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naeni

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Hello again... I'm back... no idea how frequent these visits will be as I'm very busy but let's see, as I've neglected this page for long enough! I messed up a bit over summer with my head going a bit odd, and didn't hand some uni stuff in on time... Luckily the only thing I have to resit is Art History, have to do another 20 credits, and it's all split up over 2 years. So I am here a year longer, but I have less to do (80 a year not 120) so I'm actually quite happy about that, means I shouldn't get stressed, close up and decide to be a banker again.

I've got a few little pies going on, I done some illustrations for a book (will put them up when it's out) with more to follow, I'm working on a Fantasy boardgame, paid jobness has increased my hours.. and let me do some photography for them (need to work out copyright issues there, would love to share them), I'm starting some voluntary work.. and yeah try not to fail uni. It's all groovy though. I'm happy.

I came back to here as.....something big has happened.....

I bought a graphics tablet.

A good one.

All my moaning about the digital age I think I was just jealous... I'm going to give this a go, I've decided I prefer illustration art to fine art, and if there's any hope of me becoming an illustrator then this is the way to go. Even if I'm still working in a mix of traditionally and digitally. Also got hold of good proper photoshop. None of these have arrived yet, but I'm currently stalking the postman.

I'm very excited. It means I can draw things like those zombie chaps above. I don't have to piss around with scanners or huge working spaces. This could be a huge huge turning point.. but let's just see what happens...

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ART ART ART

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Ok I'm going to keep updating, regardless of the fact nobody reads this! If anything, it's for me, it makes sure I visit here, and just keeps track of what I'm doing, which is handy I guess. Makes me feel a bit more like a real artist!

I've been so busy lately, and forsee being this busy until forever. Well until university finishes anyway. When I'm not grabbing sleep or food, I'm working.

The life drawing module is going really well, I feel I've got better, and like working with looser materials. But I am sick to death of drawing the same model... we had her last year, and now with this 3 week project, its one pose a week, and they're really boring poses. So I have now reached a point of not wanting to draw her anymore! Luckily it's just Friday then we're done. Last night I managed to draw her out of memory in a sleep deprived state of mentalness! I've been cheating on her though and trying out various other life classes, and it's been amazing. To draw different people, in short sharp poses is really great. I'm going to aim to go once a week from now on, maybe once a fortnight if the work gets really busy. So hopefully after 2 years I'll know the human form inside and out.

I've started a module of printmaking, which looks to be promising. "Imagined Journeys".. I'm going to depict a journey to hell :)

And all today I have been doing photography. It's great to refresh my memory, and I get to use my new camera, I really like it, I took it out on a trip up the hills today, saw some lovely things. Even if I did miss a fox spring out of an abandoned farm building!

So to recap, I'm busy as hell, but loving it.

Art art art!

:)

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Hello Deviants!

As usual it's took me forever to update. I've had a summer of adventures, which was fun fun fun! Then a last minute panic as I left a load of university work until last minute and nearly failed... oops...

That's shook me up though, so it's all groovy.

I've been back two weeks now and there's so much work, and it's meant to get even heavier next week...! So goodbye social life.... this is a good thing though as I should save money! I was starting to feel purposeless and bored, which just makes me miserable, but now I'm busier than a busy thing! Life Drawing is pretty intense at the minute, and I'm going to extra sessions, I'm going to aim to keep it up one day a week at least, til the forseeable future, to get super good at drawing peoples. I'm also doing lots of learning, which is fun too! Learning about different artists, and history, and social/economic reasons for things... and blah blah blah... My inner nerd has dug its way out, although arguably it was probably sat on my shoulder for ages.

I bought my premium membership back! Hooray!

Oh and yes, I bought myself a new camera. It doesn't replace my [stolen] Nikon D80, but its pretty nifty, and nice and small, with two lenses... an Olympus E450. This should do for taking some groovy shots :) Oh the police found my laptop in April or something, don't think I mentioned that! That was awesome! So most of the things hanging from my fuck up of a start of a year have dissolved, I'm raring to go!

YES YES YES YES!!

:-)

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Little update

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Well I've had an awful few months.... lots of things went wrong after the burglary and I sunk into quite a lot of crapness and haven't done much art at all. Luckily my pizazz came back a few days ago so I've been frantically working so I don't fail university!

I've got a lot of travels planned for the summer, so I'm hoping I'll get super inspired again and want to do lots of things! I want to do a lot of painting! I have the first festival of the year happening tomorrow and I'm so excited I could burst!

I want to upgrade to premium as it ran out by DA is being silly and keeps saying there's an error, I need to check my bank statement as I think it's charged me a few times! Don't suppose anyone would be generous enough to donate me any....? nah didn't so! :P  I want my zombie skins back dammit!!

Anyway hopefully this will be updated more with more things added... although I say that every time! I definitely need a good steeltoe on the bottom though to get things done. I'm rushing now though as I have to arrange my glitter and guinea pigs!

Adios arty amigos!
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Bad, Bad times.

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Although I'm trying to keep this journal as much to do with my art as possible and to stay away from personal journalism... there's going to be times where it crosses over.

I got burgled just over a week ago. They smashed through my window and took shitloads of stuff, including my laptop, camera, and drawing equipment. So like, yeah, most things I need. Just when I'm wanting to get back into doing lots of art, this just goes and f*cks it all up. I'm not insured and I'm not getting the stuff, or the money back.

I managed to boot up my old pc but it's really struggling to really do anything, I can surf the web and I can type in Word, although not at the same time or the universe explodes.

To distract myself from going mental, I've taken up Warhammer again, which has suprisingly re-invigorated my imagination in terms of imagery and concepts in a way I didn't expect. It's payday on Friday so I'm going to buy myself my stuff back and get stuck in!

University is really rubbish at the moment, hopefully the next project will be better. Roll on next year when I can explore the themes that I want to.

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