poot

please just ignore the figures in the first painting... omg... more to come... someday!

environments?

the paintings, are just some quick studies for my actual painting which will be done traditionally! *yikes.

"Some day it may be possible" (a not drawing post, drawings... tommorow)

In my struggle to find my own artistic voice, and in times that I fall prey to  slumps of procrastination or feelings of inadequacy I find words from great men that keep me going.

Ronald Searle:



"Drawing for me has never been a case of therapy because I was shy, or not outstanding in physical activities, or anything else. It was a compulsion. I carried a sketchbook day and night, because I could not stop drawing. To sell a sketch was a pleasure, because it meant a little less economic worry and more freedom to explore. But if I had not sold, I still would not have stopped." 



"To me line is something which one can explore endlessly, and which keeps me in a constant feeling of excitement and adventure. I know I shall never live long enough to say and do all I want in line. I can only hope to get up each day, bursting to push the exploration a little further. But line is useless if one has nothing to say with it. The artist must be driven with the desire to express something, and use any device to achieve it. He must be perverse. Everybody will want to mold him to their pattern. But in the end he has to satisfy himself — or spend his life trying to please other people."



"If satisfaction with one’s work creeps in, the time has come to give up and take to prostitution. A sure sign that there is still hope is when one is miserable at not having met one’s own demands."


"The hand is feeble and the artist has still to express with exactitude what his brain conjures up."

characters!.....again!

these are a bit unfinished, and there's definitely problems to them. but really fun to draw.  I wish these managed to maintain the freedom and looseness my initial designs and sketches had. part  of the reason i think is because these are drawings designed for 2-d animation  (ugh) so... no texture or rendering... and that made it loose a lot of qualities that i loved about the originals.

drawing ain't easy

DUMP

Second year has been pretty great. I'm exhausted but I feel like I can still be pushing harder and improving more. so much to learn. I haven't even taken the oppurtunity to really push myself in my understanding of color, painting, or design yet. but there's just so much to learn its kind of overwhelming. so just some work I've done thus far. plenty more to come. 

dipper!

I love this show, this is... fan art?

Lady Lamp

I tried a number of poses, body shapes, styles and faces before settling with what's currently there. Ultimately this had some heavy handed influence by Tadahiro Uesugi whom I'm a big fan of. I've found that not using lines is a much more fun and interesting way for me to work cause i spend more time really  carving  out the shapes. additionally, I hate working in line with my bamboo, and thus bought myself a small cintiq! coming this friday, I will never do anything else but draw.