a post!

I'm aware that I haven't posted anything on this blog in nearly two months. That is unfortunate. I've been working a lot at my real job so art has pretty much been put on the backburner. Good news is (I guess, depending on how you look at it) I return to school in about 3 weeks. This means back to art classes and less time at work = hopefully more blog posts. At any rate, I did do a watercolor portrait of my dog for my mother's birthday last month. So there's something for you to look at.

jimmy eat world - polaris

someday...

Doing some sketching tonight, and I decided to work on the tattoo idea I've had for a while. Just lines for now, I will do some color mockups at some point. And then, hopefully in the near future, it will permanently be inked onto my flesh. :D This has a lot of symbolism in it that means a lot to me, and the line "celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing" is from the song Parabola by my favorite band, Tool. Should be an interesting first tattoo experience, haha.

tool - prison sex

painty paint paint

I had to do an "expressive" self-portrait for my transfer portfolio. I don't know how expressive this is but I honestly don't give two shits. I just wanted to draw the cartoon version of myself, hahaha. And yes, this is generally how I look when I'm painting something. Sepia ink and watercolor pencil.

deadsy - tom sawyer

elephants!

My drawing II final required me to create a series of pieces for a single concept. My teacher wanted me to find an animal behavior that related to a human emotion and base my concept on that. After doing a lot of research, I decided to create the drawings based on the way in which elephants display grief. I think this video explains it much better then I could:





I also found that psychologists have broken down the grieving process into five steps: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. So each one of the drawings I did represents a different stage. In them, there is a main character, a girl, going through the grieving process. Her arm is an elephant's trunk, meant to represent the girl's inability to let go of the individual whom she is mourning over, and also as a reference to the use of an elephant's trunk to touch the remains of other elephants who have died. The elephant bones in the drawings are meant to represent the deceased. I don't know how well I pulled any of this off (haha) but in general I enjoyed doing them. Graphite, watercolor, watercolor pencil and ink pen were all used on watercolor paper for this series.



STAGE 1: DENIAL



STAGE 2: ANGER



STAGE 3: BARGAINING



STAGE 4: DEPRESSION



STAGE 5: ACCEPTANCE

a perfect circle - magdalena

zombies :D

So yesterday I got my pre-ordered copy of The Zombie Hunters: Book One, signed by the author Jenny Romanchuk. :DD

I've been reading the webcomic The Zombie Hunters for the past few years, and it's by far the best webcomic I've stumbled across. It's a great blend of action, mystery and humor and I really like the fact that the author not only runs her website and store independently, but she also designed the cover and layout for the book herself. I also really like the fact that the entire story is basically based off a dream she had in high school about her and her friends killing a bunch of zombies. So I was super psyched when she began selling signed copies of the first four chapters of the comic in printed form.

So go visit The Zombie Hunters, and maybe support Jenny by buying some cool stuff from her store!

pearl jam - release

tarot.

So I've been lacking in the art department lately. :/ I haven't had much time to work on anything and I'm not happy with anything I've done. I have, however, been doing a lot of photography and working a lot in the darkroom. So at least you get this nice photo to look at.

the postal service - brand new colony

for a minute there i lost myself.

so right now i'm working on a very introspective assignment for class (it's not going well, but thats not the point.) whenever i have to do stuff like this i break out the Radiohead, mostly because Thom Yorke is the King of Introspect. I've been a fan of their music for a long time and while i was thinking about it, i figured i'd share a great song by them that has a fantastic music video, possibly one of my favorites ever.



radiohead - karma police