About a month ago I did a photoshoot, taking some outdoor portraits as well as some (indoor) artistic nudes. It was my first chance to play around with my PocketWizard FlexTT5s, and I found that when they work, they work very well. Unfortunately, they aren’t as reliable as I’d like. I still managed to get some great shots, which I put on my photography site, so take a look.
I have not been creating as much art as I’d like, particularly more traditional art. I happened to be unable to sleep last night and decided to play around with my favorite medium (charcoal). This is based on a small sketch by Giovanni Givardi in his book Drawing the Human Body: An Anatomical Guide
Anyway, This one turned out pretty well. I cut it short at the bottom to keep the focus above, though I should have done so in a more artistic way. The hands turned out relatively well, considering how difficult fine detail is with charcoal. Like any drawing, there are plenty of imperfections, but it certainly felt good to be creative again. All things considered, it’s a decent drawing considering how long it has been since the last one!
I was pulling papers out of an old binder to prepare for a class I am taking starting tomorrow night, and I came across this story that I started about two years ago. It’s just the start of a random story, so don’t expect too much, but at least it will brush off some of the dust that has settled on this blog. I haven’t done any proofreading, so it’s a bit rough as well.
Like most mornings, I had smacked the snooze button of my alarm clock a few times before forcing myself out of the warm bed. Zombie mode had taken over as I completed the ritualized morning routine. I ate my cereal, skimming through a car magazine, trying to imagine owning the latest supercar. I neglected thinking about the inability to drive the car to my apartment’s designated parking space due to the extra large speed bumps and instead focused on accelerating to three times the speed limit faster than my car could get onto the highway. Being a fantasy, the cops were actually pulling over drivers for cutting people off rather than speeding, and people actually stayed out of the fast lane instead of being three cars wide with only a one-mile-per-hour difference. Continue reading ‘Morning Keys’
It has been a while since I did anything artistic, so I have been feeling like getting back to it the past few days. I finally did so today and spent about an hour drawing an eagle with charcoal. I used a random reference from a Google Images search, but I viewed it on my phone only, so I would just get the overall shapes from it. Of course, you can only do so much detail with charcoal anyway. Continue reading ‘Sketch Book 46: Eagle’
For a few minutes every day, I find myself distracted by the incredibly bad parallel parking I see in Seattle. The image is an example of someone with no spacial awareness, the available space roughly the same size as the car. That didn’t prevent him (or her) from attempting to park and then proceeding to hit both the vehicle in front and behind. He then pulled out a bit to correct the angle and did it again. The owner of the car behind came out and banged on the rear quarter panel of the parking vehicle to let the driver know he was about to hit the car again. Continue reading ‘Parallel Parking Fail’
