no art visuial, just art rant

SO i FINIALLY have made DECENT headway on the wedding gift. for some reaosn i was jsut terrified to work on it. i still get intimidated when i step up to a blank canvas.

but now with it almost done i feel accomplished. i do not love the peice. but i like it there are a few tweaks i need to make BUT over all i feel it was a good learning pratice. i feel it came out ok. i made notes of what i need to work on. and plan to add that to my art drills

i need to go in and tweak my grandmothers gift. urg urg urg. but both tweaks should take no more than 3 hours

and with the finishing of these 2 peices and the summoner contest, NO personal art done for others unless paid or for "job" until i get the 8 concepts/project finished. BLAH.

Here is my mental list
art drills (a little pratice every day)
Rain maker
Abhorsen character designs
Beth character designs
Beth summer sketch
Egypt girl character design
30 min sketch set theam colloquialisms
Devil girl illustration
Grumpy goose/angry elf illustrations
my own version of clasic fairy tale characters.

its gonna be a busy few months. but i will get an art job in 7 months

when i get back from my trip i will post finished versions of art, sketches and other things. i have a stack growing i need to scan...

stuff!

:D WOAH!

here i have dancing cat with chicken friend in a canoe 30 min. sketch set of noses and more sketches of my summnor peice.

art has been coming easier, thank god. and im more confidant. ive been getting some critique of things to think about BEFORE i draw the image. :D WHOOT. and i feel as if im a stronger artist now than even a month ago. now to kick soem but and take some names.

being a creature of habit here is my to do list! ZOMG.

between now and Sunday evening:
5 30 min sketch sets
clean room for 2 hours total (( its so messy and i need to make an area for christmas present construction. >_< URG. im starting early so i can know how much of what i need to buy. blah blah blah))
put 6 hours into wedding watercolor
tight line drawing for summoner peice done, and tweaked ready for watercolor transferal.
reiki for 2 hours
SLEEP goal? 8 hours on friday night to Saturday. >_< bleah ive been averageing 5 hours a night, which is amazing i can do it. but im egsaushted. ;_;
work on baby blanket for my great neice (( my cousin had a baby. i was working on a baby blanket but now its HUGE. so hopefully she can use it as a todler and up. :D))
Work out 3 times. (( arms legs and core every day because i slacked off))
research makeing home made salsa... YUM!

so fairly busy but i also have 5 days. :D WISH ME LUCK! (( lists are AMAZING))

spots

you know... i do a lot of art, but not nearly enough.

remember the story book images? HAVE MORE! I did not with teh cover which is fine. i offered to turn the images into b&w for use as spots. :D

hope you enjoy!

Contest woes

OH NUES! i totally forgot to upload yesterday! SO double today. XD

the first 2 images to me 3 hours to get to this level. IE-CURUMBA! i have an idea in my head and have been struggling to get it out on paper. ok so this isnt close to what i imagined, BUT elements of it are there. i am aiming for a steam punked/gear-ish look. (( the elf girl)) the other one is just someone who poped out. i oridiginally likes the pose, but the tweaking did not result in what i was desiring. i had a VERY complicated arm pose imagined, and while i still long to draw it im setting it aside. i need to focouse on the contest cause the deadlien is fast aproaching and i only have the sketch of the character, which was my goal 2 weeks ago... hrmmm deffiniantly discouraged.

BUT i will not give up. hopefully i can streamline the rest of the process, and produce quality work. that is my goal. quality. urg urg urg. i have abotu 30 sheets or paper with just doodles on it, but not even compleat figures, ive been tyring to get a solid pose, that is a little different from most poses i do, im workign to start drawign variaty. blah. it is just frustrateing.

the other 2 were intended for thursday but i spaced...

sketchy wetchy wo

:D here we have ART (( i know on an art blog OMG))a sketch of beth that i like and a sketch of someone i don't know but hope to do more with.

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more art ive been doing. my goal this week is to upload every day...

