Week 15 in Pierson Land

Hello Art Believers!!!

To summarize my week, it was good,  I did these really terrible Butterfree drawings, a character or creature from Poke'mon. The design is very simplistic. so simple in fact that I found myself using sketchbook pros smooth line feature to try and get a very clean curvilinear line with no imperfections. So for the majority of my thirty minute sketch time I found myself drawing the same line over and over again.  Hence why the drawings are so unfinished I am quite embarrassed to even show them.

On another note I finished the series "The Office" and began watching "The Santa Clarita Diet". You are probably wondering why it took me so long to finish watching "The Office" and I don't have a good answer so *shrugs*.  "The Santa Clarita Diet" is interesting, but I would like to add a side note,  I can stomach zombies that look like zombies eating prop legs and arms.  But when it comes to a regular person eating prop legs and arms, I find my stomach churning.  There is something about a person who does not look like a zombie eating fake limbs  and organs that really makes my stomach  twist and turn (even when it is not real).  I would watch "The Walking Dead" eat a hamburger while zombies eat another human being "no problem",  but the moment that "zombie" starts talking and acting like a normal human being the narrative starts to feel less like the character is a zombie and more like they are a cannibal.

Not much else was done this week,  I got a few neat drawings I need to spray fix before I can put them up on my blog.  They should be in my Week 16 blog posting.  I had to pick up some work from the faculty show and because it was Easter I was not able to work on much of anything.

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Best,

Matt  

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Butter-Free (Pokemon) (Shitty)

Week 14 in Pierson Land

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This weeks brings nothing new to the plate, although I am hoping to change that soon.  I recently sent a piece to Japan, and with that included certain materials for shipping. The material was flat cardboard boxing material, the problem is they take an incredible amount of space. I was able to store them in the house for a little while eventually they were moved down stair in my studio. which was already limited in space as well.  My bigger issue is space, so the more I produce the more I have to store work.  Since my paintings aren't a high demand item, they tend to become glorified items that I move around in my studio.  So I am constantly redressing space issues, this time its storing large sheets of cardboard. 😠😣

Now my studio is almost back to a functional state, I can begin production once again.  Its worth mentioning that every one of these post encompasses at least 7 hours of drawing, no matter how bad they are.  Which is why I find it hard to believe when people complain they don't have time to draw.  I shall leave it at that, I don't want my blog to become a pedestal for me to rant on.

 My digital work hasn't gotten better as a matter of fact I think they have kind of stagnated.  I am have a bit of trouble how they establish clean lines while still appearing loose. So I have been messing around with features more. Which is probably why I have been unable to complete any decent drawings.  I have also increased the under drawing time to the point where it leaves me backtracking too much. 

The month of April I will be drawing 3/4th view self-portraits. Enjoy week 14 of Pierson-Land.

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Week 13 in Pierson Land

 

Hello Art Believers!!!

As usual my weekly blog contains 7self portraits and 7 digital drawings.  For the most part I have been keeping a low profile when it comes to work.  This weeks digital work are of Caterpie, another Poke'mon character. I think I might try draw the first 150 by that time I might be half way decent at digital work. I can say I did an absolute awful job drawing Caterpie, since I try to only spend 30 minutes a day on these digital works I failed to really dial in these drawings.  Another part that was difficult I was finding the cartoon too be so simple that I was making the image more difficult than necessary. On Saturday I tried approaching the drawing of Caterpie differently, with results that were less to be desired. Overall I think this batch of drawings to be particularly sloppy.


The reason I show everyone these terrible drawings is because of drawing transparency. I think people misjudge how many pieces people work on before they get moderately good at something.  these digital drawings are case in point.  I have made thousands of bad drawings, but I don't hide them, I show them with a sense of pride.  Probably because you may argue on the merits of the drawing but you can't argue the efforts and time put into these drawings.  I have read articles about Instagram and how the people on there deceive their followers by posting the "perfect" photo of themselves.  I am the opposite showing you the failures and progress.  I am not hiding my deficiency as an artist.  I am to some degree ashamed of my drawings. I don't like taking credit of bad drawings I have done.  But as an artist I have to own up to my work and improve from it.  It's marathon not a sprint.  Thank you and please enjoy this weeks addition to my blog.


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