IT STILL COUNTS! ( In America u_u )

I've missed my first postoberfest post. How SUCKY! And only ten days in! I have to admit I was doing really well up utnil that point but I'm cramming essays at the moment, I had two 2000-3000 word essays to write, which I was meant to do this weekend but instead I went to Liverpool.

Currently I only have one 2000-3000 word essay to write. Before 1pm. So I may write like 200 now and then just rush it tommorow morning. It's not even started and there's NO way I'm going to get it done really. I may as well make a solid effort. To sleep.

Postoberfest, Back I Came

Honestley, this is one of few pictures I have remaining to upload, I'm utterly shattered from Liverpool, early night.

Postoberfest, Off I Go

More Brobot for y'all, quick post as I'm setting off in like an hour and I've only just woken up, super speedy get ready/ eat breakfast? I think so :)

Brobot Necklace

I bought a tiny robot necklace today, he's kinda awesome but I had a tough choice between him and his orange brother, but let's face it, I'll have more opportunities to wear black than orange. 

 Anyway, I set him free in the house and he explored for a while until Blue-Cat started chasing him so he's hanging out with the other necklaces on the wall at the moment.

I'm off to visit Sarah tomorrow, which is exciting except I have to get three trains to her, which is three chances I'll end up on the wrong train but its like 2 hours so I might do a bit of essay writing on the way, despite the trains I'm getting being tiny ones. 

SHORT POST!

My 40th post might I add :D

Postoberfest, Stockpiles runnin' low!

I did NOT think Postoberfest through at all! I've already posted like 3 stockpiled images and I have VERY few left over, maybe if I was actually doing work at college there'd be more to upload, but I have god darn essays to write, along with my personal statement, roughly 8000 words-ish to be collectively done by Tuesday. Four days away. Two days I'm spending in Liverpool so this will be my finest moment in my history of handing in work last minute.

The piece above? I don't full remember doing it, I can tell you that it was made in inks, that I was clearly experimenting with mark making ( I left a cup of tea on it intentionally) and I can also tell you that giving this dude gold hair was a mistake. Gold is tacky in all walks of life, and unless you're Ke$ha it should be avoided at all times.

Je Deteste Le Mecredi (I hate Wednesdays)

Among other things (amongst is not a word according to Google Chrome) Wednesdays really wind me up, I have a three hour art lesson wherein I just pretend to get work done.

Lately I've been catching myself doing things I always told my self I never would, repeating mistakes and falling into old habits which I'd thought I'd broken and I'm putting a lot of unnecessary stress on myself which makes  a good 40% more irritable, I'm heading out to see Sarah on Saturday though which should rejuvenate me. 

The picture today is sort of a self portrait, but like, not because I probably look nothing like that, in my head though I always have an angry face. Made with inks and the birds were added in Photoshop. Really can't be bothered putting too much into this post really.

Umbralla Girl

Short post due to me needing to work on my sketchbooks for College. The above piece was part of the concept ideas behind a final pice a produced for my Graphics class (which I may upload if I ever get the piece down off a wall)  and it was a short (6 picture) story of a girl who makes a deal with Death in order to get her girlfriend back from the underworld. Armed only with an umbrella.

Made with inks of course :D

POW! Postoberfest!

Today I bring thee Death, Neil Gaiman's (and maybe all of DC's) incarnation of the character. She makes a brilliant character because she's generally cheerful and a female, neither of which are normal things identified with personifications of Death. She's only my... fourth favorite of the Endless, after Delirium, Despair and Dream. I like favoritism. 

Anyway, it's drawn in charcoals which I'm sort of getting into at the moment, experimenting and whatnot. Dry media is a weakness of mine, especially stuff that's smudges. Smudges suck.

SHORT POST!

Sunday Blues

(note the rainbow shiny hands, they've been in my scraps for a year, waiting to be used)

In all honesty, I hate Sundays. Granted I do hate a LOT of things, but Sundays are more a generally disliked thing. They're the day I waste. Saturdays can be productive. Sundays, Sundays suck.

So after reading a shitload of comics, watching Beauty and the Beast, Charlotte's Web and about 6 episodes of The Grim Adventure's of Billy and Mandy I decided I'd ink something. Originally I was making Katy Perry fan-art, but I will save all Katy Perry related shenanigans until Halloween. So, all done in ink except the lips which are plain ol' acrylic paints (I loathe acrylic paint, it reminds me of being a six year old) but of course, being the left handed buffoon (real word) I blobbed some red on her cheek, hence the lightning shaped markings which made me think whoever the girl is is dramatic, so I started giving her really thick eye-liner marking without waiting fr the ink underneath to dry. Major bleeding occurred so I just made her a shadowy domino mask type thing and flecked white ink into it. 

If something is mess, fleck it. It makes it look deliberate. 

Also, this is my third consecutive day posting something on here, I now officially declare this month to be: 

Postoberfest 2011.

That's right, hold onto your hats and all other loose accessories, I will be posting something EVERYDAY this month. Sheer madness. Also beware as I'm invading Sarah's uni on the 8th and I'm not 100% sure how I will post from Liverpool. Perhaps if I post the morning before I leave and the night I come back, we'll see.

CLOSE-UP:

Open Days and Valerie Kyle

Sophie took me to an open day at Staffordshire Uni today it was lovely, I looked into a course based on comics, which is kinda cool and although I know that one day I DO want to write and draw my own comics, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to do such a focused course at this time, especially when there's SO much else that I'm capable of and Illustration in theory could better prepare me for more variable work, WHO KNOWS, it must be mulled over.

Anyway moving onto the piece above, for my personal project in my Graphics class I'm focusing on comics (after what I've just posted above it may make hypocritical but you know, shut up.) and I've been messing around with ideas for narratives and the likes and some how I mentally gave birth to Valerie Kyle, an angel who's been given the chance at a second life, if she can devour the pure heart of a human. It's supposed to be a narrative that deals with morally grey areas such as;

'Is it right to do the wrong things for the right reasons?'

It's an aspect of narrative I always find fascinating and identify with personally and made this quick little sketch  of Valerie who is protantagonist of the piece, in the story itself she doesn't wear a big feathery dress but I like me some symbolism.