I did a couple of sketches today, one was for a student, the other just to record the process and practice some tonal work.
Enjoy!
Here is the YouTube video of the last one:
Some new sketches =)
Written by Darren Yeow on 2 Sep 2010Self
Written by Darren Yeow on 23 Aug 2010I’ve noticed that a lot of folks who seem to do the most remarkable things (like Reinhold Messner for example, the first person to climb all 14 of the world’s peaks taller than 8000m) were actually just trying to understand their own limits and themselves.
Inspiring as hell, Christ, I get tinglies just looking at this:
Some new arts…
Written by Darren Yeow on 22 Aug 2010Hey dudes and dudettes, been trying to really hammer down on that large piece, I finally feel that is is close! So damn close! It has really surprised me how long it takes to do an A0 rendering in pencil and charcoal, holy hell it is time consuming, but is coming out nicely!
Yesterday night, I wanted to take a break and did this as a 1/2 hour break and recorded a sketch and finished with this:
If you’d like to check out the video process from start to finish, see it here at youtube:
Today, I went to sketchgroup and did a sketch of a demon’s head, it was fun:
Anyway, I look forward to getting some decent time to do some personal work after this week hopefully, I need long stretches of time to do any decent art dammit! I don’t want to keep just doing sketches! I want to do something nice and polished!
Hope you’re all keeping well in Internets land.
D-man
Be happy, smile!
Written by Darren Yeow on 16 Aug 2010Something I read a lot about these days is that a lot of artists hate their work. Why? I LOVE my work, warts, problems and all, just as I would love my children, warts, problems and all.
Life is too short to stress out over such things, you will die early if you stress out like this! So smile and be happy =)
Life update =)
Written by Darren Yeow on 16 Aug 2010Hi guys, hope you are all well, things on my end have been going really well, and I judge this well-ness by how I am feeling these days – top of the freakin’ world!
I’m not earning a hell of a lot of money as I am spending a lot of time on a personal commission that is time consuming but very important to my client, so I want to do a very good job on it as I know it means so much to him. I’m treating it as a fantastic opportunity to also practice my charcoal and graphite which I have not had a chance to use for a while. I’m hopefully going to finish this off by this week.
I am also going to be doing a couple of indie title box art pieces this week and I’ve also started to regularly teach a few people privately which is lovely fun. All great people of all different ages all wanting to learn art, it’s really enjoyable. I am looking forward to doing more personal art work in the coming weeks as well as having the time to solicit more personal and commercial jobs heh.
I’ve become really interested in delving into my cultural background as of late seeing as I have never done that before, so I have purchased some books on Chinese and Japanese art and I am tearing into it so that it informs my work a little bit more. Also, I have become a little more interested in Buddhist teachings and mediation.
Sketchgroup has been going really well, we’re having new people join all the time, seen new faces just about every week, been pretty awesome, recently had some new dudes turn up, they’re great artists and great people too, I have a feeling that they will become good mates.
General Concept Art Advice
Written by Darren Yeow on 14 Aug 2010
Being in a privileged position of being able to help guide other people in various ways is a humbling experience.
When someone of their own free will comes to me with a question that will potentially shape a large part of their life or help them to choose a path to travel, I consider it a real honor. So I do my best to give them an authentic point of view that is my own, as opposed to a lukewarm limp wristed politically correct answer. It may grate some people, but I am unapologetic about it.
That isn’t to say I tell them they have to do anything I talk about – that they must do this or else they will fall into a pit of acid and go to hell. That’s not what I’m about. …read more
Wonderful little presentation.
Written by Darren Yeow on 13 Aug 2010I came across this little video on a speech delivered by Elizabeth Gilbert, best selling author of Eat, Pray, Love this morning while I was lying, warm and snuggled in my bed.
I had just woken up after another crazy late night working till 5am – which I love by the way, so I’m not complaining, and I was checking out my emails and any new interesting Facebook updates so I guess I kinda discovered it by accident since I don’t really pay too much attention to people posting vids.
Most likely it is because I have grappled with such issues in the past, regarding creativity blocks that I really enjoyed listening to this alternative method of dealing with success and failures.
It’s similar to some of the sentiments and ways of thinking laid out in The Artist’s Way, but delivered with some good natured humour, warmth and emotion that is difficult to get from the written word.
Hope you enjoy it and if you wish to discuss it or comment about it, please feel free to use the comment section below.
Stay chilled.
D-Man
Ideation Process: Part 2
Written by Darren Yeow on 13 Jul 2010
Now, up to this point, we’ve been thinking of the sketches as a personal tool, that is, an external representation of a myriad of internal ideas in an attempt to organise free flowing thoughts into a structured pattern for our own personal use.
We have part of the design in our minds and this can often cause us to stop short of creating sketches that mean anything to anyone but ourselves.
This situation would be fine if the work we are doing is only for ourselves, however, most often the art we doing isn’t just for fun, it’s because someone is paying us to deliver. …read more
Ideation Process: Part 1
Written by Darren Yeow on 12 Jul 2010
Creating artwork is a wonderful gift, a pleasure that I cherish and indulge in on a daily basis because it is both my favourite past time and because it is also my profession.
For myself (and undoubtedly many of you reading this) there is no comparable experience of diving stylus first into an alternate reality, indulging our coolest ideas and dancing the tango with plain old creativity. …read more
Brain Fart: Everything is a Teacher…
Written by Darren Yeow on 11 Jul 2010
So, I’ve been sleeping at odd hours, usually around 3am in the morning for the last week and this is down to my rekindled love affair with creating artwork. A few times I have also woken up only a couple of hours later to keep on going.
Keep in mind these are not client projects but personal ones I’m working on, which I’ve always found harder to commit to than paying gigs!
I notice that usually accompanying this mix of sleep deprivation and insane levels of inspiration to create, my mind races a fair bit more to work out some truths and be more philosophical…okay, maybe that’s being a bit presumptuous and pompous…my mind retrospectively states the obvious in a more succinct manner. …read more
