More that meets the eye

I was watching Chiller the horror movie channel and an interesting story was mentioned on ripley's believe it or not. It was about art found on silicon chips, that are in every computer and electronic device we own. the art is etched into the silicon and it aproximately 3 times smaller than a human hair. There are many different images in each chip ranging from celebrities like Mr. T here, to commemorative art, and advertising. the actual practice is not for the company, in fact many employers do not know the designers do it. This micro art doesn't change anything in computing devices operations, although it is quite cool .

I makes me wonder what y6ou will find in the chip shoe ^_^

Chip shoe made by Gabriel Dishaw
asd seen on Likecool.com

creative writing

A friend of mine sent me this image while she was talking about how she wanted to write more stories. I told her that writing from an image is a good way to get the creative ball rolling, so I took this photo from a movie I cannot remember the name of, and I began to write and just let whatever i wrote stay on the word doc. and came up with a short story I called windowsill.




On a not particularly sunny morn in a city that has little of anything to see, Mira sat. Sat on the windowsill in a half daze thinking about the night before ‘wild’ she thought ‘simply wild’. I little hint a smile came to her cheeks as her gaze resting on a grey river swallowed the cloudy sunlight. ‘If my parents could see me now’ a nostalgic feeling ebbed into her subconscious ‘dad would be pissed… mom would be proud’ she sighed heavily. If there was a god out there perhaps last night was his sign; how else could it all feel so calm after?
Mira lifted herself from the sill and gathered her things; a male was sleeping soundly, nude in a flowing bed sheet that resembled an ocean of green covering his masculine torso. ‘He sleeps like a beast’ the man let out a loud snort ‘sound like one too’ her mind let out all the thoughts from the past slip away. She had closed the door of the apartment with two long seconds she saw the door’s number for what it really was… a page number.
A sly hint of red to her face shown as she hit the cold air, as bundled as she was the fall seemed harsh and dead. As she walked the length of the royal cascaded red, a slightly familiar doorman gave a parting word
“Played your card tonight” his monotone rung this unusual query, Mira skipped no beats in her response.
“And guess who got the joker?” was what she responded her words like silk from a spool flowing in a way that would make a musician looking for his muse cry out in joy.
“Going home alright?” the doorman said, and with the same grace as before came the end of the conversation.
“Seems so, though only on bumpy roads” she strode off into the foggy morn to a place she had long left.

nothing to write home about

I have a problem keeping a daily journal mostly cause I can never find something to write about, aside from the lack of what to write about, and it is especially hard when it is about art. Seeing as I blank out when I draw it is hard to write about the process since I don't think about why or what I am drawing. I do it cause I feel like it. Once I felt like shading, but I didn't want to draw so I shaded a paper out of boredom. Thinking of what to write this semester has been even harder since I put off doing any drawing until the semester ended so I could work on homework, and I have never liked journals. in school when asked to journal I would make things up and embellish on them wildly so I wouldn't be badgered to write something.
While I do like to do expository, and creative writing.

learn something new everyday

     While in class today we went over scanning and editing image size which was quite handy. I had already scanned many pieces of art, and i had up until now I had just thought getting a good scan was hit or miss.  I never knew that my scanner had a professional mode that allowed a preview scan and the option to size the image, as well as saving it as a tif file. Also it seems that photoshop can be used to resize and change the pixel count too. i never knew that was possible.

     I am still young but i am pretty bad with computers, kinda funny when you think most people my age seem to have mastered this stuff. I still get funny looks when I say i don't really care about using photoshop, and would rather have a pencil and paper. Of course I also get them when people try and explain computers to me, I am pretty clueless about a lot of computer stuff, but i can slip through and fake it. 

Where should I look?

I have been wondering what schools to look into for admissions research, but I run into some problems while i do it. The biggest problem is that when I think of what i want in a school my first thought is... well I want to go to one.

 If i start from there I need to wonder what I want out of the school. which is something that will work with art, languages, history, writing, and fashion; since there are my areas of interest I am thinking I should look into a place with these kinds of classes in mind. I also need to think of what I want to do career wise, which for me is leaning to Illustrator, or translator for novels, or an artist in some line of work with a publishing firm such as the ones that put out comics.

 I hit two walls about right here. The first is I actually don't know what it takes to be a good translator, Illustrator, or Comic artist. what exactly should I be learning? The other Wall is I actually know little about what schools are out there to be seen. My first choices are RISD, and SAIC since, Both are fine schools, and SAIC curriculum seems amazing, and is located right in the middle of chicago which I would love be in. I will most likely use these two for class but i actually have no idea if they offer what I am looking for.I guess when i finish my research i will know for sure.

what is my artwork?

Looking at my artwork I can see that my drawings are mostly fantasy art, of witches, assassins, and devils. Though most art i am enamored with is american based comics, I do see the influence of all the anime i watch in my art. Even so it is still not what would be considered a Jap-anime look alike.  when looking at some older sketches there is a distinct style of fantasy art that looks more like Dungeons and dragons (top right), and Magic The Gathering trading cards (top left ). With that in mind I am trying to improve my realism so I can create more detailed work; I would like to bring people visually into the marvel of fantasy and the adventurous stories that can be experienced with just the visuals of another non-existent world. my main problems when I draw though is that i tend to have some bad habits which make it hard to perfect my art. 

I have while drawing picked up an odd habit of starting headfirst rather than planning, I always start drawing not knowing what i will draw or what I will start with. I, a good portion of the time draw eyes then a face, then I crate the head outline and work down from there which works fine but is hard to rework or to replicate since the proportions tend to be off if I do change something. I also don't have a way to replicate any of my sketches the two up there as an example I probably wont be able to draw in a similar way. so it becomes a strange process. 

artist feature.

while on 2 photo I found the art of Greg Simkins  an artist who is heavy in surrealism. He also implements various cartoon characters in his art pieces, and creates a sense of colourful unease with strange shapes, and warped perspectives. 

the official page of Greg Simkins