YOU WILL PERISH

Some more stuff

2011-05-01T20:53:00.001-07:00

Plein air landscapes.

Architectural watercolor.

Figure studies in watercolor.

Pencil study for a master copy.

Some life drawings in crayon.

Some stuff

2011-05-01T17:29:00.000-07:00

My roommates and I. Charcoal/gouache painting.

Bob, our sometimes model. Charcoal painting.

My roommate, Edward, sitting on our old couch, surrounded by umbrellas. Pencil work. Camera got mad about it, updating a better version soon.

A bunch of colored observation drawings. I turned this in for a project, but it's something I would consider for fun or practice.

Some drawings I made on paper placemats last night, making them most recent. We went out to a Vietnamese restaurant to celebrate a friend's final recital, and eight or nine people showed up and got all cozy at the same table. Excellent creative fodder, but tragically the placemats are flimsy and don't like to be scanned. That will teach me to bring my sketchbook next time.

Just for fun, here's a drawing of some of Pokemon I made a couple of months ago.

Next post: some watercolors and even more drawings.

the monthly update played hooky from school...

2009-12-12T12:49:00.000-08:00

Hi! I was busy being bad at stuff. Look at this while I try to think of something.

I actually don't know what there is to tell of our time separated, readers. How long has it been? october? now it's december? One to two months down the drain. Pwip. That's the sound months make going down the drain.

November was kind of a bleak month for me. I chalk it up to the sun being scarce and school becoming a hassle. (School's actually going really well now that we're in December, or it'll go well until around the 20th and then if I don't meet all the deadlines I will literally commit seppuku). Things simultaneously got worse and better during my Thanksgiving break, in that order, so with luck the "better" trend will continue.

I came up with an ingenious christmas/chanukkah/winter birthday present idea, which I won't talk about here yet. Some of you have already gotten one. Don't spoil it!

If you don't live nearby and you really really want one just email me and you will get a surprise while we are still having cold weather and if I have enough money to ship the darn thing.

Anyway I can't think of things to write! Here are some drawings! I will input text re: drawings very easily. And they are Life Related.

Here is a friend of mine! He works at a gym and I asked him to play PT for me. Thankfully he didn't seem unhappy to do it, and we exercised a couple days last week. I got EXTREMELY RESULTS from competitive motivations, like I need to lift as heavy as I can manage because someone else is watching me.

PT guy, as well as that guy's head in the first drawing of this post, are in my DnD group. I'm pretty thankful that I can find a game in the damn area. I drew both of these pictures during the game this past Wednesday.

The story behind this caricature is that PT guy cannot stop thinking about vaginas. I think we would all get ahead in life if we just paused, took a deep breath, and stopped thinking about vaginas. And by "we" I mean "PT guy". I'm pretty sure he has even thought about my vagina. What an exquisitely terrible thought!!!

Here is a person from the future. She reminds me a little of Aeon Flux, except that in the Callie future, everyone is naked and female, and no one is white.

You are all goofy and anatomically incorrect here, you orange, orange ho.

Here is Orange Ho's Pink Asian Slut. I guess they are gay together, but I hadn't really thought about it.

ya dude i am real good at backgrounds. Speaking of which:

It is high time I actually drew some backgrounds so I did a little practice. These doodles were all on one piece of paper and I didn't feel like separating them. They're not supposed to be a cohesive story, but I guess you could try to be creative and link them somehow.

Anyway...they're all really simple. By simple I actually mean "pitiful effort of white woman."

I cannot conceive of a weather that is above 45 degrees right now.

Theesh...are....charactersh....from...my....schtory....snort....gag....hehehe....blehhh. The scanner was not kind to the dark-skinned man. I will have to draw him again.

So...you know...that guy Nico made some emo chicks, Scarfy and Scribble. They actually came about from this little bi-weekly drawing challenge (we did it twice lolll~) where we had to draw emos. I had mine drawn but I was like, "Man, Nico's are cooler". I wasn't shamed as it were, but I think they should get more attention than THESE TWO LOSERS:

Never in my life have I so not wanted to do linework, so I just used the sketch and colored it. These two gals are Fatty and Paris. Oh jesus, I forgot to color in Paris' hamburger. That's hilarious. I'll do it later.

