The Hunter

I had a lot of fun painting this..I like spontaneousness. I've always admired painters that does huge painting in one go. It takes a lot of courage to accept your own imperfections and the beauty in it.
Hand painted with ink and colored digitally....maybe I should put some animal in that empty spot in the lower right.

swans swans swans

The illustration course in Designskolen Kolding really opened up a lot of possibilities for my art practice. As I hid myself in my room and work my ass off these few days, new palettes and styles and ideas suddenly came to me and things seemed to be not as difficult as I thought, then I realized its because I often think too much even before I start something, so I always try to meet my own expectations while I recreate the image that was in my head. It feels good to not think too much and just go with the flow no matter what you're dealing with. Here is this week's concert poster:



The band, Spectral Empire is into retro sci fi stuff, so I did a little research on sci fi record covers and came up with these alien (not?) swans. I was going to draw some small humans at the bottom too but it gets too crowded. Anyway this is another digital painting, but I promised myself that I will start with ink or water color next time before I bring it into the computer.

I know you do.

This is sort of a valentines day drawing for my bf. When I gave it to him he burst out into laughters and said the birdman is creepy but still looks like him. We're both creepy anyway with the animal eyes... but the whole point of this drawing is to fly to a place with tall mountains. :) I might color these drawings digitally some day but I'd still prefer to draw in black and white.

What I did on my birthday

Here is what I did on Feb 1st, 2009.
To conclude the illustration course, we had one and a half week to illustrate 3 articles, and we had 4 to choose from - the financial crisis continues, the pope on youtube, factories paying green tax, and the hypochondriacs. At first I struggled to come up with good ideas..then I had an idea about financial crisis, a time when parents regret having so many kids..and the kids turns into disgusting pink baby birds (somebody told me they look like rats).



Feb 2nd..
the ex- hypochondriac is able to give birth to himself on a hospital bed by crawl out from his diseased skin



and Feb 3rd
Instead of going to the church on Sunday, hardcore catholics are having a meeting at an internet cafe watching the Vatican Youtube channel.




After reading Nate William's Article about starting an illustration career, I'm once again lead back to the same old dilemma...which is commiting to a consistent style. As an artist I have been telling myself that it is okay to experiment. In fact I've been experimenting for years..I can switch to a totally new style every time and I get bored easily, but when it comes to looking for work, I never realized the importance of sticking to a certain style.........they called it "branding" (very business-like). So here's the 2nd poster I did for Staggered Works. Again, it's something different from what I usually do (What do I usually do?). At least I haven't done collages in a while.

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