Paintball!

So, if you don't know, I throughly enjoy paintball, but I haven't gotten to plan in forever. I'm trying to get back into, and while shopping online I found my new favorite store. I had always shopped at action village, but I've always felt "meh" about it. But I throughly enjoy ansgear, and decided to share a link.

ANSgear

Markated on my paper with Pencil, Charcoal, or Conte

So my first inclination would have to be to go towards Pencil, but that's because Pencil is a long time friend whom I've always had a good relation ship with. Hes always done what I wanted and with minimal mess and fuss.

Now Charcoal used to be one of my most hated enemies, but that's only in its stick form (with whom I'm still not on good standing with.) But now that I've come to know him in the pencil form hes not so bad. Not my favorite but tolerable and the darkness of Charcoal mixed with the usability of Pencil is nothing to scoff at.

Now Conté, she is a fickle mistress. At first I thought her and I were going to rehash my relationship with Charcoal, but now that I've come to grace her presence shes entirely different from my initial premonitions. Ive come to be fond of how fluidly she can dance across the bond paper, but at the same time hate how easily she looses and edge.

Now all in all, I have come to be on good terms with these three amigos, but at the same time they still possess merits and short comings. So There you have it, my relationship with our medias.

Lighinituidty of Photograprination of Landscapes

So I decided to share this artist I ran across from one of my favorite blogs. His name is Barry Underwood (<- and that's a link to his website) I absolutely love glowing objects, photography, and playing with light - and his photos incorporate all of those. He describes his images as "documentations of full scale installations that are built on site in the landscapes." He also mentions using light to transform ordinary recognizable objects in landscapes to be almost abstract. And without further adiue ART:

Blindable Couturification of my Self

Well Ill start off with saying, that I am not a huge fan of blind contour drawing. I can see why we do it and its merits, but that doesn't make me like it any more - I quite hate it actually.

Also, maybe for the reasons above or due to my forgetfulness, I didn't start the assignment till the morning of class so i had to rush and get myself down on paper four times with no time to spare. I think if i had actually spent some time on them they would've turned out well - I think I had a good approach to the interior parts of the face, and i can see my features developing well. But um the fact is I didn't so now they look like old bald men (which i still kind of find amusing and I didn't actually notice till i hung them up on the wall in class.. stupid standing back and looking, or in this case looking at all ^_^).

So moral of this story is don't do homework int he morning or it'll look like old bald men (which for all anyone knows is what I look like in the morning.)

Drawingness

Ah the night before midterm, and all through out the apartment everyone was stirring, in the sketchbooks. Pencils flew, and paper was pasted as the studious students prepared for the coming day. Unsure of the thier blogs, sketchbooks, and planar drawings they will soon shuffle into class early the next morning, dreading the drawing to come.

So really i'm just kinda working on stuff - i got alot in my sketchbook, and i need to finish my planar drawing. But I feel pretty good - still not looking forward to the still life but well see.

So id like to share again another band with whomever will read this, because I've been listening to them whilst working this past weekend. But they're called man factory. They have their first album out which is a rock opera called Round 1 about street fighter. The music has a kinda indie feel to it (which I don't usually enjoy), but i quite like these guys. Also i like that they published their first album online for everyone to enjoy (which is cool in the days of DRM and itunes and RIAA). They also have a little booklet of jpegs included in the album with some street figher art and a little explanation of each song, and they have txt documents of all the lyrics so without further adieu:



^ Click the picture for dowloadified awesomeness - P.S. I love HTML

Midtermattuide

So I'm not particularly looking forward to the midterm this Wednesday. Ive been trying to get my blog and sketchbook up to snuff, but i still not sure its enough. And I'm kinda nervous about that drawing we have to do in class to be graded, since I'm still not great at planar drawings, but i guess I'm getting better i suppose. Just not really looking forward to it.

Draperifcation

Ah the draperifcation (the act of draping - which is totally now a real word) of my bed. This was actually one of the times i would kinda proud of my homework (not really sure why), but of course there was still some problems with it - my tendency to turnt he planes into a pattern shown through - but there was some parts of it i think i got pretty well - and of crouse the area around it kinda got skewed in my drawing but oh well i can always fix it. I kinda liked this homework for some reason. Still cant say im a fan of charcoal - but atleast its just lines.



Also in case you were wondering that is an inverse of a Bruce Lee picture on my wall - i got bored at some point and thought my walls were too empty. I mean they still are, but at least now when i wake up i have bruce lee about to punch me in the head.