Week Thirty Rebels

Not much to say right now other than I have a long way to go and until 9:30 AM tomorrow to do it!

Week Thirty One Takes on More

Not much to say about the painting other than that it's coming along nicely. Painting holes into Swiss cheese is more difficult than expected, but so help me, I will make it work.

Also, despite my brain telling me that it's a terrible idea, I'm working on a digital drawing of a comparison between how I depict two certain "versions" of one Hetalia character. I think explaining would bore most of my readers, so just have a look at the short skinny guy next to the strong muscular one.

Week Thirty Jumps Forward

Today's update will actually have three progressive images, since a lot was accomplished during class today, and each step of progress had its own point of interest. Okay, that and I wanted evidence of when it looked nice in case I royally screw up.

As it is right now, some adjustments need to be made to the table and chairs that hopefully aren't too obvious in the sky. I was considering adding detail to the buildings, but they have a nice, eerie presence as just shadows, so they're going to stay that way. Thankfully the ones towards the middle will be covered by the foreground.

Week Thirty One Is Going to Get Crazy

As I may have mentioned, the next painting assignment is surrealism. For years I've had the idea of a wine glass with a night sky in it, but that's just a start for a painting. So I spent the first hour of class today looking for inspiration online and brought together what you see up there. The dripping substance will hopefully resemble wine and have some sort of imagery in it. The lamp hanging off the left of the cheese-house won't be used.

Since I spent so much time conceptualizing, there isn't much to see as far as the painting except the blues of the sky that will be between the city and the dripping wine. Looks neat anyhow.

Week Thirty Closes

 Okay, this thing looks pretty darn cool. I have no idea what my professor will say on Wednesday, but I have no intentions of doing anything drastic to it.

Also, another sketch just for fun, Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester from Supernatural. Well, a more comic-style interpretation.

Week Thirty is Almost There

Hopefully this is "abstracted" enough for my professor, because that's as abstract as I'm willing to make it. All that's left to be done is to add a bit more to the flame at the top in the very corner. I had to make a frame for this painting. It was a fiasco that I don't want to discuss.

I also finally did some art for myself. Just a simple character sketch.

Week Thirty Is Stubborn

At the mid-critique yesterday, the professor stepped onto his soap box about none of us doing Abstract Expressionism correctly. One of his major complaints was that they were all too "figurative", though he didn't spend time on mine specifically he was referring to a few of them.

At this point, however, I have to put my foot down. It reminds me of my earlier years in school where I threw fits about having to do abstract things that I hated, but as a senior now I feel that I know what I want, whether it's exactly what the teacher is looking for or not. I'm not going to ruin something I'm proud of for the sake of a grade.

The painting isn't done, but if the professor wants the figure to disappear completely he's out of luck. I spent too much time planning and executing this and used too much paint to turn it into something I hate. So yes, there will be alterations, but I'm not going to destroy what I consider the integrity of this piece.

Also, a Google search turned up abstract expressionist art that does have a figure to it. So there.