Showing posts with label sepia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sepia. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Moodboard #2 Black Forest Antique
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I'm not happy with this scan at all, it's so grainy and the picture looks so much better in real life, but here it is:Brown color pencil on bristol paper.
A take off on this photo:
The unhappiness with technology aside, I'm very happy
with this piece and I feel like I finished it in good time.
When I usually draw women or girls, I tend to make them quite thin and lithe, probably because of the context of our current mainstream/alternative aesthetics, or perhaps as an act of self-insertion or a symbol of frailty, but probably for all of the above reasons.
When you look at these visions of beauty from the turn of the last century, they tend to be a good deal heavier that most pin-ups and models of our time. When I draw a girl from that era, I try to make her softer and fuller, to do otherwise feels disingenuous. Nonetheless I try to split the difference, use it as a bridge between this time and the past, one aesthetic bleeding in between inspiration and perspective.
This is a lovely movie:
I think I like Charlie Chaplin better behind the camera than in front of it.
What can I say, I'm a lover of Buster Keaton, that's the kind of lovable hard-luck case I fall for.
I still haven't seen the end of this movie, it's hard to make myself, I know it will be so sad!
A take off on this photo:
The unhappiness with technology aside, I'm very happywith this piece and I feel like I finished it in good time.
When I usually draw women or girls, I tend to make them quite thin and lithe, probably because of the context of our current mainstream/alternative aesthetics, or perhaps as an act of self-insertion or a symbol of frailty, but probably for all of the above reasons.
When you look at these visions of beauty from the turn of the last century, they tend to be a good deal heavier that most pin-ups and models of our time. When I draw a girl from that era, I try to make her softer and fuller, to do otherwise feels disingenuous. Nonetheless I try to split the difference, use it as a bridge between this time and the past, one aesthetic bleeding in between inspiration and perspective.
This is a lovely movie:
I think I like Charlie Chaplin better behind the camera than in front of it.
What can I say, I'm a lover of Buster Keaton, that's the kind of lovable hard-luck case I fall for.
I still haven't seen the end of this movie, it's hard to make myself, I know it will be so sad!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A Backlog of Art Part III
2008-Present: Getting back to naturalism, texture, mixed media, sepia and GOLD!
This was a commission for an acquaintance, whose girlfriend does tribal fusion dance:
watercolor, pencil, pen, marker, and a little bit of gold leaf paint. You can't see the gold on this at all, this was before I figured out how to make it show up on digital copies of my art, but there's a faint halo and her jewelry is embellished with it.
Sepia pen and marker, also my first successful photoshop-created textured background.
Getting into the archaic, the mysterious, and the vintage. Using motifs inspired by art nouveau and illus
trators from the Golden Age of Fairytale illustration such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac.
Almost caught up!
So much to share....
Getting into the archaic, the mysterious, and the vintage. Using motifs inspired by art nouveau and illus
trators from the Golden Age of Fairytale illustration such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac.
Almost caught up!
So much to share....
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