Midnight Drawing Challenge: Cyborg Slave

Hosted another Midnight Drawing Challenge and the character prompt we ran with was a mermaid/cyborg/sex slave (I'm hoping the dildo trident kind of gives it away).

Curious and Curiouser

Creativity, to me, is the ability to have the eyes of a child - eyes of wonder, eyes of possibility - throughout your entire life.  And then be able to use that creative insight or vision or ability to see things, to solve problems or to affect something for a more positive outcome... When we were children, everything was a first.  Basically, we saw things for the first time - and that's a wonderful mask of experience.

-Kevin Carroll 

Da-da-dump

Last night was the first time figure drawing in months because of the job, living in Wisconsin (where my local area is pretty bone dry when it comes to art), and making time to try some new things... dance lessons, for instance.  Anywho, It's been a while since I've posted any actual drawings, so here's a bit of random cafe sketches and some results from last night's session.

Even though I'm still feeling a bit of that slump and drawing dry spell, I'm pretty excited to get my new life started at Ringling.  I realize that I'm someone who excels when I have a community to really contribute to and be a part of and, despite the endless opportunities the internet can provide in this regard, nothing beats the physicality of motivating people right there alongside you.  There isn't anything left for me here, so I'm just twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my real life to begin.

Miscellaneous writing and sketch combo makes for a happy sketchbook

Dance school performers at Summerfest

Just came to this realization, but at some point in my life... I'd like to work on a Spider-Man film.

Self-Observation

“Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.”

-Brad Bird

For the past month, my work ethic has been paralyzed due to me searching for a productive balance while still living life for what it is.  I reflected back upon how I've been living in comparison to others my age and I can't help but feel that I've missed out on a chunk of my youth... I won't dig too much into it here, but let's just say I feel like a stick in the mud, often opting to try drawing or do something productive with myself over anything much else - friends, family, relationships...  But I need to continue letting myself being consumed by this dream and passion if it is to ever become a reality; I am not the most talented or the fastest artist, so my work ethic is all I have.  But what part of me am I willing to sacrifice to preserve that ethic?

I also noticed that in my independent studies, I'm very inattentive and easily distracted.  Not good.  Need self-discipline and focus.

I'm really hoping getting back into the classroom and drawing alongside motivated peers will be the push to help me snap me back into it, but I feel that is quite dangerous because I would be relying on the outside forces around me and not from within myself.

Venting.  Maybe I'm just hitting a limit and getting some kind of tunnel vision, maybe I'm just being a bitch.  Hopefully by pouring a little of this in writing, it gets juices flowing a bit.

Run

"Stop Reciting Theory and Hit Me"

Story Game 10

Image for tonight's Story Game