draw. I love love love ballpoint pen sometimes.

Little Dude

2009-12-11T03:30:00.002-05:00

click to enlarge, as always.

this is my little dude. He popped up a while back and I've been drawing him since then. I mess around with how he looks all the time... and I still don't know if he is hairy or not (he is here... but, I mean, he was a cartoon-like figure from the beginning.) Sometimes he has ears, sometimes he doesn't. He's a nice little thing, though--very kind, if a bit sad. I would not call him a "monster" because it would hurt his feelings. He can't shut his mouth.

Anyways. This was just some doodling done with the tablet tonight. It's hard to get back into the swing of things with my tablet. I'm not sure why.

All Text (1)

2009-12-11T00:09:00.002-05:00

So I got a B in Visual Studies. -HAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPY- I hope my other grades are what I think they will be. I fixed more of my self portrait. I ended up getting a B on it. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my face, and she pointed out that my nose was too long. I immediately saw it. She said the colours were good, if a bit too green. I blame the fluorescent lighting in my dorm/apartment, but I agree. I'm still pretty glad to have gotten a B in the class. I was capable of making an A, easily, but I just did not manage my time very well. I'll know the rest of my grades by the 17th. I'd be worrying about them until then if I didn't have an exam to study for. I NEED to get an A on this final exam or else I'm royally screwed in that class, I think. I thought I did well on the last exam we had... and I definitely didn't. Oh well. Life goes on.

I have only 20 pages left in my moleskin before it's completely filled!! I couldn't believe it! I'm pretty happy with it. I'm home and out of Richmond right now and forgot my camera or else I'd upload some images. I'll have them up by the 16th or 17th, though. Probably with more than just the 15 I had to do for Wednesday.

I'm planning on doing some watercolour drawings this break and hopefully some digital painting. I'm really excited. I feel like I've lost something since I've been in Richmond. I look back on some of my older work and there's something in it that's missing now. I don't know what it is, though. Hopefully I can find it.

I don't know...

2009-12-09T03:12:00.004-05:00

I don't know how I feel about this.
My final project in visual studies is a self portrait. She wanted us to mix our own colours and pay attention to what's happening with the skin. I chose watercolour because I thought it'd be the best way for me to get the colours I wanted... now, I'm not so sure. I suppose it's too late to back out now. The only thing I'm going to do with this is make the hair darker. I'm leaving it as a blob because she wanted us to focus on the face.

I originally wanted to do this in coloured pencils, too.... but I don't think I'm going to.

It doesn't help that I have a rather odd shaped face. Everyone who tries to draw me either makes me look like a man... or a crackwhore. :/

Claurice and Norine

2009-12-07T00:52:00.005-05:00

My sketchbook is due Wednesday and I'm finishing up my last 15 pages that I have to due. School is going crazy. I feel like I did so terrible this semester and I have no idea why. It wasn't like I went out a lot or anything. I just... did so terribly. I didn't HAVE to... I was fully capable of making 3 A's and a B.... but, I dunno. I also don't know what my grades are yet, so... meh. We'll see just how horrible I did, I suppose. I'm expecting C, B, A, B. And that would be awesome, considering how shitty I feel about my performance this semester. I really hope it's not worse than that. :[ If it is... I don't know what I'll do.
Be a hermit next semester and do nothing but art all the time and not even talk to my boyfriend?
yeeeah... that's what I'll do.

anyways... these pages are right next to each other. I'll show you my two girls before Wednesday. I've been steering away from pretty for a while. :/

the first, Claurice, was done in pencil and gouache. Norine was pencil and coloured pencil on gouache. I really detest gouache for anything other than this type of thing.

another huge sketchbook dump

2009-11-18T21:48:00.024-05:00

I had taken a picture of this before, but it wasn't coloured at that time. It's coloured now, as you can see. I was going to put string in between the fingers... but that has yet to happen. Dunno if I'll ever get around to it.
The boyfriend's room, where I was sitting.