Anyway, Fatty is fat and Paris kinda looks like another woman by that name and she likes cheeseburgers from McDonald's ... ironically. Fatty's only redeeming characteristic is probably her bust. I don't even know about Paris. I kinda hate and like both of them at the same time. I'll draw more of them I guess!

Anyway, aforementioned Nico, here is a gift.

It's Scribble snarling! With an adorable cat! IN A KIND OF RETRO, POPULAR COLOR THING, OH THE SCENE IS KILLING ME HERE.

So there's an update! Wahoo! It was large. I hope it made up for the months I missed.

oh boy how about that monthly update

2009-10-02T07:11:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I'm too busy working myself into a major depressive state!

Let this be a lesson to you kidz that you shouldn't listen to your parents or teachers or anyone when they tell you "choose a more reasonable job and work towards it!" or else you might end up like me--in stasis for two years trying to get towards your calling of choice. I am literally so stupid.

Now I'm working hard to rectify that stupid "I need to do something reasonable, like become a librarian or an architect or a housewife" mantra that's been stuck in my head. Taking the SATs in 8 days, trying to get all As in my classes (my community college classes aaaa ggrhghh aaaaahhh im in community college it's great) and trying to be down-to-earth rather than crying and wiggling helplessly as I might be wont to do has left me with not that much time for drawing. But! I have been writing letters and I draw quite a lot in them. Here is one such picture where you can tell I haven't had too much time to HONE MY SKILLZ.

This picture was more or less made with a pencil and a cup of coffee, plus or minus some other kitchen ingredients and a magic marker. A person with no job cannot buy esspensive paints.

I have also been drawing in class like a bad girl. Math class of all places. Unforgivable.

My sister's birthday was also recent so I made her this terrible card design and then printed/mounted it on white card stock. It looked pretty rad. They are rats with party hats. We had pet rats growing up and the only thing we have in common is that we think rats are cute.

My mom really likes these cards I make for some reason. They kind of look a little too much like a five year old made them. But maybe that's part of the appeal!

Here is an emo guy from one such card. I think he appropriately captures the mood of this post. He is also my twitter background.

I got opencanvas a couple months ago and here is something I drew in it. There was more but it got nerfed by a bad save or something. I like the frontal view but not the quasi 3/4ths one. It's some OC I was trying to redesign from when I was 12.

Here are some fish. They are special because they were part of a scrapped blomic page that I didn't include in one update because it sucked. (It had a shark with my hair representing me biting into a fat woman with purple hair who represented my ((one of many)) artistic rival. That is why I didn't include it. Sometimes it is just a little too ridiculous.)

Anyway consider this a September update and hopefully I can draw up an October one proper!

SIGH

2009-08-19T09:54:00.001-07:00

I am not having a great month, but I think I'm getting back on track!

Here are some things!

Man I gotta expend more energy on backgrounds and things--but I really wanted to show off some doodles. They're from an idea I had about a comic or cartoon (doesn't matter which to me),

It's about a farting ghost. The title of the comi/toon is tentatively called "Fartgeist".

The farting ghost follows this schmuck around (no name). This orthodontically challenged individual is in some kind of lower education like elementary school or high school, and wants to be socially savvy. Not only is he extremely shy, he has a farting ghost who follows him and ruins everything when he's just about to make progress.

His only friend is a fat kid who acts and looks like a bird. He is somewhat 'spergin. (both people are the same kid--I was just playing around with how I wanna draw him)

It sounds really ridiculous, but it has high funny potential in my mind. The mental image of the ghost just showing up, face frozen in the same terrible expression, and just farting without warning (the farts would be neon and highly visible) at the worst times seems amazing to me.

Here he is harassing some afro kid (from a pchat with me and Patu. yes i hang with the cool kids what of it)

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Nico and I drew some gurls.

Actually, most of the girls I drew were from The Wire--I was watching it with my friend when I drew these.

The man in the middle is not a girl, it's Matt making faces at me.

McNolty's "mistress". She got an apple head and is strangely pretty.

Nico drew this awesome retro chick so I FELT I ALSO HAD TO DRAW ONE. nico dis hotty 4 u~

This is um....gah...what's her name. I used a photo from here for reference. She is creepy and yet pretty.

hay y'all

2009-07-21T07:20:00.000-07:00

Hi guys! IT'S BLOMIC!

Usually I draw myself in every one, but I decided not to do that this time because this one is about YOU and HOW ARE YOU DOING?

