miles tries and fails to draw

art blog of princeofdisdain

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haven’t sketched in like 27 years

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would ya look at that -- they’ve been printed. not sure if i like them better like this or???? here’s the original designs i guess. i’m not sure i’m great at or even enjoy printmaking but... it was pretty fun to go to town making these as foggy/cloudy looking as possible

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i had to do a sketchy comic spread for class -- and so i based mine off of The Orbiting Human Circus’s 2nd Imaginary Symphony. loosely. as in the entire second page is just made up.

love how u can literally see the exact moment when i stopped caring about drawing the factory lmao... also how obvious is it that i DO NOT KNOW how to draw digitally 

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i’m in a painting class now, so i’ve basically just been churning out shitty oil paintings. this one’s based on Giorgio de Chirico’s The Evil Genius of a King

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my dorm

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so i haven’t been drawing much recently but every week in my “healthy mind / healthy body” class we draw how we are feeling, and i thought i’d post the two i did on monday. maybe i should invest in a scanner

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sometimes when i don’t know what to draw, i just doodle the plants around me in my journal. 

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I went through my sketchbook and took photos of a bunch of junk. here’s a woman I doodled a year and a half ago.

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Everything was faded and silent in the dawn -- dirty teacups, unmade bed, snowflakes floating past the window with an airy, dangerous calm. My ears rang. When I turned back to my work, with trembling, ink-stained hands, the scratch of my pen on the paper rasped loud in the stillness. I thought of Bunny’s dark room and of the ravine, miles away; of all those layers of silence on silence.

-- Donna Tartt, The Secret History

I’m embarrassed to have misquoted slightly here, but I already misquoted worse and had to fix it. and I don’t have the energy to go back again. here’s the first thing I’ve drawn in two months. 

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haha ok i finally got my tablet to work after having it for upwards of a year,,, here’s literally the shittiest doodle of all time becuase i haven’t posted in about five lifetimes. 

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eh, figured i’d post after 6 months of silence. i’ve been working on bigger pieces, as you can see, and i haven’t really had time for the little typography things.... but here’s an unfinished piece based on As I Lay Dying. 

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another tattoo idea, based on the old Latvian symbols on my grandmother's traditional wedding ring.

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PSAs

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a self-positive tattoo idea

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This is a page from my old sketchbook, that I just scanned in its entirety. So I actually have enough art to set up a short queue (wow!) to make posting a little more regular.