Lamp Burn

FFFFFFF I seem to always forget that my lamp is hot after turning it off. Brush and burn.

I drew this before my business law midterm. I thought it was funny... ಠ_ಠ

Was trying to figure out an ink drawing that I was supposed to start like a week ago. Was gonna do it today, but Utrecht closed early FFFFFFFFFF no paper

This took me a little more than an hour wtffff I am getting really slow. But I like how it turned out. Used photograph from : http://www.milesaldridge.com/ He does some interesting photography. Like a darker fashion photographer. I was just practicing, and then I thought about how my professor told me to practice masters and technical stuff, and then maybe add stuff that is more cartoony or not technical.

Unrelated: Shaun Tan is still AWESOME. Check out his art and stuff here: http://www.shauntan.net/ and also check out his oscar-winning short film [based on one of his books], The Lost Thing.

Sketchbook stuff

Kind of really disappointed with my drawings this semester 8[ 

Prof said that I need to find a drawing style that is not generic and that is who I am. TRUE. And also... omgggg how do I do thissss I've been trying for a while, but maybe my style is just generic D8 I don't know how to vary my lines. MUST CONCENTRATE HARDER.

Tongue-tied... right? RIGHT? 

SO GOOD. And I never liked blueberries before this past month. Whaaattt.

The library.

ECNEICS. Exploratorium FOR THE WIN. Giant groups of children hogging all the coolest exhibits FOR THE LOSS.

I always look really angry when I am drawing self-portraits I MUST LOOK ANGRY ALL THE TIME OH NOES

I was watching something that had video of moving clouds. Probably art 21?? My pattern is really stagnant 8[

I like the bunches of little men people. Thinking of covering pages with them.

I draw things I hate drawing really badly 8[

Idea for a drawing I suppose. Maybe a painting. I find myself wanting to paint more than draw, but I never really get around to painting 8****C


Yesterday was my worst day painting so far!!! Fucking ALLERGIES. GOD. I HATE NATURE SO MUCH BECAUSE OF ALLERGIES. SO DISAPPOINTING TO MISS OUT ON NATURE. And then I angrily stormed off right after class because I had to go to work and because allergies were killliinnggg me. 8[

On the flip side, I bought a new water bottle and it is really awesome and I am so stoked to have it. Wrote some more silly songs yesterday.

Sketchbook and Class Notes ^date

I've mostly been using pen because 1. I don't write with pencils anymore and 2. I've been trying to SEE things and learn about light and shadows and shapes by doing these quicker studies with pen where i can't erase / I have to see where I corrected myself, and so that I don't concentrate on minuscule details that keep me from actually SEEING what I am drawing

Brainstorming for next class assignment, will probably also use it for my Childhood Struggles Storybook Project.

Was reading an article that a coworker referred me to called "Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism (1981)" by Mitsuye Yamada. Haven't finished it yet, but it was talking about the stereotype of the passive, polite Asian woman, and how there are actually a lot of female activists in the Asian community, but that they always have to prove themselves worthy of speaking before even trying to communicate their message.

Was thinking of drawing the marshmallow man panels for the next class assignment, but decided to do my childhood struggles instead. Then I started drawing this guy that's in my class that has like, seriously, a serial killer stare. He plays WoW. I didn't get his face right, but good thing I didn't because then surely the image would've COME ALIVE AND KILLED ME. I swear I'm gonna be schizophrenic when I get older.

Uh I just drew an imaginary still life of a thing I made out of playdo at the Multi-Cultural Center, which legitimately think they should rename it as The League of Social Justice. lol

I didn't know what to draw.

I don't know.

I also don't know. She came out a lot creepier than I had intended. I still can't draw bodies.

Did a copy of contemporary artist Ata Bozaci, aka Toast, for class. I really love the fluidity of his sketches. However, I still don't get how he does it. 

TIME FOR CLASS NOTES

The image of Ash vs. Judge Koffing is pretty much the best thing I've ever drawn. 

