I haven’t posted anything in quite a bit because of school- and in fact I’m certain this semester will be a very busy one, so finished pieces will be a rarity at best.
But hey, have some more stuff:
Here’s hoping the new semester isn’t super overwhelming!
This started as me fiddling around really late night and then it suddenly just became a homage to Kanye West and Takashi Murakami. So it goes I suppose.
I’ll never be able to decide on my favorite Kanye West album- but Graduation is definitely a contender for my number 1 spot. Anyone who has the album will recongnize the bear, but did you know that the video and the bear were designed by Mukarami? Sans Dropout Bear, I only recently dicovered his amazingly bizarre art at the MoMA, and when I connected two and two together I was like ‘yooo’
Sometimes messing around with people’s styles of art is fun because it sort of forces you to do things you wouldn’t normally do. Like, I don’t usually mess with color like so, so it was quite the feat, but I’m really happy with how this came out.
On that note, I hate to be THAT person, but I always felt like Kanye West was sort of underrated. I mean obviously he ISN’T in the sense that he is something of a house hold name. However, I think people have been more or less blinded by some of his actions over his actual success as an artist, and that has always bothered me (for many reasons)
His music has always been a favorite of mine, and I’m aware of his occasional slips into his egotistical persona, but for example, Kanye has been a big LGBT activist, and you almost never hear of that! Isn’t that a shame? Besides that, he has a certain style to him that I enjoy- I mean, look, his mascot was designed by Takashi Murakami, who also did stuff for Louis Vuitton and Givenchy- and his music in general has always been very well produced and his stories well told. I mean maybe it’s just my own bias, but I think Kanye is pretty great yeah!!!
Ignore my gushing pbt
I am SLIGHTLY embarrassed by the lack of good pictures I have right now to show.
I usually draw on paper with pencil, but I color digitally. Just for background purposes, I’ve literally been doing digital art since I was about….12 maybe? I’ve been very slow in progressing because I lacked time for practice, and I had a lot of ups an downs when I was much younger when it came to my art. I went through a huge depression in art production in about 10-11th grade because I was so put off by how expensive and competitive and so very flaky art college and the art world was.
Now that I’m older and in school, however, I’ve learned that if I love something, I should continue to pursue it. My outlook has changed dramatically since then, so I’ve slowly but surely come back to practicing and drawing just producing.
Uh…I draw lots of monsters and creatures and cartoon things. I like character design the most!. I’m trying to expand on subjects, so hopefully landscapes and comic practice will also be added to the list, but heres some character design stuff ahaha I wish I had more to show you but its either really sloppy or just out there.
By obligation I have to say that I also draw a lot of characters that AREN’T mine, but belong to friends. So the little monster bird and the grey dude are not my characters.
Annnd that about it! If you think you might like this kind of stuff or just want to see me draw things, then check this blog out once in awhile, and I promise to post as often as I can!
(ugh I hope this site doesn’t shrink the picture)
I feel bad for abandoning this blog ah!
I never forgot about these E-Portfolios, I just wasn’t sure how I should use mine to be fairly honest!
But I think I know what I’ll do- I’ll use it as a secondary art blog and maybe a place to talk about issues and what not.
I don’t know, does that sound okay?
