Aplication

Paper, markers, photo print, glue.

Some cool links, art and photography

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliscarpulla/

Very mysterious, airy, witchy photos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXrGFXoEcA&feature=related

the music video that i found the link from.

http://www.danshort.com/dc/index.php?p=1

Gustav Dore, Divine Comedy illustrations. All

The Operation

Another oil pastel on cardboard. If you don't know what color to use try zebra stripes, seems to work. Not sure which side is up though...

Flying is controlled falling.

A stencil made from a previous image.

Trapped

Another oil pastel on cardboard drawing.
Recently finished. Somewhat old.
A face trapped in darkness, wrapped in paper.
Kept quiet by her own hair.

Muse

A dark angel.
A silent scream,
Or a song so sweet.

Oil pastel on cardboard.

Just a dream...

Finally, and attempt at making a graphic novel page, of sorts. Scans of B&W film negatives, photoshop and some drawing.

Even More

This time, color pencils with markers on paper, then scanned, cut out and combined in photoshop with a scan of a negative. The image is obviously duplicated and I changed the darkness to give it a bit more dimension.

More mixed media.

This time the drawings are made on computer. You can see the style and quality are quite different from the previous one done with oil pastels on rough paper.

Mixed Media

I was reading a graphic novel recently that used mixed media, painting with photographs.
Here is an attempt to do something similar. Oil pastel on paper and overlay over scans of b&w negatives.

Walk Free

Walk Free

For in this life, where pain and sorrow have encased us to the brim,
There is a precious fire in our souls that we can keep, to light the way.
The way to a place that is not, a place of dreams and changing thought.
However it is not about the place it is about the trail, as all trails in the end lead to death.
So walk my dear those trails, not with fear but with abandonment and adventure.
For thee thy self is the only guide you can follow, all else is but fainted footmarks.

I like you in blue

Oil pastel on cardboard. This time on a cardboard for Italian imported vine.
I am indeed starting to differentiate between the different kinds of cardboard out there,
their quality, thickness, color, smell. And one would think, or at least I did, that its all
pretty much the same, unlike all those nice expensive papers, cold pressed, cotton, archival etc.

Parasite

By tricking me, you trick yourself.
By testing me, you test yourself.
By punishing me, you free yourself.
But am I not a part of you already?
-Love, Parasite

Once again, oil pastels on cardboard.

Depictions of 8 individuals

Yet more oil pastel drawings

When you shut down, you give up.

Other times, you want to shut down, you want to give up, but no matter what, for some strange reason you can't. Something keeping you pushing back, be it hope, or memories. And then you fail, hurt yourself again, give up for a moment, and start the whole process again. Thinking for some reason that next attempt will succeed.
Is that life or just my own stupidity?

Designs for a chalk mural. Winter Wonderland

The wonderland quality will be achieved using strong, vivid colors, as well as magical characters and an ice castle at the far right of the image. The panorama will be filled with mysterious, big birds, little elves, and of course Santa somewhere up above.
The options are to make it a luscious night scene filled with multicolored lights and Christmas decorations, or imaginative colors like Mark Chagall.
The scenery will be filled with many characters, similar to the works of Peter Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch.

Oil pastels on cardboard

Some more work of the same style.

New age saints

This is a series of oil pastel painting I'm currently working on. It depicts people in desperate situations, people that don't have what we have, but maybe have something else, something more instead...

Or rather a less romantic description would be, people who have a very different point of view on the world we live in.

All the drawings are made with oil pastels on cardboard.

Wood Carving

Some of my recent wood carvings. Maple and exacto knife. The box has 4 different motifs of a rose on each side, and a rose bud lid. Both the cameo and the box are about a palms size.

Deep Sea Creatures Storyboard WIP

Storyboard in progress for the Deep Sea Creatures short animation idea, the person in the suit is Jacques, the model of a head seen in a previous post.

Technique Test

This is a test for what technique I might want to use when making comic book style illustration. The red pencil image is a scan, and the B&W one is drawn over on computer with a tablet. Debating if I should use a computer at all, the pros and cons... Comments are welcome.

Deep Sea Creatures

I have started working again on one of my old ideas. It is a short film (CG 3D animation) that takes place deep under the sea. In it, a young diver encounters untold treasures, a mysterious sea creature, and a memory of home.

So far I have been working on the main character Jacques (a homage) modeled his face after front and side view photo I took of myself as a reference, and now refining it in Mudbox, later to add deails, and save out a normal map.