MUST GET ART JOB SOON.

With the color peice? i used a technique called "Backwards painting" it makes a lot of sence for my backwards brain. http://www.watercolor-online.com/Articles/Backwards/backwards.phtml

YAY!

hoep you enjoy

Hummanah!

YAY CHARACTER DESIGNS. :D i finially got a mogget im happy with. just a little tweaking but im worken on doing the solid turnaround, and then some color. the nice thing it it just came out. YAY. NO FORCEING THE ROCK. it took long enough...

hoepfully after i finish moggett i can do Sabriel, Lirael, Touchstone and Sendings.

Finished my grandmothers present! YAY. now i get to haul butt and kick it into overdrive on the wedding gift. hmm no posty till they get the presents though. XD cause im like that.

and im off!

PS- i love when people critique your work but tell you how THEY would do it. not a critique at all really. such as "wow thats nice but i think you should have drawn it in my style. like this. see this is better." HWAH?

Art drill, art goal

there is nothing i love more than when the heavens align to make things awsome. lately ive been able to churn out some great sketches. i plan on scanning this weekend and having a good chuck of things to post next week. and i've FINIALLY been able to work on some character design for Abhorsen ((a side prject to take something someone ELSE created and make the characters)). :D i have a mogget i like! so i am gonna work on getting a nice character sheet worked up for him. also, still worken on my grandmothers birthday gift. :D and i and in much more like with it than before. but ho-mah-gosh its bright.

Goals this weekend? (friday-sunday)
3 30 mineut sketch sets
layout finialized for summoning contest and begin the larger version.
mogget poses and faces sketched, mogget turnaround, done.
begin wash in of color for Keith/cassangras wedding gift
begin green color expansion chart.
finished Grandmothers birthday gift

and as always i have a list outside of this but i need to make a list of my lists XD AHAH oh boy. the above have top priorty. below we see a color expansion i did with 40 colors. OMG it was HELL but very helpful. Color expansions suck but you get to see how diferent pigments work together. usually pradictably but sometimes they suprise you. watercolor has been a beast because it being an OPAQUE it is different from oils and acrylic, even colored pencil.

but as always pratice makes perfect.

mary mary

Why hello! below we see ART AGAIN! YAY! these werefor fun, but the first FINISHED peice (( i do concider my sketches to be finished, but at times i feel thats cheating)) was form a 30 min sketch set about 2 weeks ago. i decided to work on it making it finished, and also i have a waterfolor version coming up. :3 exciting. i might even do an ink version... Bloody mary was fun to draw.((that is the name of the peice))

below that there was a meme going around of you in highschool vrs now. >_< omg. hillarity ensues.

i need up update my to do list... cause it longer XD

Art woes, worries, rants and achivements.

Sorry no art, just pure emotion!

There is always mixed feelings when you realise. " well, my stuff is STILL pretty bad, at least its better than last year"

i have been fighting off mixed boughts of "being dragged down about my art emotional feelings" mainly because i awoke to this reality sometime last week. one of those "wow you getting better, but see those mountians? you have to go over that range to get where you should, and know you can be." (( i wonder if that is also a metaphore, i know i will end up in Cali, and im currently in Denver... just 1 more mountian range to go over!))

and this is where brutal honesty for honesty's sake is good and healthy. depressing as all hell, but healthy. i mean no one WANTS to admit they are just not good enough. i mean REALLY! but thankfully i've gotten TONS of support from my freinds lately especially. they seem to be rideing me as to "why are you not appalying for art jobs?" my ancwer? "My portfolio, well lack there off is keeping me away..."

My goal in this is to have a decent sized and adding to portfolio in a few months. (( 4 the longest)) and sending out after that. i dont wanna be at my job longer than a year. which, is kinda mean cause they gave me when i REALLY needed it. BUT i need to do this for me. being an Office whipping gal is matonotious and tiring, the people are AMAZING and i will be sad i can't hang out with them but, in all honesty i am NOT an office girl. bleah.

