Forest Dragon

Even though this ultimately took around 11 hours to complete, this paper had been sitting around for ages in my room with only a simple outline of the dragon itself. I rediscovered it and sat down the past two days to finish it. Even though it had remained untouched and forgotten for so long, I still remembered the general idea and aesthetic I had in mind for it in the first place.

Sketch Dump

A few odds and ends here. I haven't posted in ages on here or DeviantART (mostly been sharing stuff on tumblr or instagram)

Anyways, I've got a new tablet! A Cintiq 13HD, and all these below are things I've made with it. So far it's been a vast improvement from my dinky little Bamboo. The only real complaint I have is that the colors don't exactly match my laptop's, and not amount of fiddling with the settings has helped, I think simply because it can't show as many colors. Still not a deal breaker, since I usually edit and color adjust my pieces anyways before posting them, it's not taken anymore effort in my normal process.

Eye Sketches + Notes + Random Face

Digital Art 06/04/2014

A New DeviantART Account

http://kmlindbo.deviantart.com/

Awhile back I deleted my DeviantART account for various reasons, mostly because I wasn't using it as much and it was pretty dead (a certain art theft scare that went around is what pushed to me to actually delete it, but now that I've researched more about it it's not quite as 'legit' as it once seemed).

Now I've revived it, and for the most part it will parallel the content that goes up on this blog. I'll still be posting artwork on here moving forward, but if it comes down to being too much to upkeep both, then I'll get rid of the one with least traffic.

My reason for re-joining the art community on DA is pretty much just that. It's difficult to connect to other artists online, especially through a site not necessarily meant for it. The feeling of being drowned out by other artists on DA (ranging all levels of expertise and popularity) was pretty intimidating to me before. Now I reason that its better for my art to drowned in other art than to be drowned in a community that's not art related at all. I certainly will be using Tumblr and Twitter and all that jazz going forward too, but I also hope approaching DA as a tool and taking the work I put on there seriously will yield me better results than what I've been getting so far...

Hand Painted Shoes: My Neighbor Totoro

Work In Progress Pics

Finished Product

Well all that hard work payed off! I had fun making these, and I certainly learned a lot (note: avoid diluting paint in water, canvas spreads that everywhere)

You can find these shoes for sale in my Esty store ... I'm also considering opening up a Storenvy account, where I could sell for a reduced price without the seller fees...

If you are interested in these shoes, but they are not your size (Wmns. 8) or you are interested in a whole other custom shoe entirely, feel free to email me (kmlindbo@yahoo.com) or leave a comment. The price would run generally around $60, maybe more in the case of an entirely different design (it would take more time to figure it out and whatnot).

And thanks for stopping by!

Edit 06/01/2014: The original shoes pictured are now sold! However, the offer of a custom shoe, with this design or other, still stands ~

Daily Sketch, Week 5: Digital Painting

Opted today for some much needed practice with digital painting, and getting more used to Paint Tool SAI

Daily Sketch, Week 4 Catch-up: Lion & Eagle

Apologies about the delay in posting~

Daily Sketch, Week 4: Axolotl

Happy Monday

Learn more about this awesome amphibian

Fan Art Friday 05/16

I wasn't planning on submitting this as my Fan Art Friday today, but it fits the category so why not?

Mixing it up here with a watercolor, from a screen-cap I took while playing the MMO Guild Wars 2.

Art Trade - Turtle

Created this as part of an art trade on Tumblr. I have to say I enjoy working with Paint Tool SAI, feels more natural than Photoshop. Maybe I'll finally get around to creating more digital art

Daily Sketch, Week 3: May 15

Daily Sketch, Week 3: May 14

Daily Sketches, Week 3: May 13

Daily Sketches, Week 3: May 12

Daily Sketches, Week 2: May 9 (Fan Art Friday)

Spyro the Dragon

Fan Art Friday's consist of me picking a media franchise to create fan art of - from videogames, TV shows, movies, ect.

Daily Sketches, Week 2: May 8

Cuttlefish

Daily Sketches, Week 2: May 5-7

In lieu of my original plan (which was to create a collective post of my daily sketches at the end of each week), in order to keep this blog more alive and to add more content to my Behance portfolio, I've decided to post my daily sketches every day. This will also prevent me having to scan and edit a bunch of images at once. So here's me getting caught up on this week so far...

