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This is digitally enhanced image of sketch 07. Just trying something new here. It was done about a year ago.
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It's weird, I know. Most of you have already seen this but, it's my art so i'm putting it here. Fonts used were ChickenScratch, Celtic Garamond the 2nd, & Hannibal Lectar. Email me if you want me to send you the fonts.
twenty
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"Chaos" was painted on an 18"x24" canvas using acrylic paints. It was painted in June of 2000 and was my first in this series of (so far) five pieces of different sizes. It was painted in a criss-crossing pattern to produce this effect.
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"Sadness" was painted on an 8.5"x9.5" piece of cardboard using acrylic paints. It was painted in September of 2000 in my dorm at Occidental and was my fourth in this series. It was painted in a criss-crossing pattern to produce this effect of blues of different shades and hues.
"Melancholy" was painted on a 9"x12" canvas using acrylic paints. It was painted in July of 2002 and was my fifth in this series. It was painted in a criss-crossing pattern to produce this effect of lavender, violet, white, and black.
nineteen
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This was finished in September of '99. It is 18"x24" and was done using compressed charcoal, charcoal pencils, and any other form of charcoal I could get my hands on. It was meant to be the close-up of any part of the face with any part of the hand included in some way. Many people did lips with the index finger over them in a "shhh" sort of image. Unfortunately, I have major issues with lips as you may notice in other drawings. The hair was done using long strokes of compressed charcoal then long strokes of erasures using a needed eraser. Of course the light of the eye is, I believe, the single most important aspect which gives it a touch of reality.
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This sketch was finished in February of '00. It was cut down from an 18"x24" to approximately 18"x17". It was done using an ebony pencil and a mechanical 0.5mm lead pencil for the details of the face. The subject was a girl I knew, an amazing artist. I actually heard she was accepted to the same college I was attending which (sadly enough) by the time I get back on track there just might put me a year behind her instead of a year ahead as I have been. ANYHOW, this was done in two sittings, both an hour each. I wish we had used color because she was wearing these white and red etnies, blue jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt, sitting on a foam pillow draped with a pink towel. She was sitting on a black table. The colors would have really enhanced the picture. No techniques to describe or anything, there wasn't enough time..either you could do it in two hours or you couldn't, that's what it came down to.
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This picture was done with three shades of red prismacolors and three "shades" of white for the stripes on the shirt. There are also the colors used for the two socks and a bit of mustard yellow for the smog in the city. the building walls were done with an ebony pencil and the city was drawn with a very sharp 6h pencil (or 2b, i could have the switched). The subject was a long sleeve red and white striped shirt hanging from a clothesline with several other articles of clothing, they were not arranged this way, but the shirt needed something else so the socks got pulled into it. It's an 18"x24" drawing completed in October of '99. I did it because I seem to have a knack for cloth and I like to stick with what I'm good at.
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This very light image is actually this light, of course it is much clearer in real life. The image is from a photo (attached) taken about 15 years ago of my sister and I at a dance recital. It's about the only picture in my entire collection, past and present, that I would burn my hand to save from fire. It's like a look back at a time when life seemed fair. This sketch is the first in a collection of portraits and other drawings of people. I never thought I could draw people so I started this collection to improve my skills. The following image is the second in this collection. Drawn with a 0.5mm lead pencil because of all the small detail. It took me two days and notice, they have no hands...it turns out THAT'S what I needed to work on, not the people themselves. The collection is 18"x24". This piece was finished in January of '00.
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This is one of the better images in the collection I mentioned above. It's of my mother and her father at Christmas some time before she and my father were married. This one was actually drawn with an ebony pencil because of her dark hair and dark dress. I still look at her eyes and think they need more, though I'm too afraid of messing it up to take it out and work on it some more. This was also finished in January of '00, three days after the previous sketch and is 18"x24".
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This was actually a great accomplishment of mine. It's done in acrylic paint and is an enlargment of a collage made from different magazine images. I think making the collage was almost more fun that the actual act of painting it. Nothing special to say, collage is 7.5"x10.5" and actual painting is 10.5"x15". It took forever to draw and even longer to paint but it was well worth it. It was even matted and hung in the GUSD Offices downtown. It was finished in December of '98.