I was on vacation for a week, the week before this last one. It was Alabama (on gulf shores) and it was also in New Orleans (the french quarter). And it was very good and fun, even though it reminded me I never want to go on vacation with my entire family ever again.

It wasn't exactly a good week for drawing, but nonetheless I got some drawing done. However, you cannot see any of it, because my new sketchbook is giant and my scanner is not. Also, the scan-screen thing is indented into the scanner rather than flat, so scanning ability is at an all-time low. Sorry guys.

But I do have a nice thing for you!

This is a shitty caricature of Nico Colaleo, who is a lion because he has lion-o hair. Look how glam he is!

After say 12 today I have like two other doodles I can actually scan, so uh...wait a minute for that.

Other thing: I am trying to make a portfolio. I really want to go to art school. Any tips or straight-up INSTRUCTIONS would be immensely helpful. I am totally clueless and yet I have dreams! for the future! So please help me. Okay bye.

Co-op study

2009-06-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

So here's something I hate! But I did it anyway, like a dutiful sort of person.

It's only co-op in the sense that me and some dude are telling each other we ought to do it. so we did some studies! I think it's gonna be a regular thing.

This link better work and you are gonna click on it, slut...

Then I did Dracula.

Then I did some poo poo caricatures of my friends/facebook friends.

It's Beardy and his sister Clean-Shaven!

And some others, and a video game character. I'M COOL, I PLAY VIDEO GAMES LIKE A LITERAL CHILD.

Slutpig just wants your validation....is that so much to ask?

In-Betweener

2009-06-09T08:53:00.000-07:00

Just a thing/post to tide you babbies (singular? babby? who in the world reads this?) over.

I've been trying to teach myself this whole Preston Blair brouhaha and as a result it's not like I've got any drawings other than my failed, pathetic scrawlings. Obviously I will be posting all of those in their glory, but that will be when I get near a scanner.

However, I am at work, and even if we had a scanner I wouldn't be allowed to use it anyway.

But you obviously come here for one reason and one reason only: WORDS AND PICTURES. WORDS AND PICTURES, MY FRIEND. THAT IS WHY. THAT IS THE ESSENTIAL THING.

Here is a series of things I do at work.

I..uh...streched and then drew a picture of it. (Don't worry, I wasn't writing on anything important. it was a red-line on an architecture proposal, and I had finished editing yesterday! It is Callie Scraps now.)

And I do the...the plans and I put them on the computer...on the AutoCAD.

I don't know why I got hired because I'm barely capable of basic math. I was having a fit over trying to figure out the base of an Isoceles triangle just yesterday! Just so I could get the freaking length so I could CALCULATE THE AREA OF THE ARGHHHH! ARGHH THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT SQUARES, AND...AUUGHRHH!!!!

The first thing I did when I got to work today was draw some elves. My nose is also in the process of consuming my entire face because it is enormous. Everyone laugh at little callie's big nose why don't you.

I would not normally go to work with black nails, but there was a little hootenanny on Sunday evening. Something along the lines of a punk band. I painted the lead singer's nails before he went onstage. I painted mine also in order to look like a dark and troubled, yet fashionable, teen. You know, to fit in with the rest of the crowd.

My boss doesn't care 'cause he went to the gig and he knew I was painting my nails to look like a Classy Cassie.

I AM SO LIKING MY LUNCH.

One more thing for your amusement.

Am I becoming an architect? Or an engineer? God I don't want to.

Readers, it's time we had a little talk.

2009-05-25T18:45:00.001-07:00

You hjeard me...

The only good drawing right here is the bear.

No, no, no. Sit down. It's time.

Christ, an alpaca. They have got long necks.

It's time to talk about skill. Artistic skill, I mean. And I mean my skill specifically.

"BUT CALLIE! (or whatever superfluous screen name you might know me by)" you wail with horror! "Perhaps there has been some mistake. You are being stupid again. You are a very skilled girl and you know it."

No! You are wrong. Let me tell you why. Reader, I have become lazy. I've become the worst thing. I've become a gesture drawinger.

This is a rather pretty elephant and it's got a PHOTOSHOP TEXTURE for added interest, but it's completely a piece of poo poo.

"Callie I don't even know what this means" you say. Well shut up! Of course you don't.

