asia society and met

This post has been sitting in the edit box forever.. Checked out the Yoshitomo Nara exhibit at the Asia Society, I'm a big fan. There's something about his work that I really relate to, and the installations are so great. There was this one installation in the back of the top floor exhibit that almost moved me to tears! Too bad I couldn't take pictures! I doodled some of the faces and things he wrote on his pottery. I love "SOCIAL ミスフィッツ(misfits)".

There were some doors to small rooms that had paintings or sculptures inside, and there was one room painted all black with a small painting in the middle of the back wall- it was of a starry eyed girl and it said "Hope" and that kind of got to me. I've been in a rut for months and I'm working so hard to get out of it. So "Hope" kind of hit home.

After that I headed to the Met for class, which no one showed up to! Almost. I hung out and drew "Dancing Celestial". I thought the fluidity of movement of the figure was pretty striking. What's kinda funny is the sculpture's breasts are almost perfect spheres... I ended up making them kinda look less... uh... hahaha

Lastly, here is a photo of my beloved cat looking surly

lookit that critter

Current work!

I've been really really excited about Diablo III. I was so so so into Diablo 2 so I'm really excited for 3. I'm working on a painting of a female barbarian, because barbarians are rad(they're all rad, but I figured I had the perfect model so I'd go for barb girl). I did the initial sketch while I was watching this awesome DVD of Drew Struzan painting. So I was watching in total rapture and got really excited and was sketching without any real regard for anatomical correctness. I hadn't really drawn anything besides cartoony doodles in a long time, so it was pretty exciting. Also pictured is a sorceress from Diablo 2, but she's not gonna be in the painting.

I had Calypso pose for me, and projected the drawing onto my board and started painting in egg tempera, but the board is just so so tiny. I also feel like my drawing is kinda stiff and needs to be... cooler. I'm getting a bigger board and starting over in oil (i miss oils) for class, and I'll do the tiny one to learn/practive egg tempera (which is pretty rad). I really really really miss oils though.

This last one's the one I used for my previous painting (also of Calypso, but not a barbarian!) I got the idea from a painting in that special American artists exhibit at the Met. It was one of those where they have a pretty portrait done of their daughters so they could marry them off. We threw an 80s prom dress and a fox tail on her and voíla. I STILL NEED TO FINISH IT THOUGH

dumb update

Zombie girl and scary dragon. I decided recently that I should scan more things that I draw and just put them up here. Why the hell not

storyboards

These are from a story thing I was working on that I was thinking of turning into a graphic novel. I was trying to think of everything in terms of spreads, but I've been thinking that it would just work better as panels. Blagh! I suck at writing blog posts. "Hey guys, here are some pictures that I drew." EXCITING

Also sometimes my family looks at this blog? which makes it sort of weird. I need to make a website.

The story was based on this scary dream I had,

these drawings are a more literal interpretation.

I later came up with a new story based on the dream, and went with that. I felt like there wasn't enough being told with 32 spreads. Blah blah blah

scary! more on this later

so I was thinking

My blog posts are all pretty meager, I never really talk about myself or my thoughts of my feelings or my work or anything. I just go "welp, here are some sketches." I'm intending to change that. I generally feel weird about talking about myself and my feelings but that's what blogs are for, right?

So the school semester's rolling into gear... I had a registration fiasco because of missing paperwork (DE-REGISTERED?! WHAT) but it's all been taken care of. I'm pretty excited about classes and getting work done. I reaaalllly need to put a portfolio together, because I really don't have any pieces that I'd be comfortable putting in a portfolio. LAME!

I've started some sketches that I'm super excited about, so I'll post those once I get some more going.

progress

progress shots of this draenei girl I've been working on in Tegaki-e

Tegaki is a limited medium but it's basically a sketch blog so whatevs- I've been using it to practice digital painting during the summer, and just for doodling

from newest to oldest:

WoW doodle update

Here are some drawings of warcraft characters

Gatecrasher the troll shaman

Gatecrasher, my blood elf paladin Louhi, Biko the troll warrior

Deadgar the undead rogue proudly wearing our crying bear guild tabard;

Bagg sometimes wishes his character was male again;

random undead girl