Crunchy nimieties

This blog ain't dead, I swears it!

2010-06-10T23:53:00.001-07:00

So the first of my design projects that've ate my sanity lately was the colour wheel. We started with doing things called 'colour runs', aka 'running' one colour into another, such as from light yellow into darker yellow, to achieve nice gradations that we later use to make a rainbow. Thing. Colour wheel.

Here you can see my giant amount of colour runs; each sheet of paper took about 15-45 minutes to do (to mix the paint...paint it carefully...), and it's missing a few sheets that I had to go back to add in later (like 5 of them), so it's a lot of hours of my life there, laid out on the table.

At least the hours of my life are colourful. :D

I then discovered that acrylic paints paint 'just like photoshop!'. I found this far funnier than I should have. Ah well.

Then we had to match the colours we painted to these paint chips that our teacher handed to us...and that wasn't so bad...

But then we had to add steps in between and cut them small and make the colour change from one step to the next even and then it was 3am and all I wanted was to sleep with my fluffy, fluffy blankets... :(

AND THEN IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

The end. :)

I'm not dead!

2009-08-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

So, first time I pick up my computer to do art in ~~weeks~~months and I do an MSPaint picture of anime. And it took like four hours in total. I...didn't have the heart to finish it.

This one is of fireworks. PaintBBS, 16min. But it looked boring.

So this one is of fireworks too. PaintBBS, 27min. Van Gogh would be sad.

False post.

2009-07-21T20:13:00.000-07:00

Oops. Wrong posting service.

fail post is fail.

2009-05-28T23:52:00.000-07:00

This are picture of jellyfish.

22min, paintBBS

And this are picture of girl in the ocean. Wouldn't you enjoy being that cold?

101min; paintBBS

I'm pleased with how the light hits her body, but kind of hate the rest of it. Some pictures you just can't help, I guess.

Long overdue update

2009-05-26T21:30:00.000-07:00

Hey, not quite two months without updating. Not bad, not bad...at this rate I might have a readership by 2012 or so.

my happy place

pencil crayons, crappy sketchbook paper.
end of March

The colours didn't scan well, but I had fun with with it, so it's all good. Here is my happy place. The trees grow funny there.

abstract doodle 1

pencil, same crappy sketchbook
date's on the image

This one's just me mucking about with pencils. I was either inspired by bacteria or The Matrix.

abstract doodle 2

pencil, charcoal,
May 22

I seem to do a lot of these. Um, this one's different because it's less melodic or something frou-frou like that. Hey lookit! You can see the image behind it because moleskine sketchbook paper sucks. Please don't tell anyone I said that.

untitled, on index card

I drew this in French class today because I was bored and wanted to draw the face of a pretentious man. I don't know what having a young, nubile female pose with an ugly mask in lieu of a pretentious man says about my psyche. In my defence, I've been watching coffee prince lately.

And there we go! Perhaps I shall update with more than four pictures next time, and perhaps next time will not be in another two months' time. :D

only trying to be more than I can be...

2009-04-05T01:01:00.000-07:00

Artists are liars because we make reality out to be more - brighter, thicker, headier, dizzier, more passionate with more fire; more solid than solid, and more real than real.

Artists are dangerous because we lie about the truth, the heavens, and human emotions.

Artists are cowards because we choose to live in this glimmering fantasy world than to face the grime of reality - even the grime has to be beautiful, evocative.

Artists are only telling the truth, sometimes.

And that's when it's beautiful.

Two pictures from January.

2009-03-18T12:49:00.000-07:00

Promotions for The Devil's Advocate. It didn't work, sadly.

Done in photoshop

And here's another one of those fifteen-minute oekaki doodles. Apparently my subconscious is fond of...trees with bulbous things on them.

More art to come next time I spend quality time with my scanner. Cheers.

So I haven't updated this thing for a month now. :(

2008-11-02T21:37:00.000-08:00

I've got good excuses for not updating, like getting a lung infection which caused my life to pretty much fall apart.

On second thought, life falling apart might not be such a good reason, since I've still found time to go to my chemistry labs. Anyway, two pictures from all of October.

warmth

PaintBBS; 35 min.

This didn't quite turn out how I imagined it. It's not...great. The shading's iffy and the anatomy's off and the composition is stiff and her other arm is invisible and her torso's a bit short.

Done Oct. 10, right about when my life was unravelling, so I have some excuse, I guess.

night time

PaintBBS; 16 min.
October 28th

I think it's kinda cute.

I'm barely here.

2008-09-28T23:33:00.000-07:00

Just another post, so I can claim that I've posted at least twice this month.

