Dancing Lights and Fire Dragons June 26, 2009

[They Mostly Breath Fire Y'know]

… As opposed to the other type of dragons.

I’ve been meaning to go down to the parks and see some of my mates and their fire dancing.

The idea behind the activity seemed to be:

1. Grab something flammable
2. Set fire to it
3. Spin all fancy like
4. Repeat

I had my camera with me so I snapped some shots. I’ve got lots that I love, and even more that were just horrible and needed to be deleted on the spot. Please don’t ask me the settings I used to achieve some of the effects… it was dark and I operated more by touch than by anything else. Also I ‘m just lucky my camera didn’t catch fire; i was doing some pretty stupid stuff with it…

Here’s one of my favorite shots from the night.

I love this girl’s expression. It’s so carefree and contented.
Unfortunately I never got her name. So if anyone knows the Wolesly area on Thursday nights, and knows this chick, please let me know.
And yes, she’s essentially got a flaming hula hoop.

I’ve got lots of neat pictures from this night, and I’ll be uploading the rest of the best in another journal entry. I’d like to know if people think certain of these pictures are more spectacularly worse than the others. I’m still learning with this whole photography scene and could use some constructive criticism. But if you really insist on showering me with complements, I couldn’t possibly turn you away.

Don’t Go That Way:

Don’t worry, the city lights can keep me company when you’re gone.

Look out, the link is pretty image heavy. But follow along for some more ‘artsy’ photos.

A whole lot of stuff in one picture March 20, 2009

Or alternatively; Spot the goldfish.

Did you find the goldfish yet?

This was done with pencil crayons, oil pastel, markers, and lots of crayons from my elementary school days.
I’m not entirely satisfied with this, but at least I finished it right and proper. I was at the university till 1 am pretty much. I hit all the required points for this assignment and ho boy, if I don’t get a rockin’ grade on this baby, there will be hell to pay plenty of indignation and argument forthcoming.

In other news, I had a bit of a blues period which now seems to be over. Good job Angela-self. Now I’m just angry. This is actually good news, because maybe now I’ll harness my rage!energy™ (300 horse power) and get a whole bunch of partying work done this weekend.

nude dump February 27, 2009

School Dump And A FUNNY FACE! February 14, 2009

One day before the webcomic comes online!

sketches and such December 9, 2008

sketches nov 12 – Wips and not worksake November 22, 2008

I haven’t been very active here on my blog for the last week, but I plan to remedy this.

Today I’m posting random WIPs and sketches from around September of this year –so new-ish stuff.

Another old picture – old tiger April 21, 2008

Way back when I only had pencil crayons and paper as art supplies I tried to draw a tiger. It was all going great until I realized the sketchbook paper was too small to finish drawing his head. T_T Alas, what could I do. Its a real shame though, since I really liked where this picture was going. There’s not much I can do with it at this point, so I might as well share it.

Anatomy April 21, 2008

The last post had a link to a perspective tutorial. I am terrible at perspective and evidently need to improve, thus tutorial. Another aspect of drawing that I know could use improvement is anatomy.
I’ve borrowed a few books on this topic and will probably be posting the sketches I copy from it. (Thats the only way I’ll learn right?)

In any case I hope these aren’t too boring. I’ll still be posting non anatomy related art too, so no worries there.

So this page is from one of my sketchbooks, and the image itself was copied from the book: Dynamic Anatomy by Burnes Hogarth. Please excuse the sloppy printing and I fully realize I could be completely off when it comes to the muscle groups. If you see any errors, I would love to have them pointed out.