The teachers here push mixed media like it's nobody's business. This was a sad attempt. I just have such a hard time incorporating things into what I ACTUALLY want to draw... that it just ends up being a bunch of shit glued onto a page. The "hello" thing...there's clear plastic on top of that, and it lifts up.
opened. I apologize for flicking you off... wasn't intentional. And now, I'm too lazy to retake the picture. :/
I'm not even sure anymore. That kid looks mega creepy. D:
I HATE THEM SO MUCH, OMFG. Pictures of them online look like shrimpies, sort of. Ugh. I hate them. I HATE YOU, SILVERFISH!!
The flower is taped onto the page. It was from such a wonderful day/weekend. And I'm very upset that the person who gave it to me isn't really talking to me at this point. But, I'm a dumb girl who... continued to be dumb. A lot of the later sketch pages ended up being based on that. All of my pages are reflections of what's happening in my life at the time... some just more so than others.
like this.
and this.
and DEFINITELY this one.
I really like these blobs, though.
I was so happy with that girl. haha!
i love octopi so much! :D
this was SUPPOSED to be an octopus strangling a raven.... but it didn't really come out. I didn't get to draw it when I had the idea. Bah. Don't want to talk about it.
unfinished crappy sketch. I was in the halloween mood.
NAIL POLISH! :D I like this one. Pierce says the ones like this scare him.
highlighters are yummy. the drawings... not so much.
I'd rather not comment on this embarrassing page.
MAGIC CARDS! My sketchbook was due... I'm sorry!
My little man. :] Practice with gouache. Sharpie, pen, and ink were also used. I love it. :>

more magic cards....lawlz. Messing around with gouache. I don't think I like it much.

I really like this page. I was bummed when I realized I got it dirty with the gouache... but I don't really mind anymore. Pages like these make me feel like I should drink and draw more often. :/

School Work Fall 09

2009-11-18T21:30:00.006-05:00

I thought I'd show some stuff that I've done so far this year. I only have 2 studio classes this semester: Visual Studies and Figure Drawing: The Figure Observed. I registered late, so I missed out on Typography and Digital Software class. Visual Studies... I'm not quite sure what we're doing in that class. We spent about a month on a still life. And now we're working on a project where we draw a drawing a day for 30 days. All drawings must be observed, though. Figure drawing is pretty self explanatory. But we start with the skeleton, then move to the skeleton with muscles, then parts of the body, and now we're doing the whole body (we have only 3 classes left in this semester).

This was the big still life. One class we were supposed to bring in 2 white boxes. Then we had to keep the boxes we chose... and bring in something metal, glass, and organic. We had to work on paper with a side no smaller than 17 inches, I think? Bigger than I'm used to with pencil, in general. Then She made us go out and get drafting pencils and assortment of leads to work with. Can I say now how freaking HARD that is when you are 1. heavy handed 2. rarely use pencil and 3. have never done a DRAWING in nothing but crosshatching ever? I really hate this piece and am pretty embarrassed about it, still (don't get me started on the perfume bottle. omfg.). I don't hate it as much as I used to... but I still hate it. I never seem to be able to push the tones. She said my midtones were nice, but I needed to push it more for the "pop." need more darks. I see that... I just also don't see it. -shrugs- it's pretty frustrating.

We had to draw feetsies in class with the crazy Russian teacher. He's not as scary now... which is nice. I'm not as afraid to actually make a mark on my paper. He's really great, though. I've learned so much this semester because of him and his intimidating self.

This was homework. His knees and shins are WAAAYYY too big, and it was pointed out. Haha. But not really any other complaint other than that. We're not allowed to draw the face yet. Just blocked face.... kind of? I don't know. It's a thin line between acceptable, not acceptable, and too much. :/

This is one of those drawing a day squares. 5x5 squares of bristol. I've never really done an observed drawing in watercolours... or have ever known how to ACTUALLY paint with them... and this was my first try. I was proud of myself, even though it's still not so great. It's not done. but... I got a good start. I had to get nice watercolours (spent about $80 on 7 tiny tubes...oi.) but they say it's worth it. And with how much I'm enjoying the watercolours... I think it is.

Re-Upping?

2009-11-18T20:41:00.008-05:00

so I thought I'd upload some images I liked again... because my camera now has batteries. Clearer images = win. And there's one picture I must have accidentally skipped? I dunno. It's here this time, and that's all that matters, right?

This last one, if you click it... it's a pretty nice size compared to the others. it's like ZOOM!

computer doodles

2009-11-06T23:16:00.003-05:00

broke out my tablet today.
it's always been strange on my mac, so I messed around with the configurations again and doodled a bit. Thought I'd post.

I found some batteries, and I have some images of an updated sketchbook.
But I'm lazy and will probably post them tomorrow or later tonight.

