Friday, May 16, 2014

Train of Thought #6: "Universal Desire" (in-progress)

Sometimes it's good to get into your supplies and work with something you haven't touched in a while. I haven't used oils in about a year and a half and this painting has been in the back of my mind as something I need to finish. I posted about it back then, and my opinion remains that the painting needs to be simplifed in a major way. I find that sometimes when I paint to relax I use too much color, and rather than complimenting each other they compete in a bad way. Right now I'm painting over this and converting it to grayscale because I want to focus more on contrast, composition, and movement.

I don't regret how I started it because there's no way I would have been able to decide on something without making the mistake in the first place. This is a really different process than the one I use when I'm doing most illustration work. I like the trial and error aspect of painting, so when I do this kind of personal work I don't plan a lot before I get the paint out.
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Friday, May 2, 2014

Train of Thought #4: Road Trip

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Friday, April 25, 2014

Train of Thought #3: Visual Art Institute


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Friday, April 18, 2014

Train of Thought #2: "Snake Love"


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This week's image was dark. Yeah. I recently watched a documentary called "The Elephant in the Living Room" and found it pretty disturbing. It brings up social and ecological questions concerning whether or not it's acceptable for private citizens to keep exotic animals as pets. Personally, I think it's the worst idea ever, but to each his own I suppose. I might have been checking under my bed every night while working on this.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Train of Thought: "Backyard Jungle"



















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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Allowed To Grow: Aesthetic Questions


I'm still struggling with some of these aesthetic choices and whether or not they're working with my concept for "Allowed to Grow." I don't know if all the images in the series should follow the same process when it comes to my mark making choices. If they do, will the story become boring, and will my process become too mechanical? If they don't, will they feel disconnected?


Looking back on "Victory," I appreciate this kind of line drawing for the way it captures the imperfections of hand-made imagery. The marks are organic, full of movement, and contain a certain level of mystery and incompleteness that allows for a lot of interpretation and imagination. These subjects are suggestions, but can still dominate a composition conceptuallly.
















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Monday, January 20, 2014

Allowed To Grow (layering graphics and line)






















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