Having completed the life drawing, I’ve had the guts to enrol on the much more scary Access to Art course, 2 years with people more talented than me! I’m 4 months in and just praying I don’t lose my nerve as I’m loving it so far.
...close enough. I highly recommend this, what a great way to spend an evening. Here’s the no so perfect list..
Jan – True Adventures & The Gritts
Feb – CSS
Mar – The Rakes
April – x
May – Calvin Harris & Groove Armada
Jun – Lee Vasey
Jul – Kings of Leon
Aug – x
Sep – The Police
Oct – Mark Ronson
Nov – Biffy Clyro
Dec – x
..I’m amending this slightly to draw sometihing everyday, whether it takes five minutes or five hours. I seem to have forgotten somewhere along the way,that this is something I love and not a daily chore to survive through…
I’ve designed all three of mine and I’ve had a lot of positive comments about them, and as I personally feel tattoos should be indivdual I think this would be a great side of my work to develop. Just have to work out how….
I can do some basic stuff now, but not enough to close the goal. I keep trying to find someone to teach me one on one but that seems a bit of a tall order around here… :(
I’ve decided to change direction with my art work, it’s actually something I’ve been considering for a while, but I seem to have this attitude sometimes where I think just because I know I have a talent I will automatically be good enough just to decide to do something like this and get work straight away….well time to wake up Emi, you need to put the effort in, so I’m aiming for an hour of non work related drawing practice a night. Fingers crossed!
I actually think I’m getting worse at this not better, I was praised in a meeting today at work and not only did I wish the ground would open up and swallow me I made some stupid comment about how I didn’t deserve the praise – When actually I had worked really hard and I bloody well did!
I have no idea whats wrong with me!
I just need to do this, as I can feel my life slipping past me and I just don’t want to be shackled by this anymore.
I’ve completed stage 1 of the course now – I feel stupidly proud of my self because it was really hard and I had to put up with a lot of (alledgedly) construstive critisism which I find really hard, but I didn’t punch anyone and I’ve signed up for satge 2, so maybe I actually quite liked it! ;)
I’m now the owner of a lovely new nipple piercing that hurt so much more than I was expecting (compared to me previous experiences) but it was only fleeting and it’s all good. It looks beautiful but I always find the healing the worst bit, still definately worth doing!
So I’ve just had 3 pieces of work accepted into a quite large exhibition a friend suggested I submit to, even though I would have thought the gallery was way out of my league. It’s one step closer at least….
I’m never going to be able to do this, as I have a terrible voice and can’t hold a tune for love or money! But I’ve always really really wanted to be able to do it and I’m an eternal opptomist (sp?) so hey why not…. :)
...on this quite spectactularly today when I had 3 people tell me how great me new hair colour looked and even though I think so too I still could only manage a “um, yeah, well, I’m not really sure….” Pathetic!!!
I take it back, it’s actually a lot harder than I thought it would be. But you can do some amazing stuff with it and it works really well with my traditional artwork. Definately worth doing, if only to create a cartoon version of yourself from your photos :)
..Is actually seeing something you’ve designed published and on sale for the very first time. I walked around grinning like a mad woman for a week! Good Luck!
I had my first attempt at this yesterday and whilst the individual elements were perfect the final product was a bit of a disaster! Serves me right though, I thought it would be easy!
