Entries tagged with thinky: art

Current Music: Saul Williams - Coded Language

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(If you must count to keep then beat - then count!)

First, I have to post the icons I made some time ago. Otherwise, this story isn't going to make sense. So:

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Table created with accio.nu's icon table(less) generator

#9 Is Gary from Alphas, with the scene that inspired this icon set. My brain went YES THAT! and ran with it, because light! movement! meanings!
tl;dr living in my brain is a lot like being surrounded by symbolism on crack.

Story time: I pulled up wikiquote to find the Joseph Campbell thing I wanted to quote at Tasha, and it wasn't there. What was:

( Big picture! )

It's strangely delightful to have your assigned meaning show up in someone else's mind.

Current Music: Coyote Grace - Bullet In A Gun

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it’s a quiet room when you’re judging / all the words on the way out

I'm swamped with other work, so here, have photos of my midterm project:

My professor is always telling us to develop the whole instead of drawing piecemeal, but I think I actually consider the composition more when I do it the other way around. I should fix that.
This is also the project that surprised her so much - she was actually a little sad that it was "so clean", which is when it sunk in that art is about the imperfections and stylizations. We create, not copy. Artists lie using reality.

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Sometimes it takes that much. (3/31/11)

The promised disaster from yesterday's art class. I was already frustrated and emotional, and that carried over into studio time.
Points made by my art professor I'd do well to remember:

My job is not accuracy, but believability, emotion, and movement.
The struggle is an important part of the process.
Sometimes you have to go outside and jump up and down and scream. "Sometimes it takes that much."

I did, after trying for the better part of 2 hours to ignore my frustration and keep trying, end up leaving the room for 10 minutes and having a quiet crying spell in the bathroom. Unsurprisingly, when I went back to work, everything fell into place.