I have so much homework to do. School is really kicking my ass this semester. I've just come to the conclusion that you cannot be in art school, do well, and have a social life that consists of non-artists at the same time.

Finished It

2009-10-12T14:27:00.004-04:00

So I finally finished my girls on that one page. I'm pretty happy with it. I ended up going over the markers in pencils and I REALLY loved the effect. I think I'll be doing it more often. I'm sorry that photobooth on my MacBook is the only way to take a picture of it. Boo! I'll try to get some good batteries this weekend or something and then edit all of these with good pictures. Maybe I'll try to scan this one... I love it THAT. MUCH.

and I've included a rotated image, too, because I was really happy with the yellow lady. I hope you like it, too.

i need batteries. huge update. A-T.

2009-10-03T23:03:00.022-04:00

soooo..... i have no batteries. i had to take all these pics on a phone, buuut... at least I'm updating? heh. letters A through T were used. SO MANY PAGES I HADN'T TAKEN PICS OF!!

finished.

I have no words.

because the chick on the left looks like a mudkip. bwahahahaaaaa!

intoxication seems to not effect the drawing too much.

When I wished more detail could be seen. :< the only one that mattered had to screw it all up.

I had gotten some more new watercolour markers.

Words cannot express how happy I was to finally do this in this sketchbook. there's a blank space I don't really like... and I hate silverfish too much to look them up online... so I made up a different kind. heh. THEY'RE SO CREEPY!! maggots, centipedes/millipedes/the like , and silverfish. The only insects I'll squeal and run away from.

I hate this. Eff collaging. Eff painting over it and eff sharpies. uuugh. I just wish I could do better with mixed media.

I rarely leave things in pencil... but I don't think I'll be colouring or inking this. I like it how it is, for once.

sometimes, it's best just not to ask. Especially when I don't even know.

Pasted that chick onto the page... we're drawing skeletons in figure drawing, and I'm having a bit of a hard time realizing where bones are inside an actual person. And on the other page, is my little dude. He doesn't have a name... but he popped up last year and I've been drawing him ever since.

The prisma markers bled through from the page prior.

Unfinished. I'm gonna color some more, but in coloured pencils. I'm really really happy with this one so far. JUSS SAYIN'.

I really love how this one came out.... the white watercolour on the off-white moleskin just makes me so happy. And I got some different coloured micropens... having some fun. >D

Wilco was playing. I'm not suicidal, mom. Just some lyrics and a cliche image because I wanted to. The background is red now... but I took the photo before that. :/

Sketchbook Due on the 14th

2009-09-04T19:57:00.006-04:00

I purchased a moleskin early in the summer... but I did basically nothing in it. (save for the crappy pics I've shown you already.) So I was glad I didn't have to spend another 22 dollars to get another one for my Visual Studies class. She says she wants us to keep a sketchbook and that we can do whatever we want in it.

good.
because I'd only do what I wanted anyways. =D

Anyways. I've been doodling in English and when I'm bored. I got some sweet watercolour pens! I think I'm going to get more. I only have 5. =/

pages thus far... save one that just has writing on it saying how I'll never make a page like it again.

I really adore my two ladies here. the lady on the bottom... is staying on the bottom. I want to draw starving children. Not sure why... but I do. I think I'll start one tonight! :O

I really like this one... just sayin'.

I don't usually draw like this. It's kind of fun, though. I like using the Micropens.. they seem to bring this out.

This one isn't finished on the left. Right probably is.... but, who knows. I could go back.

I think I'll show you my crappy box drawing tomorrow.
Oh, how I hate it so much!
And a snapshot of the skeleton we had to draw in figure drawing.
Which. Isn't amazing... and nobody completed theirs... but I said I'd post everything, huh?

Studies in Illustration Begin

2009-08-30T16:07:00.002-04:00

Classes started Thursday, the 20th of August for me and my fellow rams. I have an 8am class called "The History of Visual Communications" and it is going to be amazing. I just know it. The teacher is great and I'm really excited. I have to take English 200... which is a whole semester writing an argumentative research paper. But, I thought I'd spice it up to not get bored and write mine on how Dracula was a good guy.

