Art in dah poopenshaft

ughhhhhhnn..
Ok, exciting and sorta scary news! we had to evacuate class yesterday due to the fires near my college, I could even see the flames as I was driving up there, pretty kooky.

My class at 1:30 today is canceled too :C, bummer..I'm actually really disappointed. What can I say, I love my classes and I feel like I'm missing out.
At least my sculpture class is still on, its at my old high school which is only about 2 blocks away. So no worry, fires aren't nearly close enough to reach here, and hopefully things will be more under control over there by this evening.

Ok, enough journaly/blog type information.


Now on to primarily  figure studies...
( from the past 2 weeks. )

haven't posted in awhile and I'm feeling preeetty lazy  (actually I've been super busy lately) but here's a bit of very random crap - and I mean RANDOM. I just grabbed a couple of things off my dresser to scan.

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oy vey. Right drew left, left drew right.

I was messing around in photoshop elements (that is all I have, lol) ..damn its addictive. I can see why people are  favorable to it sometimes. I need to get on the ball..and start doing some digital art.. I'm not very good at it and I just tinker around but it's fun. Traditional just seems..more homier to me.



also sneak preveiw, I am sculpting again folks.

Ok hi again, not art..but stuff I found! I go around collecting stuff for future use/projects and sculpture.

On the side of the road laying in a ditch by the orange groves. I have had many good finds there, there is also a BEAUTIFUL absolutely gorgeous old broken tv there too..I've gone back twice, people seem to dump a stuff there. I wish I could get that tv but not only is it dangerous to handle but very heavy I'm sure.
I will definitely go back there though to take pictures though.

ll sorts of other good stuff..this was all found by the train tracks except that suspicious plastic squeaky baseball..no, that is kamerad's toy. Hah you can see him and my foot on the right.
I had all this laid out on the lawn as I was going to clean it, and possibly take pictures..but derp. No pictures, just as it is, in a basket. There were a lot of cool things by that railroad and a train even passed by, my car was parked on the other side and I about shit a brick. For a dumb reason I never thought a  train would come by when I was there! haha I was with Kamerad too of coarse, we were actually in the car as it passed, it was just a good thing I was not crossing the tracks on foot or near them.




Not really stuff I  found on my own persay..( I WISH )but things I bought from the H.O.T Second Hand Store Antiques & Collectables .
My family donated SO MANY PAINTINGS THERE, and I go there all the time. Awesome place to find clothes.
Anyway a light fixture and some other neat things, I'm thinking of incorporating these into some steampunk-esque sculptures.


And..just as a bonus, an old medicine cabinet that used to reside in my grandfather's office.
It now simply contains more junk  that I collect.
Mostly lab equipment, bottles, a mexican free tailed bat, my old pet scorpion, a bust of Nefertiti that is actually from Egypt, and..another notable thing? that VERY old chipped away/tiny blue pot-like vessle on the 2nd shelf.  Its from Bagdad I thiink..if I can remember correctly.


Anyways, enough pics for  today! I am going to actually  try and sleep for once

ps. sorry about all the run ons and spelling errors. I'm ~*exhausted*~

GOODNIGHT AND PEACE YA'LL.

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aaaaaand


this.
just a quick sketch of my character Ralf with woodless pencils (THEY ARE  FUN)..
He is supposed to have dreads. I NEED TO STUDY HOW TO MAKE PROPER DREADS ON PEOPLE D:
but essentially..that is his facial features. He is not exactly pretty and he is a downright asshole.


oh and a little bit of Sindy.


seriously, more character shit to come..
I need to organize everything on my desk, and start working on my sculptures.
Hm, what else..
figure drawing class is going well, I asked my teacher if we could listen to music and eventually..it somehow got to the point where I was running out to my car and grabbing my cds and bringing them into class, she loved my music to say the least..
I put on a mix cd of love songs I thought everyone would mutually enjoy.
Artists like Morrissey, The Ramones, The Ronettes, Stiff Little Fingers, The Velvet Underground, T.Rex, Tripping Daisy, Yo La Tengo,.etc were on it. From what I remember..just a mix of all sortsa' good stuff.

Welp, guess that's it for this post, till later
[PEACE]

more figure drawing, model: Wendy


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( First REAL day of drawing, Model: Wendy [15]  )

posted tha sketch  from my last journal entry over at /ic/ 
I realized how truly bad it was..I even thought it was shitty to begin with, and the only reason I posted it there was because I wanted it torn apart. Maybe I'm a bit of a masochist, and I love critique way to much.
Roger loved it though, go figure. Said it even made him CHOKE UP, he loved it that much lol.
And I usually can always count on him to tell me if things look like shit. BUT  NOPE.
That was one of the only reasons I was okay with it.  knew the anatomy was crap and even though I tried to stylize it, didn't work, I'll redraw it I. All over..It was in a small sketchbook, maybe moving to a bigger paper will help.
In the mean time, until I'm able to sort things out, here's  my failed attempts at a few sketches in photoshop elements a while back.


This is what happens when you stop drawing for a year... lol I donno needs more cowboy hats.

Welp I'm off to philosophy 101, and I have not slept since I woke up at 2AM last night, with 2 hours of sleep, wish me luck.

I had a dream involving a very nefarious crow, so here's a couple of the things I did yester/lastnight/today whatever. I haven't slept.
But the dream happened yesterday...a continuing dream of very strange things I'm still trying to get out of my head and on to paper.
It was a morbidly humorous dream..

And I realize lined paper is never a great thing to use water colored pencils on, but I do.
I like to experiment on it instead of wasting the more "valuable" paper.
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Some quick 2 minute sketches.  Roger/Me. Hah. Can someone say Blaine Fontana inspired?
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( [5] technically 7..just small crap/character concept sketches )

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