Whatever

*"Penwork" hurts eyes - deleted*

Long pose from Henry's workshop. Made the leg a little too dark :( And got a nice FLARE there. Whatever. Too lazy to fix it.

Eye-shadowed Nick:

A more "finished" piece:
Finally, I'll leave you with this "proverb" that I loved and wrote down from a game I was playing. For the longest time I thought I lost it, but found it just recently. To avoid this from happening again and to share it with you all, I'm saving it online.

嫌なことから目をそらさず、

何でも正面から受け止めろ。

Ken's translation: Don't avoid something because it's unpleasant; rather, face it head on.

Blessing

It is a blessing to be able to paint at home, even though I know after the sun comes out, I'll be screaming. It's the first time I work on my painting assignment at home, and it felt very very good. The following photograph almost persuaded me to become a fine artist.


Painting is so fun!!!!!! Thanks to all the people who gave me advice/guidance with regard to my last post. I have long forgotten the joy of just being able to draw and paint, and been stressed over how to get better fast too much. Ah, what an idiot. I just sketched at BART over the weekend for the first time. It was refreshing and liberating.

Anyway, here are some clothed figures, something I constantly struggle with.


One huge head...

Finally...
Meet my son, Chow, hence the full name Chow Chow. Taken before our class at Sutter.

Lingering questions in my head + big traditional dump

Can all the illustrators and good drawers out there explain to me how life drawing helps you illustrate better? What are you thinking when you draw people, animals and objects? Are you analyzing? Do you memorize how to draw them so when you illustrate you can draw from your head? How does limiting the time you spend on an art piece (life drawing) help you improve? Do you not think that working from photographs, which allows you time to analyze all you want, help more? And if you are working from reference when you illustrate anyway, what continues to motivate your going to workshops and drawing naked/clothed people, with a pen?

Help me...

Anyway... so here is my dump.

In-class painting.

Jennifer. 10 minutes (?).

Terry. 10-15 minutes...
Note: These are Terry too!
Here is Gintah! And Emerson! And Mike!

Traditional painting dump

When I was carrying this painting around I think I managed to freak some people out, so I guess I was able to convey 1/10 of the beauty of the original painting. I will clarify here, that this is only a master copy, called Green Mirror, by Z.S. Liang, a very amazing painter. No stress people :) Keeping the proportion right with a large painting was definitely challenging. I will try to fix the legs when the day comes.

A still life. Color adjusted (finally).