Daily Dose of My Art: Six-Part Continuous Panel Work in Progress: UPDATE

 This is still very much a work in progress, but here is what I have done so far on the first three panels:

                         Panel 1,                           Panel 2,                      Panel 3

Here is a Link back to the original post with the initial progress photos with a description of the overall concept of this insomniac project of mine.

Daily Dose of My Art: Six-Part Continuous Panel Work in Progress

 So I was looking though my basement cabinet the other day and I found some old heavy duty card stock paper that had been cut into strips that were about 5" x15", and I decided to start drawing on them. Through the process of drawing I decided that I wanted to see if I could design a continuous modular panel of sorts (similar to a puzzle I had when i was younger that had no edges and you could arrange it however you liked because the finished right side would always be a match for the finished left side, and the same for the top and bottom). In this case I wanted to design panels that could stand alone if you wanted them to, or you could arrange them in order so that the last panel would always line up with first panel....or you could hang them completely mixed up and see if people realize that the drawings correspond to each other. Either way I'm excited about this project, and here are some pictures that show my work so far on it.

See the updated work in progress as of 4/6/11: Twisted Vine Designs: Daily Dose of My Art: Six-Part Continuous Panel Work in Progress: UPDATE
 

3/18/2011 6-part panel (of sorts) Work in Progress
panel 1,2, and the to be drawn upon remaining 4 "panels"
eventually the right side of the 6th panel will correspond to the left side of the 1st panel

 Panel 1 & Panel 2

3/18/2011 panel 1 and panel 2 (work in progress)
eventually the right side of the 6th panel will correspond to the left side of the 1st panel

Close up of the bottom parts of  the first 2 panels

Close up the Jellyfish in panel 1...He still needs some big refinements for instance he currently seems to be suffering from a slight case of polydactyly with his central tentacles , but this is just the initial drawing....

Another Close up of panel 1

Daily Dose of My Art: Jellyfish Hybrid...or Exploding bowl of noodles?

I drew this almost a year ago (3/20/2010) and I still love it because no matter which way you orient it, it still looks cool, and might even turn into something completely different than what I drew!

The original jellyfish (hybrid jellyfish octopus perhaps?) I drew, in the orientation that I drew it at.

Same drawing rotated 180 degrees. turns into an exploding bowl of noodles.

Same drawing except with the background digitally changed to purple.

Same drawing except with the background digitally changed to purple.

Daily Dose of My Art: The Spaces In Between

In my previous blog entry The last drawing talked about the importance of balancing the amount and the placement of the "empty space" in your drawing. In the drawing below you can see 3 distinct "empty spaces. Those 3 "empty spaces" were the first 3 things I drew when I started this drawing. Everything that was drawn afterward was based off of those spaces in an effort to define and elaborate on a seemingly blank space. As a result the blank spaces actually become the focal point of this drawing, and in essence, shows that sometimes it is what you don't draw that actually makes the drawing stand out.

"The Spaces In Between" (3/29/2010- 4/4/2010) Concept: Design around a space