mastodon 4.7.3In about 5 years...artist for hire. In the meantime I'll keep paying off the mortgage.
A moment where I knew I had screwed up and then just kept making it worse - I'm talking about the building on the lower part of the drawing. But out of the mistake comes opportunity - I am now going to attempt to cut out the offending part and go for an inlay collage of multiple glued down layers instead. Turn a frustrating moment into one of potential? 😜
Progression of this work in progress. I used a photocopy of the original as I wasn't ready or willing to destroy it. I will likely finish the entire original and then see what can be done about the foreground building once it is completed. Needless to say, it has been fun working on alternatives using the cut out copy.
Castle Slowly Being Eaten by Red Vines
#watercolour #watercolor #ink #drawing #illustration #art #mastoart #Fediart #fantasy #castle
This drawing began with a shape formed with a Derwent Chromaflow (Scarlet 0500) pencil on Lana A5 Drawing Paper. Grainy paper created the rough, textured effect which helped achieve a subliminal effect. The drawing was then scanned at high res & the background erased away in Affinity Photo. I love the process of using analog art alongside a digital process. Would love to know your thoughts and what it might convey to you.
Explorations in the Land of Giants No.12
They came and settled a tiny pocket of a giant sized world, where a single banana could feed them all for weeks on end. It wasn’t until J.D. Murcher wrote of his settlement’s discovery of a smoked sausage longer than five men and women stretched out end to end that readers began to take renewed interest in their endeavours, however. Some scholars suggested that occurred in 1816.
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A digital sketch I did earlier today. Enjoyed the dry ink brush used to create a stubbly, inexact effect. Interpret it however you will.
#Mastoart #DigitalArt #Fediart #MyArt #Sketch #art #illustration #scifi #robot #giant
This illustration was made without too much conscious thought. What was curious about the whole process was that the conscious thought came after looking at the completed work. A giant, cracked egg can mean many different things, it turns out.
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I have been getting back to my roots by drawing little scapes in #scifiArt and #fantasyArt themes. It takes me back to a very early age where cheap biros and HB pencils on parent-stolen office supplies never left my sight #mastoArt #Art
Ugh, for the last two weeks every creative impulse I've had seems like it's not worth the effort. Am going through one of those 'why bother?' cycles. My day job has me inundated with shit I have little interest in. It will pass.
Staring at this on and off for days wondering what detail to add. It started out more refining #gouache a bit better ... I mean, I am absolutely falling in love with this medium and being acrylic gouache, I can use #watercolour on top. I think I am having one of those commitment issues where I don't want to wreck what is supposed to be a background layer only because I feel the need to add something more. This probably sums in the kind of June I'm having anyway.
A whinge about #ChatGPT now...rarely use it, but in this case needed some fast instructions on some techniques for Logic Pro so away I went. Aside from the sycophantic responses that congratulated me lavishly for basic human cognition (that's an astounding observation...repeat, etc...) it kept making error after error because it gave me instructions for older versions of Logic Pro - then my free account session was suspended for too many prompts - only because of the mistakes. Seriously?
It feels a little surreal when I see a lot of people here posting about the #heatwave when I'm here in #Melbourne #Australia in winter-time and it's freezing (well, cold...) and I'm wishing for summer to come. Hope everyone in the northern hemisphere dealing with this is OK.
I'm looking forward to 4 new exhibitions at my local art centre here in Melbourne, Australia. It's opening Saturday 2PM. I really love supporting art in my local area. And because it's a 100m walk from my place, it really is local!