Saturday

I think my problem is that I'm overthinking things. I just need to sit myself down and paint. Here goes.

City of Delusion - Muse

And of course by 'sometime tomorrow' I meant '2 days from now'

This is a fever dream I had 3 years ago, then kept in my head until now. Enjoy.

It looks weird because it is spliced together from 3 scans and has been resized a bunch.

Preview

I actually do not have an update for you* today, as I have been working on something big (literal bigness here), so instead I will give you a look at this other thing I've been doing. It's not finished, so far I haven't even covered half of the piece of paper I'm working on, and it's not yet colored, but here it is.

Note that the panel layout is a bit unorthodox. Expect to see the finished version sometime tomorrow.


*All three of you.

Sunday

Epilogue - Electric Light Orchestra

I was going somewhere with this, then didn't. I think I'll revisit the concept again later, only next time put some effort into it. (No link this time, couldn't find any relevant youtube videos)

Saturday

The World Is Our ____ - This Will Destroy You

Huh. I think the scan actually looks better than the actual painting, this time (Perspective's a bit wonky, though).
Anyways, it says 'long*' on the scroll, repeated, and that's supposed to be shide** around the dragon I think.




*Dragon***, not length.
**Don't ask me why I've got a mishmash of Chinese and Japanese elements going on.
***Or it's an approximation of the character, at any rate. I know absolutely nothing about calligraphy.

Thursday

Okay, been a while since I posted something here. Here w' go.

This Modern Love - Bloc Party

I changed the design of foliage multiple times as I was making this, which made trying to figure out which bits to color which color a bit interesting.

Monday

Derek - Animal Collective

See I told you the images would have little to do with the songs. Also: No more barefoot girls in dresses, I promise.
Oh, and if you'll click on the picture you can view a larger version.

Also, new feature: Clicking on the song title will now produce results!

Friday

Daytime Minutes - Forensics

Okay this one turned out kind of terrible.

First Post?

Okay, so the actual title of this blog is: During the Course of the Summer, I Will Listen to Music and Then Paint Pictures, and Then Post the Results in This Blog (There Will Usually Also Be Accompanying Words)

With that out of the way, welcome! Here the deal is.

I have decided that, to prepare myself for AP Art next school year, I am going to need a lot of practice. To this end I will try to come up with a new piece of artwork (mostly) daily. To make things interesting (and keep myself from just drawing a ton of robots and explosions), I have come up with a few ground rules.

For each piece, I am going to (A) Listen to a song, selected randomly through iTunes and (B) paint something using the song as inspiration. There is no need for the resulting piece to have any sort of correlation to the song, just whatever random images my subconscious responds with.

Everyone clear? Good. Let's see what we have for today (Thursday).

Love is Gone - Matthew Sweet


I think I may actually add more to this later, but for now it is good. So! This time I managed not to drink any paint-water, however I did end up knocking over my ink well and spilling a good deal of it. Luckily it was on a tile floor! I managed to get most of it back, and put the remaining ink on the floor to use as well. So! Bonus time - you actually get two pieces of art today! Okay so actually it is a piece of crap.