RISD Drawings Completed!

Happy Halloween! I finished my 3 RISD assignments!

#1: Bike

#2: Utilize both sides of the paper

#3: Incorporate words into your work

RISD, if you reject me, I'm gonna somehow slap you. T_T

I'd also add in a Halloween-themed artwork, but due to my immense workload, I have been unable to squeeze in one so far this year. I'm working on one right now, but it probably won't be finished until sometime in November, if I finish it at all :(

Better Photo of "The Fool"

The last post had a sucky photo of the final drawing, so here's a better photo. It was really hard getting a good photo of it, since the drawing was double sided, and needed a good light source in order to photograph it well. Here, I taped it to a window, and my teacher aided me in photography.

RISD Drawing #2/AP Concentration #6: The Fool

This is my latest piece. I'm double-dipping for my RISD application and my AP Concentration, and here are the WIP's.

This took me a month to draw. I'm proud of it, but at the same time, I'm really sad. I have to fold it up and send it to RISD. Pretty much, I drew this picture only to subject to death by folding and the fingerings of RISD admission committees, who will wrinkle it up and make it ugly. And I don't know if I can get it back.

My beagle, Jack, is the model for the dog in the drawing.

Rant

I hate Deviantart, but I'm still on it. On that website, popularity validates one's quality of work. I'm not one of those people who uploads a piece of work that gets over 1000 faves and comments within one hour. There are people who can whip out a sketch, and it gets devoured immediately. As for me, I just do my best to churn out something personal, and if I'm lucky, I get fifty faves and twenty comments within a month. I don't understand why some people can just get so much attention on there. I'm completely baffled, and I keep on trying to tell myself it's not a big deal, that popularity doesn't mean good work, but it doesn't work.

I get so frustrated when I draw. I sometimes feel like there's no point in drawing, but I keep on going anyway, because I feel like all the energy I've put into drawing and art for the past five years of my life would just go to waste. But why should I keep on drawing if all I get are just blank looks, and people who say nothing and walk away?

These are only a few pages from my new sketchbook. These pages stood out to me among the rest of the trash. T_T

One Month of Classical Realism

I haven't stopped by blogspot too much, due to schoolwork and college app overload. But here's some stuff I have been doing from a classical realism drawing lessons, most of them unfinished. Three of them were drawn at home. Can you guess which ones? :)

Good bye, Yehyeh ;_;

My paternal grandfather passed away last week on Tuesday, August 24. He was 96 years old, and it was a peaceful death, and at least my dad was with him in his final hour.

I drew a card to put in his coffin to burn along with him when it is time for him to be cremated. It's a really simple card, and grandpa has always preferred simplicity.

The card is in Chinese, since my grandfather is from China, and was born there in 1914. After fleeing to Taiwan when the Communists were taking over China, I don't think he ever returned to China. The cover is of me crying, with the words "Goodbye Grandpa." Inside the card, it says:

 "Grandpa, I'm sorry I didn't speak much to you when you were alive. However, we all hope you're now in a happier place. We all miss you.

--Wu Chengyu"

That's my Chinese name, in case if you're wondering. Then I drew chibis of me, my brother, my dad, and my mom, and I had all of us sign our Chinese names by the little drawings I drew of each respective person. Then I took photos of this card and scanned it. And then I felt really sad if it was just going to be jpg files that were just going to sit on my flashdrive, so I decided to make a little blog post to show off the card in memory of my grandpa.

His funeral and cremation is tomorrow. I haven't seen him for one week. What a way to spend my last day of summer. ;_; RIP, Yehyeh. I'll give you your card tomorrow.

Finished my 2nd Innerspark/CSSSA Sketchbook!

I finished it a while ago. I should have done this post a while ago. But here are some of my doodles on the final pages of my CSSSA sketchbook, drawn after I got back to the Bay Area.