Quest to Draw Confident Lines

Superlate

2008-09-17T01:27:00.004-04:00

I am absolutely terrible at blogging. I'll try my best to keep it updated. I'm still working on stuff and still taking pictures.

Today I had the first critique of the new semester and it went over fairly well.

Below are pictures of what I've been working on from my Flickr account - which still manages to get updated.

I've been working on this for S.

It's still a work in progress! I have to go in and fix a lot of details in the face once it dries a little.

More can be found on my Flickr account.

Final Results

2008-04-29T23:13:00.005-04:00

I did all this:

Go-Go Exam Week

2008-04-28T03:28:00.001-04:00

Final exams... bleh.

I drew some today! This time I made a cyborg out of Monica! Progress is below:

Projection is NOT cheating.

My workspace.

Closeup of face progress!

Completed drawing!

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Now for painting!

Except for some touch ups, I'm done with the painting of Maitreyi.

Added - more wires and hair. Touched up around the wires some more. Tomorrow I will clean up the wires in her head as well as the ones danging down around her arms.

Closeup!

It'll be finished tomorrow with a second drawing, second painting, and perhaps a --- third painting!!

Sometimes I paint things.

2008-04-26T20:54:00.001-04:00

This is one of those times.

....

I'm almost done.

Today I added the mechanical arm, more wire, starts of teeth detail, and wire detail.

Closeup.

I'm sort of tired of painting wires.

The arm. Plus wires that need to be finished.

Again I Smell Like Oil Paint

2008-04-26T03:24:00.001-04:00

Because I know that my Mom checks my blog every morning - here are updated pictures ^^

A closeup of the face.

Full painting so far. I just have to fix the teeth, the rest of the plugs in the head, fix the wires (lots to paint over there to make them tinner), put the rest of the arm in, etc. It won't take long. I just have to do it.

Plugs! They still have a bit to go - especially the wires.

Also, I uploaded some more pictures onto Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shyninjahinata/

Yes, I signed up for a Flickr account. Finally. Hello bandwagon. I have Flock to thank for all of this extra account stuff. I admit that I am loving twitter though. Its like a completely effortless blog.

More Progress

2008-04-23T22:46:00.001-04:00

I did quite a bit tonight. I think I will be able to finish up next time I am here.

A closeup of the face.

The hair wraps around the corner of the painting.

Nothing too new. I just liked the way this picture turned out.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Finally

2008-04-23T20:05:00.001-04:00

So I am finally posting these! Pictures from the 21st.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

First New CYBORG Painting Since Last Yearish

2008-04-11T10:01:00.003-04:00

<3 I am totally missing this kind of thing.

Keep in mind that this is a work in progress and it doesn't do the real Mitu or even original drawing justice. Its not even close to being done - but because I love you guys, I will show you what I have so far.

The face - especially around the eye needs a lot more work. I am also going to tone down some of the colors.

Check the drawings waay down below for reference.

I am at a point where I'm wondering whether to add in actual cords and wires rather than painting them.

What do you guys think?

Room Decor.

2008-04-03T17:42:00.002-04:00

*gasp* This post has NOTHING to do with painting.

Candles. New poster. xxxHolic dvd box. Current location of the boa.

Monday Night Cram Painting.

2008-04-01T01:38:00.003-04:00

Uuuuuugghh....

What Do Graduate Art Students Do At Parties?

2008-04-01T01:30:00.002-04:00

"Throw Glowsticks Around The Beer Bottle" of course!

Also check out my painful shoes. As well as the pile of comfortable shoes behind me.

Round 3

2008-03-20T01:24:00.001-04:00

Almost done. Just need some touching up and a background

Mitu-Cyborg - Round 2

2008-03-19T02:09:00.002-04:00

I worked more on my drawing tonight.

I plan on finishing tomorrow.

Just What I Need

2008-03-19T00:19:00.001-04:00

Yes. Thankyouplease.

Art Boot Camp

2008-03-18T00:51:00.004-04:00

Phew...

Drawing is Funtastic

2008-03-15T21:22:00.005-04:00

Oh... what a lovely Saturday night of drawing.

The start... huge image with light outlines. And smaller mock drawings.

The tools involved. (Nausicaa for something to watch)

More tools as well as a reference picture of Maitreyi!

Oatmeal is the snack of champions. (Thank you Megan)

Progress thus far. Looks a lot better in person. I'm very happy.

Non-Art Show and Tell Post

2008-02-27T00:12:00.007-05:00

I got a new wallscroll and I'm pretty excited about it. Its so pretty and the colors are really vivid. Also its not the same measurements as my other wall scrolls so it fits in pretty nicely.

Here it is in its cell phone camera glory. Please note that it looks way better in person and that the camera phone is a bit dull.

Of course it is xxxHolic by CLAMP - and no its not what it sounds like. Here's a rundown of what the series is about (copy pasted from Deep Discount.com which is probably copy pasted from somewhere else) for those of you who are not familiar with it:

"This first volume in a shojo manga (Japanese female-oriented graphic novel) series by the all-women collective known as CLAMP features the adventures of a powerful witch and her reluctant young employee. Watanuki Kimihiro, a university student, finds himself compelled into the shop of the witch Yûko. For a price, Yûko will grant any wish; or at least, she will provide the customer with the wherewithal to fulfill his or her own wish, provided that the wish-maker has the strength and wisdom to make use of it. As Watanuki's wish is rather large--he wants to get rid of his ability to see spirits--his price is accordingly large: he must become Yûko's servant."

Complete?

2008-02-25T20:24:00.002-05:00

Am I done yet?

Uuupdate

2008-02-24T22:42:00.002-05:00

Putting the 'Pain' in Painting

2008-02-24T21:18:00.003-05:00

My regular camera batteries died so here are some crappy cell phone shots of my painting so far.

EDIT: Here's the still life (pic from yesterday)

Time For Pie.

2008-02-23T13:23:00.008-05:00

I made a delicious Strawberry Pie:

This is the crust, made primarily of oatmeal,brown sugar, butter, and some flour.

Tragic scenes from the Strawberry Massacre of 2008.

Working on the filling.

Strawberries + Filling + Crust ... cooling in the fridge.

Whipped cream application.

Fai and Kurogane whole heartedly approve.

Paintings from the weekend

2008-02-03T21:10:00.000-05:00

Itten and his color wheel... ugh.

Paintings still in progress.

PS. The baby was really asking for it.

Hime-Hime Vs. The Shelf

2008-02-01T21:15:00.001-05:00

Today - in order to make my room at least a little more awesome to hide away in (and organized), I finally built that shelf.

Any excuse to use the tool kit is a good one. Its so handy!

Trying to palm strike the shelf is not a good way to put it together.

AWFUL AWFUL INSTRUCTIONS.

Hard work!

Finished shelf.

Finished shelf hoisted on top of other finished shelf.

I am soooo strong!

VICTORY! (as long as it doesnt fall on me later)

Awesome new sound system.

GASA Show

2008-01-18T17:16:00.000-05:00

Kevin and I hung the GASA show today. It looks really nice.

Yes. I bought a tool kit.

2008-01-18T17:04:00.001-05:00

$20 was sooo worth it.

I now have tools. Now to just not hurt myself with them.

Yesterday was a snow day.

2008-01-18T13:27:00.001-05:00

Radford must be some kind of whimp school - Concord would have never let us out for this.
PS - note that there's deer in the last pic

Manga Inventory

2008-01-10T23:42:00.000-05:00

While I take a breather from packing - I will do an inventory of manga in my collection. This inventory is probably 99% correct since my mother has some of my stuff and Im still unsure about whats in my apartment.

Key-
* = willing to sell/trade
$ = complete set/one volume

Battle Royale 1-3*
Bleach 1-7
Ceres 1-12
Chobits 1-8 $
Chrono Crusade 1-5*
Cowboy Bebop 1-3
Excel Saga 1*
Fruits Basket 1-16
Fushigi Yugi 1-15
Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden 1-3
Gundam Wing: Episode Zero $
Kill Me Kiss Me 1-5 $
Legal Drug 1-3
Loveless 1-2
Millennium Snow 1
Naruto 1-7
Pilgrim Jager 1*
RG Veda 1-2
School Rumble 1-4
Slayers: City of Lost Souls $
Slayers: Super Explosive Demon Story 1-3 $
Slayers Premium
Tactics 1-2
No Need For Tenchi 1-8
The All New Tenchi Muyo 1
Tsubasa 1-14
Vampire Knight 1-2
The Wallflower 1-8
X/1999 1-3
xxxHolic 1-6

If I do my math right - thats 140.

Drawing Final Complete!

2007-12-12T19:14:00.001-05:00

The pictures dont really do it justice :(

Plus my wash almost ruined it.

Turned out well though.

Drawing Final

2007-12-12T01:21:00.000-05:00

Home stretch? Maybe.

Painting Final

2007-12-10T23:43:00.000-05:00

I've been painting again. Who knew?

Victory is Mine

2007-12-10T01:48:00.001-05:00

Things are coming along smoothly.

Brushmarks

2007-12-09T14:27:00.000-05:00

Whoo... progress is fun. This looks a bit different than what I normally do but we'll see what kind of reaction I get.

When it dries a little more Im going to add a bit more lights and contrasts.

The pictures do not do the painting justice. The flash reflects too much off of the brushmarks.

Blargh

2007-12-09T12:40:00.000-05:00

So here I am... covered in gesso. I've been painting a lot this weekend but it doesn't really even show.

First I pretty much completely painted over a painting from the last critique that just did not have enough paint on it. Here's a comparison:

Before:

After:

What do you think? It probably doesn't show many of the changes.

Hagu!!!

2007-12-03T01:39:00.000-05:00

I want this for some reason. And I don't know why. Other than the fact that its pure awesome.

I mean come on - its HAGU and she is on a horse with a steering wheel. Let's not even start on the balloons.

Merry Christmas From Apt. I

2007-12-03T00:17:00.000-05:00

Yes, it is Christmas time...

1) The beginnings of my bonsai tree.
2) Meg's Peanuts Christmas Tree
3) The tree and a gift to us from Jason.
4) Another shot of our lovely gift
5) Jason also brought us a Christmas tree. It was awesome.

Less Than Three Cyborgs

2007-12-02T20:46:00.000-05:00

I've been drawing today. Its looking good so far.

Still Alive

2007-11-28T20:27:00.000-05:00

I know. I havent posted in awhile.

Right now I'm working on stuff for watercolor and drawing...

The pictures are the current state of the livingroom.

Is this me?

2007-11-14T12:26:00.000-05:00

Look at the comments for the full report. (on blogger - not facebook - which means all of the facebook people will need to come straight to this blog) I dont want to clutter the blog with lots of text.

More Painting

2007-11-12T23:46:00.000-05:00

I'm soooo tired.

Paintings 2 and 3 - semi complete.

I'm not sure that I am terribly happy with either of them. They just seem to lack something.

Sunday Painting Part 1

2007-11-11T20:38:00.000-05:00

Uuuuuuugh. Im so tired of painting for right now and I'm thinking it shows.

Anyway, I finished up the detail on the painting with the rose. Its not perfect. But its not there to be perfect.

I've divided my work into two places. The studio and the apartment - for maximum productivity! The set up for the rose painting is at the studio along with the spikey hair painting. That painting still needs to be finished. More detail work on the hair. The mint box needs to be painted in. More work on the foreground. More work on the boa. More highlights on the face.

At home is the setup for the blonde wig painting. I am NOT pleased with it yet. Some of the mistakes need to dry so I can paint over them and I really need to add more things into the still life.

Look for another update soon.

Lots of painting.

2007-11-10T22:19:00.000-05:00

I painted today. Yay for still life set ups. I have nothing much to say because I'm exhausted.

Wednesday's Events

2007-11-09T20:40:00.000-05:00

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I had a bit of an art attack on Wednesday night.

Happy Halloween!

2007-10-31T07:26:00.000-04:00

Gee I wonder what this little girl is going to be for Halloween...

More later.

A Day Full of Painting Goodness.

2007-10-22T20:24:00.000-04:00

I painted from 10ish to 7:30ish with only an hour break for lunch. I painted a whole painting (just need to add in a few details)

Why yes... those are jolly ranchers.

Ugh. Such a long day.

Hybrid Rainbow

2007-10-21T23:50:00.000-04:00

I'm such a dork. The title is from a Pillows song.

Anyway. On Friday when Kriss and I went out shopping there was a huge full arc rainbow in the sky. I couldn't get pictures of the full arc and the quality is bound to be crappy with my phone but here goes.

Matt visited this weekend and we had a whole lot of fun - which included:
-Friday night Wal*Mart trip
-Ordering from Highlander
-Showing Megan how happy Saikano can be
-Me driving to Christiansburg
-Working in the studio
-Eating Chinese and watching Versus with Megan
-Drinking Bawls
-Watching a good 9 episodes of Honey and Clover. Because Hagu is amazing and every moment with Hagu is a good one filled with joy and love.
-BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!
-Nearly waking up by getting something thrown with me.
and

Here's Matt telling my painting that he's sorry for scratching it :-P

I got a lot of work done on my painting this weekend. Take a looksee:

Please please please let me know what you think.

Also my setup for my next still life:

Super artist bonus pics!

Back To The Drawing (er... painting) Board

2007-10-17T21:02:00.000-04:00

Its been a long long day. I'm having to learn how to paint all over again so... here goes.

These are from the still life that I set up.

Using just three colors and a bit of zinc white.

I'm really trying. I feel good about what Ive done so far but I just need to blend the colors better and get rid of rough edges and other things. But if I keep working I think I will be okay.

Still Life!

2007-10-15T14:56:00.000-04:00

This is the foam head that Roommate M and I lovingly call "Delilah."

