Art for Arts Sake

My To Do List is:
+ Write a 2 Page paper about the Arts and Crafts Movement
+ Draw a still life of a sphere and a cylindrical object like a Styrofoam cup
All due tomorrow! Yay.

Sometimes I really wish I had gone to an art school. Not so much to be a graphic design major but maybe to be something else. I find more and more that I like to draw I just am not very good at it yet. I've never taken a formal art class before this year so there is no surprise that I did not get accepted into the design program at the one art school I applied to. Maybe I should have taken drawing in high school. I can't look to the past at this point I have to look ahead. I can always learn something new.

The Arts & Crafts Movement.

So upon finding out my ubber topic I decide to call my father and tell him all about my more than exciting project. Of course having his PHD in history he crushed my dreams just a little bit. Not enough that I'm actually effected just enough for me to say, "So I guess it's not playing with glitter." And we all know just how much I love glitter. So instead of writing a 2 page paper on something fun like Applied Arts and the whole mentality of designing that sort of thing I get to write a 2 page research paper on Stickily chairs and furniture. The whole thing is actually pretty cool, it's just not actually my thing. Wow what a ridiculous sentence. Yes, I know it just gets worse and worse.

Oh! So I decided I'm going to get a Deviantart Subscription. But of course, being the paranoid freak my mother trained me to be; I'm going to buy a Visa or TD or a whatever gift-card at Wawa or Rite Aid. That way I don't have to worry about it. Yay!

That's all for now!

Hello there!

I have some new posts that I would like to show you.

The first is a lovely Piece of photography I took at my grandparents. This is using a Telephoto Close up lens.


Turn Dial by ~starshinesky on deviantART

The next is a bit of experimental artwork I did. All done by experimenting with gradients, color and memory.


Sweet Sherbet by ~starshinesky on deviantART

Thanks for looking. I think I'm going to try drawing things and seeing what happens. I mean I suck at drawing (let's be honest). But maybe if I can draw something and then outline it with ink and scan it and make it into something pretty I probably can! Yay!

So, I'm doing this project for Computer Publication about Arts and Crafts. It's funny, I literally giggled. Everyone picked something that went along with their own personalities. I like the idea of arts and crafts and tying it into graphic design, that's what I want to do with myself and my Career. So Props to myself for picking it. I'm going to rock this college I really am!

Cause Cupcakes Sparkle too!

Yes I am jumping on the twilight bandwagon on this but It's soo worth it. It's a cupcake I made during Halloween and it just so happened to also be a vampire Cupcake! Vampire cupcakes for the win!


Cosmic Cupcake by ~starshinesky on deviantART

Comedy and Tragedy

Today's submission is~:


Comedy and tragedy by ~starshinesky on deviantART

Comedy and tragedy gone sweet. Haha. I guess the tragic side is only tragic because it is melting. More playing with gradients. AND.... I know I'm a dork but guess what!? I figured out how to add a drop shadow to a group in Illustrator it makes my life!~

This was a drawing that I decided to make into a vector by tracing instead of whatevering each line... It's interesting but it turned out adorably~

That sound's like a personal problem

So I'm having such a vendetta with myself. Lately, I've been mass producing the amount of cuteness that I make, and tooth rotting might I add. Practice Practice Practice, plus I'm on such a cuteness buzz that I want to make all of this! But here's the problem, The more I create the less I actually create. For example: My Deviant art submission from yesterday is tooth rotting, and not received well but my blog header/ personal background is so adorable that everyone enjoys it! What's with that.

I mean this is mostly a rant but still! Anyway I am trying to make daily posts along with submissions so here ya go:


Kara Cup by ~starshinesky on deviantART

Just as a side note: That's old and got so much positive feedback in like 3 minutes....

Sweet Tooth

This caused a lot more fuss then love. How depressing. I poured out my heart and soul into it and got a lot of nothing! Boo. But I have a pretty awesome concept for a t-shirt design I guess.


Sweet Tooth by ~starshinesky on deviantART

I also discovered Audrey Kitching today. I am happy now... My life is complete.