Wednesday 20 April 2011

There are no words.

It's crunch time before exams. I hate crunch time.

I feel more tired, more distracted, much busier, and much less motivated this time of year. Everytime his time of year.

As of now, however, I really need to focus on my readings.

Sigh.

Elephantiasis

I was skimming through some notes to do some studying and found an elephant scribble that JT and I did together during seminars. It started out really badly because we weren't trying, but I think considering what we had started with, the end result wasn't half bad! :)

Sorry for the bad lighting.



Monday 18 April 2011

hello hello

I was playing around with some oil paint last week in a manner that was reminiscent of my childhood experiences with crayons: colouring layer over layer with all of the brightest and happiest colours, and applying a thick layer of black overtop of all of those colours, only to use a sharp pencil to scrape bits of that top black layer and expose the colours underneath. While this wasn't crayon, and I didn't apply the layer of black overtop, I did play around with scraping off the top layer of paint with the end of a paintbrush.

Hello hello.

Portraits 3.0

More more more! These are so much fun. Just testing out some different styles and whatnots.




10 second portrait of my dogs: Squishy and Hammy




My "fewer-than-10-lines" portrait scribble of Homer Simpson.
I only just realized that I forgot his ear... but those are overrated, right?

ink scribbles

Stayed up late last night scribbling for the sake of scribbling.
I hope the animals are self-explanatory.






And just because it made me smile this morning:

This was my sister's breakfast. Sunny side up eggs on pumpernickel bread and blueberries (the hair).
The pepper above the smile was supposed to look like freckles, not a five o'clock shadow in the making.


Saturday 16 April 2011

Zebra

One of my favourites from about 6 years ago.

Microsoft paint scribbles

Made these a few months ago. All of them are MS Paint scribbles.




John Snow

Made this a while back as a t-shirt or button design for my student union.. sadly, I don't think it was ever used for anything. I originally made it in the green, but I thought the monochromatic black/grey/white could be interesting as well. Also, here's a link as a little fyi for anyone who doesn't know who John Snow is.


Tuesday 12 April 2011

Portraits 2.0

Some more phone portraits (and scribbles)!




I think this is the lovechild of Charlie Sheen and Fred Flintstone
 

Pen scribbles

I like reflecting back on old pen and paper scribbles I've done. Ice Cube and the thylacine ones were drawn around the same time when my pen scribble mode was in high gear in 2009; the Alexisonfire one is old old oooold (and unfinished, sadly, because I lost the pen that I started it with and no other one stipples quite the same way); the friend-eating bacteria was drawn in class while I was in first year (again, old old old); Yoda was drawn a couple years ago, inspired after spending an evening with a friend sitting in a coffee shop scribbling in his notebook with sharpies; and the last one was drawn with pens and markers.. the words explain all that was going through my head at the time.






Monday 11 April 2011

oldies

Some old favourites: a comic about 300, two Microsoft Paint scribble portraits, my guess as to what L'Anana is up to these days, and an unfinished portrait of Keira Knightley from about five years ago.. sadly, I lose the .psd file so that one will never be completed :(






Portraits 1.0

Well hey there, looks like a first post!

This is a series of scribbly portraits that I've been working on for the past week or so. Some are of friends, the first is of a man in the newspaper, and the rest were inspired by figments of my imagination. I drew all of these using a finger painting application called PaintJoy on my phone.

Greatest time wasting ever.