#new medium

Spock, my beloved.

Ok I know it's been a long while BUT, I did not stop canvasing and am going to take the next couple of days to catch up to where I'm at so expect MANY more posts !! :D So, this is from day 8, a little bit of a fanart doodle of @irllylikeclownsalot 's gemsona gems !! Fable is such a cool looking character(and Clownie an awesome person), so I had to get an homage to them on the canvas >:)

Process pics + thoughts belowwwww

grabbing colors + testing ones I hadn't used before

looking back on the sketches for this, I really changed a LOT when I actually inked it in lmao

coloring / inking are always my favorite part ESPECIALLY on something like this. I haven't physically colored in anything in soooo long it's just so satisfying

Vincent van Gogh // The Sower, 1888 // oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh // The Sower, 1888 // pencil, pen, reed pen, and ink on paper

Day two of @pencilcat’s 30 day challenge! Today’s prompt was to draw a figure. I included progress photos as well as a bonus old scribble figure practice from ten years ago. I think I’ve improved a lot!

Brian Eno

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Brian Eno // “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

"Virtual photography is a form of new media art where images are created by taking screenshots of video games or other virtual worlds. Virtual photography has been featured in physical art galleries around the world. The validity and legality of this art form is sometimes questioned, because virtual photographers are taking photos of artwork created by the game's designers and artists. For the most part, virtual photographers share the same motivations as "real life" photographers, including a desire to capture visually interesting images, preserve memories, and demonstrating technical expertise."

For me, it's a step into escapism. It's kind of seen when I focus on out of bounds experiences. I've always been drawn to these kinds of glitches; something felt different when I was able to explore areas you're not suppose to see. There was accomplishment and exploration. It was sometimes hard to get out of bounds, and after you did it, you were rewarded with an entirely new world. Now, some areas felt alien and wrong. I remember in Halo 2 when I got out of bounds, I found a cutout silhouette. As a kid it just felt earie. Like I was looking at a ghost. Sometimes I would shut the console off after getting a feeling that something is there with me, lurking in this space.

Now that I'm older I've kind of built up the ability to break out of bounds pretty easily. I've also learned why some of these spaces are built the way they are (partly because I build these spaces now). I don't get those chills anymore. I honestly, Feel ethereal when exploring these places. I get to float through and capture moments & views that are not only pretty to me, but unique and hardly seen.