I've got two drawing classes. One is Figure drawing. It is ran by a Russian man who looks like he should be a psychiatrist or something. (Almond head, glasses, half-lidded eyes, bald top, but has a beard. What I basically assumed Freud to have looked like. ) This man. Is crazy. But I love it. He doesn't take any crap. We came in and on the first day he says,

"You will not eat, You will not drink, You will not listen to your ipods, while in this room. If you do, you will be out. This is the figure observed. Exactly what it means. You leave your creativity outside this room because it will not help you here. You will talk to nobody but me, and that is when you are spoken to."

He's a rather intimidating man. But everyone else who has taken his class has learned so much from him. So I'm just trying to do my best and, hopefully, not get yelled at. Apparently, he makes at least 1 person cry in his class every year. I had heard this before, and he admitted to it during the first class. He says he just doesn't care anymore. It's really funny to see all of us getting all worked up and nervous when he comes around to look at our drawings. And not funny at the same time.

My other drawing class is called "Visual Studies." From what I understand, we're going to be learning drawing techniques. The teacher seems fun, but she has warned us that we're going to be worked to death. I, personally, liked this quote from our first class...

"What are you guys? College Sophomores, right? Yeah. You don't have a style yet. What you have, are a list of deficiencies."

OH BOY! :D
WELCOME TO ART SCHOOL!

It's finally starting to sound like what my high school teachers warned us about.

but is it wrong that I'm so excited?

Work in Progress: battle?

2009-07-19T19:57:00.003-04:00

work in progress.
no internet, still. I'm at my dad's house...gettin' some web time in.

Nothing

2009-06-20T12:01:00.007-04:00

I'm staying home with my mum this summer. I love Virginia Beach. HOWEVER... I do NOT love not having wireless connection for my macbook... and also not being able to do anything on her computer. Because of problems in the past, she doesn't want me changing any settings on it. This means, I can't enable certain things that makes it possible to be on blogspot. =[ I can't check my dashboard or update entries.

I'm in Boston, Mass. right now for a Magic the Gathering tournament. The Holiday Inn we're at has wireless that's not password protected. And, since I'm not playing, I thought I'd pop in and do a small update.

I haven't done much. =/ We've been moving, I've been out with friends AND out looking for a job. So here's a few doodles. Nothing major. Hopefully I'll have something big by the end of this month. Lots of free time at this new apartment gives me space and time to work digitally. :D :D :D

sketch from about 3 days ago on Adobe PS CS2:
This was done a while ago, while at my boyfriend's house. They have a moleskin lying around and people just pick it up and draw in it whenever. I did both of these, but I was only trying to take a picture of the esper one.

This is newer. I got my own tiny moleskin to doodle in while I'm out, waiting, and in need of doing something. This was done at a local Magic Tournament.

The one on the left was my focus. I drew both pages a while ago, but it wasn't until I was out with coloured pencils that I was able to color my dj chica. I don't intentionally use psychedelic colours... but it always comes out that way.

Locker 50b Show

2009-05-08T13:15:00.008-04:00

Locker 50b show reception was Wednesday. I was pleasantly surprised. It came out so good! The pieces Lynn chose were so lovely. =]

Here's the locker it was in, and some other pics:

This was the only picture that didn't come out COMPLETELY blurry without flash. The hardwood floor is always in the locker. There's a button outside the locker that you press to turn on the lights inside.

And here's pictures of the whole little room. I apologize about the bright flash, it was all I had at the time.

The furniture was purchased from a shop that sold doll house things. I don't know where they got the wallpaper... but the wallpaper and the furniture definitely pulled the room together.

The one in the bottom right was my favourite. It was so crazy! So detailed! It made me feel bad about mine not being as detailed. I wish I had gotten a better picture of it.

Final Final Day

2009-05-04T04:13:00.006-04:00

Tomorrow, erm, today... is my last day of finals. I go to Drawing Studio in the morning to do critique and drop off a portfolio of what we've done since midterms this semester. Then Focused Inquiry (English, basically) at night. I don't have a final in that class, I just have to show up for the time slot because something must have went wrong when I electronically submitted my writing portfolio. =/ So we'll be troubleshooting that whole period.

But back to Drawing Studio.... here's some images of what I had to turn in:

MUSCLE DRAWINGS!!! oi. The first is my leg one... and the next is the torso, obviously. Maybe I'm taking too many artistic liberties in my drawings this time. I usually completely stick to the parameters. the first is pencil on 18x24" strathmore drawing paper... the other is charcoal on 22x30" stonehenge natural paper.

