Oh Me Oh My Oh Deer

Back to independent sessions with the biology lab taxiderms. Man, did I miss this.

Hole Punch

Illustration Friday: Impatient

... but you know you'll get there, eventually.

Any day now.

Illustration Friday: Hollow

I find these periodically while walking the dog.

Illustration Friday: Drift

You can only hold on so long.

Whoot-Whoot!

Illustration Friday: Cracked

Illustration Friday: Parade

"He told my dad they would have to operate," she said quietly.

"Yes," replied the mutt, "you'll have that."

For a few minutes, there was silence as she adjusted her shoulders against the cool brick wall of the alleyway. 

"But they'll put us on display like the whales in the museum," she choked.
"Paraded through cities as their hospital freak pets, their 'special cases', like the terminal ones."

"Yes, but I doubt your people--"
"My parents."
"--your people would ever allow you to be taken away."
"That sounds really funny, coming from a dog, you know."
"Well, yes. You'll have that."

for Illustration Friday's theme, Parade.

Illustration Friday: Theater

Okay, okay, so I know this is last week's IF prompt, but I just found time to finish it this week. 

Still fun!

Sharpie fine-liners. Thanks to Casey for the inspiration!

Buildup

One twenty-page paper: Done. 

It feels like the completion of this paper has freed up so much time that I've been wanting to spend on finishing commissions, and visually discoursing on a couple of other ideas, lazily, in my sketchbooks. 

It's a good feeling, to have this weight off my brain and this pressure off my lungs. I can breathe again, and I have so much more to think about now. That's it for my English requirement, too, and now the other workloads don't seem half as intimidating. The brain is kind of like a digestive system that way. 

After cutting out of art history early yesterday, I attended a wonderful lecture by Scott Noel last night. His works:

http://www.grossmccleaf.com/artistpages/noelpage.htm

He spoke at length about paintings as "maps of fiercely-interlocking shapes", and about light. He offered descriptions several different kinds of light that he noticed in his studios throughout his career and named them. He contrasted painting human figures in "warm, sunny light" vs. painting them in "cool, reflected light", which he called "Northern light". Then there was "melting ice cream light", which he found in the summer months. That's my favorite one, I think. 

He equated two of his other favorite subjects, still-lives and cityscapes, and showed us how similar the process was to construct them on a picture plane; he treats his still-lives as if he were painting a city, and vice versa, and I began to see how these two subjects really transcend each other. If painting still-lifes is thought about this way, they can be given all sorts of characteristics (like gender, even) he explained, so much more interest can be found in them and they become metaphors and personifications of other things. 

Really fascinating guy. 

On a completely spontaneous not, Flyleaf will be releasing their sophomore full-length album in August this year! I really can't wait for this (it's just so hard to believe, considering their 4-year hiatus)! I'm anticipating amazing amazing things here. 

Getting ready to move out of here in two (just two!) weeks. I'm beginning to feel so uprooted again, at the thought of being in transition once more. My scheduled life for the summer is already set in stone, and I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to preserve everything I've achieved here at school. I don't want to turn back into the person I started out as, before I came here, to make a complete regression simply because I return to my old settings, old house, and old habits. 
The major assignments are evaporating, too, as classes are slowing, so I have more ideas for drawings coming in ever faster! This is a positive :)

Important Note to Remember: 

Association of Medical Illustrators conference in Richmond, VA. Wed., July 29- Aug. 1. Omni Richmond Hotel-workshops on 7/29, lectures, speakers, and career fair. 

And the Mayhem Tour this summer. Oh, yes. oh yes.  

Can't Wait!

Hypertension

 The semester's almost over! This will conclude my freshman year at college, and a testing one at that. 

Stress ensues. 

As a newcomer to this bloggage, I will be posting mostly my attempts at scientific illustration (my career aspiration), sketches, drawings, and occasional tirades as I work through my college education (as an undergrad here at Edinboro University, and into graduate school), and the hurtles that lie ahead. 

Illustration Friday: Fleeting

"Fleeting"- a glimpse of the facial muscles, but not everything. 

greyscale markers and brushpens on sticky notes