Friday 12 November 2010

Portraiture and bubble geisha

Something I've found a lot of joy in doing recently.

Very happy with this.
Not gleefully happy with this one.

I love how the florentine artists drew portraiture, so I guess I'm most influenced by them.


And a bubble geisha... to lower the tone a little
a request someone made of me...



Weird Sisters

A personal on going project of mine that I dive into when I have time.

I love anatomy, as many people will know... but i also love anatomy in art when its distorted or cleverly out of proportion.

This is my attempt at a series of pieces, (traditional, so ignore that fact that one is in digital)

The weird sisters are all female nudes which are extremely tall and thin but with very eventuated features, depending on the nature of the pose. so it could be big hips, bendy legs, long neck.. and so on.

here are the sketches of some: -


The first page has my favourite 2 poses so far, even these sketches as excentuated as I would like, or as dramatic in the distortion of the pose.

I had a blast at doing two of them to size (maybe a little smaller then i would of liked)

This was the first Sister I did in large scale sketch. to see how it would look on a large plane, this was about 5'10 tall. on the side of the fridge... very classy. 
Had big fun doing this one, and I love how it turned out.

This was my 2nd attempt at a pose form the sheets, but this one just didnt click with me so i scrapped it at this stage.

I took one into photoshop and played mac filter monkey with it for a while and this came out.
stage 1
finished (well... as finished as i could bring myself to make it.)


Thursday 11 November 2010

Me and Fine art... and sketchs

Me and Fine Art
I pull no punches in my love and opinion about fine art and art in general, it can be seen as and I know it myself that I am very close minded about art. I love art, especially well executed art. More so then anything, I love art which includes the human figure, be it in a sensitive nature, violent (not conventional violence... see MichaelAngelo) passionate, scientific, grotesque or even Erotic (not porn... see H.R. Giger, Toulouse Lautrec).

When I see a well executed form I do get a lil buzz off it. The first time I saw this :- 

Obviously It's David

I was only... I think 13, and even then I was just in awe of its scale, presence and over all majesty.

The thing that REALLY got me excited were/are pieces by my favourite all time artist, Alphonse Mucha


I'm not going to go into WHY I love him so much because I will be here all day. And I gots me some works to do.

I don't hide the fact that I have a strong distaste of "Modern art" or in general most abstract art, all though, I will step back and say that there are some abstract artists I like a lot... so i guess, some things just grab me. 

Some sketchess and annotations

I love flowing material in drawings when is done right and its something I've always found a wee bit difficult.

Something I don't do is shy away from drawing things that otherwise would be seen as "obscene" or "vulgar", and I've noticed a severe non-existence of hermaphrodites in fine art, and if there are they are normally depicted as grotesque and devilish beings. So I sketched one out and I liked it, I may take the ideas of this further in time.. who knows. I would like to do a really sympathetic and beautiful piece with using the hermaphrodite figure.

Always gotta practice your over all anatomy (and notice my page was vandalised by someone who drew a penis on it... tut... immature.)

Lil sketch, not very "fine art" but i like it never the less.