Ok, so I’m just posting another picture. And it’s my first attempt at anything in illustrator, but behold the power of the bland self-portrait:
I scanned the outlines of this image, then traced it into a vector program called Inkscape. It was tough to keep myself from using stronger colors here, but I think it turned […]
I think I’m going to need photoshop.
Okay, so it’s not the most exciting material ever. And the ‘inking’ is actually in pencil. And since I don’t have photoshop, there’s no way for me to clean this up or eliminate the unnecessary penciling marks. And the lettering sucks. And the artwork’s not great (not that […]
to draw
first learn the properties of shape
circle, square, triangle
popping into a complex of spheres, prisms, pyramids
creating depth from a plane
to draw
first learn the influence of light
shadow, hue, intensity
the deft placement of source
illuminating and obscuring the boundaries
to draw
learn the treachery of perspective
point-by-point
the subversive slant
that angles its view into the world
to draw
learn the value of lies
cheating the […]
Well the good news is that I found time to get new shoes. They’re pretty much like my old ones minus the gel packs that split on me last time. I can once again walk normally.
Jess is out in Washington DC this week, visiting a friend. She’ll be back on Monday. In the meantime, she’s […]
So I dyed my hair fuschia. Or burgandy, or perhaps simply “Why did you dye your hair that color, Jesus Metz.” I’m not sure yet what my own personal reaction is to the strikingly different color on my head. Mostly, it’s just a lot of glancing up at my mirrored closet from my bed and […]
So I’ve gone and cooked up yet another hair-brained scheme designed to keep me in the poorhouse that much longer and love doing it. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve convinced New Twenty-Two to back a production of The Decameron. We have rounded up a group of participants, and our idea is to read […]