Narcissus' Musings For May 28th, 2012

I am not liking "Migraine Headache" anymore. It gives me a headache just looking at it. That was the point, but still, I am not liking it. If I delete that picture, it is because I could no longer stand its presence.

I wish there was a way to upload music that I made on Ableton, Live 7. There is only a posting button for images and videos. Maybe I will make some sort of abstract video and use that song as a soundtrack.

I am feeling very creative. It likely has to do with the fact that I am no longer taking 15 units at Fresno State. Now that I have free time I have been listening to music, making little beats on an outdated version of Live, and watching endless versions of Nyan cat. Yes, Nyan cat, that internet meme. It can get a little addicting.

Stay tuned! More to come in the next few months. If you are here for the first time, hi! My name is Maya. I like to make art. I am not that highly trained, but I enjoy creating art. I took one and a half years of drawing at Fresno City College. That is the extent of my educational training in drawing or painting.

I am a senior at Fresno State taking summer classes in order to graduate before August. Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to check through the older posts. I post ninety percent drawings, paintings, and computer software drawings. The other ten percent is this, little written blog entries about art. All the art here is my own, original pieces I have done in the last decade.

Migraine Headache: Novice computer drawing

This is a fast computer drawing I made using Sketchbook Pro 2011. The inspiration came from listening to Art21, the first episode of the fifth season, Compassion. I had it streaming on my computer but I had the drawing software program running which filled my screen, so I just drew while listening to the descriptions of the creation process without seeing what the artists' artwork looked like.

I drew lots of lines using my scroll pad on my macbook. It is interesting using a scroll pad and not the conventional mouse or the typical drawing tablet with artificial pen. I like it, it is an unusual experience. I am limited by a 3 by 2.5 inch space where my finger can roam. My lines are always squiggly and never straight.

I have really grown to like the filler bucket tool. Filler bucket is a little icon that looks like a bucket of water and you click on an area that you want completely filled with a specific color. It is like painting in a matter of seconds. I like this. It lets me think larger than I normally think. Normally I will overfocus on one section of the painting and try to combine colors. I normally do not like solid colors. This software makes me think of solid color differently. I like it.

I hope you like it! It is not elegant, not pretty like the last image I posted, that pink and white flower. It is ugly, and I like that ugly. I like the man in the bottom right corner. I feel like him sometimes, focusing on something nobody else can see, feeling sensations nobody else can feel. He barely notices the light that lands on his face.