Not in progress, but stuff I recently finished for a group show. First one is from the installation:



This one was a colab we painted during the opening. Mine's in the middle:

The art on here is amazing.

Though I'm not so sure you should have a derailer in that heart, geekpunk.

I just started doing this myself. Trying to do some retro styled 50s-ish illustrations so I scanned in some bits of newspaper ads/colors for my fills. Working with clipping masks and scanned swatches in illustrator is the new pink.

i've been using photoshop as i've successfully avoided learning illustrator for the past however many years. one of these days that's gonna bite me in the ass. here's the first attempt i made at this technique. it's a scene from lolita i did for an illustration class i was taking.
any tips you've picked up that you can share?

I'd say your use of swatches looks pretty good. I have recently started to favor Illustrator because it looks cleaner (gotta love vectors), prints well, and is generally smaller in file size than PS files.
This is the only example I have on my computer at the moment and its not finished, but you get the idea.

I'm gonna set up my own scanned swatch library over the break which will be nice.

I feel like the chainring/cog thing has kinda been done to death (I like it a a lot, but anything I would have done would have just been ripping off something else that I liked better) and derailleurs are cool looking!

I don't have any on my bikes, but I still think they are cool as hell.

painting!

i apologize for the sparks can in this one. what was i thinking? turning it into a tall boy would be even worse. it probably just needs a pair of eyeballs or something.

How effective is hairspray as a fixative for charcoal? I really don't want to spend $8 on the real stuff.

i have two types of fixative, one for charcoal and one for my sennelier pastels, which cost $15 (but its made specifically for pastels and its worth it considering the pastels are 3.50 a stick)

i've never used hairspray but i caught my brother trying to last week and gave him my fixative. you know they make workable fixative so you can spray and keep working. And i don't think its $8, more like 5.49 or something i say just spend the money, its lasts a long time and good tools are the way to go.

dick blick art store is your friend. they are also cheaper online.

TiP: you're right, I'll suck it up. I hate spending the money just for drawing assignment, but I guess I should start making a portfolio.

having a workspace and tools is the most important thing. If you do not have them, you will not work or you will have difficulty working. It is difficult working prodigiously outside of the comradery, support, challenges, critiques and most of all the DEADLINES of a structured environment such as a fine institution.

not that saving a few bucks on fixative will make or break you though, just a thought.

enjoy what you've got going and put everything you've got into it. working on the solo kind of sucks, but then again sharing a studio sucked too.

keep on keepin on.

pretty much the greatest piece of art ever i think (no offense to the rest of you).

damn, i like.

I LIIIIKE

still in progress...

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You guys are amazing, it's threads like this that make me laugh at people who try to categorize many of us into "group-home posthippy rebel wannabes" or whatever bull**** they want to come up with.

Also makes me wish I went to art school for a term or two...

****ing engineering

the project i'm currently working on with a friend is called 52 pieces about nothing, it's a year-long weekly series of streaming audio clips with a piece of accompanying art, which is basically a hand-drawn cd sleeve on brown paper that a friend of ours did a series of this year
the audio tracks range from 20 min+ experimental sound-pieces to call & response sax/gtr with drones and doublebass drumming with guitar hysterics
slow/dynamite

I ought to slap you sucka.

But this thread is way cool.

Most of these are years old from when I just started my art phase ..all I could find posted on the net

Yes, but i have never intended to emulate her, if by any means that is what you were thinking.
I like her work from the 50's through the 70's. Some of the other stuff iffy...

I <3 Lucian freud

thats ok, I don't like washing brushes anyway

i did this for a print exchange. it's a tiny lino(like, 3"x3"). not really that good but i thought i should put something on here....

bump because i did the other wall



Worked on it for about 48 hours on both walls. I'm happy with it.

That's so sexual!