After years of picking up and dropping and picking up this piece I am pretty much almost done.

Fan art of Satsuki from Kill la Kill. 

Copic markers, Copic Multiliners and Gel Pen. 

It is one of those shows you watch when you have nothing else to watch, 

and it is actually pretty good when you give it a chance. It is severely wacky and hilarious, 

made by the same makers of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. 

The best line from Gurren Lagann is when the character Kamina says to Simon, 

"Don't Believe in yourself

...Believe in me that believes in you." 

The last thing i need to do for the background is cutting frisket film and airbrushing.

Light table

Copic markers are translucent but yet vibrant. Cameras have a difficult time capturing the true essence of their color. It is best to use a scanner when possible.
This one is about 11x14. I have a nice large format scanner at work.
Even then sometimes you need to adjust the image in Photoshop.

WIP "Berried Solutions" pun intended.

Despite what I am going through I feel better when I draw. Some of it is junk and some of it is good.

I've been excited and motivated to create new work for this upcoming art show. This will be the first time it is not guaranteed that my submissions will be accepted. And the fact I am creating work specifically for an art show. This is my chance to further my Fine Art career. This specific gallery I believe will represent my work well. The deadline is the end of this month. And the show will be in March. If my work is accepted I will definitely post about the upcoming art show.   


It has been difficult at work. The day I found out about Gramps I helped a grieving woman with her funeral pamphlets and the day after I had to design 3 In Memory of t-shirts. :,<


When I have my mind on something it helps tremendously to go for a long drive. Luckily I had car maintenance scheduled in Albuquerque this past weekend. So I went to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, a longer drive than usual.   















I was always asked by Gramps if I had "Any of those figures from your head" in my sketchbook.
In recent years I do most of these on the computer because I can manipulate the drawing easier.

I am extremely sad to say I found out today my good friend and artist mentor Ray Vinella passed yesterday. He was the grandpa I never had. I don't have grandparents or much family. It hit me hard that I was going to show him the new work I have been working on this week... I'm happy he can join his deceased wife. And I'll miss him dearly.


This is my favorite painting he done. The first time I saw it I didn't notice the angel in the foreground. Mastery of focal points.

Like he told me I'll continue to keep swinging my brush. And continue my brush milage.

Sky Hike? I really don't know at this point. Mixed media sketch.

"Everything I touch turns to shi...!" Exclaims Nathan Drake from Uncharted 1.
Usually I say that on a bad day or mess up something drastically or say it just for comedic effect.
In this case it is the latter.

I want to complete a digital painting...but all the ones I have done recently aren't any good. I'm experimenting with different techniques...but oh well I'm highly motivated to try again and find a technique that works with the direction I want to pursue my work in.

Besides constantly drawing looking and analyzing art besides your own helps improves your skills tremendously.

Practically everyday I look at art, I say Pintrest and Instagram are the blackholes of productivity at times.

Especially Pintrest. Pintrest has stuff you can't find in google image search. Last year I saved over 20,000+ images and art stuff just from my phone.



This improvement was apparent this week. The last time I attended the Portrait Group was around the middle of November and we started back up in January.  Coincidently these last few sessions we had the same model Karen. She always comes in full costume, that is hand made by her. I still have a ways to go to be where I want but its a step forward. 

I'm usually good with names and faces if a person introduces themselves.  Amazingly enough for the first 3 years I remembered all the models I drew....I could look at the drawing and identify who it was...Now I can't unless someone is a regular model at the group.

One thing I did differently was use a limited palette. I used mostly earth tones and 1-2 primary colors. To get a flesh tone with a pale person there is a hint of light blue. My mentor suggested I try to do that a while back to not get distracted with too many colors and such.

For example I did not have white on my palette but an off white of grey and burnt umber. Nor did I have black, one of my favorite color combinations from school is burnt umber and ultramarine blue gives you a colorful strong black color than straight out of the tube.

November and January

Painted in under 2 hours. Usually I come in late and then we take breaks in between.


One on of the breaks I was like hold that natural pose! Can I take a picture for reference.
I think modeling people in their natural gestures is good and tells a lot about a person. Also its cool she is in theater and hand makes her costumes!

Happy New Year! 2019!

Oi! It is still something of getting used to the fact of seeing and writing 2019 on documents! Hope everyone had a good holiday.

Mine was relaxing and chill. I was completely off and snowed in. I made Pinoy food and promptly binge watched Stranger Things Season 2 and played video games.

 

Back from a unplanned hiatus I hope to deliver new and improved content. 

I took a small break and feel my creative juices and batteries recharged. 

Break time is over and look forward to my future projects and endeavors 

with much enthusiasm and focus.

Some traumatic things happened in 2018...but also equally better things  

countered and balanced out those terrible things.

I hate to make New Years resolutions...and mine is not to make any. Momentum and Progress doesn't always need to coordinated in January and given up on the same month. People seem to always give up on their New Years resolutions...and set themselves up for failure for huge life changing tasks. Best way is to start small and then eventually make bigger steps.

Took this the other day. The moon, Jupiter and Venus in view

Thank you for reading and support!

<3

-K