12 posts tagged “drawing”

My creative intuitions have been in a rut for the last year. When I was still in school I'd draw at least once a day, but without class time to doodle and my art classes for my major I just haven't been able to build up the courage to produce anything worthwhile recently. Despite the fact that I've invested in several moleskines and sketchbooks to get my juices flowing, they've been filled to the brim with To Do lists and work notes and void of any interesting drawings. Sad panda, indeed.

Thankfully, Crap Artist's last pen pal package included a tiny, slim-paged sketchbook (the Caderno in the photo). One evening a few weeks ago I decided to try it out. Page by page I started to play around with ballpoint, my prismacolor markers, and other experiments. This sketchbook has something magical about it, and in turn i've been able to make a few drawings that I'm proud of again. Here are a few of the pages, all of which are being kept track of in my Caderno Flickr set:

 

GDC kicked off to a tasty start for the Destructoid team at TellTale Games' party held at Cellar. Naturally we couldn't say no to the prospect of zombie makeup, karaoke, and free drinks, but little did I know that the party's most exciting attraction (for me, anyway) was the presence of the one and only Steve Purcell. In the flesh! And also sporting a rather adventurous felt hat.

For those of you not familiar with the man and his work, Purcell is known for his artistic contributions on many of the classic LucasArts adventure games. More significantly however, he is recognized as the brain machine behind the lovingly twisted partners in crime Sam and Max. It would be an understatement to say I was somewhat starry eyed and whiskey soured upon my approach to Mr. Purcell, in utter awe of the fact that I was about to meet one of the artists that truly set the ground rules for my sense of humor and my love for adventure games while growing up.

Chad and I both approached him at first asking for photos, an idea that was suddenly overshadowed by another fan's request for a drawing. Notebook-less I called the attention of Joey the bartender for a cocktail napkin and asked the same of Mr. Purcell, only to sign it for .tiff (of course).

And then there was Max! Exclaiming quite enthusiastically that .tiff is "Not a real name!". The sight of it set my fan girl flame on full blaze, and I beamed happily clinging to the napkin as I parted ways.

That was, until I thought I had lost it. The bar was rather dark and the copious amounts of drank had somehow shadowed the sight of the drawing hidden in the folds of my purse. I went from ecstatic to distressed in 60 flat, but Mr. Purcell noticed so offered to do another drawing, a Second Coming of Max, if you will. Brilliant as Purcell always is, the second drawing cleverly references the first and includes a bonus floating Sam head. Win! and Win!

Of course after gushing all of my fan girl pheromones all over Mr. Purcell, singing Material Girl with Leigh Alexander, and somehow making it home by the end of the night, I found the other drawing after all. You can better believe that I'll be framing these babies and keeping them forever!

Were your holiday cards store bought, handmade, online, TBD or MIA?

For almost 6 years (I think?) I've been drawing and rendering my holiday card to meet my annual 'Slutty Holiday Anime Girl' milestone. Typically I sketch out the character by Thanksgiving and have it colored before Christmas, then I send it out via mass e-mail, twitter, facebook message, etc.  Might be a bit late this year, but while you all are waiting you can take a gander at my Slutty gingerbread lady from last year.

I'm thinking these drawings are a result of all that subconscious pent-up desire to wear a sexy bee-costume for Halloween each year (</sarcasm>), but ... who knows.

Record your sketching sessions online (with voice even) at Sketchcast.com, then publish then embed them on your site. Pretty cool concept, but they don't record you taking a few seconds to select the color and width of the pen so it ends up looking a little slow.  I made this one in 3 minutes and was totally lacking creative ambition, so please pardon the flat and non-climatic finish.

Here is another 'morning scene' of my third character.  There are a few frames missing (I havn't drawn them yet) but I wanted to post it all anyway.  I kind of enjoy seeing it all stacked together on Vox.  Looks like a real comic book page!  Horray!

I just wanted to briefly share some of the frames from one page of my senior project for media studies.  The sequence is inherently simple, but you'll probably ask "Hold on a second, uh...how does this relate to media". And then I'd say "You'll just have to wait and see!".

So yeah. Wait and see!  It's a work in progress!  Right now these are all being drawn by hand with a pilot precise V5, a japanese mechanical pencil, and some sharpies.  Really high tech over here.  I've scanned the pages in at a high resolution with the intention of working it them into flash somehow.  I still need to play around with things, but enjoi regardless, plz.

Today I had the fortunate opportunity to go on a gallery visiting field trip with my painting class today.  We all met in Williamsburg to visit my professor's art studio first.  I am just beginning to explore the wide variety of sectors in the city and Williamsburg seemed very much like a hipster neighborhood with plenty of vintage clothing stores, tiny cafés, and used book venders for everyone.  I do want to go back and walk around it some more.

Anyway, we visited quite a few galleries, both in Williamsburg, around NYU, and in Chealsea and saw a large body of work.  I really enjoy going to galleries because they inspire me to do more art and give my eyes visual experience.  The artists below were my favorites of what I saw today:

From Left to Right: Michael Schall, Elizabeth Huey, and Raoul De Keyser

I returned from my 3 hour seminar to find my housemates all collected in the swanky living room on my floor.  I was greeted by baked goods, wonderful music, intense music, and drew on giant playing cards during comfortable conversation.  The night was complete by a group viewing of The Big Lebowski.

I myself do not sport any tattoo's on my body, but do consider getting one sometime in the future.  Recently, I determined that my favorite idea was to get a tattoo based on one of Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock prints.  I really love traditional Asian art, and Hokusai's landscapes are really beautiful. 

Plus, after reading Snakes and Earrings for my Japanese popular culture and literature class, I was really enchanted and interested with the motives behind body modification.  If I had to get a tattoo tomorrow, I'd get a reiteration of these cherry blossoms, starting midway on the left side of my torso and climbing up right underneath my bust.  I'm positive it would be elaborate and painful, which is why I have to think about it some more.

Additionally, someone who I really look up to and love has a small tattoo that she designed herself.  She is an artist that has inspired me and supported me throughout my artistic endeavors, which makes me consider that I should design the tattoo I choose to put on my body as she did.  That will take some more thinking, as I do not know what I would design.  My boyfriend at one point considered getting a tattoo of a drawing I did long ago, but his policy is to get a tattoo everytime he goes to a different country (He has three from Italy, the UK, and Jamaica).  Plus, I'd like to be with him if he ever chooses to do it, and I have yet to be with him on a traveling extravaganza.