June art

Yet another change in style from Bec!

Well... not really.

These drawings have the same basic feel, which, hopefully, I can tie together with all the other works in the end.

This was sketched in pencil, coloured with watercolours, drawn, shaded and outlined with black gel ballpoint pen and added to with chalk pastel.


Close-up.The second drawing... this was in the same materials and technique, although I left out the chalk pastel this time. My mum really likes this drawing, probably because of the sense of movement in it. I'd also hazard a guess that it reminds her of my sister. That always helps!

Personally I love the way the skirt looks! I also like the basketball (that's what that round thing is).

... And (if you can see it) the raw beginnings of another drawing. I plan to have my spiky-haired guy riding a water buffalo as part of it, with the blonde running (somewhere!) in the foreground.

Finished drawings

The first drawing took me 2-3 days (that is, about 4 hours or less) to finish and was just just after I switched to charcoal as a medium.

Why did I do that?

I was frustrated with pencil because it wasn't giving the firm lines I needed. I swear that the humidity here does something to paper, because at times its fine to use pencil on it, and at other times its basically a waste of time.

I like the sense of movement in this drawing, the energy it conveys, and the slight air of mystery that permeates it. However, the mood seems too dark and oppressive, somehow. The other problem is that I wasn't able to get much detail into the characters.

untitled#1 - watercolour, charcoal, chalk pastel, ink


This is the second drawing I made, which took about the same time and used predominately black ink with some charcoal and chalk pastel, with a watercolour background.

This girl has my sisters hair, which is, I think, why she keeps reappearing.

The pseudo-punk makes his entrance again!

Distracted? Let them doodle!

Hi again!

I did these blue ballpoint pen drawings in the margins and backs of my art theory print-outs a few weeks ago. I decided to try and space out my posts a bit, but I think the space got too large! They are sort of procrastination, but then, I could always say that it was practice for art and my Body of Work. Which is true - come on, every drawing no matter what it is, is practice - so its no lie.

This is essentially how i learnt to draw. When I was about 6 or 7 I supposedly spent a lot of time tracing pictures in magazines, then when I was older i graduated to drawing in countless notebooks, then to drawing in the margins of my (non-book) school work.

So... this is what I do for fun!

Random faces and parts of faces...
... And the photo that inspired them. This is part of a work by Patricia Piccinini - the face wasn't the focal point of the artwork, but it fascinated me all the same. In a way, she seems to be plastic, or perhaps some sort of unreal mist. I used the play of light on her face as a reference for most of the drawings here. This is the mouth and nose of Jackson Pollock...... And the photo I drew it from. Pollock is one of the more well-known Post-Modern artists, you may know of his famous and energetic drip-painting technique.

And the culmination of my distraction! I was happy to find that I could draw a whole face reasonably with this type of drawing. I like the way it creates depth and a sense of form.

VAPD update

I've been doing some work in my VAPD (Visual Arts Process Diary, that is), working slowly but hopefully steadily towards my body of work.

These drawings are UNFINISHED and I'll likely revisit them a couple of times, or even totally change them. I just need to start drawing and let the images develop themselves. Is anyone else like that? You try to, on Day 1, make concrete decisions and stick to them, but it doesn't work; you get bored, you feel like you made the wrong choices ... Happens to me all the time. I find it helps to keep my options open and not place too much importance on one idea.

Anyway, here's some drawings and writing.

Beading!

I spent this past week working on two pieces of bead work - hopefully I can integrate them into the final work... I hate the thought of doing all that work for nothing!

(semi-)finished!

also semi-finished, as in I may revisit this piece and rework it or add to it. I had thought that I could add a pathway winding through the middle... possibly!

I used two old rags - from my Dad's workshop as the base for these. The beads are the seed-bead type common here in the Philippines, and I chose them randomly on purpose. The use of beads is significant in that some of my earliest and favourite memories are of making bracelets with these beads on the back porch of our house. We used to have a great time!

Vids!!

For my Body of Work major HSC project, I had to make a proposal/report type thing to show that I've actually gotten some sort of start on my work! This was meant to be in the form of a video.

I tried to upload it here, but no luck, so check it out on youtube.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7_y8D9KRo

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGXJY1I8V0 by 'ozzyindajungle91'

(copy into URL bar if the hyperlink doesn't work :)

Recent drawings

I drew these while we were driving to Cagayan from Malaybalay - a cool mountain road. I was trying to draw continuously, drawing the things I saw along or on the road on the same page, as it came. It was fun and fast!





These three are trial illustrations for a book (about missionary member care) that the authour talked to me about drawing for. They'll probably get a lot better after I've drawn in this sort of style for a while. In order, there's someone getting a shock (don't really like this one), someone being suspicious, and someone being overloaded (I like this one).





This is a small doodle I drew June last year. I really liked how it looked so I tried to draw something similar yesterday.


1st try: This was without reference to the original. I don't like much about it except the how the hairstyle looks (however impossible it may be :)


2nd try: This drawing has its flaws (the mouth, which I like by itself, is a bit too low down; the eye looks nice and clear but a bit too slanted) but I like it much better.

Kaamulan drawings

'The Filipino throws himself into group activities with great enthusiasm.' was going to be the catchy title but its just a cartoon and therefore needs no title, right?

In the parade a few weeks ago the male dancers, every now and then, would do this huge shout-and-dash sequence which was actually very cool.



Later, but before i had looked at my photos, I tried to do a small pencil drawing of one of the female dancers. This is the sequence. My drawing of people is fairly random - it usually starts with an eye or two and works down from there.





Interesting how different she looks with her eyes fully drawn!

There's some major problems with her pose and costume, but it was never really meant to be a 'good' drawing... its purpose was more ejust to capture the feel and general ambiennce that I remembered from some of the girls.