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.)