Bright Red: Day 190

Early City Drawing

Okay, so this drawing is incredibly early on. I’m sure you can get an idea of what it’s going to be, but I thought it would be fun to post what I’m working on, as I’m working on it. Not to mention that I’ll be working on it for most of the night during two hockey games, so I wouldn’t have found time to post until after midnight if I didn’t do it now.

So, here it is! It’s not going to be realistic, but I’m planning on adding a lot of windows. I’m thinking up ways to make it so the windows are the only thing on the page with any real color. The moon will be pale, not unlike the crescent moon I did a few days or so ago, and the buildings might be shades of grey, or …maybe I’ll make them bright red! I really don’t know. I just want to convey some kind of emotion using the buildings and windows. Not to mention the fact that they are standing tall all around you.

So yeah, that’s what I’m working on. Nothing too impressive at the moment, but when I look at this early sketch, I see a lot of the finalized picture. There are just a few question marks sticking out at me. What colors am I going to use? And will those windows all fit in there correctly at the correct angles? It’s going to take some work. I don’t do scenes like this often.

If you want to see an updated version before I do tomorrow’s post, I usually post those smaller updates on Instagram.

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It’s Not All Dumb Stuff: Day 189

Star Circle Design

It’s strange, as well as comforting, to use this blog as a place where I can be completely honest. After spending hours posting my paintings in online shops and galleries, and trying to come up with interesting stories for each piece of art, it’s pretty exhausting. I don’t make any of the stories up, but I do have to consider exactly how talk about them.

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Pinterest! And Other Social Media Type Things and Places: Day 188

Crazy groovy space thing

As I’m typing this first line out on my newest post (yes, the one you’re reading right now), I have yet to work on my art project that I begun a couple days ago. Rather than do any of that today, I’ve instead redesigned a few bits on my website, got completely set up on this thing called Pinterest (I still have yet to fully grasp that whole Instagram thing!), and I begun selling my artwork on a website called Artpal. Not to mention changed a couple ideas on what I want to focus on going forward from this point onward. Turns out day 188 of my creative habit is going to be an important one, as far as the future of my art career is concerned.
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Washed Out and Lame: Day 187

Star Circle Design

I was more excited to get going on today’s creative project than I’ve been in a long time. I’m really loving how this is turning out so far. However, when I look at this photo, which was actually taken under proper sunlight, I don’t get the same feeling as I get from looking at the actual piece on paper. Not sure why that is exactly. Maybe the colors are more washed out in the photo, and I think it’s a littler blurry in places. And that’s pretty lame.

I’ll do whatever I can do to continue trying to take better photographs to represent my artwork in the online space. You know, that’s one huge reason why I really love doing digital work; it always ends up at the highest quality as far as something that’s inherently pixel perfect goes. I’m no photographer. Creating artwork with pens, pencils, and literally getting my hands dirty in the process, just feels a whole lot better. I enjoy the process more when I’m creating with my hands with many tools, than when I create anything digitally. When I put it that way, it sounds dumb, because I’m sure every single artist will agree with that. Well, probably…

I’m just going to throw this in here at the end, but is it just me or do you also get a Millennium Falcon vibe from this drawing?

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Natural Talent Versus Hard Work: Day 186

CircleDrawing

I planned to work on the Photoshop painting I started yesterday, which I’m sure I’ll get back to sometime, but instead I made this. I got somewhat set up to do my Photoshop stuff today, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I’ve enjoyed working on paper with these pens and pencils more than I realized. Using my drawing tablet and fiddling with the tools in Photoshop just didn’t feel right. Not to mentioned that I just don’t have anywhere super comfortable to do my digital drawing.

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Opposing Slices: Day 185

Crazy groovy space thing

All finished. Because I waited too long to get started today, I had to take this photo under artificial light. If I think I can make it look better tomorrow, I’ll put the time in to do that. It’s bugging me that it looks, as usual, way better on the actual paper. However, I’m ready to move onto something new.

I’ve already begun working on my next project. As I’ve mentioned a few times, it’ll be something I create using Photoshop. I’m going to try and reproduce some of the features of the drawing I’ve been working on. It’s still in the early stages so far, as you can see in the screenshot at the bottom of this post. I’m already noticing that it’s taking me a little bit of time to adjust to doing digital again, since I’ve been working on real paper with pencils and pens for over a week now.

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How About That Trunk Though? Day 184

Crazy groovy space thing

Almost finished! As I suspected, I only had a little bit of time to do my creative habit. That trunk looks pretty amazing, I think. I don’t want to add anymore detail to it for fear of messing it up. Right now, it’s looking pretty great. I’ve also completely finished the outside tendrils. The last couple didn’t turn out the way I was hoping, but all the colors blend pretty well.

I still have a few more details to add to the leafy part of the tree because I’m noticing that it could use a little more dimension to help it stand out. I’m hoping that I can pull that off properly. Then all there is left to do is color in the sky with a light blue, maybe add some clouds, and perhaps a grassy hill towards the bottom. Then I’ll move on to something new! Finally, eh?

So, I had a buddy over today and we watched the original Star Wars. No, not A New Hope. Star Wars. I downloaded an original edit from…. somewhere, and it still looks fantastic. There were only maybe one or two moments where you kind of noticed some special effect issues, but they in no way took me out of the movie at all. It was fantastic as I’ve never really watched that version. Not since I was very young anyways and I was more occupied by video games than most movies. Except maybe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.

The Star Wars we watched didn’t have any of Lucas’ famous edits. No little yellow droid being replaced by a giant dinosaur, the special effects were all original (you know, made with hard work and dedication), and Greedo was killed before he even knew what happened. I’m not a huge Star Wars fan. I just didn’t grow up with it. But I really love this version of the movie, so much more than what I’ve been watching every few years when I go back and do the Star Wars rewatch.

I figured since a new Star Wars film is coming this year, it was time to go back and watch the original movies. I’m so happy that I found widescreen versions of the very first three Star Wars films. Being a creative person myself, I can really appreciate what Lucas was able to create. I don’t think there’s anything I can say about Star Wars that hasn’t been said repeatedly by many a Star Wars fan previously, so I’ll just say that I’m not a fan of the remastered versions with all the changes, and watching this version really made me appreciate how hard it must of been to build everything in that universe. Or galaxy, as it were.

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