Co-op study

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

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.

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

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

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。。。

下手！


THERE, SOME JAPANESE.

Cherry Blossom Festival

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.