Printmaking Frustrations!
So I have to make my 3rd print for Printmaking and I was hit with a major case of art block that's still plaguing me. It's really frustrating but I think I"ve worked through it. You lucky people, on the other hand, get to see all the pages of my unfinished/abandoned printmaking ideas.
Seeing as the first print was a still life of Ben and the second print was all about Skin Deep the only other aspect of my personality is Music so I thought I'd draw like a rock musician or something like that. So of course I tried John Entwistle first 'cause I'm predictable. And because it was so predictable I abandoned it after awhile. I didn't have any references in class when I was drawing this so not a word out of you about how the face is Way-Screwed-Up.
So then I thought I might try some David Bowie because he's weird and I figured I could do something creative with him. But as you can see this got scrapped way early because I didn't know what the hell to do with the composition.
Then I switched gears and decided to try for a kind of children's book type of feel to it. Ben suggested I do something along the lines of a drawing of Jim as a kid I did several years ago, and I took that idea and tried to make something interesting with it. The kids are kind of Jim and Lorne-y, only not. Scrapped 'cause it's kind of lame.
Jim and Martha running through the forests. Actually a good idea and I like the composition quite alot. I got tripped up when it came to rendering all the foliage, though, and decided that this piece would be too hard for me.
Around this time I was really pissed off and fed up with this son of a bitch because it usually doesn't take me this long to come up with a good idea. I just didn't want to do my comic stuff because I thought it would be too predictable, and I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do that would hold my interest. So in the end I just said "fuck it" and drew Jim and Lorne as kids peering out a window at something on the ground. Maybe something fell out the window? Maybe Martha just did a dive through the wall? Maybe they just dropped a water baloon on Paul? Who knows. The point is I think I might keep this one. When it comes right down to it Jim and Lorne's childhood could be fashioned into a fairly adorable children's book about a young boy and his best friend who's a gryphon and also there's a ghost dog and they run around enchanted forests having tea parties and playing Sorry.
So there you have my Frustrating Art Blocked Weekend in an easy-to-digest image form.
Seeing as the first print was a still life of Ben and the second print was all about Skin Deep the only other aspect of my personality is Music so I thought I'd draw like a rock musician or something like that. So of course I tried John Entwistle first 'cause I'm predictable. And because it was so predictable I abandoned it after awhile. I didn't have any references in class when I was drawing this so not a word out of you about how the face is Way-Screwed-Up.
So then I thought I might try some David Bowie because he's weird and I figured I could do something creative with him. But as you can see this got scrapped way early because I didn't know what the hell to do with the composition.
Then I switched gears and decided to try for a kind of children's book type of feel to it. Ben suggested I do something along the lines of a drawing of Jim as a kid I did several years ago, and I took that idea and tried to make something interesting with it. The kids are kind of Jim and Lorne-y, only not. Scrapped 'cause it's kind of lame.
Jim and Martha running through the forests. Actually a good idea and I like the composition quite alot. I got tripped up when it came to rendering all the foliage, though, and decided that this piece would be too hard for me.
Around this time I was really pissed off and fed up with this son of a bitch because it usually doesn't take me this long to come up with a good idea. I just didn't want to do my comic stuff because I thought it would be too predictable, and I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do that would hold my interest. So in the end I just said "fuck it" and drew Jim and Lorne as kids peering out a window at something on the ground. Maybe something fell out the window? Maybe Martha just did a dive through the wall? Maybe they just dropped a water baloon on Paul? Who knows. The point is I think I might keep this one. When it comes right down to it Jim and Lorne's childhood could be fashioned into a fairly adorable children's book about a young boy and his best friend who's a gryphon and also there's a ghost dog and they run around enchanted forests having tea parties and playing Sorry.
So there you have my Frustrating Art Blocked Weekend in an easy-to-digest image form.