6.7.10

I guess...I guess we'll do some more of this now.

More art-related-things posting, that is. I aim to be getting back on top of keeping up with the Sunday Comics and Holden's Bookshelf entries again this week as well, these past couple weeks have just been busy.

Anyway. Yes. Things what I drew and made.


First up, more back-of-school-papers pen doodles. Lexa, Vanessa, and Faye, my three most commonly-drawn characters. I've got complaints about how each turned out, present in their own comments--Lexa's forehead turned out huge, Vanessa's hand is wonky, and Faye overall just doesn't look right. Still, this was a fun one.

Pen-rendered fanart of Spades Slick, aka Jack Noir, the villain of the webcomic Homestuck. At least, this is how I envision him. Planning to do the rest of his posse in a similar style soon. He belongs to some sort of species with an exoskeleton.

Part of a project for a photography class, we were supposed to find "faces that aren't faces." This was one of the two I ended up submitting...it's a part of a boardwalk down at the local harbor. Doesn't it look adorably confused? For those familiar with the expression "derp," I think this face fits it to a tee.

Here is the other submission I had for that assignment, a piece of driftwood from a nearby beach park. Upon seeing it, friends have dubbed this "the anger log."

This was done for another class project, this time the theme being "revealing, unusual self-portraits." I've done the words-on-the-tongue thing in several other photos, but I just love it so much! I couldn't resist using it again for this.

Another one for the self-portrait. Again, based on an earlier work of mine (the "Zampano's Legacy" collage I did for a metafiction class...I think I posted that here somewhere, if not I should), but that time it was photoshopped, whereas here I decided to use actual prop labels, and a bookshelf in the background to drive the point home.

GASP I'M LETTING PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET SEE MY ACTUAL FACE and this will be one of very few times on this blog that that happens. I didn't end up submitting this portrait because I felt it didn't say enough and was too cliched, but I still really like it. Mostly the angle.

[Holden Out.]

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Ok, I have to know: is more of your house covered in rainbow wallpaper? I DON'T REMEMBER THIS.

I'm glad to see you draw more!! School is great for that, isn't it? I am sort of confused at Vanessa's wrap... single-sleeve shirt. If you think your anatomy is weird just fill up a whole page of poses! Overlap them, make them go a billion different angles! This works best when you have a 2 hour block class of booooring. @_@

Also: if you want to take a gander at some ballpoints that don't get gummy/don't cost $.02 to make, go to http://jetpens.com/ . /pengeek

Holden Van Crick said...

Nahh, the rainbow wallpaper is just in my bathroom. :D It's an LSD-licious rendering of scenes from the Noah's Ark biblical story...from the 1960s. (Yeah, it's super old wallpaper, which is why it's visibly peeling.)

Vanessa's shirt confuses me too, but I wanted to switch it up from just a standard t-shirt, so...that just sort of happened. Then I hastily added a misplaced bra strap because I wasn't entirely sure how the shirt worked either.
I SHOULD draw more poses! Always and forever MOAR POSES. I need to start using PoseManiacs again, my anatomy got like exponentially better when I was using that. Also I am almost done drawing Johnny's ref sheet type thing for Stephies, so I should be able to send that to her soon! I might type up part of it in his voice...I've built up a fairly distinct speaking voice for him that I've been practicing inadvertantly in the car because I'm a dork.

THERE ARE BALLPOINTS MADE FOR ART? IT'S LIKE PEOPLE KNOW ME OR SOMETHING. Huge props, Kii. ;3;