But this is what it means: It means I don't use the MOST ESSENTIAL ARTIST SKILL WHICH IS CALLED "COMPOSITION". It's called "using shapes and guidelines to draw accurately", and little callie thought she was for real and tried not to do this for a while. Well it doesn't work!

An approach to drawing without any thoughts to shape and composition is faulty as hell, and I'm sorry to say I didn't realize this before I went to go draw pictures at the zoo. I apologize to all of you I've been stringing along and having you think I'm a f'real artist. I am not.

But don't be sad! It's the beginning of a new strategy. I'm going to post my humility right here for you all to see--studies and the hard lessons I'm learning about drawing.
The images I used for copy practice are from the blog Classic Cartoons (but I also draw from many other places, like John K's blog/etc etc)

Off to a rough start.

Here's another.

I realized at about this part how funny old cartoons are. I found myself giggling at the ...gorilla spider with a sharkdog on a leash. That never happens anymore!

A giant monkey from another still, and then I started on cartoon hands (the tutorial's on John K's blag on this page! but it is for general animation/drawing basics)

This is me, and I am going to improve.

Second week of May

2009-05-06T11:15:00.001-07:00

I can just sense the excitement awaiting this meagre poast.

Here is a small gift for the only person in the world who has bookmarked this blog. Bless you and your enormous glasses, fair anonymous lad.

blomic

2009-04-26T19:09:00.000-07:00

Thus marks the first blomic, which sounds like some sort of perverse euphemism!
I also got a haircut today, but didn't feel like drawing it.

にほんごで。。。

2009-04-15T11:11:00.000-07:00

下手！

THERE, SOME JAPANESE.

Cherry Blossom Festival

2009-04-06T12:02:00.000-07:00

More life drawings from DC! This time we went to the cherry blossom street festival.

I drew other stuff besides these I'm showing, but I don't want to scan EVERYTHING. Plus, not all of it was fabulous. I am still getting the hang of this.

Some Okinawan dancers! They were fun to watch, and all fairly old ladies.

These were the first things I drew while we were waiting for the train to come.

These are some plans I did for a comic my friend wants to write. I don't know if we'll actually end up doing it (it's for his school project: he is in high school) but it was fun to make these concept art things. The idea is that it's an Iron Chef-style cooking battle...in a comic. I think the redhead wins but I don't know.

Story crap. How pretty they are! Eh?

I tried to get writing but I'm pathetically unable to produce anything worth reading. I really like Girl and I regret not coloring her on the computer.

Adventures in Community College # whatever: Japanese 101. Lots of people have been weeded out due to not studying, but some people remain. One of the people in this picture is truly horrid.

He is a manga/glorious nippon/glorious nipponian videogames/anime lol/manchild dork and reads yaoi fanfiction/catgirl fanfiction (I think I overheard). Some of that might be okay if he had any redeeming qualities, but he's also a really hard person to like. He is an ADHD poster child and it reflects in the way he tries to communicate with people.

He also has no concept of "personal space" and has gotten ALLLLLL up in mine and my sketchbook's repeatedly. You disgusting fat man get away from me.

Our teacher has a really good face to caricature, but what if she caught me caricaturing her? She totally breaks the stereotype of the japanese person who is ultra-polite and won't correct you much. I fear and respect sensei.

To the Zoo

2009-03-27T12:47:00.000-07:00

Do you like this fat woman?!
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I went to the zoo with this dude--he, too is an artist of skill.

But first I took the metro.

Faces and people. It's not top notch or anything...I get really uncomfortable when I don't have a steady place to put my sketchbook. I guess I need to do this sort of thing more so that I get used to it.

The bird house was simply the best. The toucans were adorable. Many people were taking pictures of them and they were doing little myspace poses. (I colored one on the computer!)

Panda was cute too. It kind of moved like a dog. There were many birds shaped like footballs in the aviary.

(more to come, probably next week. Birthday tomorrow, happy birthday to me.)

well!

2009-03-11T08:14:00.001-07:00

I was up all night drawing! I was jealous over someone who I am sure never thinks about me and it fueled all this insane drawing. I am so glad.

My good friend here at home is helping me to fill up my sketchbook in his own special way. He found the blank/mostly blank pages and wrote assignments on them. One of the assignments was "people I respect with horns".

I thought he meant people HE respects, so I drew his mom and his best friend, as well as these famous people.

