This is the first time I used my blog to force myself to draw, lol. Two posts back I told myself I would draw, so I just shut down the computer and did, this was the outcome. It's a little difficult to explain, I'll explain what it all means if anyone asks. Cheers!! Hope you all like it.
PS. I was particularly happy with this cuz I didn't copy it. I drew it on paper from my head and then traced it on computer cuz I love vector.


















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Details: Watercolor
Time: 7 hours?
Note: Part of the same series, but not done in the same week. I had fun with this, haven't done a watercolor in ages, loved some of the gradients.

Perhaps I'll do more of this series in the future, cuz come to think of it, I only have to do 2 more days, Monday and Tuesday, ... perhaps, perhaps ...

Details: Vector in Corel Draw and finalized in PS
Time: 30 minutes
Note: I just slapped this together using some previous art becuase I didn't want to go a day without finishing one pic, as I said before, I did a pic everyday for a week ... well it ended after 5 days.

Details: 2B to 8B
Time: In all, 6 hours?

Details: 2B, 3B
Time: 15 minutes
Note: Red added on computer, silly I know.

Pastel color case
6B outlines
Time: One night, late!
Note: My first pastel Drawing since I was like 10!

I must admit I often copy details of my graphics from one project to the next. Little things I’m sure not everyone would notice, but for me it’s a BIG thing. Simply because it means I don’t have to think something new up, I just use the same concept.
This piece is an example of that. I used the curves in the background twice before already … and probably will again in the future. But I like it anyways, so enjoy it!

If anyone has a better name for this piece, please give me your ideas.
And by the way, this is best viewed LARGE!

Yep, I did it again, crazy ain't it, so much art in such a short time when I was doing like none before. I kind of feel bad for my pencils though, they must be lonely. I actually have at least 4 unfinished peices lying there soaking up sust at the moment, shows how poor I am at finishing what I start, sigh. Well, I'll finish them sometime, or should I say, some year. But for now you can just enjoy this peice. Sad though, it's so un-novel, because we all know who wins. It's almost like he's thinking, "Ok, here goes again ... " lol!


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Computer art may be an odd subject to you all, something you’d only find in a M.I.T. textbook. Perhaps, and I really only started doing this week, lol, although I’ve done a lot of vector illustrations in the past, I’ve just started doing it as art now, which is an interesting thing. You see, the type of vector illustrations I like are usually quite abstract. Pictures with lines that are obsessed with 90 degree angles, colors everywhere, form telling the story instead planned out conceptual composition. That’s what I’ve always liked, the more abstract the better. But it seems each of my artistic endeavors of late have morphed away from that style, and are becoming conceptual, the title of the piece telling you what the artist wants to relate and I’m doing everything all realistic. Well, art does that to you, creeps up on you and gives you a style you may not even think you were made for. But I am in no way complaining, I’m just happy the Lord helped me to make these last compositions and I was really happy about my work, because I’m getting better at it, faster for one which is a big step, vector usually takes hours, and more fluent with the way I work.
Well that post was more for me than anyone, kind of documenting this new art stage I’m moving into, but please enjoy these pictures, hopefully they will make you think a little.


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Now I was going to blog about something else at this moment, but I’m not in a real writing mood so I thought I’d write about this. Vector Art, my new love! Ok, dictionary popping up here … a vector is: a mathematical expression denoting a combination of magnitude and direction, as velocity. My God they make it sound disgusting, how could I love that! Ok, maybe I should use my own words. Basically vectors are like fonts. They can be however you want them, you can design your own, they can be any color, be transparent, have shadow applied to them, and the beautiful thin is you can make them any size and they are the same quality because they are LINES. Easy explanation enough, but how do you draw with vectors? Well, basically, you use a vector program, I use Corel Draw (I love that program with all my heart too) and you draw vectors as you wish. Take ages and I can be difficult when they stack on each other strangely, but the RESULTS, oh Holy mother Mary and her sister Magdelene, they are GOOD! I just love the feel vector gives! The smooth, solid look. You can really conceptualize with vector, which is more difficult when just changing around a photo, because with vector it’s like drawing. So that was really boring if you actually read it, but don’t worry about all that, look at what it can do, it’s really good, my favorite computer art medium for sure.

I did these two compositions in 2 days, the rose I had started a while back and just picked it up and used it. It takes a very long time to do, vector art. The Muslim girl took me less than 2 hours but the rose took me a long, long time. Anyways, that was a boring post, but I hope you enjoyed the pictures, hopefully more coming soon.
But if there is a point to be learned, those who sit at computers can be creative … thank God, would never want to be a zero and one code freak!! (p.s. click the photos for the version in the gallery, where large versions are available)

Love Is ...
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I found this photo on Flickr and just had to draw it!