YEAH

I don't know what this girl looked like, but she sat behind me and quietly berated another girl for asking a question in class, so I silently berated her through my notes. 

I was thinking of exoticism. 

... And thank goodness for Blogspot automatic draft saving. Stupid internet.

Also, 

Sketchbook Update

Lots, but still lacking in quantity and whatever quality means

Randomly bought Ata/Toast's art collection book for like $15 at a half off bookstore in Berzerkley. TOTALLY AWESOME FIND. His work is really intricate and novel [he was one of the forerunners of the more 3D style typography graffiti movement]. And his real people sketches are fluid and human. Love ittttt. Not a big fan of his vector work, but I'll admit that it is INSANELY INTRICATE. I'm just not big on vectors in general.

Was inspired to do weird abstract things. The above reminds me of... some painter... but I am really bad at remembering names of painters. I am totally going to fail art history whenever I decide to take it.

I was experimenting, but this 3D type graffiti stuff is really difficult! I was gonna write Hellxia, but then my professor was talking about Edgar Heap of Birds [who gave an eye-opening lecture about his art, and he had two great shows in town], so I started writing Heap at first... lol

More experimentation inspired by Toast.

Quick studies of my own hand. My new schtick is to make still lifes AS FAST AS POSSIBLE because I hate still lifes, but I desperately need the practice... but I also need to start SEEING the still lifes that I'm drawing. What's the point of making a photo-realistic copy if I don't even learn anything from it because I'm so focused on abstract details? 

Copying Toast's hand studies. Iono how he makes it so natural.

Was reading some of Chad Sweeney's Parables of Hide and Seek. I won't analyze poems unless guided by an instructor, but I really like the imagery I get from his words.

I wish I could draw the things I visualize. One day.

Oh hey, look, it's that racist kid from elementary school! Thanks for the 16-ish years of hate!

I didn't intend for her to look like she's jerkin her gerkin, which doesn't make sense anyway. Her hands were in her pockets. That's how us lonely people dance. We do it for ourselves. 

One of the images inspired by learning about Asians in the Dream Act at the APAHE conference. I hope to one day make a painting out of it. I think I was thinking about wanting these undocumented students to gather together to rally against injustices against them... but then if they did, then it'd just be easier for the government to incarcerate them and send them back to cultures in which they no longer feel belonging. ALLIES MUST FIGHT! Somehow.

He was gross anyway, good riddance, boy-I-never-got-to-know!

Composition sketches for a Life Painting hw assignment. Supposed to paint 1. a hand, a foot, and a face 2. two hands and a foot or 3. two feet and a hand. And have some kind of environment. I guess.

haha I'm a pervert lol 

I'm compulsive when it comes to the skin on my fingertips.

Trina and I! Walking to the art lab. We are friends and mentors and students of life!

I'm not really sure why I started drawing this, but it started as legs, and then a face, and uh, well I guess that's all there really is. I guess I could say that it's about the exoticism of "Asian" women in American society, and the exoticism of "White" people by a bunch of Asian cultures. It's weird and stupid. 

Weird and stupid like this HYPERVENTILATING UNICORN and koffing. My band members rejected Lin's idea for a band name. I am sad. So very sad.

Sad like these eyes that are crying. Made this and the below image for a fellow intern's Queer People of Color: Liberation Through Journaling program.

I'm so hipster, I know, right? 

GETTING STUFF DONE HELLXIA

AND JUST SHORT OF BEDTIME BY 7 MINUTES WHAT

BUT REALLY THOSE PAST 7 MINUTES WERE SPENT ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER BECAUSE I AM A PRETENTIOUS HIPSTER

SO THAT MEANS I ACTUALLY GOT EVERYTHING DONE BY BEDTIME. WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

I feel super accomplished, but I know that I will fall behind by next week. This weekend, read two chapters and finished drawing with the theme of War, which is sadly on newsprint, so it won't last very long. Also, I hella ripped an edge when pulling it out of the pad. ffffffffffff

Also, the bombs' shading look weird because we were supposed to do it completely from imagination... so... i don't... know how reflections work. yeah.