Lectures inspire me.

The history of illustration is a long two hour class from 7 to 9:45 in the night. I should be doing better things with my time...you know....doing homework....relaxing....sleeping....durrrr.

Oh well. At least the class has enough humor (or sometimes lack of it) that I can doodle like I used to in school...you know...random arse stupid crap. =)



Related to the lecture- Albrecht Durer's self portrait and the fact that illustrations could still teach a lot to the poor and illiterate after the inventing of the printing press and thusly cheap books were widely available....




Matt+Keegan doodle- "SELECTIVE HEARING (How brothers understand each other...)

K(left) bubble: "BLA BLA BLA FIGHTING BLA BLA BLA BITCHES + HOS BLA BLAH BLAB BLA!"
Matt (right) bubble: FUCK YOU SKREW THIS, I'LL JUST KICK YOUR ARSE, DAMN STUPID, STUPID RAT BROTHER!
(homage to Bone, ya know, "stupid stupid Rat Creatures!" )

(the older)
- doesn't mean to lecture, but fails, ignores the actual personality of his younger sibling even if he "tries to understand"- the wise, heroic, but stupid older brother....

(the younger)
- has a bad disposition and a power complex from years of being "ignored", and refuses to "listen" as a result- stupid, stupid ADHD younger brother....

Me bubble: LOL LOL LOL WUT?

hahaha. Random, right? Okay, gotta go now. I'm in the library and I need to check out some books on Jack Kirby (wicked awesome comic book artist) for my illustration history paper due eventually....that and my contacts are making my eyes blurr out and feel nasty. Yup.

Animating, the cheap and mini style....

So one of the things I do everynow and then, is change up my avatar someplace......normally it comprises of grabbing an image off the internet, maybe slapping some text down, optimizing it in Photoshop in some way, and off it goes.

Well, for my Devart and my AIM account, I decided to fiddle around in Flash and make an animated gif of Matt. Then sometime recently....a certain fellow of mine wanted me to make one of Keegan. (I'm sorry if that's all you've been seeing lately, it's what I draw in my free time....because it's fun to develop my world)

Granted, in Flash, they are fairly well done little animations.....look something like this, little short 45 frame cycles:

(Matt- Blue one. K- Red one)





But, unfortunately, they have to be smaller and fit on an AIM or Devart account...sooo....the detail is lost, but now you get the infinite loops of animated gifs!Whoosh!





I draw too many things for that boy. Lol. But he's my friend, and he likes what I do.... so... yeah. If I am Jack Kirby, he's my Stan Lee? Can't draw...but...he helps keep my ideas a little more stable....XD.

Laterz.

Presents galore, Part 1

Well, break is almost over here, on Monday I start my second semester as an "aspiring illustrator".....a whole new semester, a whole new set of challenges. Bring it.

I didn't get as much studies done as I would have hoped- unfortunately when it came time to Christmas, my family took up most of my time, and then the other thing that's been cramping my time here has been the MASSIVE amounts of snow that have fallen in my hometown in the Pacific Northwest. First mounds of snow prevented my mother from driving anyplace or even the bus system from running...so no studies of pretty archetecture. I did take some photos though, and hopefully I can do some studies from there?

(Now as I'm leaving, ALL the snow is melting...can we now say, massive flooding of rivers? Thank god I live on a hill.)

However, my life wasn't totally devoid of drawing (buahahaha, I'm an artist, me without drawing=death). I made a few experiments in Gouache as possible gifts to people I know....and I have to say, I like it as a medium. It's got the opaque qualities of acrylic, but yet doesn't have the thick annoying plastic consistancy (HATE-IT KILLS MY BRUSHES), and the subtle blending and opacity control of watercolor which I like. No wonder my painting teacher likes it so much, and it's a quick thing for illustration work, that's for sure.

Anyways, here are two thus far, I'm still working on the last. One of them can be seen a few posts down in the linework as well- note that I had changed a few things with it but I still like the way it turned out.






I think they turned out fairly well, considering beforehand I had only used gouache in painting class on ya know, real life things and not for illustration purposes. I kinda like the way K saluting turned out. =)

The originals are probably disappearing within the next week or two....but I made HQ scans for my future convenience.