Honest2481

It been at least a year since I've posted to this account.  It's not that I haven't been doing drawing and painting.  On the contrary, I've been quite busy on that front.  Guess I just mostly post to Facebook. Lately, I feel that my painting has taken to a whole new level.  I have yet to post my latest and "greatest", despite the fact that it's not quite finished.  But that piece is something different.  It evokes a sort of emotion- fear you may say- to it and it is mostly attributed to a slight mistake in color mixing.  But I'm sure it's just more than that.  I'm sure that I've finally hit a realism that I've never achieved before, so real,

So I have a bunch of copic markers, and I've been anticipating using them.  But I wanted to get some paper that will help maximize their best features (blendability, smooth coverage with no marker streaks...) and so I did research on trying to find some economic alternative to the relatively expensive copic marker paper.  I've been eyeing this Borden & Riley bleedproof paper for a while, and I've felt the texture of the paper, and thought it to be a really promising paper. But I brought it home and tested it, and the blendability of the copics on it wasn't very good (correction: it didn't blend at all), and it wasn't as bleedproof as I'd exp

Obviously I didn't make it in to the Wacom Bring Your Vision to Life contest. But that's not the reason I'm hating on the semi-finalist entries.  I think that so many of them are way too cliche and blatant: angel vs demon, dark vs light... How about some subtlety?  Two of the judging criteria was originality and creativity.  Angel vs demon is not original!  What were the judges thinking?  Where's the sophistication? The entries were indeed very well done, no doubt about it, but that falls under technical skill. Alas, beauty is only skin deep ;)