Waking Up

Mondays are the Worst

Trying to think of things to say but sadly life has been  pretty boring lately. Seems like all I do lately is homework while everyone else I know is doing the same thing but still managing to have a social life. Sometimes I wonder if becoming an artists was really the right choice for me. I enjoy the lifestyle -most of the time- and I love my work, I enjoy creating and inspiring others, but then there are days like these when I start to think about the future and I can't help thinking that if I really had a choice I'd be doing something else. Its just that I don't really feel inspired anymore, my enthusiam for what I do just isn't what it used to be. I think if I keep going down this route I'll eventually become one of those people who use their talent soley for money, making endsmeet, and I don't want to do that. I want to love what I do for a living and not end up resenting it. Then again it just might be one of those days and by tomorrow I'll be out of this funk and have a new fresh perspective on things.

Artist Research: Cecily Brown

 

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1.03.01

Drawing Comp: collage

This was my homework last night. Cut paper(blk, wht, 2 grays) with conte. I worked on it from 7pm-5:30am, but it always takes me forever with cut paper. Compared to the collages I did for drawing 2 last year, this is a master piece, lol. Unfortunately I didn't quite understand the assignment and it turns out that although its a nice drawing it was supposed to be simplified and more about the composition than the objects. So I'll have to redo it but at least this time I know what to do, I still like this one the way it is though.

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1.03.01

2D Design Hell

These are from the second semester of last year when I had to take 2D Design... I loved that class and the projects but they were hell! I only had 4 classes that semester and all of my time literally went to this class. There was no way I could work on anything else. We had a sketchbook we were required to fill, at least 20-50 pages every 2 days(I had it twice a week) plus whatever project we had going on which was always cut paper assignments(which is what i really suck at).

The drawing at the top was the preliminary sketch for the final piece at the bottom. It was a collage project. 75% of the image had to be done in small pieces of paper(less than an inch) and the rest could be varying sizes...I used ALL tiny little pieces, except for the clock, that has about the biggest whole pieces on it. The piece was also supposed to be monochromatic, ranging from cool to warm variations of one color and then we had to introduce some earth tones in it which would be sunset area. If I remember correctly I obsessed over this picture so much that there is at least 4-5 layers of paper on it, just over lapping. I worked on it for probably a week and a half. I kept messing up and having to rework some areas, the rocks at the bottom of the tree were the most difficult so in the end I made them more abstract.

I lost a lot of sleep over this project and its a good thing I had Steph, my roommate, to remind me to eat or else I probably would've  curled up in a bawl and died on the rug, lol. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I wasn't able to get it in on time and I did not get an A. It was not put on display, sadly I got either a high  C or a B. My teacher loved it but because it was late.... By this time I didn't really care, I was just sick and tired of working on it. I was proud of it though and I felt really accomplished afterwords.

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