portrait of lydia, only got 20 minutes in though

to date, this is the probably the best realistic figure drawing i've done. now, to do better!



large version here

life drawing again tomorrow night! get on the life drawing train, chooo choooooo.

i bought a new 14 x 17 sketchbook because i think i finished my other one (and also i can't find it?)

some silly thingie from tonight

yesterday kaley and i saw a man biking down the street playing an accordion. it was magical.

snap! here are 2 panels from a 4 panel sequential narrative thingie assignment where we had to illustrate a japanese folk story. they have to shrink down to like 3x3 or something ridiculous like that, to fit onto a box.

i'm still learning my way around computer programs.





someone kindly pointed out to me that she's holding the flute in a totally incorrect way - hilarious funny! i will sheepishly admit that it didn't even occur to me to check for proper flute-handlage, i got all involved with how i wanted the hands to look. duhr. oops.

the other day i saw a sign written in green marker that said "CHAMP, you are the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm sorry."

also, i found a perfectly good computer chair on the curb!

one of my neighbors has this elaborate bird house setup in her front yard and i really want to put up mini xmas decorations on the doors and around the little roofs in the middle of the night. its not reallypopular with the birds so i wont bother them.

not sure how to do it aside from going to a dollhouse store, which would be expensive. i also dont want to nail or permanently glue anything down so i dont get charged wtih birdhouse vandalism ;p. i have some ideas but still thinking.

caaaan youuu ddiiiggg itt

hotdog.net is a blog of film stills curated by Shannon Maldonado. She posts film stills of indie and classic movies. I only saw The Warriors once on a bus and i was rather intoxicated so I don't remember very much of it. When I was in New York, on another bus (coming home this time) on the day after Halloween I saw someone had scrawled "the warriors" in red spraypaint on a wall in harlem - ha ha.

found via grain edit, which is also a really awesome graphic-design-illustration-eye-candy type blog

via Jillian Tamaki's blog, a clip of The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a 1927 animation with hinged silhouettes. apparently considered by some to be one of "the first animations ever". i've never heard of it before but now i've just got to see the whole thing!

here's a tiger

from yesterday, too.



more exercises in trying to be super minimal.

also i REEAALLLYY enjoy brushes.

a study from this morning. trying to be really simple: white, midtone, black

drawn and painted in mah sketchbook, i adjusted the colours in potatoshop



cause WHOA my scanner eats colours for breakfast.

zis painting style is inspired by kaleykaleykaleykaleykaley

i am trying to paint more. also i'm really excited to buy a brand new sketchbook for New Yawk. While I'm there I'm going to pretend to be an illustrative journalist. also a detective. you can call me gumshoe.

kaley in critique. booty booty booty shorts!




coffee with anne, la la la