Gradient Happy

Patricia told me to! No really she did.

Lately I have been in a funk about creating artwork and how to go about doing it. I once used to favor digital work over traditional work and now I am switching that idea. I seem to do better with ink than with digital mediums. And there goes my head on the desk that I have yet to clean... Anyway, she said I should make shapes and add detail. Well I think it's a personal preference when I say I hate gradients. I really do and I think everything I make with them look horrible.

I knew it was a bad idea from the beginning...

Photography

I do take photography sometimes! Really I do. So here is my flickr account so you can look at my photography :)

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Pretty Flower

I used conte crayons in class several days ago and I simply adored the whole process that went into making the piece. Our subject were flowers, gorgeous flowers at that. Basically the whole idea was that we would use the white conte as the highlights and the black conte as the outline, the brown paper would serve as the neutral tones.

Unfortunately, I do not have a scanner in my possession nor do I think the whole drawing would fit on a flatbed. So instead I sort of translated the ideas from the traditional media into a digital form using digital medium brushes. Either way, This is my end result:


Wallflower by ~starshinesky on deviantART

I think it turned out nicely. I kind of based it somewhat on Andy Warhol, pop art with the black and bits of vibrant color.