And this was my homework drawing. I'm expecting to get chewed out at critique about the lines in the back, and the white outline. This was our last assignment, though, and I felt that I could. I usually stick straight to the assignment, which I did here.... I just added more. :D? It's okay. I know it'll come up, and I'm willing to take it. I only regret not spending more time on it.. specially the hands. Don't even get me started on the hands... I feel like a terrible student because of those hands. anyways. charcoal on stonehenge paper. 22x30"

August, September?

2009-04-25T13:25:00.003-04:00

I did this for my RA back in the beginning of the school year. (August or September, methinks... possibly October?) I just didn't take a picture until the other day (it's taped up to her door). The whole floor had a little party to decorate our doors. I still had a roommate back then, so I couldn't decorate my door because she would just rip it down. Instead, I helped my neighbor/friend Elise with her door, and drew some girls on pieces of construction paper for some other floormates. =]

They were all quickly done. Pen and Bic permanent markers were used. Bic's colored permanent markers dry really light on regular paper and reminds me of how prismacolor markers dry... just... not as awesome as prisma. haha! I used them a lot in my sketchbook earlier this year. I don't know where they all are now, though. I'll probably find them when packing next week.

Oi. This weekend is to be hetic. Today I'm trying to do all of my research paper ((such a terrible student in this class, that I am)) so that tonight I won't feel bad about going to my friend's birthday party in Lynchburg. Tomorrow I'll have to do the poster for my Focused Inquiry poster contest/project/thing... it's for extra credit. And I neeed the extra credit. The research paper isn't going to be good enough to save me. But I also am doing a line drawing/sketch of a nude Pierce for my drawing class. I might do two, because I have a really funny idea... but I'm not sure if the teacher will be all too thrilled with it. Hahaha! So I'll have some other stuff to post Monday. I'm excited. Just busy. I'm glad I got my Space Research final out of the way Friday. I was worried about that... but I think I did okay. Everyone else really liked it. Art History final is Thursday. Not worried about that... I got 100's on 2 out of the 4 exams we have this semester. And a 94 on the first one. I feel confident I'll get an A on this last one and I'll be happy with my GPA after this semester. Focused Inquiry doesn't have a final (just have to turn in this research paper). And Drawing Studio... I have to turn in a portfolio. So I'll be finishing my drawings up this week and next weekend. MORE PICTURES!! haha!

And now... to eat and get to work. >:L

This Wednesday's Drawing Class...

2009-04-22T14:43:00.005-04:00

did some warm up modified contour drawings in the beginning 2 or 4 minutes each, I can't quite remember.... I liked these two, though. 18x24" drawing paper.

And then the main figure drawing. I was supposed to have started this last class, but I couldn't get it right, so I sketched the whole time. I got a good base today, though. =] I can't wait to finish it. paper's 22x30"

Locker 50b

2009-04-22T08:05:00.002-04:00

I'm turning this in today for my drawing class. It's for the Locker 50b Show and the teacher is going with a salon style theme. She told me last class that she wants this one, so I had to go back and fix a few things. It's only 2"x4" and my scanner ate it. Haha! But, it's okay.

What IS Locker 50B?
read about it here.

And it Begins...

2009-04-14T14:26:00.006-04:00

I doodle all of the time, but never post them. I have a DA account, but. Hm. Yes. About THAT. A new name is in order, I believe, but the site doesn't feel the same anymore so I don't know if I want to go through the hassle. I figure this will be nice. I'll be able to see most everything I do in one little spot. I'll post what I draw the day, or day after I draw it. This goes for sketches, school assignments, finished pieces, WIPs, etc. I'll most definitely talk about stuff, I don't think I can go without that. Heh. Hm. Well, without further ado... some doodles from yesterday and one from last Friday.

i call her lolipop girl, for some weird reason. I drew her in Focused Inquiry class. I really have got to stop drawing them to close to the edge of the page. I also want to complete one of my girls on day. I never seem to finish painting them when I start.

some random chicks on the back of sketch paper. I should have been working on the Focused Inquiry poster sketches. tsk. tsk.

Space Research class was going slow, since I didn't have much work to do for my sculpture. Doodled a bit and colored her with a pink Bic permanent marker. I like them a lot. On regular paper, they have a really soft feel. Mmm.