Ahh ok sweet, yeah I look forward to it Should do a timelapse of her drawing, and get her singing as a backing track, merge the creativity, you know? but yeah I dig it. And uhh.. hobbyist I s'pose at the moment.. I'm trying to make a career out of it on my own, but haven't been putting as much work in as I should have.. I suck at marketing. I studied fine art at high school and then college.. high school teacher was an absolute legend and he helped me out a lot with the realism, but college was a waste of 2 years. We learnt nothing, just got told to do random bits of shit to show you've experimented with different media and then write about how much you've progressed by doing those random little bits of shit.. it was all about farming marks, and I got the feeling the teachers knew shit about fuck. Awesome people though, still keep in contact with most of the art department They neglected the foundations.. and the work that came out showed it. Maybe it's just me though cos I'm a bit of an art snob, but I felt it was forcing you to be creative.. and I can't deal with that, I find it's counter productive
see this is the shit I'm talking about. I liked art in HS too. I had some really great teachers earlier on then near the end, my art class just involved fucking around and I was happy to be able to fuck around. But when I tried it in college, none of it was about teaching you how to do better art work and all of it was about teaching you how to come up with good ideas for art, conceptualization, etc. It all felt kind of dumb and improved my skills a little bit, but mostly just made me dislike doing art and associate it with work. The teacher would literally plan out a class around youtube videos and leave me thinking "why the fuck didn't I just stay home go on youtube, and draw some pictures, like I would have anyways?" If anything, though, college at least gets you to draw a lot of noodz. Everyone likes drawing naked women. I think the problem was my program though, apparently my college has some good art programs that get really deep into technique and realism and stuff, but I chose a shitty one. Either way, I've decided that I dislike school, and there's, thus, no point going to school for something you can learn anywhere other than school. I think I might go back to my teacher and elect a class or two, though, so I can draw more models. I found that was the most productive part of the whole thing.
Haha, we didn't even get to draw any nudes! We got told "20 pieces from photo references using silk screen, indian ink, batique, oil transfers, etc." "5 double page spreads in your sketch book on artists to influence your work" Marks out of 20. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. For 2 years. No life drawing, no lessons on composition, no colour theory, no nothing.. all about marks. That was our only program. I thought that's what university was supposed to be about, having learnt all the basic shit previously in college! To drop some advice that I've been given from speaking to other well known local artists, if you actually wanna learn useful shit - do a load of short courses given by other artists(preferably well known, or at least someone you really love the work of)and leave the mainstream education for later if you're finding you really need the piece of paper. That way, with a bit of research on who does what, you can find out what you actually want to know and learn to apply that knowledge to your work over the course of a few days to a couple of weeks, with their guidance, telling you what's right/what's wrong/what could be better. Then you go home and mould that info to fit yourself, and build a good repertoire of skills/techniques to incorporate into your own style.
yo what I would do is I would digitally edit a picture like that and make it 6x8ft and print it on a large format printer, then paint in colour with phosphorescent UV paints. Its a really cool way to take nice drawings and turn them into some really vibrant psychedelic shit. Also, I've noticed that people running raves around here pay a lot for blacklight artwork. It could probably be quite profitable to make too. e: here's something i've been working on. Its quite big, in marker.: big white spots will probably be gloss black. Either that, or more filled in
The first two are awesome. You should do a whole series in that style. They look kind of like fingerprints.
that's what I've been working on. When exams are over, my friend. BTW, if you like what I did with the disintegrating lady, check this out. It's the first thing I've drawn in months and months, just a quick first draft of an idea I've been working on. Drew it while listening to this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNdBpYh1eA&feature=related"]Hermeticism & Alchemy (Terence McKenna) [FULL] - YouTube It's not the best, but what a good time. I love terrence mckenna.
Just made this: not quite finished yet. I think its good work for marker though, but I really need to start painting if I'm gonna keep drawing string instruments...
nice could always get some copic markers, vibrant as shit and they blend nicely. big in the graphic and illustration scene. Kinda pricey, but worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSA6nL_iPI"]Copic Marker Demo - YouTube these look sweet! I have some cool brush tip markers, but they are bad for filling things in because you have a bunch of different lines instead of one solid, blended colour. I kind of like the look it gives things though. ITs good for my stuff like this: (which I finally finished btw) (will find a better img soon though, this one looks better in person for some reason.
Hey so I learned something interesting recently. I've been drawing in this particular style for a long time (flowy colouring book thing with the lines) and I recently acquired Carl Jung's little red book and he actually draws exactly like me. I've never seen anything else exactly like it before but check this out: His mndalas are also very smilar to mine-- different in style but representative of the same concepts. <3 Jung -- I love when you come up with ideas and then find them represented in someone else's work -- really gets you thinking about that collective unconscious, don't it? e: shit post #911 - It must be a conspiracy!
He's definitely been chompin' on the fungi. Dig the aztec/mayan too. How long do they take you Hedge?
Damn long time. I started that one ages ago, but I only just coloured it. I want to do some more soon. I want to experiment more with this technique but with giving it more 3-dimensional qualities. This kind of idea, but with greater complexity:
What? No this is just my drawing thread. When I draw new stuff, I usually update it. I haven't had time in a while, but I'm going to scan and upload some photos when I get home
thanks for posting this, great artist i digg your stuff, if you want to get a view of my last paint just go on last topic i made! im not sketching much, but i do sketch every of my paint before applying paint. anyway i still want to say its good stuff -Jérémie
Man I lost this drawing a few months ago and I finally found it. I really liked it and I couldn't recreate it so well, so I looked everywhere for it. Checked all my sketchbooks, looked in all my drawers, and I finally found it ( a few months later now ) in the most obvious spot. It had jsut fallen off my wall, behind a bunch of junk. It's Bill Evans, one of my greatest inspirations: I would say he is the king of jazz piano. He wasn't the fastest or the most impressive player, but he invented chords utterly unheard of and was probably the most emotional and creative player (at least that I know of). He used to nod out while playing and nearly put his head to the keys. He'd be nodding off but still playing cuz at that point it was the pure emotion of it, no intellectual bit man. And nodding out masters can convey the sound of the nod. I'm not sure if this song was during his heroin period, but this is one of my favourites. Wow you just keep thinking about the sad story this song is telling until your heart leaps at 2:39 and there is just a little moment of bliss in that melancholy ballad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LFVWBmoiw"]Bill Evans-My Foolish Heart - YouTube
fucking shitty photobooth mirrors the image so here is the propper one. It looks much more proportionate and legit in real life. Not the most precise drawing I've ever done, but I feel like I captured him well. gotta get myslef a scanner. and here's a pretty molecule I drew. I just started studying organic chem and I didn't have a modelling kit, so I tried to draw a few molecules with the correct angles indicated by perspective: its not colour coded but the carboxyl group at the left (Actually right photobooth flipped this shit again) is supposed to be pointing away from you, into the page and the hydrogens are coming towards you. It was an utterly unnecessary thing to do but for some reason it just made me really happy. I feel like using shading and perspective drawing in conjunction with notation probably trains you to visualize molecules well. We'll have to see how the rest of this semester goes
