senior art show

I realized that I never actually posted a photo of my painting that was accepted into the FIT senior exhibition. Here it is! I need to take better photos of it! It is oil paint on cradleboard with rabbit skin glue gesso

daft punk portrait school thing

I've been doing this painting for class and I'm not super excited about it, but I'm just trying to get it finished enough to turn in! It's turned into a digital painting exercise more than anything. It's way too similar to the photo than to call it anything else... My prof is cool with it since it's just supposed to be a poster-type thing. I slapped on "Daft Punk" in katakana because I'm sick of looking at this piece and I just want it to be done *bad example* WE CAN'T ALL BE PERFECT! I've discovered that I reeealllly like digital painting! It's super fun. Here are some progress pictures and the photo that inspired it and that I heavily referenced:

what it looks like right now

stiffff as hell

the photo

I remember seeing the show, super cool. This photo totally brought me back. We were right in front in the middle! Best ever. Coney Island 2007 waaah! I wore my Anamanaguchi T-shirt, of cawse

painting progress

Here are some pictures of my model painting from today's class!

after about 2 hours, the color is off from the hallway lighting

maybe after an hour?

crappy under painting-drawing, I ended up wiping it off and redrawing it higher on the board

some dumb drawings

spent too long doing these today... "what I wore" or whatever... my mom gave me her funny fuzzy tiger sweater from 1990

herrggnn

I have another blog

About fashion and lifestyle related stuff. Or is that dumb? I don't know if they should be combined or if I should just have two. I don't want to bore art people with "blah blah blah my hair!!!! I ATE CAKE TODAY!!" etc.

gahh well I already made a post on the other one so so

uuhh

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

hi

Here are two works in progress:

Hrmm

I was thinking of starting another blog for fashion/beauty related things? I'm awful at updating so I'd just keep it all here, but I kind of want to keep art stuff and other stuff separate. Don't want to bore anyone! I guess I'll think about it. In the meantime, my tumblr is here.

I got a new haircut, and most of my pastel pinks and purples have faded away, regrettably. I never take pictures of when I color my hair and lose all record of them forever! I can easily re-do it though. I have some peachy pastel pink that shows underneath and in the back, still! : )

Here are some bad photobooth photos.

I went from this...

to this! AAAH!

(ghost-cam)

(don't mind that floppy end there, had styling issues that day!)

I was trying to grow it all long, but my ends were pretty damaged from not moisturizing my hair properly and treating it kinda roughly in general (brushing while wet, etc). Believe it or not bleaching it doesn't kill it as much as you'd think, my hair's EXTREMELY resilient and thick (people think it's fine but it's a lie, you should have seen it when was all long and in a ponytail) But hey, It's spring and I needed a change. I've been seeing street-snap photos of cool girls in japan with longish round bobs with super curly ends. I was totally in love with Toshiko Koshijima's hair on the cover of Capsule's new album, PLAYER:

Rad! She rocks.

Anywho, I've been scanning things lately and will update soon. Promise promise promise

sometimes

I draw my friends/classmates, I dig it. CAN YOU?
Sunja and Mickey during critique in Illustrator's Heritage, and Amy, Keysha and Hsu Beau (Can I use your real name??) at the draw-a-thon:

Pratt Draw-a-thon

Last week I attended Pratt's "Draw-a-thon" for the first time. It wasn't what I was expecting (a big party), but I had fun and it was really refreshing to draw from models. At first I felt like I'd "lost my figure-drawing touch", but I got into it after a while. Drawing from 10 PM to 6:30ish AM, insane! I felt like a badass when I showed up to Saturday morning class early.

Here's my favorite out of all of them:

And here are the rest:

doodles

Did some little doodles for my Tegaki page... Here they are. Self portrait, and a fancy macaron

"Fernwolf? ...Fur-wolf?"

Fenrir!

Last semester we all made 32-page book-dummies, I totally burned myself out doing it and I'm relatively glad with the results, although I want to redo a lot of it. We were provided with scripts but were allowed to pick our own stories, or write our own. At first I was going to pick either Rapunzel or 'Snow' from the default list, but my professor didn't think either were my style, and my friend said "Why don't you do a viking story?" When she said that it kinda clicked, and this old book I read a few times during daycare at the Swedish Church when I was a wee one. It was about viking gods, and my memory's hazy but there was a dark and grisly spread of a huge wolf biting this guy's hand off. So I picked that particular story/chapter of the edda, about the monster wolf Fenrir. Or "Fernwolf," as my professor took to calling it.

Too Long; Didn't Read: Here are some scans of the decent pages out of the 32.

Odin's son Tyr, the only one of the gods who was brave enough to feed Fenrir or give him water

Urd, Skuld and Verdandi showing the Aesir(gods) the dark destiny of the children of Loki and Angrboda

The children of Loki and Angrboda

Loki and Angrboda

Skirnir visiting the dwarves in Svartalfheim

Skirnir presenting Gleipnir to the Aesir, looking perplexed

Some sketches: