Playlist: A Lighter Side

Playlist: Groovy Tracks

 Main Hiphop Chillout Playlist:

For Reference: Soundtracks Spotify Playlist

Alchemy of Art

When an artist goes to create something, there seems to be an order, or proportion of elements that helps the process go smoothly, and result in a successful project. After meditating on the subject and consulting with some other artists, I developed this simple list of components that seem to make sense.

0. Awareness - opening up mind, and senses.

1. Passion - deep caring, interest, excitement.

2. Skill - having control, knowledge

3. Faith - letting go, belief that it will come together

4. Style - impression and polishing

Spotify Playlist: OldSkool - The essentials

21 hours of the classics, some are new, and just got the feeling.

Spotify Playlist: Favorites - Mixed bag

Collecting some of my favorite tracks. Various styles gathered from the other playlists.
Mostly heavy on rhythm, some funk and jazz, drum & bass, and others more atmospheric.

unfortunately some of them cannot be played, for reference only.

Spotify Playlist: Tablaazaar - Awesome Eastern Rhythms

 Spotify Playlist:

Colored Pencil Sketches on Black Paper

 

Deco and flow.
Inspired by Russian Lacquer box designs

Freeform curls

rising heat sketch
colored pencil white charcoal

spectral pressure

glowing connections

neon smoke sketch. colored pencil.

Spotify playlist: Classic Drum & Bass

 Time travel back to the exciting world of 1998 and experience some of my favorite drum and bass style tracks.

6 hours of fascinating rhythms and atmospheres.

Ref. to cool tracks that could not be found on Spotify: 

1. DnB Despite Remix
2. Avid Nation: Riding Higher
   

More awesome tracks lacking in other places:

Youtube Playlist: more sonic discoveries

Sketchbook Archive: Strange faces collection

antler eyes

Chupacabra?

uhh..

gnawing demon

Hypno tiger

expanding vision

Sketchbook Archive: Blind Contour Hands

Blind contour is where you look at only the subject, not your paper, while drawing the contours you see. This was from a life drawing class. I never tried blind contour drawing, but I like the results. very distorted and dramatic.

Nonsense: Jan, 2006

 Adjust the air flow to your ears. Sound pays you in sighs. Feel the vicious spots stratifying under light animal feet. Always wrap it around until your last load of dollars comes in. Spacious voracious shaped tupperware piplines. Splashing toward the playground of octagons. Legs without bodies glimmer into existance. Crawling toward their final thrashland. Invading all particals crawling balls of arms and legs transform. Over active crawling. That is all that armlegorbs can do. Hard surfaces, Soft surfaces, or all over your faces are the highways of the creatures in question without question.

Pretend offensive, incredibly defensive simulation all to activate your defenses. It arouses my interest to observe programmed responses. Reactions. Distracting your senses.

Sketchbook Archive (2006): Cell Phone Concepts (marker)

 

Future Flip-Phones

Cell Phone Concepts 2

Paper sculpture composition

 

work in progress painting.
paper pulp sculpture

Freewrite: 2006 "the theatre of banging"

 Is there a quiet place, a peaceful location i can stay and hear absolutely no noise. I suppose i could go into space. But that would be somewhat inefficient. Is there a place i can relax and have no interruptions? Why would i want that, and how long? I'm just typing meaningless crap aren't I. what the fuck. I don't know what to write. i want to write to pass the time but i cant concentrate. there is banging on the ceiling that just can't be ignored. there is nowhere for me to be. I'm in a theatre. The walls are black and the seats are blue. Unlike a usual theatre 

descriptions using assumed words versus simple definitions that define the situation without saying the more deep words.

how can i say theatre without using the word theatre.

it's too complex a word. there are many different assumptions of what a theatre could be, people have different experiences. it could be dark and have a steep incline with creaky seats and a tiny screen. There could be any number of people in the room.

We have to start with a blank room. that is the only thing there is. the most basic location. interior.

how big?

what shape?

the next qualities.

what about instead of shape and size

tell what those things define.

they define mood, atmosphere: whether it's cramped or stuffy or tight or relaxed. choice of words means everything.

what are the relevant qualities of the location, in relation to the story.

in here the impact on the character is important because it's ME!!

Although it's well lit and closed off, it is still a haunting experience. it's a quiet room inside, because there is no one here. The sound comes through the walls and ceiling all over like ghosts muffled talking and banging. the vacant seats stand like blue upholstered grave stones. The narrow rows lead to a modest raised area in front. A table stands unused like an abandoned player in an abandoned play. I sit among the seats, a one-man audience. The ceiling is clogged with heavy looking spot lights all aimed at the terrified table. Obnoxious voices resonate through the halls, performing their impromptu parts of life. The walls creak like they are filled with gnawing insects. it is amazing that such a calm, empty, silent room could be this distracting. My skin jumps each time the person in the ceiling jumps. The viscous dancing beast with logs for legs surprises me just when i start to get used to the ambient voices. City noise doesn't yield when it hits these walls, it seems to be a conspiracy to irritate me with any available noise making device. is it life's test of my patience? how and why could life test a person?

Sketch. Acrylic layering.

 

Airbrush templates, white acrylic ink.

Acrylic Sketch

AI Enhanced Portraits: More Presidents

 AI Enhanced Portraits
George Washington:

George Washington. First president.
Commanding General of the Continental Army. ~1750
"Father of our Nation"
Owned many slaves.

Andrew Jackson:

Andrew Jackson:
Signed the "Indian Removal Act",
and also owned many slaves.
We really need to rethink our icons.

AI Enhanced Portrait: William Blake

 AI Enhanced Portrait

Figure 2, William Blake:

Ref: painted portrait
 by Thomas Phillips

An awesome artist of poetry, drawings, and paintings, who lived in England around the 1750's into the 1820's. 

In this exploration, I researched portraits of William Blake, and attempted to create a modernized, more photorealistic view of the artist; an idea of what he may have looked like if you met him today. The concept is still being adjusted, but the current results are shown below.

Lifecast by by James Deville

William Blake
Based mainly on the oil painting

In this concept, it incorporates most elements from the Phillips painting. Although his skull should appear a bit more narrow, and his nose needs to be lower and slightly flared. The lips could be less red.

Another version. slightly younger and clean.

An aged concept of Blake, taking
inspiration from the painting and lifecast.

This portrait draws a lot of from the watercolor, proportions from the oils, but the forms are adapted slightly toward the lifecast. From the sculpture reference, the features seem like they were significantly stretched from gravity and the process of lifecasting, so some reshaping was done with that in mind.

AI Enhanced Portraits: Abraham Lincoln

 AI Enhanced Portraits

Figure 1: Abraham Lincoln

Enhanced Abe

This blend flow map shows images
used to adapt the style and proportion.

In this demonstration, I attempted to adapt several historical photographs, of Abraham Lincoln, into a more detailed and modern portrait.

Original Alexander Gardner’s
 close-up portrait

Artbreeder is the tool used to morphologically adjust the photos. The historical pictures are used to develop the structure of the face. A few other images are pulled in for their coloration and rendering style.

The coloration concept, below, takes the portrait and slightly brightens his complexion. Inspired by several black and white photos and a stamp engraving.

Hybrid Colorization

Clay figure "Shrine"

 

Clay Figure, Hematite beads. Acrylic design.