I wanted to do something more with this, but it ended up looking like this instead.

PaintBBS, 30 minutes
September 23rd

This picture is a faithful portrait of what I look like when I leave the house in the morning. The mystery pack is usually something exciting like a stale toasted bagel or a "mexican"-style breakfast sandwich leaking salsa and guacamole all over the bus or half a leftover chocolate croissant from the day before. Note that the moon's still up.

I spent far too much time on this. I blame the lack of sleep.

"Introduction"

PaintBBS, 2 hours 37 minutes
September 27th

I'm going to go crazy soon with school stress, so I take it that it's high time to get back to art lessons. This Saturday. Or Sunday. It will be done.

In other news, I can't find the CD I backed-up all my digital artwork done from 2005-2007. I have bits and pieces of it archived on the internet, but I'm starting to think that I just lost part of my life for that time period. Hopefully by finishing my room clean-up something will turn up. I guess I'll look like how I always look when I leave the house tomorrow.

At least I have a new coffee travel mug. <3

Same old, same old

2008-09-18T21:45:00.000-07:00

I've been starting to oekaki again recently. For those of you (all three of you who read this thing) who don't know, oekaki is the Japanese word for "doodle", and on the internet, when used by Anglo-types, it refers to drawings done on Java applications typically referred to as "oekakis". (Probably since the Japanese came up with them and doodled a lot, but I don't know that for sure.)

Anyway, my haunt is OekakiCentral; the cool thing about it is that you can watch videos of the artist's progress through their pictures. I joined up five years ago - when I was eleven, so understandably the site's gone through some changes. Sadly, in this case, it's a lot quieter. I miss drawing bad images and getting encouragement and praise, and learning to point out the different flaws artists make, and being part of a community.

Anyway. Pictures!

My first picture back was this lazy greyscale image of an emo-looking girl. To be fair, I was aiming for a slightly deranged look of blood veins throbbing from the surrounding area of the eye, but it looks like red emo tears. Meh.

Her nose is huge.

32 minutes, paintBBS (Oekaki tracks time! It's amazing!)
Sept. 9, 08

Second post back was this picture - Oekaki ate it because it was done in 10 minutes, which was the minimum time allotment to prevent spam.

I don't know. I'd lie and say this is what I see in my dreams, but this is closer to what I see when I close my eyes when I'm really sleep deprived or really meditative in Chemistry classes.

10 minutes, paintBBS
Sept. 17th, 08

I wanted to try the cool contrasting shading that all the cool kids were doing, but kind of failed at it. At least she looks pretty. And her nose is huge as well...sigh.

Tried a larger canvas this time: 350x350px instead of 300x300! OMG! Third picture back at oekaki and I'm already getting ambitious. I'm such an overachiever.

Sept. 17, 08, after oekaki ate my last image
39 minutes, paint BBS

Aand it's another landscape, this time in grey instead of green and pink. I have to admit that I used to do a lot of landscapes and females, as that's what is easy to draw.

Sept 18., 08 (This morning!)
38 minutes, paintBBS

I had some other pencil sketches done from when I was supposed to be doing chemistry homework, but I have not had the ~~time~~ patience to scan and edit and optimize them, so I'll post them later when I've got an awesome large sketch like the duckie.

And there it is! Another update before a month passed! I'd work harder at this art thing, but I'm...tired. And doing an art project. So there.

I don't belong here.

2008-08-21T01:22:00.000-07:00

I wanted to draw an anonymous attractive bald woman (attractive because I'm immature, of course), but then I realized that I had no idea what a head from a profile view actually looks like. Apparently there's more skull than I thought. Maybe I just draw bimbos all the time.

Anyway, I didn't mean for this to turn out to be so much like Natalie Portman, but she's pretty, and I like the way her head works.

I feel a cop-out drawing a picture from a picture reference instead of real life, but I really can't afford to hire a model to sit there for an hour so I can see how a clavicle works. Figured I might as well get over my purist from-real-life drawing ways, because purism leads to elitism and there's nothing conductive about that.

Original reference
(I wanted a bald Portman, but that was the only profile view on the first page of Google Images, so I settled for an in-between crop of hair. The hairline was extrapolated - I figure it'd be kind of creepy searching the internet for "Natalie Portman Hairline".)

Paper with mechanical pencil,
30 minutes

Not a month since my last update. I'm kind of surprised; this is better than I'd expected.

First post.

2008-07-23T01:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome! I tire of words, so here is a picture I drew as homework for my sketching lessons.

pencil on cartridge paper