Perspective

For some strange odd and stupid reason I can't seem to remember how to properly draw with the use of perspective. This is completely stupid because for a whole two semesters I didn't study anything but perspective. This is so stupid. How could I have ever forgotten how to draw stupid perfectly in perspective cubes? Anyway, I included a page of my sketchpad and attempted to properly put into perspective a wand with a star on top. That did not work out very successfully now did it?
For some reason all of my creative antics went out the window as I stopped drinking coffee. How depressing. I am going to continue to sketch from life because that will probably help spark my creativity. After all it is from discipline that creativity proves itself. And I am trying to surge the creativity within.

I am reading this book that I won at an AIGA guest speaker talk through my school. The book is called "Do Good Design" and it is all about the power of labels and branding and how powerful it really is. There are a lot of random and interesting facts that I learned from the book such as, coke is the second most understood word worldwide. The first is OK! And small towns have Coke brand their towns for 200 dollars just so they can get on a map! How utterly ridiculous is that~

I'm not using this blog as a sketch dump so much anymore because it became so easy to use my phone to upload pictures and post them on the go with Tumblr. This however is my formal blog. (Even Livejournal isn't cool enough anymore!) My Tumblr. In all honesty I really need to keep my pencil moving so I can improve my drawing skills instead of just trying to draw something one day and nothing coming but squiggles! How depressing.

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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 :)

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