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Yeah, I’m not your mom & I can’t tell you what to do, but I had multiple conversations with various classmates this weekend about art related pain & a lot of it is avoidable.

This is the video of hand exercises I mentioned.

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Arin Hanson

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This Man With Severe Cerebral Palsy Created Mind-Blowing Art Using Just A Typewriter

Last year, 22-time Emmy award-winning reporter John Stofflet posted this news video he created for KING-TV in 2004, featuring Paul Smith and his artistic talents.

See the full video to see more of Smith’s artworks and to learn more about his inspiring story go here. 

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Saw a cool documentary about the start and evolution of gig posters. But I lived watching the screenprinting process, which is one of my favorite mediums along with watercolor. Just love the craftsmanship behind it. Sometimes it takes a long time to make something so simple looking but it’s worth it when it comes together in the end. I’m so inspired to get back into printmaking again.

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I've been trying to sketch almost everyday so I can feel like I'm doing at least one art related thing everyday. I've been using my tablet (Samsung Note 10.1 2012 ver) and the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro app to draw these. I find it more convenient to draw it like this as opposed to traditional pencil and paper (though nothing beats the OG stuff). Being more of a traditional artist, I've never really been taught or trained much in the digital media but I rely on it a lot in the process of my work. It allows me to edit, add, resize, etc. before I translate/transfer them on traditional media.

The sketches above are examples of how drawing digitally has been useful in composing figures. The first two figures are drawn from the same 5 reference pictures except each figure has taken a different facial feature from one of the 5 pictures. The only thing they share are the eyebrows from the same person from one of the reference pictures. BTW, referencing is NOT cheating if you know how to use it properly.

Next, I did this sketch of my husband and I doing what we call "turtle face" (it's the new duck face!). The original picture was of very bad quality, taken with a Nintendo DS, and my husband was sitting far back in the picture which made his face smaller than mine. So I fixed it by drawing it in its original proportions, then resized my husband's face to make his face the same size as mine.

Lastly, the figures are the same drawing but with the "magic" of layering, I can easily add glasses to the figure without redrawing the whole figure again. I can also change hair, facial structure, etc. easily as well. It's time saving and no wasting paper. LoL

And that is how digital techniques are useful even if you're a traditional media artist. I would like to venture into digital arts and create finished works with it one day, but right now it's a great tool for helping the process of my work.

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Daily Sketch

Trying to sketch daily as much as I can with the first thing I grab from the pen cup. Got a silver Sharpie marker. Here ya go.

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My hair "magically" drew a profile on my shower wall. Can you see it?

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Watercolor color chart. Wet on dry. This paper is sooo much better (Arches 140lb. Cold pressed). I usually use just 3 colors but I've gotten a few more for variations. Can't wait to get started painted. For real this time!

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Tao Tajima’s lights and shapes combine in a visually stunning nighttime display across the streets of Tokyo.

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Wee! Got my early Christmas present from Cheap Joe's (20 sheets of huge watercolor paper). You know when you order something online and it asks "Special Shipping Instructions"? Well I took advantage of it and asked them to write that message on the box. Can't wait to start painting!

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This is now my blog!

I have now made this Tumblr as my official artist blog for my website. I don't know why I didn't thought of that before. LoL Please follow me as well as my website. Thank you.

VanessaBaladad.com

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All of the above were things I was asked/told in the past week.

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You forgot the “Is that anime?” one. 

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oh, and “is that you?”

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#long post #madi problems

Sorry this was more of just a cathartic thing I drew out because I feel like there’s so much I’d like to draw but I have no ideas really. I have stories in my head but I can’t seem to go any further than where I’m already at with them and I feel so stuck. I’m pressuring myself rather than enjoying myself and I miss that. I want to have a story of my own I’m so enamored with that I’ll draw comics of it in my sketchbook for hours and hours until it’s 3am and I have to stop. I want a story I feel confident about again. I just want to draw and the only one who’s stopping me is myself and I can’t seem to get over it just yet. 

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"Hey friend"

Here is my newest watercolor!

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Hey friend! (2013)

16 x 20 inches

Watercolor on…

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Testing...

Just testing this new plugin that shares my posts from my site to Facebook and Tumblr. Hope it worked.

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[hifructosemag]

In Sergio Lopez’s work, figures blend with the environment. The artist dissolves physical boundaries between his characters’s skin and luxurious, floral-patterned blankets and tapestries — the playthings of Lopez’s coy muses. The duvets become stand-ins for nature as the female figures appear to be in the grips of rapture, seemingly in love with their own bodies and with the flowers.

MORE: http://hifructose.com/2013/07/18/the-lush-floral-paintings-of-sergio-lopez/