Daily Sketches, Week 1: May 1-2

For my mom - Mothers Day gift

So it's been awhile since I've made any wire wrapped jewelry. I used to have an Etsy shop, but for months now its been sitting empty because I haven't bothered renewing any of the listings, or make any new pieces. But upon discovering the news of Mothers Day fast approaching and me being left once again doubtful of what to get, I just went through with making something myself. Her favorite color is purple, but that was all I really went on for this.

Re-Draw Meme (2011 vs. 2014)

Today I finished my re-draw to show my progress in the way of mastering digital art. The previous piece was around when I first got my tablet (Wacom Bamboo) and was quite shaky with it. 

I've taken this as evidence of my growing patience with creating digitally, also a slightly better understanding of anatomy (though how 'anatomically correct' can you get with a creature the doesn't exist?) I have to admit, the clouds were a brush from someone else, so maybe that's kinda cheaty. They're still pretty none the less.

Feel free to comment if you wish! 

Warhol assignment - Marilyn Monroe / Scarlett Johansson

For a couple of weeks now I've been taking a M.O.O.C. from coursera.org on Andy Warhol. This week, an assignment was given to create a Warholian kind of work based on appropriation and repetition, subjects found often in his work. I'll post the description I created for the assignment below...

Choosing the theme of Celebrities, I thought about a possible actress of the 21st century that Warhol might have been interested in, similar to his fascination of Marilyn Monroe. In the end I selected the actress Scarlett Johansson, and found an image from Google to appropriate in my work, much like Warhol might have done from a magazine or newspaper.

 I selected a digital method as it was the method most readily available to me. Unfortunately, this hinders the result of subtle 'mistakes' and differences in each repeated image, of which Warhol was quite fond of in his own work. 

Looking at some of Warhol's work as reference, I cropped the image close around the face. I chose a grid of 3x3 to give the prevalence of repetition, but also so that I could easily mimic Warhol's work in which he altered the color scheme of each repeated image. Each of these aesthetic decisions are meant to either reflect the subjects of appropriation or repetition, both being very famous in Warhol's work.

So far I've been enjoying the course, and I'm eager to see the work of other members.

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Chapters 1-8

While I have glossed over this book before, I'm going through again (and doing all the exercises) from Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I'll admit I'm skimming over most of the text (mostly because I've read it before, and the earliest chapters contain more principles I've heard time and time again in the past). But I can appreciate any artist at any skill level going back through the foundations, hence why I'm doing this now myself. The chapters I've gone through so far pertained to contours, negative spaces, and perspective (and a lot about preparing the reader for actual drawing, 'shifting' from left to right brain).

I really like this book. I can tell a lot of meticulous time and effort have gone into combing out and presenting every single aspect about the fundamentals of drawing, so much so that I believe that anyone who believed they couldn't draw put the effort into going through this entire book, would come out the end amazed. Then again, I don't think I have to attest to the importance of this book, since many artists and art educators have used its lessons for a long while. And while one certainly wouldn't need this book to grasp, what this book refers to as the five basic skills of drawing (edges, spaces, relationships, light & shadow, the gestalt - or whole), it certainly is packed neatly together in one place.

 Contour Drawing

Negative Space

Perspective Drawing using 'Sighting'

(I tried using color toning with a Prismacolor Art Stix I had laying around and was met with mixed results)

An Introduction - Entry 4/20/2014

After long neglect, I've returned to this blog and intend to repurpose it. The original use for this blog was as a temporary portfolio I used to present to a college major I applied for... Anything posted before this date you should assume it was for this intent.

However, I now am giving new life to it. It will serve as a couple of functions;

1)      As an art blog, where I may post work that may or may not end up as final work in my real portfolio.  This being to document my work and progress, and as a nice and neat place for anyone to casually glance at.

2)      As a journal of sorts, where I may post goings on in my life, my thoughts and feelings, and my various opinions. Hopefully they may be as artistically-related as possible, but since art does encompass so many various subjects and issues, I imagine almost anything I write about will be appropriate. As a side note, I do also have a tumblr that I also post my work on and reblog things I find amusing. It’s a bit more disorganized (as Tumblr tends to be) and I don’t post or reblog text (since it tends to get lost more easily in the confusion. I find it to be more of a place to casually glance through rather than sit and read). Therefore, this will be an outlet for that.

Happy Easter.