Painting Time!

I haven’t updated in a while… mainly because I’ve been SO busy this semester.  Actually, it’s been a pretty stressful one since I’m finding that my classes here are more intense than any of the art classes I’ve taken before.  I shouldn’t really be surprised since it is sort of common sense that things are challenging in upper division classes. But I still wasn’t prepared I guess.

But to let you know I’m still around, I’ll give you the first few works I did in my painting class.  The first few paintings were supposed to be simplified values.  I had a hard time doing it since I kept wanting to blend everything.  But without further ado, here you go.

Based off a picture of me and my boyfriend back in 2009.

Based off a picture of my friend on her 18th birthday.

And this was a photo of me and my friends in San Francisco back in 2007.

The subject matter for the assignment had to be these genre paintings or snapshots.  It was pretty fun.  I really enjoy this class so far.

Anyways, that’s it for now.  Byeeeee.

Something Radiates

So much for updating every week. … Ok I’ll try again. I’ve been busy moving into a new space for the college I transferred to this semester (I actually had my first day of class today whoooo).  I’m taking all art classes this semester too.  I never really taken so many art classes in one semester so it’ll be interesting how it turns out.  In case you’re curious, I’m taking a Printmaking II, Life Drawing II, Painting II, Digital Photography, and Contemporary Art History.  I’m going to be so sick of art by the end of the semester GACK!

So for my painting class we were supposed to do a drawing that represented our favorite subjects.  I like landscapes and people… but mainly people.  So I ended up drawing a picture of this girl.  I’ll put it up here so everyone can see how it looks (beware, it was taken with my cellphone):

So anyways, it was a quick drawing but somehow I think it’s one of my better drawings.  I usually try to have emotion in the people I draw but I never get the full effect I want.  But this time I think I definitely captured emotion.  Her eyes just say so much! I’m so proud of myself today.  I hope I can achieve this all the time.

Ok that’s all I really have for now.  Byeeeeee!

I’M ALIVE

Ok I could list a million excuses to why I haven’t updated my blogs recently but still spam the hell out of my facebook and twitter…. but I won’t.  Because excuses are excuses.  I will have to make a promise to myself that I will update this blog AT LEAST once a week since this is supposed to be my main blog and all.

ANYWAYS…. I decided to make my old blogspot into my gyaru blog to breathe life back into it again.  Normal people would’ve deleted their blogs when they don’t use them anymore but NOT ME.  I felt like being a greedy bastard and left it up … just because I wanted to keep the subdomain of “tribalpunk.” For those who didn’t know, I was going to build a separate website and my blogspot was going to be attached to it.  I had this in mind for years but I never gotten around to making the actual website.  In the meantime, the blogspot was just a place of random updates and the occasional art piece I finished.  But everything changed once I found out about wordpress.  But yeah, I wanted this to be the main blog about my life and my art while the blogspot will be about fashion and whatever happens in my gyaru journey.  I’m not sure how long I’ll keep up the blog but we’ll see.

I have started working on the layout of the new blog and I’m actually getting pretty excited about it.  But when it’s done, it’s going to be super colorful and cute.  This blog layout will be dull and boring in comparison so then I’ll HAVE to change the layout of this blog as well.  I like how this blog is set up since it captures this professional artist feel and represents my interests in the logo… but this blog simply cannot be outdone by my gyaru side project blog.  It just can’t.

Anyways, I’m giving you guys a sneak peak of the blogspot revamp.  But I promised myself I will not finish it until I finish one of my good friend’s gift that’s about three months late.  I’M SO ASHAMED!

Well anyway, here it is:

I realized half-way through this that I have this image flipped… my hair part would be on the opposite side.  Oh well… too lazy to change it.

I’m wondering…

This is supposed to be mainly an art blog, but will I loose interest if I start talking about gyaru fashion on here too?  Or should I create a completely different blog for that purpose??  I’ve been thinking about that today.

And I’m not even sure I’m going to get any responses on here considering I probably don’t have any readers… or at least not any readers that comment.

Perhaps a New Project

Ok, I don’t intend to tell too much of my personal life in here, but this does relate to some artwork that might come about in the future.

For a long time now, I’ve been denying myself the things I want to be or do… Mainly because I don’t want to upset people.  I generally had always bent my back to please other people.  I played nice with other people throughout grade school to feel accepted.  I became fiercely loyal to my best friends in high school (this was a huge mistake I made but that’s another story for maybe another time). And most of all, I stayed obedient, plain, and suppressed my true wants for my family members just so they would still love and accept me.  There’s many other examples but I think you guys get my point.

But with each year, I keep suppressing my feelings on the matter.  Everything is getting bottled up.  It’s becoming to be at this point where I literally can’t take it anymore!

I pretty much let some things out today and got so much crap for it.  I’m not going to unleash the details, but I’m here to say that I’m frustrated.  So very frustrated.

So to let things out even further.  I’m going to start making a series of paintings to reflect my repressed feelings.  It’s going to be personal, but I think it’s the best thing I could do at this point.

Rokku.

I guess that I’ll also use this blog to talk about fashion and makeup too since that’s a huge part of who I am… though don’t worry.  This will still be primarily an art blog for of art things!  I was going to go through my internet existence without posting much about myself and what I look like but it’s all going to change in this entry.  Hope I don’t regret this.

I’ve been getting into gyaru fashion since about three weeks ago.  So in addition to having no life and going to school at the moment, I’ve been looking at copious amounts of magazine scans.

For a while now, it’s no secret that my fashion was being influenced by punk/goth clothing (though I never made the full conversion to being 100%).

Now this covered a wide range, from early 2009 when my hair was blah (I was trying to grow it out to be super long at the time), to before I started dying it, to after I first put pink and purple in my hair, to when I recently cut it rather short.

Now I haven’t really “transformed” yet.  And I probably won’t for a while.  You see, I’m one of those poor college students that spend whatever money I have left on gas, food, and silly things.  For now, I am working on the makeup and hair skills.  And whatever transformation that will take place won’t be a huge difference.  The look I’m going for is more of a Rokku/Baika fashion.  So really, it’s the clothes I wear now, but gal-ified… if that makes sense.

What is Rokku you ask?  Here, I’ll provide you with some pictures and you’ll get the idea:

  So there you go.  It’s like super fashionable, punky clothing and I love the look!  Here’s the thing. Recently,  I wanted to have a look where its both tough and girly.  So what I’ve been doing is wearing skirts and dresses with my boots.  But not too long after I’ve been doing this, I found out through several links about gyaru fashion.  Though initially, I wasn’t going to submerge myself into this.  I though gyaru was only super girly and you ended up looking like Xiaxue or something.  But after some research, I found that was defintely not the case.  There’s something for everyone in this fashion (there’s so many subgenres, its crazy!).

Though who knows if it’s going to happen.  I always say I’m going to join one fashion statement and never make the full conversion because of lack of money or fear of confrontation about my dramatic looks. I kinda hope I make it this time but oh well.  Let’s see what happens.

In other news,  I am working an another art piece (one that’s outside of school to boot!).  It’s for a friend of mine and its a late birthday present.  I was supposed to finish it by last Sunday but I didn’t have time to do so.  Once it’s finished, I’ll be sure to post it here and yammer on about it forever and ever.

BYE

Printing.

Ok, I REALLY need to update this more often.  I’ve been EXTREMELY busy with school work since next week is my last week.  Though speaking of school, I will post a little taste of how my printmaking class went so far.

The first project was from a linoleum block print.  This was a project I’ve done plenty of times before when I took art classes in high school.  So really, I kinda knew what I was doing at that point of the class.  Actually, the pictures in the logo of this site feature two of such prints.  First one is of the character Kalulu, who is supposed to be representative of a trickster type character based off of the Tumbuka mythology.

The second type of print was one etched on a plexiglass plate.  I rubbed ink all over it and then wiped it off so all that remained was the ink stuck inside the cracks.  Then the pressure from the press transferred the ink onto paper.  Once again, it is Michelle (the same girl as the one in the character meme entry).  I had an image like this in my head for a couple of years.  In the early stages of developing Izulu I was thinking this would be the cover for a future graphic novel… but instead I decided to try it out on a print project… heh.

Ok I just finished the last one on Monday.  We made the plate the same way, only you rolled on the ink lightly so it doesn’t get into the cracks and print it like a relief print (much like the woodblock project).  When the professor was showing us examples of what kind of pieces this type of printing produces, I thought an image of Daft Punk would be perfect!  I’ve always been fond of the duo since I saw the “One More Time” video on TV back when I was around 11.  My boyfriend loves the piece and took one of the prints when I showed them to him today.

Other than that, just school! That and I keep checking on this new forum I joined instead of doing homework.  I feel like it’s a new chapter of my life since I discovered a new fashion that I will probably become part of.

Well… that’s it! Hopefully I will update this more often!