Abstract What

I will probably not ever be taking a better photo of this. lol Abstract assignment for beginning drawing.

Markers on PERFECTLY GOOD QUALITY PRICEY AS HELL RAG PAPER. Ugh.

Static

Uh I'll take a better picture at some other point in my life. Later. Later later.

I quite like this one though. This Barbie thing could be a gimmick, but I think there's a lot of meaning in it. Although, other than Barbie, everything in this image is a pop gimmick. This one was a sort of quick piece for a beginning drawing independent project. It talks about how we are born of the media only to feed right back into it. It's this cycle of terrible life.

Ink and watercolor markers

Beg. Drawing Update

We will HUG in the shade. PG 300, anyone? Anyway, this is a copy of the following master drawing:

He turned out a lot fatter than anyone would have intended.

And then here's some stuff from my tiny sketchbook.

I'm still hooked on anti-smoking messages and marshmallows. A good combo, right? Artistically stole/learned that background pattern from Jason Sho Green. Didn't realize until now that the character looks a lot like the characters my professor draws [Evri Kwong].

Inside the art studio lab. Buh. Waiting for gesso alternative to dry.

Seriously though, drawing les arbres is a major drag. I take art classes because I would never do these things otherwise.

I am really tired of cross hatching. Also, the delicious nectarines I bought from Costco now give me a mad tummy ache. BUMMER.


Anyway, I am up right now because I procrastinated finishing that master drawing copy until 10 because I spent like 2 or 3 hours making a song from a sad and shitty poem I wrote but never turned in for class. Because it's shitty. They make good songs at least. Finally a serious song.

Int. Painting: EVERYTHING THUS FAR mostly

Sorry this is super image heavy, but yep this is most everything so far from intermediate painting and then one from beginning drawing. 

I'd say I had little bursts of inspiration throughout the homeworks, but overall I improved in that I got quite a bit faster... but also lazier. 8\ 

Homework [in chronological order, missing some that I've either already posted or just didn't bother posting]:

ahahahahahahahaha There was a point during critique where we just looked at this one for a while and everyone was saying stuff, but I couldn't help but laugh that we were looking at this so positively because... well... iono, it's just such a goofy image. Hilariously ridiculous, I thought. 

And finally we're done with portraits, but now we're moving on to still lifes and the in-class/homework we were assigned for this week was RIDICULOUS [I'm not going to post it because it's stupid] because I totally don't get what we're supposed to be doing. My prof is really... artsy... and so she won't explain it in layman terms so that we won't understand it but think about it wrong. SIGH.

In-Class:

I like a lot of my in-class stuff more because it seems is so much more expressive, experimental, loose, and quick. Typically 5-10 minutes per painting. I'm still trying to have this practice transfer over to my homework assignments, so I'm trying to do them faster. 

Beginning Drawing:

Ughhhh this class is taking forever. This is seriously the only critiqued assignment we've had so far. So. Boring. And I seriously am disappointed that there isn't really anyone in the class for me to aspire to. FFFFFFFFFFFF [later edit: I completely take that last comment back because when we started doing independent projects was where everyone's talents started to come out and each individual series of work related to the independent projects was amazzinnngggg. It was really exciting to see some people get really engaged in critiques and stuff and yeah iono. I am still learning very slowly, but surely to judge less harshly, in daily life and in art. whoop whoop]

In other news, see if you have a local Bike Kitchen. It's a really great volunteer opportunity and the community is amazing! Plus, other than volunteer, it's a great opportunity to learn about bikes 8D

Draw a Still Life or something from your Imagination once a day

Fall semester: Beginning Drawing, Intermediate Painting, French 1, and Creative Writing.

Being an art major OWNS. But seriously, it is pretty liberating and inspiring.

Sorry, this one scanned blurry And I'm too lazy to fix it. I have realized that I can't talk to people on the phone while drawing. It doesn't work.

I really need to get on the key list so that I can go to the art lab after hours and not haul all my art shit back and forth on a bike. 

I swear, as soon as my roomie left to go home, two spiders appeared on my ceiling, and another fat one downstairs, and then a smaller one in the dining room. WTF. They know. And I hate them more for it.

And yeah, I did spell arachophobia wrong, fuck off.