Life drawing #15
Two 2s and one 20. Shitty day for life drawing, only that top gesture was a positive surprise.
Artworks and other creative projects.
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Pisha
Bubblegum watercolor version of this Pisha Warden shot for Me in My Place.
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Life drawing #14
One 5 and two 20s.
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Marcelle
The is a painting study of the stunning Marcelle, as photographed for Me in My Place by Amanda Jas.
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Hmmm …
Done as assignment #2 for Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques (free online Coursera class). Theme was fantastic art (dada, surrealism) so I had to explore that.
We also have to write an artist statement there so here goes (oh boy, I don’t like talking like this about my pieces, but it gets graded so I kinda have to (explain the how, what and why)):
This is a self-portrait in oils, a continuation from my first self-portrait, Rainbow Man. It’s painted on rough canvas to give it a texture and oils were chosen for the rich, vibrant colors, but kept very thick to give it the heavy, dark feeling. It is digitally painted using a Wacom graphic tablet in ArtRage.
The man looks like he almost turned into a statue and all his essence is slowly dripping away from him over time. He is disintegrating, his colors being taken away from him until just the skeleton remains and then that is destroyed as well.
The portrait explores the feeling of becoming numb, paralyzed by life’s experiences. Certain things have happened to me that have made me reluctant to take action, to approach people. This is the visual representation of how it made me feel. The portrait might make you feel uncomfortable, distant. Maybe also curious, but morbid. It’s how I feel on the other side of the canvas. Well, sometimes.
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Misperfection
This is a test painting before the start of the digital figure painting workshop, to see where my skills are at this moment. There are no words that can explain how personally dissatisfied I am with the result. But I guess that’s why I’m taking the class …
The face is based on a computer generated ‘average’ face, in this case a russian female. I love the concept of these attractive, super symmetrical, computer-made people. Therefore Miss Perfection, but my painting skills are less so, therefore the title (but there’s a more subtle reason as well). And no, that’s not a real word.
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Life drawing #13
I returned to life drawing after a month long break and I felt very rusty. Must not quit for so long next time — it seems to be more like going to the gym than it is like riding a bike.
These are the three 20s at the end.
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Blast from the past 2, traditional and digital portraits from 2012, before this blog was created.
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Blast from the past, my digital illustrations from 2012, before this blog was created.
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Development Hell, episode 5
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Femme, a new portrait I did this weekend. A bit of change from oils to ArtRage watercolors. (Un)fortunately, no real LSD was consumed in the creation of this. Thanks for inspiration to this amazing young woman who shares my obsession with tumblr and feminism.
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Another old(ish) process video I haven’t had time to upload yet. This is from half a year ago, the night that I bought ArtRage, 2 hour quick portrait as a test for doing art for a web series called Development Hell.
It’s funny how I thought it was just a test and I let myself play around with stuff (first time discovering this awesome piece of software). I thought I would do much better when the real production would start, but in truth, this portrait is much more expressive than the later ones where I was being careful. So yeah, now I like this one much more.
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Life drawing #12
Still focusing on heads/portraits. For the first time I did each 20 min session on its own page, so you can see how the progression goes in one class:
- 10 x 2 min
- 4 x 5 min
- 2 x 10 min
- 20 min
- 20 min
- 20 + 15 min
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An unfinished portrait, archiving to keep a record of my pencil process at the end of 2012.
