spring break inspiration

Left: how to gift wrap a octopus Right: Stormy Legend
Artist: Trish Grantham
What I find inspiring about her work is the dreamy style of her characters but also the quality of the paintings themselves. The backgrounds all have that encaustic-ish feel and they have very loose compositions. I guess it'd be nice to be able to mix the "fine art" thing with the cute cartoony things.

Left: Private project
right: from Uncle Leon's adventures in the Romanian Steppes
Artist: Yaniv Shimony
This artist is an illustrator from Jerusalem and his children's books are great, or at least, I like them better than his illustrations. They are all very whimsical but the drawings are good and have a lot of character. i wish I had seen his books before I had started my concentration because I could've picked up some tips and technical sort of ideas. If i ever illustrate another book...I will make it focused more on the characters and not so much the compositions like with this one.

phewww~~~

dry well...AGAIN

So, I was doing my sketchbook entry last night, and I was drawing a picture of this guy at the library who finds a sandwich between the books and is pulling it out, but when I finished drawing it, I didn't like it. I figured it was because I'm tired of how i draw and how everything comes out looking the same...:(
i haven't had a good inspiration for a while and I want to do art, but I don't feel like I have a lot to work with. Hopefully the inspiration assignment will help over spring break. Maybe another part of it is that I haven't had time to do nothing and let these artsy ideas accumulate. I've been super busy. Junior year SUCKS. Sleep is my elusive friend.

just in case i don't get a sketchbook entry done....

http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

We should do this! Well, actually I just thought about it, and it's basically what our sketchbook entries are like since we have stickers and stuff, but nobody REALLY adheres to those anyway right??
I just think it'd be interesting to compare all at once everyone's drawings.

Some of these are pretty charming!


Anyway
I made a list of things i have left to do for my concentration
.finish remaining pieces, der
.redo ugly russia page
.add footprints to pages?
.cover/back cover
.bind into a real book!!

i'm super excited to make it into a book. And I actually started a piece last class which is uncharacteristically punctual for me. It has a great composition, not going to lie.

I'm learning a lot about Pop art because I'm doing my APUS paper on it. Hopefully at least. Really, the only reason I'm still in the class is because I figured the research paper would be a good chance for me to get to know some topic of my choice, and it's interesting to read about actual art history, since besides being super awesome at art, we don't really know anything ABOUT it...or at least i don't. for long.