Making Courage Work - Week #1: Progress 3

Current progress:
DD: 20/20
Clutter: 3/5 (1 doll necklace prep & amassing things to sell)
AOC: 2/3

Here's a combo page of daily doodles (top 4), style emulation of Noelle Smit's quirky children's book illustrations and a freeflow art on the bottom right corner. I need to understand 'art' need not be superbly amazing, just a drawing that needs to leave my pencil. :x

I'll be off to catch the Phantom of the Opera for the evening.
The last two clutters to clear involve me ransacking my room back in my brother's place (which i will only get to return to this Thursday evening) and working on this doll necklace I've been planning on doing!

- - - Update: midnight - - -

Here's one of my AOCs: Sketches from the train ride home (they are tiny and fuzzy with the fear of getting discovered for drawing people without their permission >_>)..

And here's the outstanding speedpaint, which I'm not very happy with. Not very good with water bodies:

Making Courage Work - Week #1: Progress 2

Current progress:
DD: 14/15
Clutter: 3/5

DD1: Here're my three doodles for the day:

DD 4: Here're 2 'freeflow' art. >_< Art from this process is supposed to come out from the absence of thoughts. I used a brush pen for the left and a 0.05 one for the right...

 

DD 2 and 3: Here're 2 speed paint and style emulation combos of Jon Klassen's works. I found him on Amazon while I was researching on children books' illustrations. His works are full of shapes and textures. Crisp, too! His style is fun to emulate!

Okay, I am absolutely flailing at the now 2 outstanding freeflow artworks. x_x Yikes, updates soon!

Making Courage Work - Week #1: Progress

I have recently began my journey in this 5-week programme called Making Courage Work, where I will be re-exploring art and my self expression. There are 5 Daily Damnits I have to do every day, out of which 4 of them will be posted on this blog to chronicle my progress and whatever thoughts I may have in the processes.

DD 1: Doodle at least 3 things a day {here are the combined for both 17th and 18th Aug}. A sky formation and most doodles at the dining tables. :p

DD 2 and 3: Do at least 1 speed paint a day as well as imitating an artist's style (Arkhip Kuindzhi's works as reference). I like Arkhip's colour palette for most of his paintings, and these two are some of my favourites. I found his paintings rather modern, because the use of such rich colours exist in modern-day Japanese anime-styled posters and art as well.

My second artist imitation/style understanding is Kay Nielsen. I think it isn't enough for me to just copy his style of drawing. It would work better if I can try some complete pieces in his style. That would be fun. :)

One of 5 weekly clutters I am to clear is my work desk at home (check out the desk easel I recently got to restart my artistic feeling :p I also got a foldable studio easel for doing larger works!).

Another mental clutter (this constant nagging feeling that I am not fit) is to exercise 3 hours a week. So I went to have one hour of tennis on Saturday morning, and spent another hour in the gym this morning.

As of the end of Sunday, I have 2 freeflow artworks outstanding which I will need to complete in the coming week!

some works!

Cross section of a strawberry!

Started something new

Yesterday marked my second class in a watercolour course by Mr Marvin Chew. It's held at Sogan Art Galerie, in the quiet Mosque Street a walk from Chinatown mrt station. I've never had proper training in traditional painting before, and thought it would be useful to understand colours in person instead of just in the digital realms. For digital painting, I could plan and know what I'm doing when it's digital. However, in watercolours, my brain gets blocked partially and all my observations on real-life lighting and colours get locked up and I know not what I am doing. :/ Just perhaps, trying to imitate my teacher.

And it's bad how I go into paralysis at every stage of painting. Watercolours is like putting on layers and layers of colours, from light to dark. There is this fear that I may ruin something so I sometimes just stay put and leave my eyes to dart around.

At least during my second class, I was more bold, but it still felt like I was bulldozing forward without a clear plan, and that scares me. I want to be more in control when I paint. To logically reach the final image I want to create, but I guess it's hard because I never know what colour will leave my brush after a mix so I cannot really plan? The paintings I've done felt like accidents. :x

Anyway, here're the two pieces I've done (with much help from the teacher :p I'm so thankful he comes by and tells me what's missing, shows me examples of what I can do at the stages I freeze at), they aren't exactly complete yet, too:

And my still-new white watercolour palette and paintbrushes. :> Feels so pro. Hahaha... Hopefully soon, I'll be painting at home too, not just at class. Practice makes perfect and I doubt once a week is a good enough exercise to get to know this medium properly. :/

arted!

After spending a couple of the past few days reading Trinity Blood manga, I finally had inspiration to draw something (and a happy smiling girl at that)! ^^ Here's a peek of her and me having fun posing with a pencil. :>

Actually, seeing another artist's artwork with flowing hair made me want to draw a girl with flowy hair too. This is a more manga styled artwork, with the typical large eyes. I miss the Alichino/Trinity Blood gothic style so much and am very pleased to be able to draw somebody in this mish mash style. :> Lol, maybe the colouring's going to be pin-up style. We'll see!

I am alive!

Had miraculous free time today to do a quick digital paint of a tulip.

Shapes are a wee bit off, but this was mainly a colour thing.

I'm now working in an ad agency and work has been crazy hectic, but I managed to do so much stuff that I've not done before. Can't wait to spend some time updating my website with new things. :)