More Sketches

So those new skate decks are suppose to come today, however, it is now 7pm (Ohio time) and they still have no arrived... I am more than disappointed about it. However, I have done both of these sketches recently. 

This top image is Ralf. His sketch is pretty much done and I think I know completely what I want to do with the board. I'm thinking some kind of bubble background and then his name on the side of it... This is what I'm thinking anyway. 

And this one does not currently have a name. The face area is weird still. I want it to kind of look like skin over a skull with no eyes or nose. I plan to try and just shade it so it looks that way. So we'll see how that turns out. However, I have yet to figure out how the rest of the board is going to turn out. It may just be a simple one like the Timothy Deck. Have a solid colored background and then throw this guy in. 

Color Pencil Sketches

These are sketches I was working on awhile ago. I was trying to use the forms I have been working with, however, bring some color and emotion to them. 

Changing up the Forms

My goal with these was to continue with my forms but to change them up. I did a lot of research and looking at images within the Ethiopian culture. These are mainly just sketches. There are two landscape kind of images, but other than that, they are all forms.

Materials: Color pencil on paper

Sketch Work: Gestural Forms Continued

Additional gestural drawings. They are pretty sketchy but I'm pretty pleased with what is coming out thus far. The bottom one with the two figures is my favorite. I don't know why I didn't think about putting two figures in the images. It pulls more of a story to the surface. It wasn't until I went back and looked at Jedd Garet's work that I even considered putting more than on figure into the an image. In his works, the figures almost look as though they are dancing or embraced in one another. When I read it, it comes across as a love story almost. I want to be able to do that with my images. Right now they kind of just look like they are leaning on one another... not that that is a bad thing. I want them to look frail and weak, so that dependency on one another for support and strength would be a good thing. I guess I just need to keep working and see where it goes...

Material: Newsprint and charcoal

 

Paint Sketches

These are small paint sketches with the same ideas continued.

The images to the right were made with oil paint, on paper, with hot glue. all the texture in the green image is created using hot glue. The blue image is only involves glue in the "head" of the figure.

The lines in the background of both images were made by laying a very thin amount of hot glue, then painting over it. The glue would just lift off easily.

Whereas, the bottom image has no texture added to it. A lot of the images I've been drawing seem to stand up like monuments, which isn't exactly what I want. I figure I should try mixing up the layout.

Sketch Work: After Kevin Carter

These are the images I began to sketch after seeing Kevin Carter's photography. I found myself rather disturbed by the image and these are the images that surfaced due to it. 

                  

Print Sketches

Sketch work of print work ideas. I was working with the idea of memory and contortions. If you can’t tell, thats a sketch of a brain on the left side. Its upside down in this picture.