Hey guys, haven’t been writing here for awhile but haven’t been drawing for awhile so don’t worry about missing out on much. I will be more persistent in updating. Here’s one now which I’ve been meaning to post.
First Stages of (Easy)
Second Stages of (Easy)
Final Stages of (Easy) perhaps?
For the past week now I’ve thought about what colors to add to this drawing so that it’d be completed. The issue I’ve been having since before this one was while I always came up with colors to use from off the top of my head, at the end of the piece I didn’t feel connected to it. Aesthetically, I thought “I guess this looks good, it’s drawn really well, and people seem to be in favor of it” but I felt nothing other than that. No, emotions were drawn from me and I want to feel something for my artwork. It’s nice to figure out what colors go well in which area, but I want to also feel as if I’m blueprinting how I feel about something inside within a piece. I want to feel affected by it and not just think really? when people say how much they enjoy it.
Remember, months ago how I briefly spoke about being selected by Embracing Our Differences to showcase at Sarasota Bay, Florida? Well, here’s a chance to see the piece in it’s outdoor home if you like I, so far have not gotten a chance to see it up close. It comes in at around 2:27 mins.
From April 1-May 28, my billboard along with others will be showing at Island Park, Sarasota Bay, Florida, so please have a chance to see it up close if you haven’t. Just from checking out the video, I’d love to make a trip there myself.
Growing up I remember Daily News were the greatest if you were looking for a comic strip, while Newsday was basically not worth your time. At least in my opinion, since there were many comics strips that were missing.
These days I haven’t picked up a newspaper other than the free ones in newspaper stands in years but when I’m feeling it, I search around online for these strips.
The running theme for why I think I liked these comic strips and even looked forward to reading them was the drawing. As a kid and artist, I paid more attention to the visuals and would trace every line with my eyes. On Sundays when comics were in color, they popped out at you twice more. But, other than that, I’m not entirely sure why I loved these ones specifically, other than I’ve always loved reality based settings and stories, rather than a fantasy. And that might be the other reason why I loved these, if I’m analyzing it. They were ones that were not only drawn with such skill, but had dialogue and stories I felt like you could hear in everyday life. Another aspect was, the artists gave them backstories. I’m not entirely sure much more I would describe it but Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse and the comic Zits are my hero in that respect. I think if I were to draw out a story or animation, I’d need it to feel like we’re dropping into a life with the characters living common lives with real emotional attachments to each other. I think this is what most of the comic strips below brought.
Apologies on being slow on the updates this week and basically for the past few days. I’m still working on some of the projects I was talking to you about last time and since I have a set criteria in my head on how I’ll showcase them on the blog, I don’t like to add posts prematurely just to know I wrote something for the day. In the meantime check out previous blog posts if you haven’t already, and an amazing motivational vid about all of us:
keep drawing from studio shelter.
Happy Tuesday.
Today I found out that my art piece was approved and accepted by the Frame My Future Scholarship Contest!
I’ve been checking out some stop-motion animation especially stills and vids of behind the scenes because I love looking at that the most. This time is in preparation for the Frame My Future scholarship competition that I’m set on participating in. Yes, that means I plan on going back to college in the Fall, so I need some do-re-mi to keep me secure for the full year. It’s one of the projects I was talking about last time. I’m trying to directly convey exactly what I want to do with my life and especially after college in the art piece for the competition. It’s just been a bit difficult to specifically describe what that is. Right now I know I just aspire to be a filmmaker/animator. I’d like to create stop-motion animation films but also live-action films that are not quite based in reality, kinda in the same vein as Michel Gondry. Actually, his work is what I check out the most when thinking of how I’d do my own stuff. I think that’s what I’ve been doing in my illustrations and yet hadn’t realized I might want to do them in motion.
For the competition piece, I’m trying to figure out how to blend these two aspirations: live action film/stop motion animation, together. I was googling behind the scenes stop-motion animation for inspiration and came across some amazing videos that remind me why I want to pursue this and also that I immediately wanted to share just in case you’re fascinated with how stop-motion animation films or films in general are made too.
