visual art art vomit

[Powderpuff 390]

I just feel like throwing the highlights I've done this semester up on here, cause I'm really proud of some of it

 

Life drawing/live model stuff...These are done in either charcoal or oils.

 

 

This and the pic in my avatar were for a sophomore level Illustration course...(I've reached the image maximum so my avatar will have to do!) They are both painted in oils.

 

And then there are these! Which I'm most excited for. They're both charcoal on gessoed canvas.

 

This first one is 8 feet tall. When I finished, I realized that wasn't big enough...

 

So then, I did this...

Gessoing this thing was a...delight.

 

This is so big, there's only one studio wall in my entire school that's long enough to work on it. And then, of course a foundation drawing professor set up a still life on that one wall in the entire school, and claimed it for almost a month...A still life that could easily have fit on any other wall...But I digress.

 

I had to work on the floor, since the wall was taken. But that led to some really cool discoveries, which ended up really making the drawing. I've since finished it, but it's so long that I can't take any pictures of it in its entirety without the pictures turning out warped and crappy - I need to wait for that stupid wall to be open. But here's a preview of it...

 

These last two drawings are pretty personal - I'm a small (4'9") person, super quiet, shy and diminutive. My presence is often not noticed or  it's overlooked. Or, sometimes I purposely hide it (my presence) because...I'm stupid, I guess So I wanted to create artwork that is the opposite of how people may see me (or how I assume people see me!) - large, powerful, visually dominating, striking. Deliberate and attention-grabbing. They're also self portraits too, so...yeah.

 

That's it for now I'll probably come back later with a photo of the big one, I have to wait until the 18th or 19th to install it for final crit.

Edited December 6, 2013 by Powderpuff

[Vinyl Scratch (Filly)™ 936]

Wow... jeez I am speechless, your art is amazing. o.o Not sure anything I have to say would do it justice, so I'll settle with great job! I would also love to see more sometime!

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

Wow, that's some pretty amazing and exhilarating art that I've seen in a while.

 

I give you the highest of commemoration for the excellency of your arts, hope those talents get you somewhere high my friend. 

[Jokuc 8,173]

This goes without a doubt on the top 5 best art thingys I've seen on the site ever. You are extremely talented, it looks like those paintings you see getting sold for like 10 000 dollars on tv

 

Please post more!

 

how much flattery do you need to give one away?

 

seriously though, you're not just good, you're like da Vinci or something =o

[Powderpuff 390]

Thanks! The critique went awesome and I was finally able to install the big drawings (if only for a short time.)

 

 

 

 

Having my face cover the entire wall was definitely amusing There are hand prints and footprints all over it, partially because I had to lay this thing on the floor while working on it and charcoal is hella messy. I figured, if I'm getting absolutely filthy drawing this thing (I looked like a coal miner), it would be dishonest for the drawing to come out nice and clean and pristine There's also other reasons for it, but yeah. The most random comment I got at crit was that I have really high arches, haha.

 

It was funny, though - I had an entire other wall covered with a bunch of portraits and drawings I did in my Illustration minor - basically what I worked on the entire semester - but nobody even said a word about any of that! These two big drawings dominated the entire crit, lol. The people in the Fine Arts department sometimes act like they're "above" super-representational, realistic, faithful renderings, especially portraits. It's too "traditional" for them

 

Oh, I also welded the stool too! It's like, four feet tall or something. It's covered with paint and charcoal and stuff cause I wanted it to look like the billions of dirty, paint=smeared stools that are around my school. It makes a pretty decent table!

Edited December 27, 2013 by Powderpuff

[Silver Sun 40]

Wow, you are amazing at this.. Keep it up