5 posts tagged “art”
It's been so long since I did realism that now I kind of suck at it. I did like six sketches over the course of two days before I remembered how to paint in a paint app.
Also? Painting boobs like that is distracting. Blah blah blah elevated beauty of the human form, I'm only human...
Experimenting with slightly healthier and cheaper ways to get my spinach orzo salad fix. $9/lb at Whole Paycheck is a bit indulgent given that I never have leftovers after one sitting. Doing half spinach and half chard for the base, with a little pesto sauce mixed in. Also, half orzo and half quinoa, and Bragg's apple cider vinegar instead of balsamic.
The homemade cheese is standing in for feta. It's aging in interesting ways. Still kinda crumbly though not as much, very tart on the tongue, but finishes on the palate with that distinct sweet-earthy brie flavor. Guess the brie bugs are still hanging on, although a rind never formed. Heh, I have culture wars in my cheese! Next time I'm going to try a different brand of kefir and see if that makes a difference in the curd texture. For now, I'm adding a little brie rind to the ends of the cheese log just to see if it'll take.
Mental day today. At home, although I can't really afford to be. Which is why I'm cooking. I dunno, I'm starting to debate the merits of cooking. It takes up far too much time, and with the rising cost of food these days, it may be more economically sound for me to suck it up and buy my meals from the Whole Foods deli, spending the rest of the evening on drawings for my portfolio, with the objective of selling art in the not so distant future. Of course, on the other hand, the economy is such that it's going to be difficult to convince people to buy art at the moment, unless I can latch onto a sub-group or genre of art appreciators who are consistently willing to buy even in more difficult times.
I just feel like I've got to do something towards that end, especially with my health being iffy. It seems entirely possible at this point that I will end up leaving my current job sooner than I'd ideally planned for, and that it will be too soon for me to have my comic going by the time that happens.
And there you go.
I decided to keep the colors relatively flat to save my sanity, and also, it just seems to look better that way with these colors. The teal background could be substituted with any other typical pastel shirt colors on cafepress or the such, hopefully.
Annnnnd this is where I start raging against not having my manual kerning. If this design does go to press I would like a chance to redo the letter spacing on this font. But you get the idea, and now i have to go to slee-I mean get ready for work.
It was about two years ago that I finally started drawing in a non-realism style that I was comfortable with. This is what I drew to impress the heck out of KP so he would like me (it worked for a while?).
PS: Eru willing, I will have my T-shirt design inked, colored, and uploaded by Sunday, both on Pixish and here. I am almost proud of it, for a change.
First Fox gets me to use Apple products, and now he's got me drawing furry art. I am being led to the Dark Side. ;)
I've been time-crunched too much so this was hastily drawn, inked, and colored last night, as an insert for my card to Fox for V-day. Hopefully not too hasty. When I have a little more time later I'll redo the coloring since it's digital. This is also my first time using GIMP, which I downloaded (hastily) because I don't have Photoshop on my computer at the moment. I'm not sure how I feel about the program yet, but it did in a pinch:
