I'm back!

Hey guys and girls! It's been a pretty crazy summer but I'm back...

I meant to be back much sooner than this but sometimes plans change... I got a summer job as a Resident Hall Assistant at my school and that requires me to be able to go at any given time if I'm needed and makes it very difficult to keep up with something like this... I'm not gonna complain, it has its perks and I like the job alot...

Well enough of that... I've got a couple new drawings for ya.

I wanted to create something unlike any of the other stuff that I have done... Mission accomplished... lol I believe that in alot of cases a drawing like this captures the emotions of the artist more than a realistically drawn subject matter... And that is one of the big things that makes art artistic... In my opinion, something an artist creates isnt art without inspiration and emotion... I really enjoyed making this and like the way it turned out so I may make more like it...

This is an older piece but I still like it... Sometimes I just try to draw something that shows depth... I like to experiment with different ways of doing so... Maybe that makes me weird... I dunno... But did I ever claim to be normal?

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Charcoal & Pastel

My favorite mediums! Charcoal, like i said before, has to be THE most forgiving medium that I have ever dealt with. Its awesome. I used to always do sketches in pencil because I loved the ability to erase and you cant do that with paints or crayons or anything else I had used. I also loved colored pencils for the same reason. In my opinion part of being a "good" artist is not necessarily being able to make something perfect and exactly how you want it, but to have the ability to cover up those mistakes and make it appear that you never made a mistake in the first place.

Well I said earlier that I was goin to try and have some more drawings up so I guess I better get on to that. I feel like I've ranted enough for now. And why not start with some made with my favorite, charcoal. :D

This one is a portrait of my fiancée. Love you baby!

This one I just sat down and started doodling and it evolved into something pretty cool I think.

And this is a landscape from my school.

And then there is more or less charcoal's color equivalent, chalk pastels. I love chalk pastels, aside from the horrible smell of course. Buh.

Anyways. Another landscape.

And this one I found interesting. Another landscape but the colors are inverted O.o

Well I hope you enjoyed the post today. I figured I would give you a big one since I'm not sure how much I will be on in the next 2 weeks. I'm going on vacation to visit my dad and I don't think I will have internet. >.< Crazy right? Who doesn't have internet in this day and age? Oh well... Anywho.... Thanks for reading and I'll be back whenever I manage to find a hotspot. lol

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A Few Sculptures

Found out today that I got an A in my Sculpture class this semester. Awesome. Just got back from the shop and I've got a few pictures. Assignments for the semester were a life sized clay bust, a plaster sculpture, a wood construction, and a box sculpture. It has been quite an adventure dealing with all of these; I've never done plaster or box sculptures before.

The clay sculpture took up most of the class for a lot of us. I love clay, but learned why it should never be left out for long periods of time. Someone in the class left clay in a jar for a few weeks and it molded and smelled horrible.  : X

Plaster sculptures are pretty interesting. I like mine but its not entirely finished. I need to add a bit more plaster and smooth it out but due to the amount of time we had for class it was left a little more rough than I really wanted. It was created in five pieces and put together later. I wish someone had told me before hand how much of a pain in the butt making it in multiple pieces would be. We literally had about 5 minutes after the plaster became usable to get it how we wanted it before it hardened.

Another sculpture I had no experience with was box sculptures. Really i had no idea that they existed. Our guide lines for the project were to for it to be a box that either contained or appeare to contain something, generally by using found objects or something like that.

And lastly, wood. To be honest, I had to rush on the wood piece and put it together in about 2-3 hours the night before it was due. But I kinda like it anyway.

Sculpture is not really my forte... But I enjoy it... lol

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I almost forgot to add some of my drawings on here. Musta been too tired last night to think about it. Anyways drawing is kind of my thing as far as art goes. I've loved to draw as long as I could remember and was able to pick up a crayon.

On of my favorite mediums is charcoal. Messy, yes. But it is about the most forgiving medium I've dealt with in any form of art.

Here is a portrait of an old college friend. Miss ya Zilly!

And this is one of my favorite pieces I've done. I never was much for art that wasn't realism or naturalism until recently. I've learned that that allows for more creativity and possibly more emotion in art. This is one that came from me just playing around with some charcoal one day.

And my second favorite medium for drawing to charcoal only due to the awful smell - chalk pastel.

Its SONIC! (hey ya gotta have some fun with it right?)

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