I thought as a way to make sure I kept doing art every day, I should make a blog where I make art...every day. Okay, realistically it wont be every single day, but here is where I'm going to post any art that I end up doing that isn't quite fit for the rest of my website. I'll also probably talk a lot about the art itself, what my other current projects are, what I had for breakfast, etc.
The main goal of this blog is to make sure I keep making art forever. Since college, I've been focusing more on technical art, mostly rigging and Python scripting. Recently however, I've had the urge to go back to my roots as a more traditional artist. I love all kinds of art and animation, I want to really see what's out there for me at this point, I want to get really weird with it and not worry about perfection, I want to just make art for the sake of making art, so that's what you'll get here. That, and my ramblings, which I hope you also enjoy.
I wanted to start by posting a painting I did one night recently while I was having some anxiety about state of the world. I decided that if the world was really ending, the best thing to do would be to find someone you love, squeeze them tight, and watch it all go to Hell, with that thought in mind, I came up with this. It's a rendition of a piece I did in college that I've always wanted to do again digitally, with a lot of tweaks to the style. I'll post the original one if i can find it...for now, you get this.
Then last week, upon purchasing the Adobe Creative Suite and upgrading Photoshop for the first time in about 6 years, I had some fun with the smudge tool's "finger painting" function....
If anything, I've found a fun now thing to do when I feel like zoning out for a while, but the technique might also come in handy in the future. We'll see...