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- Rindi
Current song: None
Current mood: Calm
Monday, May 28, 2012
Second Speedpaint
Haha, I am so lazy. I enjoyed getting the tree trunks in, but I got bored with the leaves and gave up before I really even started on them. I like the colors I used here, even if they don't match the colors of the original photo very well. I think I've found a better brush for branches and trunks now, too - I was using something that was hard to control and very unnatural-looking for this piece.
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Current song: None
Current mood: Calm
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Current mood: Calm
Friday, May 04, 2012
My First Speedpaint
The big reason that I decided to reboot this blog is that I need a place to post unpolished artwork. I tend to only upload the good stuff to DeviantArt, but that means that a lot of the things I doodle never make it online, and I want it to go somewhere. So, that means it's going here. :B
I'm not a very good artist, and it doesn't help that I stopped drawing for several months. I've been feeling woefully out of practice, and recently decided that I should try to combat that! I thought I'd try my hand at speedpainting; that is, a quickly painted picture that tries to grasp the idea/form/emotion of a scene, since I thought it would be a good exercise. Turns out, I am not very good at it - I have difficulty with finding the right brush for the job, and everything always comes out blurry. Plus, I am terribly slow. Of course, I don't expect to be an expert at something that I've never done before, so I hope that time and practice will result in some improvement!
This was my first attempt. I think that if I'd put some more time and effort into it, it would have come out looking pretty good. I gave up on detailing the trees in the middle distance, though. Sigh. I probably sank about an hour into this piece.
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- Rindi
Current song: Moby's water bottle drinking noises are oddly rhythmic... Such a musical rat.
Current mood: Sleepy
I'm not a very good artist, and it doesn't help that I stopped drawing for several months. I've been feeling woefully out of practice, and recently decided that I should try to combat that! I thought I'd try my hand at speedpainting; that is, a quickly painted picture that tries to grasp the idea/form/emotion of a scene, since I thought it would be a good exercise. Turns out, I am not very good at it - I have difficulty with finding the right brush for the job, and everything always comes out blurry. Plus, I am terribly slow. Of course, I don't expect to be an expert at something that I've never done before, so I hope that time and practice will result in some improvement!
This was my first attempt. I think that if I'd put some more time and effort into it, it would have come out looking pretty good. I gave up on detailing the trees in the middle distance, though. Sigh. I probably sank about an hour into this piece.
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- Rindi
Current song: Moby's water bottle drinking noises are oddly rhythmic... Such a musical rat.
Current mood: Sleepy
Welcome Back (to you and me)
I didn't really think I was ever going to come back to this blog, but I've recently started some really pathetic attempts at speedpainting and I wanted some place to document them that wasn't my DeviantArt account (I try to keep the really awful stuff out of there). I considered starting a new blog, maybe a Tumblr or something, but I figured I'd drop by here first to see if the blog was completely irredeemable. Of course, the layout was hideous and awful, so I tossed that out and put up something basic in its place. Purple is probably not the right choice, but at least it's not impossible to read anymore. *eyeroll*
I actually got sucked into adding tags to my blog posts, because I added a little tag cloud widget (it's kind of ugly, but also fun to watch as I tag more posts). That took a few hours, and I've only covered up through my first trip to Japan, so I guess the cloud's going to change once I get into all the college posts. I didn't really want to come back to this blog because I was cringing at the thought of rereading the posts, but they actually ended up being quite interesting! I'm really glad that I kept a journal of my Japan trips because I've liked reading back on the various anecdotes. I'm sad about losing all the photos, though. My MIT site has been gone for a very long time now.
A quick little update about me: in the years since I last posted, I switched from pet hamsters to pet rats, married the love of my life, and switched from the PS2 to the Xbox 360. :] I'm still drawing and making clay dragons, and I like to think that maybe I've gotten a little bit better. I have grandiose dreams of making a comic, but I haven't really gotten that off the ground yet. I still attend several anime conventions every year, but these days it's as an artist in the Artists' Alley. I thought I was over anime and manga, but I thought Puella Magi Madoka Magica was pretty good, and I catch myself skimming through a manga series every once in a while. I am also slightly ashamed to say I enjoy My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and that Rarity is my favorite pony.
Anyway, hello again, and here's hoping that I'll keep posting here for a while yet!
- Rindi
Current song: None
Current mood: Exhausted
I actually got sucked into adding tags to my blog posts, because I added a little tag cloud widget (it's kind of ugly, but also fun to watch as I tag more posts). That took a few hours, and I've only covered up through my first trip to Japan, so I guess the cloud's going to change once I get into all the college posts. I didn't really want to come back to this blog because I was cringing at the thought of rereading the posts, but they actually ended up being quite interesting! I'm really glad that I kept a journal of my Japan trips because I've liked reading back on the various anecdotes. I'm sad about losing all the photos, though. My MIT site has been gone for a very long time now.
A quick little update about me: in the years since I last posted, I switched from pet hamsters to pet rats, married the love of my life, and switched from the PS2 to the Xbox 360. :] I'm still drawing and making clay dragons, and I like to think that maybe I've gotten a little bit better. I have grandiose dreams of making a comic, but I haven't really gotten that off the ground yet. I still attend several anime conventions every year, but these days it's as an artist in the Artists' Alley. I thought I was over anime and manga, but I thought Puella Magi Madoka Magica was pretty good, and I catch myself skimming through a manga series every once in a while. I am also slightly ashamed to say I enjoy My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and that Rarity is my favorite pony.
Anyway, hello again, and here's hoping that I'll keep posting here for a while yet!
- Rindi
Current song: None
Current mood: Exhausted