junk

octavia

My homework was to illustrate one of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
I did Octavia:

"If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to set your foot in the open spaces, or you cling to the hempen strands. Below there is nothing for hundreds and hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the chasm's bed.

This is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support. All the rest, instead of rising up, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters, showers, trapezes and rings for children's games, cable cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing plants.

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long."

We didn't have to illustrate everything and we could interpret it anyway we wanted to so...yeah...... Um, I didn't really finish cause I procrastinated too much and I worked on it on the day or before it was due again.....Why does this keep happening.....

There's actually a cable car (the aerial kind) but you can't really notice it much. Sigh I was rushing so badly.....I did like nothing for hours....Why.....

close-ups:

progress (backwards)

other junk:

remember remember

I don't know but I just need a break from drawing only heads (I didn't think this day would ever happen!). And what is this?? First post of the month!

NEW NEW NEW

^^this is closeup of this:

tools: Markers (i bought these Bic markers from target cause I got a gift card from someone lol), metallic color markers, crayola watercolors! LOL....and then copic and micro pens---which really ran out while I was doing this. I need to be buy new ones. :(

It's supposed to be inspired by some art movements that we got to pick from and I chose art nouveau.

I don't really like the final outcome! I hate some of the colors. I was rushing really badly cause I wanted to catch some sleep haha...why do I always do things at the last minute....sigh. Anyway after listening to the critique I would definitely like to change some things :( whether I would really care enough to do ...uh depends. Lol.

WIP(going backwards again):

some sketches/brainstorming for it :(

painting commission wip

jim and doyle.. i had more but they suck






new sounds like nou :)

about time

.................I finally made an old man tag! 8D

wake up

Yay I finally have internet :) I wanted to buy a new sketchbook but I had to refrain myself because I already have two right now that are not done (like all of my other sketch books). I like carrying the little cute ones but I actually think I prefer drawing on the larger ones?!??

Anyway, here are a couple of doodles:

I used to draw those transformation a lot. You know, like the Animorphs covers! lol

oscar wilde

Something you'll never see on The New Yorker. OTL
SORRY. OTL. AND SORRY THAT IF IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HIM.
I am realllllyyyyy bad at drawing people, especially from photographs! I did this on the day it was due...AGAIN. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Hahaha. But seriously though, I hate drawing from photos. Also, do you notice the fox hide? I had to put an animal in as part of the assignment lol. Instead of his fur coat, I put the fox. I don't know whether he would have worn that though but maybe....HIS FACE WAS SOOOO HARD. I gave up. I gave up on the whole thing.

Oh yeah, we didn't really have to do realism-style but lol I wanted to? Cause when I think of Oscar Wilde, I think of Dorian Gray = fine art painting. I wasn't going to put him in The New Yorker either but I was told to...anyway I really like the style of the type for The New Yorker. xD