After spending a weekend freaking out everyone coming into the apartment, it was finally time to take her to the studio and use her for what I intended to use her for.

I've been working on preparing my wig for my still life. This is a very very cheap blue, wal mart wig. One of those wigs that get destroyed if you so much as look at it the wrong way.

Of course the wig in its original form was not nearly interesting enough for me. So I had to 'fix' it. An old paintbrush finally became useful again - along with some random nick-knacks from the apartment.

After a few more cuts and changes.... and lots of hair spray (which probably doesn't make a difference anyway)

Below are some shots of the "finished" product - which will undoubtedly fall apart as soon as I leave the studio.

Again I Smell Like Oil Paint

2007-10-08T16:24:00.000-04:00

Yeah. Tired of painting.

Ooops

2007-10-08T14:50:00.000-04:00

Dear Blog,

Sorry for not writing in you more.

- Less than three,

Sarah

For today...

2007-10-05T11:58:00.000-04:00

Hello bleeding heart. I think I am done for today.

Velocity

2007-10-05T10:46:00.000-04:00

I'm painting today. So far I have worked on the Urania painting and the other painting. Here's my progress.. a before and after of Urania:

Think she looks better now?

Below are pictures of the second painting:

Its kind of a strange painting. I don't know how much I will really work on it because in a way I see it as being pretty interesting without having a 'complete' look to it. But its way far from being done...

Also I took this pic where I look like an angry emo artist:

My Jam

2007-10-04T22:27:00.000-04:00

I totally rock out at work. I love my ipod.

Bleh

2007-10-03T00:17:00.000-04:00

Well, letsee... nothing really eventful happened today I guess. I put off going to the studio again today because I am a big loser >.<

I worked on watercolors but I don't have any pictures to show.

*sigh*

I need to get to the studio tomorrow.

Headache

2007-10-01T23:36:00.001-04:00

Today... I watercolored. I am soooo tired of watercoloring. I started to have a really bad day but it gradually turned to awesome....

Progress.

2007-09-30T20:48:00.001-04:00

Part of this blog will be about progress. I want to show my paintings as I work on them as sort of a way to show myself that I really am getting things done - even though a lot of times it seems like I'm stuck standing still without making any progress at all.

Above is a blank piece of tile board that is covered in gesso. It's pretty much what the beginning of any of my projects looks like.

Next we have sketches. Nothing really complete or amazing but they represent the birth of an idea that will be the theme of the piece. My sketches are emotionally driven. I sketch wherever I can sometimes when I'm nervous (my planner up there for example).Above are pictures of my workspace and the beginnings of the painting. I don't really like it how it is now. The colors are not what I wanted. The background is okay but as far as the figure goes... bleh.

Halfway there.

2007-09-29T12:53:00.001-04:00

So yesterday in a moment of complete boredom at work – I cleaned out my school e-mail address. Over all the inbox was pretty tame since it just had maybe four or five months of mail from where I registered in May.

Now as far as my personal e-mail account. That’s going to be a nightmare. I don’t even want to look at the subjects of some of those. Especially some recent ones. However – I might just hold that off until I’m feeling particularly good about trashing that part of my life. When I get in the right mood, I’ll just go through and delete everything in the inbox. If I haven’t gone searching through my e-mail for anything important the whole time I have had the address, nothing terribly important will be there anyway.

See more progress on: clean out my email inbox

New Title!

2007-09-29T12:27:00.001-04:00

So the title of this thing has already changed.

It shall now be known as....

Quest to Draw Confident Lines

First Post

2007-09-29T01:43:00.001-04:00

So this is the first post here. It won't be anything too amazing. This is obvious since its early in the am.

Blogger seems to be getting more and more trendy. I was inspired by my roommate's blog
which is really cool with photos every day and of course Mitu started one as well but she needs to post in hers more. Hopefully I will be able to really write here. I have had some trysts with other blogging places like livejournaland of course crazylife ...

I will possibly kick myself later for not coming up with a better name for the blog. For some reason 'emote till we're dead' just kept coming up or 'suffer for fashion' Of course they are Of Montreal lyrics that get stuck in my head.

The address is fine because its from a screen name I'm actually happy with. Rather fitting in a way. As for the title itself... its wonderfully generic isn't it? If I can change it later I'll be happy as long as I can change it to something that's meaningful to me.

Yeah... I painted today...

I'm mostly going to use this blog for art related things - like updates on what projects I'm working on and such. I want to keep this blog positive. I don't really want to wade around in the same depressing stuff that I used to post about.

By the way, this is Erato. Facebook people might already be familiar with her. This is the 'improved' version. The camera didn't really capture the colors well. She looks a lot better in person. People also say that she looks better at an angle.