Sickly

I have been through hell and back with this damn cold. I have gotten nothing done for school or for play and on both occasions I find it more than annoying. I have not been sleeping or drawing or playing or anything lately. It's quite depressing. To be honest I have no idea where all my time has gone. All I know is that it is not going towards making pretty things or doing school work. I skipped classes within the past week. I thought I would go to he gym every day but that is a failure and a half since coughing up phlegm and running are a totally perfect combination I promise.

I'm submitting a lot of my pieces to different clubs on DA and that's not working out entirely well but it's the idea that counts. I'm also working on making myself the perfect layout for Gaia and that is not working out very well either. Like I said, with no motivation to do anything but sleep... I'm on a ball for letting shit hit the fan... Although, Thankfully, my doctor called in a prescription today :)

My Begginings and Towards the Future

I started with playing on neopets. And working on stupid guild layouts. And that's how I got into the whole photo-manipulation and putting one image over another concept. From that I started a website called Graphix Nightmare and that lasted give or take 3 years and turned into Wonderland Effect.

Durring that whole spiel I began to adore Vector Art. Those big fancy wallpapers that have little silhouetted islands on them with like swirls and things. And from that I read several tutorials on how to make said vector art. It has only recently been that I have taken the same ideas and applied them to drawings instead of photographs.

When My parents had begun the whole college search with me I had no idea what I wanted to do. It was everything from a Play therapist in a hospital to a Historian. But None of those Ideas worked, It wasn't really until my grandmother had told me that I should be a graphic designer that I had any intention of doing that.

From that I chose a liberal arts school and declared graphic design as my major. It wasn't until this year that I had any formal art classes. And I am planning on taking more.

Although I had wished that I had started art classes in school and that maybe looking back I should have gone to an art school. I still have chosen to make this my career, and seeing every part of the field makes me happy.

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.