here's one thing you probably don't ever think about- i pretty much steal everything i draw. i mean i change it a little so that it feels more 'me' and i feel like my style is developing nicely and it feels 'my own' but basically someone ordered some moths so i sat and looked at a bafabegiya record cover and drew some of the moths on it because i thought they were pretty:
is this a dick move? i guess? especially since i'm making a small amount of money off of each drawing. but the fact is, this entire blog exists solely for the purpose of drawing exercise. i draw the same shit so much now that a lot of it i can bust out with no reference at all. like bees, for instance, come pretty easily to me these days:
the wreaths kind of pop out of my head but i also look at tattoos and old clip art for reference for those, too. my tattoo artist introduced me to the dover series clip art books full of victorian advertising shit and they are AMAZING, i love them.
a lot of the bugs i draw i just directly reference nature illustrations from field guides or photographs:
i think that through the process of learning to draw from reference (i never used to look at photos or anything, but now i really like to) i've gotten a lot better at drawing, period. and i do want to learn to tattoo someday so all this exercise is part of that process for me, too.
I LOVE the little bunny sitting up in the grass. He might need to come live in my house, without the bees though. Ouch!
ReplyDeleteI like your commentary. You're rougher around the edges than I would have imagined, and I like that.
ReplyDeleteSweet drawings, regardless of the source material!
did you hang these at the crow bar on mississippi by chance??
ReplyDeletenope, valerie- not the crow bar. but i'm hanging a show at skeleton key tattoo on hawthorne in april!
ReplyDeleteyeah, after I wrote that I remembered that they were indeed butterflies at crow bar, but also horses on the same sort of brown paper. It was a bit darky dark there! Plus, I think yours are a bit more clean and refined! awesome about the show at skeleton key!
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