New Sketchbook, New Pen, New Furture

 Last Saturday I felt like I needed something else to draw in and so I went to the local craft store Porters, and bought this really nice, bound book. The paper is the perfect weight and I just love using it.

The first image I drew was an old aspen tree that was down the street with a Sharpie pen with a chisel tip. It was hard to draw because the wind was blowing and drying out my pen, but I love how it came out. The other image I did the other  day of my classmate. I chamoised the area first then erased out the half tone and then drew in more definition with  my mechanical pencil. It really does look like her, I'm pleased.

This is what my work area looked like when I got home: computer, cantaloupe dinner, water, sketchbook. Got to love it.

Drawn in my new favorite pen. Zebra Sarasa, maroon, size 0.7.

(Original Image, not mine, just found in a Google Search)

Creativity in Food

Today's lunch is brought to you by the letter "M" - for Mexican!

During my morning class, I kept wondering about what to have for lunch, and I remembered a can of black beans in my cupboard. I also have bell peppers that I bought last week, some corn that needed to be eaten, and half a tomato that needed to be used up. So I made Mexican black beans. It turned out really good!~

I've discovered as a college student that it is really hard to cook from a recipe, mostly because I don't have everything in a recipe (I didn't have garlic, lemon juice, or cilantro), so when I want to make something I've never made before like Mexican Black Beans, I just find a recipe, consider what I have, then make something up!

Creativity is key for every artist. Cooking is just a way to practice it and eat delicious food at the same time!

Creative Perspective Project 2 Overview

 I'm so glad I get the opportunity to take a class called Creative Perspective this semester. It has really opened my mind to the possibility of actually drawing a room in perspective rather than just drawing a room. With the semester half over, we've gone through 2 drawings with 3 more to go.

This Project is number two. A 2-point perspective interior based off a villain of your choice or creation. I made a villain with a mix of both. Meet CEO Ursula. Even from project one I was imaging Ursula in modern times smirking out of her pent office suite at the poor souls she has yet to make suffer.

 

After designing her character, I scowered Google images for a suitable room to base myself on. A forever process, so many images and only one idea. Granted, I attempted to design solely based on what is in my head, but sometimes it still doesn't turn out how you want. Finally I found something and was able to base a ground room off of it.

Usually I prefer to work traditionally, just a pencil and piece of paper, but my mind wasn't working with that, so I switched to digital. My favorite program right now is Paint Tool SAI, I find it easier to manipulate than Photoshop, but I use that as well.

Next more reference searching!  It can be really interesting what you find when you research for one thing. Like I was searching for a desk and found this octopus table instead, and then it clicked to have an octopus theme and quickly my search was focused to maintained that feel of tentacles.

Sadly, I do not own a DVD of Disney's "The Little Mermaid," but I was lucky to find that someone had posted on Youtube video clips of just Ursula. It helped me so much in making sure to add things she would have in her cave (which is actually a sea dragon's rib cage, to be exact.)

 

All of this gets drawn in, moved around, and scaled and stretched to fit the space. Then because I draw on separate layers, I was able to separate all of my objecst so that I could see them better for the final drawing.  

 

This drawing got rather messy, so before I went to get it printed so I could trace it onto my final Bristol paper, I went back and re-inked everything to be clean and precise.

The final image. Of course, there are still some errors but the assignment is done... for now.