Logan Lerman

 

After two months of drawing people in a cartoony style, I decided to draw Logan Lerman and see if I could still go back to drawing people realistically. My first try was absolutely horrid. The face was too long, the eyes were weird and his hair looked as if rats were burrowed in it. I would have given up had I not taken my friend’s advice and try to draw with a grid. I didn’t like the idea when she first told me about it. It was only when I found out that Rembrandt and other remarkable artists used grids did I accept the idea and find that it’s not cheating. Tracing is cheating. Using a grid just helps you get your proportion right (of course this drawing’s proportions still aren’t right because my grid wasn’t even. curse my inability to draw straight lines even with the aid of a ruler).

I hated this drawing at first because it still doesn’t look right. Also, my scanner has a weird line on it which is pretty irritating. But when I compared it to my other drawings, I realized that I’ve actually improved. Quite a lot.

So I guess this is a lesson of accepting advice from other artists and using new techniques. Lesson learned.

Peace out.

Semester Break

My first semester in college is nearly over. Well, actually, it’s over and all we have to do tomorrow is pass our requirements and the profs won’t give a fuck about us anymore as long as we come back after two weeks completely intact. Or maybe not.

All I have to do now is finish my essay for Communication Arts and my portfolio for Techniques and Visual Perception. I’ve already posted some of my earlier plates here. So here’s the rest:

Stylized Alphabet

Typography. Lyrics used is Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”

Plus some geeky late-night Harry Potter drawings.

 

 

 

Scraps and Hands

I haven’t uploaded in a while because of schoolwork. Even though my finals aren’t done yet (I still have Theo on Wednesday and Communication Arts on Tuesday) I feel like I’m finished because the worst is over. The worst being the controversial art report and scrapbook for Art History. My blockmates had a drinking spree after we submitted that damn scrapbook but I went home and slept. I slept for eight hours straight, woke up to eat, then slept for another four more.

I messed it up. They kept making me laugh.

Our second to the last plate in Techniques. Did it again because I thought we shouldn’t include the white cloth. Imagine my reaction when I realized I was doing it right.

 

This was done two years ago. Didn’t finish it because I realized that I scaled Harry badly and he ended up looking retarded. I wasted my colored pencils.

I don’t know. I was just doodling with my oil pastels while waiting for Benj to set up the stuff for our plate. I ended up with this guy with creepy eyes. So I call it Addiction.

Crowley from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Aziraphale from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

I found this book in our library which featured hands in different positions referenced from the 1930’s. Can’t remember the title. If they didn’t have such tight security, that book would probably be in my hands right now. But the nuns…

Hitler and Stalin with gorgeous hairstyles. And one very angry T-rex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Unfinished Pages

I told myself I would work on my scrapbook or my report today. My brain didn’t agree. It wanted to do the prologue of this comic I’m making for fun and my accursed hands followed it willingly until I was left with a few unfinished pages and no development to my schoolwork. My brain is mean to me today. I am currently playing for the days to go by faster because I really want to take a break and do things in my own time.

 

Page whatever featuring Gil and his super strict grandmother.

Another unfinished page whatever. They’re in a train as you can see and there’s Frem’s face in that little box there.

 

That thing I should be working on. I still need to find a description for Abstraction, Academism, Installation Art, Shock Art, and Digital Art and feature one artwork for each.

List of things I need to research about. What is Academism?

And while I was cleaning my backpack awhile ago (tedious and rather disgusting work where I discover how much of a slob I am), I found this.

Art exhibit invite from Benji that he gave to us weeks ago. Found it again in my Theo book. The Torrado-Cabrera one is my prof. His work is the brown one at the upper left which is an etching on wood, I think.