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Just a few years ago, my main reason for drawing was so that I could ink and color up my doodles all nice and pretty...I'd rush through the drawing and leave in all sorts of crappy mistakes figuring I'd just cover them up with a clean line and nice photoshop colors. Nowadays I make tons of plans for art projects, but I'm just too lazy to ever do anything with them. This is the closest I've come in a long while to a finished drawing.
A couple weeks ago I became overly excited about Rex Hackelbergs paintings, and decided I would try to be like him and start some new projects that I could be proud of. I drew a whole stack of hillbilly girls with the intent to paint them up all nice and pretty, but as it turns out I still can't paint, and these still aren't going anywhere.
Some more drawings that I planned on inking up all fancy-like. I was going to learn to use the brushes in photoshop to color them...but everytime I sit down in front of the computer I end up stalling or suddenly remembering something "extremely important" that I have to do and go running away.
On a happy note, here is something from a project that will actually get finished- and it's not girls! A couple layout poses from the Weird Al video:
So anyhow, where does this overwhelming feeling of obligation to finish drawings come from? I'll admit I love a beautiful painting or carefully rendered drawing, but often I enjoy looking at a rough and dirty sketch just as much, especially since so many finished drawings lose what makes the original drawing look interesting. It seems however that a lot of people greatly prefer a finished drawing. I have been told in more than one email that cleaning up my drawings would make me seem more legitimate. I suppose that's sort of true, but I'd rather think that I'll become legitimate when I learn how to draw as well as the people I look up to. Maybe I'm just making excuses because learning how to paint seems so time consuming, ha! I think this sort of thing isn't even an issue for people who are actually able to get the spontaneity and energy of a scribbly drawing into their finished artwork. There are people out there like this (you know who you are), and I curse you! Actually, I want to be just like you...anyhow, this is turning out to be longer than I intended. If you want some more to read though, you can find it here: http://www.readersvoice.com/interviews/2005/December/222/
It's really long though, so watch out!
A couple weeks ago I noticed that the piles of fashion magazines in my apartment were taking over and getting to be pretty overwhelming. So last weekend while I was sick in bed, I tore them all up and made a giant book of all the best photos. I divided them up into people with interesting faces, people in funny positions, and people with interesting shapes, colors, hairstyles, and clothes. So far it's been really useful, and fun to look at! Here are some sample pages of some cute, unique, and funny faces and poses.
I guess if I'd been smarter I would have divided up the sections a little better...and perhaps made a section for dificult angles, and a section for cool profiles. Anyhow, after I finished destroying all the magazines in the house, I sat down and drew a whole bunch of these awe-inspiring girly girls. Hopefully the drawings will be half as amusing to you guys as the photo reference is to me.
Hi again!I've been really busy lately! A while back Weird Al Yankovic contacted my old boss John K., asking him if he'd be interested in doing an animated music video for one of his new songs. The song is really catchy and funny...and it's about girls! John asked me to help out, so for the past few weeks we've been designing, boarding, and laying out the cartoon.Because the number of people working on it right now is so small, we've been using early Betty Boop cartoons as inspiration on how to make it simple, yet super silly and fun to look at. Hopefully it'll turn out that way! Here are some Grim Natwick inspired dance poses.
The layout system we're using has been really fun so far. I've had the honor of cleaning up John's rough scenes, and he's been nice enough to clean up mine. The dance poses above are mostly a combination of my roughs with John's clean up. I want to post some of John's original layouts soon, but perhaps I should ask him first!
Above is a funny picture of me pitching some of the gags in the cartoon to Mr. Yankovic himself! He was super nice, and even laughed despite my feeble pitching abilities. Hooray for Weird Al, he is nice!
Nothing too interesting today...just a random doodle of girls singing. Maybe they're Carter Family fans?
By the way, I turned on the word verification option for people who want to comment. I hope that's not too annoying, but all the spam was becoming awful!
Here's the rough I drew with a nice orange highlighter. I traced over this thing in pen after I got that weird loopy arm to look a little better.
Oh, and for those of you who were interested, here are close-ups of my lovely christmas stockings, which came from the Pasadena City College swap meet. I wish I could say I made these!
Just one more thing, another close-up...my cute christmas tree top. I don't want to take it down!
A couple weeks ago I became overly excited about Rex Hackelbergs paintings, and decided I would try to be like him and start some new projects that I could be proud of. I drew a whole stack of hillbilly girls with the intent to paint them up all nice and pretty, but as it turns out I still can't paint, and these still aren't going anywhere.
Some more drawings that I planned on inking up all fancy-like. I was going to learn to use the brushes in photoshop to color them...but everytime I sit down in front of the computer I end up stalling or suddenly remembering something "extremely important" that I have to do and go running away.
On a happy note, here is something from a project that will actually get finished- and it's not girls! A couple layout poses from the Weird Al video:
So anyhow, where does this overwhelming feeling of obligation to finish drawings come from? I'll admit I love a beautiful painting or carefully rendered drawing, but often I enjoy looking at a rough and dirty sketch just as much, especially since so many finished drawings lose what makes the original drawing look interesting. It seems however that a lot of people greatly prefer a finished drawing. I have been told in more than one email that cleaning up my drawings would make me seem more legitimate. I suppose that's sort of true, but I'd rather think that I'll become legitimate when I learn how to draw as well as the people I look up to. Maybe I'm just making excuses because learning how to paint seems so time consuming, ha! I think this sort of thing isn't even an issue for people who are actually able to get the spontaneity and energy of a scribbly drawing into their finished artwork. There are people out there like this (you know who you are), and I curse you! Actually, I want to be just like you...anyhow, this is turning out to be longer than I intended. If you want some more to read though, you can find it here: http://www.readersvoice.com/interviews/2005/December/222/
I'm going to visit my folks in Nevada tomorrow, which means I get to go visit my best friend from highschool!! Em is great! She's super funny and smart, and looks like a cute cartoon girl. Actually, she reminds me of a Nick Cross girl (I always think of her when I watch his film "The Red Scarf"). Anyhow, I was excited about getting to see her again, so I drew a picture of her.
Not much to say about these other doodles...the one above is me trying to force myself to use the color purple, which I personally hate for unknown reasons. I understand that it can look good in a nice color scheme, but I can't figure it out yet. If anyone reading this understands color, explain it to me!
A couple weeks ago I noticed that the piles of fashion magazines in my apartment were taking over and getting to be pretty overwhelming. So last weekend while I was sick in bed, I tore them all up and made a giant book of all the best photos. I divided them up into people with interesting faces, people in funny positions, and people with interesting shapes, colors, hairstyles, and clothes. So far it's been really useful, and fun to look at! Here are some sample pages of some cute, unique, and funny faces and poses.
I guess if I'd been smarter I would have divided up the sections a little better...and perhaps made a section for dificult angles, and a section for cool profiles. Anyhow, after I finished destroying all the magazines in the house, I sat down and drew a whole bunch of these awe-inspiring girly girls. Hopefully the drawings will be half as amusing to you guys as the photo reference is to me.
The layout system we're using has been really fun so far. I've had the honor of cleaning up John's rough scenes, and he's been nice enough to clean up mine. The dance poses above are mostly a combination of my roughs with John's clean up. I want to post some of John's original layouts soon, but perhaps I should ask him first!
Above is a funny picture of me pitching some of the gags in the cartoon to Mr. Yankovic himself! He was super nice, and even laughed despite my feeble pitching abilities. Hooray for Weird Al, he is nice!
Nothing too interesting today...just a random doodle of girls singing. Maybe they're Carter Family fans?
