Art Journal #7: Another Portal/Portal 2 related piece made for a lyrics prompt (I don't own the lyrics for "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone"). Played around with a concept for a human version of GLaDOS for this one. Needless to say my love for this series is everlasting!
Art Journal #8; This was a hit in class! The prompt was simply "Opposites", so I did opposite reactions from Marion of Psycho and Andy Dwyer of Parks and Recreation. With this one, I challenged myself by limiting my use of the eraser, so most of the raw, experimental pencil work is still there.
Art Journal #9: This piece came from a prompt on monsters. On the way home from Shakespeare on the Green one or two years ago, I saw a man walking on the side walk in the dark, and I swear, that's what he looked like under the lamplight. Don't fully know where I was going with the quote, but I felt like having words in this piece.
Art Journal #10: A piece I did on me and my twin. She is my best friend and she means everything to me. Most of these pictures are of us in cosplay (her, Mistress Death from Deadpool, and me as Harley Quinn). Although interestingly, the picture of her on the right is her wearing a Fire Gang mask I made as part of a Labyrinth Christmas package for her-the very Christmas before Bowie died. Talk about timing!
Art Journal #11: I did this one on an art project I started last summer just for fun- CdS Harlequinade. Because of living in Vegas, I had a fascination with Cirque du Soleil from a very early age. I didn't start looking at some of their shows until 2012, a year of existential crisis for me, and I was completely taken away by their fantastical worlds and casts of colorful characters. Harlequinade, like I said, was a way to reconnect with my childhood creator's instincts by having fun with a bunch of characters in a story of my own making. One might say it's fan fiction, but in art form. I also gave myself a challenge. In the shows, the characters speak in "Cirque talk", so there's no verbal way to know what a character is thinking, feeling, or saying. So rather than presume what they would say and write words in thought bubbles, I had to instead illustrate their thoughts and communications. It's all completely art.
Because of this horrible week (and the next four years to come), I'm resurrecting CdS Harlequinade for my own personal and artistic healing. This is a project that's not only an escape from school and everyday things, but also an escape from the ugliness currently in the States right now. Because this is a personal project and I wish to put out more original works on my blog, I probably won't post much Harlequinade art. But you might get a couple practice sketches and thumbnails in the Wildcard Wednesdays-we'll see!
So there ends Part Two-for the final part, prepare for the craziest entry in my art journal yet!
(Note: All pictures and lyrics used in collages such as the CdS Harlequinade entry don't belong to me-especially the Cirque du Soleil logo)
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