an experiment

i'm doing a lot of painting recently. these studies both went in unintentional but pleasing directions.

rockwell



salen



i especially like this last one, almost paint by numbers-y

pictures are like tiny slices of time

practice practice practice

these are some pencils for an assignment. there will also be 2 children in it and possibly a lil something-something in the background, but i'm drawing them separately. the idea is to ink the pieces and then assemble them in photoshop and then, ya know, colourize them and whatnot.

collage and digital experimentation.

oo scanned!

I'm trying to learn more about colour, been mixing colours from one side of the wheel to the other and stuff like that. Anyway! I just found this bibliodyssey post about The History of Colour. The whole colour/physics thing is... beyond me, but the charts sure are interesting to look at.

you know how i listen to this american life and cbc almost religiously? well i might have found something i like even more (i know!): radio lab.

a girl in class. i was trying not to overdraw the glasses. i like how faces are coming along, i'm getting better at indicating things rather than overwhelming the space with extra lines. i was thinking the other day about how drawing is like writing in that you want to "show" instead of "tell".

also, she does have legs, she just kept moving them. and from here on out im going to make more of an effort to draw people sitting on things.

a valentine almost a month early

with special blinding-photoshop-colour bonus feature.

these collages were made for fun, no commercial gain from any of them.

this was for kaley



another alien landing. this is a common kaley theme.

and here's a nice scrap



i found a set of encyclopedia's from the 70s, i took O, Q, S, T.

one sketchbook page from tonight. i've noticed that i dont draw different types of people very often, got to remedy that.

all ref'd from the newspaper



also trying different types of drawing. my art prof is always talking about "soft edges" and "blurred edges" and "disappearing edges" so there's some of that around too.

portrait of lydia, only got 20 minutes in though

to date, this is the probably the best realistic figure drawing i've done. now, to do better!



large version here

life drawing again tomorrow night! get on the life drawing train, chooo choooooo.

i bought a new 14 x 17 sketchbook because i think i finished my other one (and also i can't find it?)

the scrap pile







also a collage i made for kaley except the pink circles are neon orange in person. im not sure how it scanned pink... another hardy boy's mystery.



since im on winter break im going to life drawing again! its fun but im really rusty. creaky. creaky. creak.

some silly thingie from tonight

yesterday kaley and i saw a man biking down the street playing an accordion. it was magical.