intermission ii

The intermission continues.

I'm not ashamed to say that I am not above fanart.  I like me my television and movies and random, frolicsome fictions.

It's nice to get lost in different worlds and come back again with intangible treasures.  And being in the creative field, it's only natural to want to build still more onto these castles--as much as you can and as gloriously as still more can be built--before the spirited moment subsides and the remnants of our constructive effervescence washes away to be reformed, rediscovered, and rebuilt into some entirely other thing across the ocean.

That being said, I'm not sure if I'm a fan of Once Upon A Time.  I think I just don't know what to think of it.  It's different.  And different is usually awesome...but not being different for the sake of being different.  And I think the show toes that line of trying too hard.

But the characters are so fun.  They're expressive (equal parts silly and tragic), they feel like caricatures, and you get two versions of each.  That's a fun energy to play with!

medium: scanner, photoshop, pencil (not necessarily in that order)

intermission i

I was sorting through some old files and completely forgot about this.

Been a busy bee, though my hive is woefully neglected. So in this dearth of updates, I'll throw in this one I did a while back when I had the pleasure of taking Chris Runco's class at Motivarti.  It was for our ren-punk (that's renaissance version of steampunk) time traveling theme park final project, and this was a little photo-op I made of our characters discovering soda pop (which doubled as an ad moment for outside vendors).  The closest equivalent they know is sparkling mead, so they think they're drunk.

They're made of that weird plastic that everything in Disneyland is made of and they blow bubbles at you. 

I dunno.  I thought it was funny. 

medium: photoshop

holiday iv: happy valentine's day

disaster on demand?

My holidays were belated because I was at Thinkwell for three weeks or so making trouble with some old classmates.

So Willi, Patrick, Linda, and I are leisurely lunching (sharing old war stories, gabbing about the perils of business, and bleeding our sad little artists' hearts) and, with our patented plein air skills, taking in our surroundings (shadows and textures, interesting signage....). 

One does wonder how lucrative the earthquake business is...

I guess it'd be a bit like that Uma Thurman movie: the one where the villain's company sold weather (messing with agriculture and travel; selling ecological terrorism to the highest bidder and such). 

My color is still suffering.  I think I need to pull a Mary Blair and have a transcendent color epiphany in some exotic country....pity I hate to travel.  Must learn to make do sans transcendence, I suppose.

medium: watercolor & ink, photoshop

holidays iii: happy belated lunar new year

 *yawn

Mine!

If you want to play, you have to give it...

Happy Belated Groundhog's Day, too

medium: photoshop

sisters

What if Rapunzel had never been traded for salad and lived a happy life at home?

She would probably have siblings with long hair galore.  She and her sisters (and hippy-haired brothers?!) would prance around with an entourage of soldiers and servants, valets and grooms armed to the teeth with dustpans and brushes, hairpins and brooms.  They would gossip deep into the night while braiding each others' hair, fight over their favorite dresses, and, after terrible tantrums, threaten to snip away a lock of another's hair whilst she sleeps unaware.  Of course, they would never go through with it.  Idle, harmless little firecrackers.
Hopefully, by the fourth child, their mother will learn not to covet her neighbor's parsnips.


This week's respite was inspired by a day spent with the Shin sisters, by, of course, The Art of Tangled, and by a sentence I read in the last Harry Potter book: "It was in Godric's Hollow that, but for Voldemort, [...h]e might even have had brothers and sisters."

medium: photoshop

holiday ii: happy new year's

Isn't it funny how the day solemnized for renewed resolve in regards to health, wealth, and correcting our wayward perceptions towards the haves and have-nots of the world follows those particular holidays earmarked for excess spending, gift exchanging, and indulgent eating?  Kind of like Mardi Gras before Lent.
medium: watercolor on watercolor paper