Music. Paint. (Blogger's character limit suuuucks)

Saturday

2008-08-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

Meant to post this yesterday, but the scanner was being weird.
Here's just a couple of quick little somethings I did, no music in particular for these ones.

Thursday

2008-08-28T21:52:00.000-07:00

Okay, here we are with another one. I elected to go old timey with this one, I don't know why. It's not completely finished, I'm still trying to decide to make it all sepia-toned or more colorful. Anyways, as always, click for the full-sized version.

Mystery Hours - The New Pornographers

I need to get me some finer brushes.
(no relevant videos again this time, sorry)

Wednesday

2008-08-27T21:12:00.000-07:00

Oh. Hello there! No, I didn't forget about this place (surprising, no?) but I have been out of town for the past two weeks.
However, in my absence, I have had some time to work on some things, and I shall be posting them within the next couple of days.

Of course, this also leads up to the fact that I am planning to take an indefinite hiatus from here. What with school starting up soon, I doubt I'll be able to keep updating here with any sort of regularity. So, I shall update this blog for the rest of the week, and that will be it. But anyways. On to the artwork!

If you recall, I said that my last piece would have a part 2. Here is how the whole thing looks together, sorta. I realise due to scrolling and everything, you'll have to view it from the top down, but it's meant to be viewed from the bottom up.

Overflowing Emotions - Laugh and Peace

Okay, see you tomorrow.

Also Friday.

2008-08-01T23:47:00.000-07:00

Man, what is your deal. I thought this place was about painting, not screwing around with ink and calling it 'art'. And would it kill you to actually fill the page for once?

Overflowing Emotions - Laugh and Peace

Sometimes I wonder if my scanner is even trying anymore. Here is an (admittedly not much better) idea of what the colors actually look like.

(the image is flipped, forgot to mention that)

Also note that this one is a two-fer! Expect the second half of it later.

Friday

2008-08-01T09:02:00.001-07:00

Oh, hello there. No music in particular this time.

Saturday

2008-07-26T22:02:00.000-07:00

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'

2008-07-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-21T22:33:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-20T22:18:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-19T23:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-17T22:41:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-14T21:45:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-11T17:54:00.000-07:00

Daytime Minutes - Forensics

Okay this one turned out kind of terrible.

First Post?

2008-07-10T00:06:00.000-07:00

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.