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Well, it's what it looks like. It's a skull. It's 9"x12" and was done with an ebony pencil. Besides the teeth (which are another one of my weaknesses) I think it turned out pretty well. What I really think enhanced it was the black accent I used to outline it. It's not exactly centered but I'm happy with it. '99
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I'm not really going to explain this much...plains of the face...9"x12". Ebony pencil. Not a fun project. '99
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More plains and shading, 9"x12", ebony pencil. Ditto, not fun. '99
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This is my grandfather. Granted his neck is a little big and his head's a little squished but it was my first attempt at a person. I was sitting at a picnic bench at Lake Shasta, sick with boredom. My father wanted to show me off and just KNEW I could do it...guess he's smarter than I thought he was. done with a no. 2 pencil, colored with a color pencil for the shirt and a little bit of oil pastel just for shading of the face. I didn't want to screw it up by doing anything else with it. It's an 8.5"x11" paper. This was done in '97.
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I was bored one day and wanted to test my skills with oil pastels. This is a small bottle of Chateau Citran I kept for a long time, my father had it from a business trip or something. Ever since I did this one, I've learned to love oil pastels. It still isn't my favorite media but it's very close. This is 9"x12" and was done in '00.
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This is by far one of my favorites even though it kinda sucks. It was a still life I put together. My favorite pieces are the boot and the mirror because of the effect. It was done with all sorts of charcoal including compressed charcoal and charcoal i can't remember the name of (the brown and gray charcoals). The paper is special high quality paper which was very difficult to work with. Erasures left a definite mark. It tore up the fibers and just made it difficult for the charcoal to hold. The paper has a gray color to it and besides the fact that you can't really draw things more than once, I think it enhanced the drawing. I used this image for the background to Anonymous Home v4.0 though it came and went quickly because it was my first attempt at a background image and many frames. It only worked for 768x1024 resolutions so I didn't keep it around long. I'm not sure of the length but the [height] is 12" so the length is somewhere between 18" and 20".
twelve
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India ink was used here with pen tips similar to those used in quill pens. I enjoy working with this media but it's messy and can be time consuming. It's usually a hit and miss with it also, sometimes a drawing comes out pretty well and sometimes it looks awful. It all depends on what tools you use and how you create shading. The project was to use the dried flower in the first box and show it four different ways. The first to have it touch one or no sides of the box, the second one was to touch two, and so fourth. My favorite is the fourth box because I like the little design I added to the right. It makes it a little busy but I like it none the less. This one is about the same dimensions as the sketch 12. It's discolored a little because it got wet at some point so the ink is a little smugged and looks either blue or pink on the right side.
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This was my greatest accomplishment. This drawing is what sparked my interst in becoming an artist. Everyone made a huge fuss over it and compared to to the advanced art class's work on the same project. I was told it looked better than some of their drawings of the same subject. It was displayed in the loby of the school's theatre during one of their biggest productions and although it was a long time before I was able to have it for myself, I would allowed them to post it wherever they wanted. The final time it was moved, it ended up in the switchboard with paintings I could never have done myself. It was done just prior to sketch 6 and is 18"x24". I used an ebony pencil and a kneaded eraser to smudge the lead.
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These are just some little drawings I did in art class that took about a half an hour each. I used three strips of paper, one rolled, one folded accordion style in one folded in triangles. Each drawing is about 7.5"x10.25".
fifteen "a"
fifteen "b"
fifteen "c"
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This is my China Man. Someone punched him in the face and he's sad. I drew this one day during a two hour break during which these two guys were greatly disturbing me, so I took their looks together with just what I wanted to do to them and it turned into my China Man here. Racist? No (Neither of the two guys were actually Chinese, he just ended up that way). A little mean? Possibly. Sketched using a #2 pencil on a small square piece of paper glued to another larger piece. Height of the actual paper is about 5" or just under that, this image has been cut down though.
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