Hey look! Art! Look at the shiny! It’s not like I’ve been absent for 8 months….
Eugh.
*hangs head in shame*
So let’s start off by stating the obvious- I’ve been so very slack. Busy- but slack. I am a truly lazy blogger. I am ashamed, and I swear I’m gonna try and do better!!! I never even got around to finishing my travel blogging!? So I’m gonna save that catch up for its own blog entry. All I’ll say is good god I’ve been busy.
I got back from the states, and moved straight back to Brisbane for three months and was a municipal liaison for NaNoWriMo for a month organising events for 30+ people while writing 50 000 words towards the first draft of my novel (154k and still going FYI!!!). I then moved back to the Byron Shire and started doing a handful of freelance gigs before I organised my scholarship for my second degree, drove to Sydney, and have now been in Sydney for a week and am about to start said second degree. Now I’m contemplating looking into doing extra work to get some experience on
A film set.
But again, that’s really just a list of excuses, and I’m gonna try and do better and draw more. Because that’s what I started this blog for, and bloody hell, it’s past due now. I love drawing, and I think I kinda forgot that for the last year of so.
I needed a kick up the ass, I needed a deadline so I would actually sit down and put stylus to tablet- so I signed up for the Stony RBB (reverse Big Bang) challenge online, and this is the result! For those not in the know, an RBB is a collaboration challenge, where an artist draws a scene or concept as a prompt, and an author then picks which picture they’d like to create a story around.
There’s also the original Big Bang challenge, which is the opposite. The authors start writing and post a summary of their stories, and then it’s the artists who pick which story they’d like to illustrate. It’s a really fascinating process!
And I had a blast with this one! I worked with the truly lovely Navaan who wrote a fantastic story that I so enjoyed reading! (heads up! It’s a bit risqué!) It was exciting to see where Navaan took the original prompt (the first and second picture) and how that developed into the third picture which I illustrated based on my favourite scene!
Overall, the RBB totally worked, I got three finished pictures out of it after having artists block and absolutely no inclination to sit down and draw for practically a year. So I’ve signed up for the Avengers RBB that will be running in June. Let’s see if I can keep the ball rolling with uni starting up on the 2nd shall we?
Oh god what have I done haha.
But that’s a problem for June.
But back to the pictures! Had a blast focusing on light, composition and mood, and I’ve been enjoying playing around with this painterly style. Also made a point of keeping focus in mind, and trying to guide people’s gaze, I really what to learn more about composition, because I always find myself falling back on the same techniques and tricks, so I think I’ll make that the goal of the next RBB.
So that’s my post for the day- hopefully I’ll be around a touch more often eh? But now I’ve gotta get back to clearing out and backing up my poor struggling laptop- wish me luck!
~Jess
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