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NOTE as of 5/12/09: Where have all my pictures gone?! It’s so aggravating. They’ve all just disappeared into the internet ether, and I see someone was viewing this screwed-up page just a couple of days ago, which must’ve looked totally lame. *sigh* So, uh, anyway, this note is to say, “coming soon,” I guess? eh heh heh.
I haven’t had time to do much work (read: none) thanks to library school, which is super frustrating, but I do have some scans to post…these are just some rough sketches for some more pieces in the Orangutan series: the Tyrant, the Drunkard, and the Shaman! (Sorry for the poor quality of the scans; the sketches are a mix of pen-and-ink and pencil, which is hard to scan–the pencil lines tend to get lost because the ink is so much darker.)
Anyway, here is the Drunkard:
The Shaman (this one is particularly badly scanned, sorry!):
And finally, the Tyrant…I just love him! He is really quite creepy; I can’t wait to finish this one…
Well, you know, gotta keep expanding the ol’ repertoire, right? Why shouldn’t I make a cartoon?!
…….Oh, right, because I’m not a team of animators…I don’t have a bunch of drones at my disposal to save me from having to do the thankless chore of drawing a million in-betweens….hmm…perhaps there is a flaw in this plan! I don’t care, I’m still interested in trying it.
I’ve just recently had this idea for a cartoon kind of thing set to Berlioz’s “Ronde Du Sabbat,” which is a really fun, scary-yet-whimsical piece of classical music… I think once I have some time to fiddle around with it I’ll be able to accomplish what I have in mind with just scanning in drawings, working on them in Photoshop, and then using Windows Movie Maker to animate it. Not sure, but I think it’ll work. I could use Flash, but from what I’ve seen online, I don’t think that would have the look I want. Too smooth and computer-generated looking– I really want it to be rough and to make sure it has the look of my drawings, not an artificially smoothed-out Flash drawing, which has a very distinctive look of its own. Anyway, something fun to do when I can get to it…I have some very rough sketches which I’ll scan in and add to this post later.
I just recently dredged up three childhood phobias, which I thought I’d record here for posterity before I forget about them again. I think bizarre childhood fears can be such fruitful territory for stories and art…I’m just certain these will come in handy someday! Plus it’s just so funny to remember things like this… So here they are:
1. Flushing the toilet in public restrooms
2. Sweaters
3. Strong winds
Aren’t those great? How did I ever turn out even halfway normal?! :)
fig 1. The Dreaded Sloane Valve, which my dad says is what make public restroom toilets so terrifyingly loud.
Just wanted to get this down somewhere before I forget about it– I don’t have time to work on anything right now because library school is turning out to be EXTREMELY time-consuming, so I have to write any ideas I have down until I can work on them at some point… Of course, that only works so well, because so often a new idea that seems super exciting and inspired and fabulous at first turns out to seem really dull and stupid if I have to put off working on it and come back to later.
Anyway, we were on the beach and saw this awesome piece of driftwood, about six or seven feet long, that looked *exactly* like a gigantic femur; so I was imagining how cool it would be to make giant driftwood skeletons… That’s out of reach for me, because I have no way to transport giant pieces of driftwood–or finished giant sculptures either, for that matter–but it got me started thinking about how skeletal sculptures could be really neat… So I want to do a series of Sculpey (or Das, I guess) skeletons of weird imaginary creatures… I think that could be so much fun! (gotta remember some of the tips I picked up from that site I linked to last week (A Dyin Art) about hardening delicate pieces a bit with a hair dryer as you go…that’d come in handy with little things like bones.)
Just stumbled across this while supposed to be doing schoolwork, so I haven’t had time to take as close a look as I’d like, but I’ll definitely be going back! So here’s the link so I don’t lose it: sitekreator.com/ADyinArt/blogsite.html
She has all kindsa nifty tips on using polymer clays like Fimo and Sculpey, among other things. Very cool!
