Forty-Seven.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist. 

-Oscar Wilde

One day I'll make the jump from starving artist, to comfortably living artist.  That would be super rad.  True story.

In other news I think my contact and my right eye had a fight--my eye lost.  I'm about ready to take a spoon and fish the damn thing out.

My cat is being a brat.  I'm going back to bed.

 

Forty-Four.

To all of you who watched this piece take like and thought that I was going to be keeping it innocently sweet; don't you know me at all?

Here’s my finished Bloody Beauty and Beast.  I think it game out rather good, actually.  I messed it a bit sure, but hey; I’m not a Disney animator nor do I claim to be.  This piece is done in marker and inks, for more information visit my deviantART.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic the other day, and I started this piece while watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? and I was like hey, let's draw Belle and Beast.  Why?  I'm not really sure.  I had been wanted to do something with them for a while for no reason at all really.  So I started drawing and since it's October I thought it fitting to bloody them up a bit.  I think they're cuter this way.

Speaking of Are You Afraid of the Dark? iTunes currently has some of the seasons that they are offering on sale for around $6; which is less than a dollar an episode.  Each package has 7 of them.  So I was sure to swipe them all.  This was my favorite Nickelodeon show when I was a kid.  They need to have more shows like it back on the air, or re-run them since it is Halloween season and the perfect time for it to be in re-syndication.

I miss Salute Your Shorts (which is also on iTunes currently), Legends of the Hidden Temple, Rugrats, AHHHH! Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy, Clarissa Explains it All; kids today really have no idea what good TV is.

Since this is somewhat and art blog and since there's an episode of Are You Afraid of The Dark? revolving around an unfinished painting; I found hunted the episode down on youtube for your viewing pleasure.  Enjoy, because after all you never know when inspiration is going to come. ;]

Thirty.

Of Mice & Men has been the soundtrack of my week so far.  I mean I did get to see them Wednesday at Warped Tour (they were fucking awesome by the way) and that was pretty sweet so I decided that I would draw the amazingly handsome front of the band, Austin Carlile.  [swoons]

Anyway, moving onward.  I have not filmed my drawing in awhile so I figured I would for this drawing.  I really wanted to for the new kittencorn that I did but I was halfway through with that project when I remembered that I wanted to film it.  I'm getting old, and my brain just isn't what it used to be anymore.  I know what you're thinking; Klyde you're only 23 that is so not old!  Well shut yer trap because I feel old as fuck.  True story.

I am still getting used to iMovie, and I was way too lazy to hook up the old Frankenstein computer with my other editing software on it.  I think that it is time to finally teach myself how to use the adobe editing software that I have; I am just really unmotivated to do anything at the moment.

Twenty.

Being an artist is expensive.  When I say expensive I mean expensive, like draining your life savings in order to replace your favorite markers kind of expensive.  I myself just needed to replace a few things in my arsenal and ended up paying over $200.  Now I bought a lot of stuff, and say if I was to go into a crafting store I would have payed almost double that.   Maybe even triple.  My secret? Blick.  I also just found that they have a store not that far from my house! I'll be traveling there from now on.  Squee!

I bought a whole bunch of really neat things.  Like I bought a new grey marker sets, I had to replace my colored pencils since a bunch of them just decided to up and runaway, I also had to replace about twelve of my  colored Prismas.  I also bought a couple of new things to mess around with.  A new skin hue marker set so I can try out some marker portraits with those (I'm super excited about that) and I really, really love my grey Faber-Castell PITT pens, so I bought a colored set of those.  I really like the PITT pens because they're waterproof, and it's like of more like painting than using a marker.  The only downside is that they set extremely fast, almost immediately so if you work fast you can get them to smudge a bit.  When working with them or my Prisma markers I usually also use my colored pencils to aid with the blending, etc.

If you are an artist and have never visited this magical world of discounted art supplies do yourself a favor and do so.  Especially if you're a student, they have even more discounts available to you.

My shopping venture with them today was my first ever and I have to say I was supper satisfied with the sitemap, it was easy to navigate and find exactly what I was looking for and I'll  definitely be buying more things from this site in the future.  The only downfall of buying art supplies online is that you need to wait a little while for them to get to you, it's not like just going down to the store and leaving with it instantly. I just really hate going into stores like you know those two craft stores that everyone has to go to because they have the market cornered.  People are always just so rude to me when I'm in those places and nothing is really organized and I have to go all over the place looking for the things that I need.

In other news this helped to cheer me up some.  
/end nerdy art supply blog.