Still Too Cold, Must Eat More

Another WIP

Gonna redo everyone's face except for the asian and indian [which is also asian lol] girls. damn, i hope it's just the photo that's making the indian girl's body darker. ffffffff PAINTING TIP: WEAR A LOT OF SOCKS AND WARM CLOTHES IF YOU PAINT OUTSIDE IN THE WINTER BECAUSE THE LIGHTING IN YOUR HOME SUCKS.

Heading down south for three days woot woot

Also, started another band. So far, we are the Wenis Whackers hahahahahahahahayesssssss

Damn, spinach dip will never not be DELICIOUS.

Done for the night

That's all I've done for critique, looks a lot better than what it was before... but I think I'll still want to change it back to the way it was before. Later. Buh. So much paint $$$$$

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Final critique is on Wednesday and I am super NOT DONE. Ughhhhh IF ONLY HAD THIS COLD NOT STRIKETH ME TO MY BEDROOM CHAMBERS.

This is the worst time to be sick. I GOT ALL MA FINALS THIS UPCOMING WEEK INSTEAD OF THE WEEK AFTER FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF minus English, which I opted to take on the last Friday of finals WAH WAH WAHHHH my professor is probably gonna give me a super difficult test!!!! AIYAH!

But at least I think I quarantined this cold relatively quickly, so I'm hoping to be healthy by critique, which is a helluva lot faster than my colds usually go.

As for the painting... ergh. I really am not sure what to do with it... I'm not really digging the blue [which I used half a tube on ughhhh $$$] and I don't think this dynamic is quite working with me.... so I think I might go back to my ORIGINAL background [which, in class, we're not allowed to call a background faoiwejafowieafoidfj]... UGHHHHH $$$$$$$$$$$TICK$$$$$$TICK$$$$$$$$$TICK$$$$$$$

WIP Int Painting Final

5x4 foot guhhhhh It is coming along... but way too slowly. Camera photo doesn't do it justice.

Still unsure of what to do with the background and it is killing me.

Finally bought two Barbie dolls from Goodwill for references. Goodwill has so many amazing and cheap items!!!!

Also, totally stoked today because one of my classmates offered $50 for three of my 11x14 wood panel paintings woot woot! Ah but how short success can last.

As a side note: For Christmas, I think I would like a DVD player so that I can watch things on my TV... my Xbox is too old and overheats halfway through. 8****C

Pinup Practice

I'm having a lot of trouble with the Barbie doll bodies because I don't have very good reference material and I keep forgetting to buy a doll from a thrift store ffffffffff

This one is the second out of five panels. Not really done yet, but I don't have time to finish it. I don't even know why I'm updating this, I'm tired and my neighbor is playing loud spooky music and laughing like the Joker. OH NEIGHBOR, if you weren't so entertaining sometimes, I'd wish you were dead because on many days, I don't have any sense of morals.

Head references (Elvgren is my favorite classic pinup artist so far... I'm not sure who did the second pinup):

More Painting Homework

I helped make this wood panel canvas! 

We have five panels to do for the next five weeks, one per week, relating to our 5x4ft piece. It is still really difficult to draw boobies, plastic or not!

Some tiny 4x5in quick painting sketches, relating to our large piece.

And... I just drew this to get free pre-screening tickets to see Tangled. lol CHIBI RAPUNZEL. Sigh.

Concepts for Independent Painting Project

Yeah, it is sort of cliche to still be talking about stereotypes and sexism, but there is such a WEALTH of subjects to be explored!

For my int. painting class, we're doing a 5x4ft painting. I'm going to propose creating images of pin-up girl faces [I like the classic ones done by Elvgren and some others] on Barbie doll bodies, focusing on their relationships to objectifying women [pin up girls] and creating a dismal role model that is physically unachievable, mentally stereotyped, and racially stereotyped [Barbie: the great white female]. 

The effect of my internship at the Multi-Cultural Center has been amazing, to put it lightly. I've been doing a lot of thinking about social justice and how I can incorporate meaningful messages in my paintings, as opposed to the usual meaningless pop shit. 

Sorry for the photo quality. Built-in webcams, you know. 

Here are four potential concepts.

"My role model is..." on the chalkboard in the background. All of the young, female students look up to pin up Barbie. They seek to look just like her when they grow older, even if physically impossible. Maybe they can pose seductively in magazines made for men, too. 

White female Barbie PREVAILS. I think I was going to put a pile of multi-racial heads in the background, but forgot. 

That is an Asian baby's face on a sexually posed Barbie body. She may not be mentally mature, but Barbie guarantees her that one day she will be sexually mature. 

That is supposed to be an Asian girl looking questioningly at a Barbie. 

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