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Finish!

Here is an update on the latest Self-Portrait Project. I don’t tend to add color because I am into the three color trend (white, black and gray) for awhile. I might add a fun color like green or fuchsia as the sky.Just wait until this illustration is complete. Happy painting!

As the year draws near into the new year, I would like to mention how much I have accomplish this year. I had spent most my time outdoors — biking, yoga, meeting new people from social network sites, art groups from Meetup.com and sketching. There been times I did not feel like walking outdoors because I just felt sad at times cause of the protestors, homicides and technology heroes whom passed away. When I do participate in outdoor activities, these activities help me improve my creative process and charisma.

Other times, I have spent eighty percent of the time working full-time and staying indoors because of the cold temperatures. I keep hoping for rain until today, December 31, 2011 because I love the rain, fog and…hail (whenever that will occur). Within the last month I have practice duplicating my drawings from my sketch book to the canvas. For instance, this current black and white painting below is similar to the drawing on the right in pen.

I have used acrylic colors: Gesso – white and black for the background, black spray paint for speckles and TitaniumWhite. When I painted the flames in Titanium White, I have spent two days painting layers until it was thick and waited a week before adding gray and black flames for the background. I am in the process improving the “flames” so it will shape similar to the drawing. I am not in a hurry to complete the flames; I just want it to look there is shape for me to work into the dotting. I will do a series of these painting until I decide to make it colorful.

Besides the painting and outdoor fun activities, I finished the last few pages of my sketch book for the Sketchbook Project as well the cover of the booklet. I am happy that I accomplished more than five drawings comparing to last year’s SketchBook Project. Last year I focus on pen and pencil sketches of sea animals. This year I focused what I dreamed of being a kid again except the last image of my father which that will be part of my next sketch book project for 2013. Below are a few images of my work and I hope you like it.

Well it is time to end this blog of the year by wishing everyone, Happy New Year! Cheers.

Hello, everyone. I have read your comments about my recent blog posts and I thank you all for your positive feedback. To tell you the truth, I am absolutely not good blogging about my artwork. I have thought of it many times to not word anything about my work but show images instead. Since people like reading blogs, I will try to make an effort to write blog posts longer for yours and mine enjoyment.

For the past week, I have been distracted trying to concentrate what I want to write and display on the web. If people are around me and they are watching television in the same room, I have to stop and watch it with them. I tried listening to spa music with my earphones to get into the mood of writing a blog post, and sometimes it helps. And hearing your love-ones snoring overnight while writing, that also helps me too…I’m not sure why. Oh what I must not forget, MMPROG games like World of Warcraft can be distracting to the point if I want to join in a raid or participate in a player verses player battleground to collect honor points and filthy coins from your opponent. Yes, call me geek or what not, games like World of Warcraft, Rift and other fantasy games do help stimulate the mind to think of an ideal or doodle…But not to write for your next blog post.

Blogging is not the only issue I have a difficult writing, even drawing, painting is tough too. For instance, my sketchbook is not consistent using ink or pens; instead, I use crayons and pastels. I would like to be consistent for this year’s sketchbook but I choose to sketch a variety of mediums to expand my creative process.

I drew a few ink drawings below for my Sketchbook in-progress and it was not what I had in mind. I wanted to make my drawings consistent from the previous post — Sketchbook Project: 2nd Page Complete, but my mind was not set to repeat the same process. Instead, I kept staring at the same sketch and wondered, ‘Why I did this?’

I admired my drawing so much that I want to get it print but I don’t know where exactly…Except to use my hands, paint brushes, canvas and lots of black paint. The drawing reminds of me being isolated or anit-social from the world. It’s like finding your favorite place to hangout to be alone, meditate and draw. Sometimes I don’t have to draw but there is always something for me to do and learn on my own…At my own time and place. So, this is my thought of my own drawing.

The fact I have spent hours shadowing, scribble, connecting dots, watching movies and listening to music, this was too much for a sketch for a Sketchbook Project but my time was not a waste. So, I felt that I accomplished spending time alone doing something what I like….To be alone, meditate and draw.

Below, you will see a few drawings that I did not over the weekend but it is work in-progress.

Finally, I finished the second page of my sketchbook! As you can see in the photograph, I darken the shapes for depth and detail a little (not a lot) on the flames — foreground. I spent three hours detailing and darken while I watched, Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman for the second time and later listened to country music. I know movies can be distracting but it is good to relief pressure from drawing and take a break. I am happy that I finished this sketch without straining my wrist.

I wanted to go back and detail the this page to improve my shadowing techniques when I am dotting with ink. In addition, I wanted to show more depth in the background of the sketch. I have added detail of the flames but they suppose to be reefs. I guess what I am assuming, I sketched what is it like to live under the sea. When I show this sketch to my friends, they liked it and thought it was, “kind of cool”. I’m not sure what they meant but I did not care to ask.

I have a few sketches I want to complete for the day but I am heading out for breakfast at 2:31 P.M. right now. I know it is late…But it’s food.