Today i realised though that i NEEDED the office job. if i just got an art job with no work for it, i would eventually tire of it. im a strange creature. i NEED a challenge to feel sucessful about something. that is why i did art, in all honesty. it was something i could do decently enough to always recive praise form family, but i wanted to see if i could become better. i feel kinda like an oddball about art too. i need to come at it from a different perspective than my arty freinds.

Here is the catch 22, even with all this drive to get better, i will never be satisfied which is ok. but im sure 2 decades form now you will read me lamenting about "i just am not good enough! the recent feature lenght animation i worked on is so subpar!" btu that is always why i love art, you can ALWAYS improve, but with fileing? you kinda cant get much better after your through, speedy and know the alphabet, ya know?

in the end, i've made the septs toward improvement. i call them 'Art Drills' im hoping to give myself weekly challenges to eradicate my weaknesses in areas i've noted. if i missed anything please feel free to comment.

The list?
Color theory. (( ouch!)) i USED to be decent in this, in fact color was my top skill, but as i improved elsewhere with my art this began to lack and did not improve WITH my skills. especially that color in watercolor is NOT the same as CGing, and Acrylic, oil, etc.
Anatomy. ALWAYS NEED TO STUDY! i particuallary need to work on my men. :D
Perspective- something i never got around to fully worken on. >_<
5 basic shapes light from different angles- ALWAYS need to work on this to grasp form.
watercolor 1 hour painting challenge- with hopes that limited time makes me focouse on getting the gist across, kinda liek a 10 mineut gesture, enough for skill, but not enough for detailed rendering.
watercolor color theory- a color chart of all the color and what the mix into.
Drappery/clothing- for charcter design
Animal anatomy- cause animal help with human anatomy.
Inks- to pratice inking to bost my confidance!
photochop/painter pratice- proably quick images to get back intothe sqing of digital art.
Reproducing in various mediums- where i go form sketch to pencil to inkd grey scale to color to line and ink to even cg and maybe 3-d. all the same peice to work on beign able to reproduce the same image multipule times.
Still lives/landscapes- while i love me landscapes, the pratice is ALWAYS necessary. i hate still lives, so that pratice is necessary too.
30 min sketch set- continue but go with theams in the sketches instead of just warmups. :D

as seen above i sure do have a laundry list to work on. but im hoping to vary my drills each week to keep me intrested in what im doing. i will improve, i will concoure, and it will be glorious! (( it just sucks right now XD))

More pratice from febuary

More watercolor pratice form back in Febuary. ^^;; i need to do a few watercolor excersises still but im happy with how these turned out.

i think i will be makeing a list amd proably for the next few weeks just workign on skill. being an artist if fun cause you must ALWAYS be learning, always striving, always working. it keeps it fun. luckly i know a lot, but its appalying it differently to watercolor... >_< trixey mediums.

watercolor

Below some watercolor pratice i did in Febuary to help jump start some creation... but i cleans my room and stored them away only to be unearthed some time last week.

hmmmmm pretty indifferent cause they were pratice but i think they turned out ok.

massive sketch dump with no theam!

So below you will see no theam... save for these were all different 30 min sketch sets that i did. im slowly stopping doing 50bajillion images on one page and am trying to get 1 illustration done in 30 min.

yesterday i did a REDICILIOUSLY sexy "Bloody Mary" inspired by the mary mary quite contrary nursery rhyme. im trying to finish it before posting so here are some others ive done, am proud of and will hopefully do more with!

save for Lady and the tramp charcter, which is copyright Disney form the movie Lady and the tramp. ive been watching many movies lately and im trying to draw from the charctes in motion. its good, but frustrateing pratice. XD "wait... how does her 1/4 profile look? NO DONT LOOK THAT WAY AURG!" hahaha. i might have that be an art challenge. its like life drawing, but with animation.

the other two im hopeing to finish but i donno in what media... probaly watercolor.

ON TO THE ART!