Fuitalicious.

So I am going to enter a fruit Contest for one of the clubs I am in. I'm not entirely sure which fruit I am going to use. I'm thinking either strawberries or bananas. I really want to try this. I hope that I at least get given a chance to be on the poll to win! Wish me Luck!

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 :)

www.flickr.com Go to happybunnyrocker's photostream

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.

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.

New Mediums And New inspirations

So lately I've been lurking around on gaia online. If you've ever been on there you know it's a huge asian / anime community. So I decided to try my hand at Avie Art. Which is basically that you draw someone's avatar. I tried it with using just illustrator, that didn't work so well so then I tried it in sequence with drawing the characters. That turned out much better.

I'm really trying to get a friendly place for artists wether I own it or join it, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I get to help. Well I haven't really found anything pre-made so I'm starting one. I still have mannequin MB that I am trying to get up and running. And maybe I can get the two to work together. Maybe. We'll see.

So I drew another really cute vector idea. This one is really cute and hopefully it works out.

Strawberry and Root Beer

My newest Deviant submission is in the form of a smiling happy Root Beer Float. I hope it is taken well since I submitted it to a group and not just to my own personal gallery. Then again I am not the only one submitting either. I hope it makes people a little more excited about my work.


Strawberry and Root Beer Float by ~starshinesky on deviantART

I also decided that I'm destined to make stickers for the rest of my life. :( I'm serious! It's wonderful but horrible.