Is not kevin spacey so majestic?!?!?!!?!??!

A little coloring stuff I whipped up. It's still a little too "pretty" for my liking..the lines/drawing. I kinda like the simple coloring. Dunno if I can want to do other sorts.

More tae come!

PS my penpal Steven said to mention him. I am mentioning him! He lives in austrailia and gets drunk often. Here's hoping you find the woman of your dreams, Steve.

PPS--Not like anyone reads this, but if you want me to send you a letter gimme a holler! and we'll see about yer address and etc. I love penpals and I want a million.

Remnants of a dying sketchbook

2009-03-01T15:05:00.000-08:00

I'm working on using up alllll the pages with whatever I can scrawl in before I break into the brand new one.

So here we go!

Two storyboards/"comic panels" from a little short comic I was sooo desperate to get down. There;s more in pencil, but I feel so bad about them that I don't know if I'll even try to fake-ink them with a ballpoint pen.

Oh boy. I love drawing naked women. The worst thing I ever did was not sign up for a figure drawing class this semester. But the model fee is so much.

Also apparent--I need to practice drawing a WHOLE HUMAN.

I found my old Jack Hamm book on drawing animals and I immediately tried horses. I never went through that "horse phase" most girls go through, so I don't know how to draw the damn things at all (as you can see. poor foremost leg...)

Adventures in community college: part two. This character of a young man looked like a viking and said many offensive statements in english class!

Brush your teeth please.

2009-02-20T21:20:00.000-08:00

Hello non-existent readers. It is late at night and I wonder why I am not sleeping yet! I would also like to brush my teeth quite a lot. I have not wanted to brush my teeth this much before. I would really like to brush my teeth.

Here is some pictures! I got back into drawing after a dry spell. I drew some silly pictures of myself.

The lower left one is probably most accurate. The other ones are just ridiculous! I don't look like that.

Here is a great fat wimmin. I had fun drawing her.

Here are some LADIES! The blonde one is my favorite clearly because I draw her all the time.

Hello again Mia!

This is a horrible horrible man I drew. He was in my english class. I do not really know what to say about him. Isn't he a funny drawing!!

Here is some things about my week.
-I worked out a lot. It is sort of painful.
-I hope I can get a damn sketchbook soon. I would like a new one.
-I bought some funny socks. I think that is to be expected.
-I would really like to brush my teeth right now.

Yeah!

2009-02-15T18:52:00.001-08:00

Livejournal is soo inferior. It really is, but I have one anyway. I guess I should crosspost from there to here.

Wow! It's been a while since I posted!

I had the flu this whole past week, and I am depressed about everything, from my lifting progress (please let me get past 30 pounds as my limit arghhh) to my artistic furthering (arrgh why don't I have a portfolio and why am I not in art college, why am I english majoring? should I just get my liberal arts degree? why don't I have any supplementary skills as an artist).

DO YOU WANT TO SEE SOME DRAWINZ?

1. I will probably never finish it. Look at this freaking drawing. But at the same time...maybe a re-draw's in order.

2. This one I think I will probably finish. It's my disney fanart! IT'S ARIEL! And Aladdin is hanging out in the upper corner, but he's not done yet.

3. This is probably the classiest thing I drew on Friday for someone on skype. Good luck with your date, Mr. You Know Who But I Won't Say Your Name Because Of The Internet!

4. I drew this in high school. I am in college now. Why am I trying to color it now? Because I don't have any new lineart to upload and my sister has methodically stolen/ruined all of my drawing pens. I guess that is no excuse.

I finished a big epic thing lately but am really unhappy with the way it turned out. That's just the way it crumbles!

2008-07-23T08:16:00.000-07:00

I never do much in the way of environment/settings-drawing and it clearly shows. It would be good of me to do more of them.

GNAHHHEHHH

2008-07-21T16:49:00.000-07:00

So I never touched this darn blag! What's wrong with me? Am I sane?

Meh, I got a new tablet...

...I am doing things with it, but nothing showable.

Soon I shall.

Ew, am I a blogger now? Does it count that I don't do it often?

Anyway, perhaps I will do more with this soon.

gosh golly

2008-01-09T09:42:00.000-08:00

Well, I was talking to my pal and he has made a BLAG. I thought this was quite witty and smart, so I also made a blag.

I will probably put drawings here.