Archive for May, 2008

A Doodle a’Day…

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I’m having a massive new-music-gasm right now. I’ve got so much to listen to and it’s all very good and very inspiring. The M83 album from my previous post is currently killing my last.fm statistics. Whenever I’m done designing the new wordpress theme and website design there will be a last.fm reader on the page so you can see how many times I listen to “Skin of the Night” in a week. I’ll probably be sick of it in a week but I reiterate: radical.

I was working on some hand-made textures and type this weekend and doodled this little guy. It’s pencil and acrylic, and actually must have spurred a few creative synapses in my brain because I’ve got the urge to paint traditionally again. Sometime in June (the 14th I think) I’ll be auctioning off a painting for “Head for the Art,” a charity event sponsored by my company. Since the crow was the last thing I painted and it was done digitally I’m considering doing a new traditional painting and framing it exclusively for the show. Of course, if I work toward that goal I will keep the blog updated with progress.

Here is another color study I did with color and a bit of the new mark I’ve been working on. I don’t think the texture is working out. I think I may have to stick with hand-made textures as opposed to vector texture (try to say that 10 times fast).

A Little Here, A Little There

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Juggling all of my commitments is starting to get a little easier and I’m hoping it stays that way for a while. I could use some fun for a change.

Some things recently in the moleskin. I can’t wait to enjoy more of the nice weather. I anticipate more moleskinnery and artistry will take place as a result. I might turn the one up top into an oil painting. I bought some nice linen over the weekend. It might deserve a few more thumbnails and a color study before I put all of those expensive oil paints to use though…

the obsession never ends…

The guy with half a hand came from a commercial I saw at a friend’s house for a television show about how dangerous the logging industry could be. The guy was boasting about how manly he was on the commercial. I then felt compelled to record it in the sketchbook. Of course, pictured below it and completely unrelated: more mice. This time they’re portraying Hispanic gang stereotypes.

As far as free-time design goes, here is a color study I did using things from the morphology of this identity I’ve been developing—I need to add more than shapes—but it’s kind of a hodge podge of shapes (designed using the golden section) to see how the color palette I worked out might look.

Lastly, I have to recommend some more music. I recently discovered M83 put out a new album and it’s so boss I can’t even find better words than “boss” to describe it. It’s a bit of spacey electronic shoegazing goodness and I highly recommend it.

Listen to the full thing on Last.fm FTW