The road of life

twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." ~Don Williams, Jr.

Here are my inspirational artists. I know we are only supposed to do one but I liked these folks so much ;-;

Pettrybyos

All I know of Pettrybyos is the available information from their deviantart account, which is..They're from Finland aaaand...

• Interests: Ghost stories
• Favourite movie: Battle Royale
• Favourite band or musician: David Bowie
• Favourite artist: Rudolf Koivu, Hugo Simberg
• Favourite game: Bubble Bobble!
• Favourite gaming platform: PS, PC
• Favourite cartoon character: Calvin

The reason I chose this artist is because I enjoy  I guess more of their lack of color and think that they're style is cute.  I also believe that they're watercolor is wonderful as well.

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Locklit
is 17, female and from Finland as well...and that is all the information available on her.

What I enjoy about Locklit's work is the use of vibrant colors and sometimes limited palette.

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& my favorite of faves...
Deathofrats
22, female and from Canada.

• Current Residence: Toronto, Canada
• Interests: drawing, psychology, fiction
• Favourite band or musician: Sakanaction
• Favourite artist: Mucha, McQueen, Amano, James Jean, Ooyuki Shiwasu, Rowland Emett, Igarashi Mikio
• Favourite poet or writer: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
• Tools of the Trade: Watercolours, photoshop 7

Deathofrats' is one of my favorite watercolor/ink artists because of the way she uses her colors. The brightness and use of negative and positive space or colors are fantastic to me.

Here's a crazy mcdonald's ad from Japan. Ahhhhhhhh....
McDonald's Japanese Ad

~Alex

Time is like

a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers." ~?

What? Updating this? yes -blows off the dust- hurhum.
Well here's the picture of me doing something with my temp tattoo for class (not original at all :v )

very sketchy huzzah
I'll prob, maybe, do a better pic >>

Here's some notes on the visiting artist for Wednesdays Foundations, Keith Negley...
He's an editorial illustator, he's freelance and works in corporate finance, does work for the New York Times. He says that editors can't be picky with what you give them because of their time limit.
His main focus is to do something with his time. "If you want to do it, you will do it."
Internships are a big thing. He did three or four of them, one was with an illustrator who had adobe illustrator and paid him to trace over his sketches.
Keith Negley enjoys to work with less than four colors, he puts all the colors on one layer (blue on one, orange on one, &c.)
Said that a big thing is to not say "no" to your clients because if you say no to many times they wont call you again.
For his works he makes his own textures but does reuse them as well.
As an editorial illustrator making to many idea sketches and sending them in could be detrimental because then the client may not know what to choose and then have you mock up a few of them, so you're creating more work for yourself.
Always into propaganda posters. Forces you to work with negative space; figure/ground.
It's about how little you can live off of...in the beginning.
Interning is huge.
Work comes in waves, for three months he could only have to work for 10 hours and then all of a sudden he could be jam packed with work.
Black and white pictures tend to take longer.
Shellac is great.

& I leave you with this..."Premake" Up! (1965)
later!
~Alex