Olympic Exhibition
Figured it was about time I made a post. I am so bad for that, disappearing constantly from the internet. It’s not that I’m not making art, I am just not documenting it. And that was supposed to be one of my New Year’s Resolutions! But life always has other plans…
Anyway, some news of interest: I entered an Olympic themed exhibition that was set up to generate artwork that could be displayed locally at the celebration for when the Olympic Torch rolls through town, which had two prizes of $1000. Hi giant run on sentence! But how could I pass that up? So I entered a few pieces, an experiment and an old piece from second year.
Well, I ended up winning one of those $1000 prizes. Ooh, aah, pat on the back. That was nice, to be certain.
The piece that won is below — it was actually a 2-hour experiment, more in the style of my abstract and old web/graphic design work than my usual illustration. I just find that funny, in some way. It’s completely made out of circles, and only circles.
But that’s some artwork I’ve done. I didn’t put it in my portfolio section because I don’t think its really representational of my illustration style. I am doing some other stuff that I should hope to show you soon — we’ll see how that goes.
Pick-a-Painting Final
Welp, I’m done. So much for process, I guess. But when I do something, I kinda just do it… in one fell swoop. You saw my sketch, at least, yes? Anyway, here’s the final painting for the Pick-a-Painting. Its in sketches right now, because I, once again, took this photo with my iPhone. And it looks terrible again, ha! Perhaps because I just noticed how filthy the lense is.
Anyway, its in sketches til I get a better picture. However, the gallery intends to photograph each piece in a more professional manner, so I’ll just use their photo once they’re done and put it in my portfolio. Or pull out my SLR to do it myself. MEH.
I also designed the invites for the event, so I’ll have to photograph those too. Soon, soon my friends!
Pick-a-Painting WIP
I’m currently working on a little painting for a charity event called Pick-a-Painting, hosted at the Gallery where I work. The concept of the event is simple. Local artists are given free canvases in a range of smaller sizes (12×12 to 6×8) to paint and decorate and return to the Gallery. Then the Gallery host a party where they put all the donated works on display and people purchase $100 tickets to the event. All the ticket stubs are put into a hat and each are drawn. Then the corresponding ticket-holder is able to pick their choice of painting off the wall.
Here’s my contribution — so far. I apologize for the poor quality photo! I took it with my iPhone in the poor lighting conditions of my room. I couldn’t find my casual camera and didn’t want to drag out my SLR just to throw this online. If you have any input or suggestions, now is the time to tell me, while I’m still in the pencil stage. It’s based off of a previous sketch in my sketchbook (which you can see a few posts down), and is also called Infinity. I’ll post more process as I go!
Selected Summer Sketches 2
Ahhhh, Internet, so nice of you to FINALLY WORK. Now to pick up where I left off.
Here’s something I do while I work at the front desk on weekends with nothing to do; drawing memes! I used the Deity Generator to generate (duh) random descriptions of a deity (duh). Then I would draw them. It was a fun experiment, trying to cram all the details into one character, but sometimes you get things that don’t really work. Whatever, its better than staring at Facebook for 4 hours. The first one scanned really poorly, but I’m not choked as it is just a sketch.
I also spent the last 40 minutes doing a speed paint of a sketch from my previous post; Blacknose Boy. It was fun, I guess? I do so love to draw horrible things right before I go to bed. I also added a semi-process for it, which I’ve added below. Actually, after putting it together, I prefer the 3rd step to the final 4th, but the final 4th looks more “dead”. What do you think?
That’s all for now, kids!