Crayons and Other Stuff

Hey sorry it's been a while. I've had a super crazy week, with a big Industrial Design project due on Friday. I'll write a post on the project soon, but first I need to get some pics together.

Anyway back to business. Today I wanted to talk about crayons. I looove crayons. They're like super cheap markers with built in textures and a wax finish. Don't get me wrong, It's pretty much impossible to get good detail with them, but used in the right way with other tools, they can produce crazy good results.

Here's a cool crayon drawing I did a while back. The composition isn't perfect, but I love the way the crayon lines blur together to create complex textures and colors. I like the melting door and dresser. Trying for a Van Gogh type thing there. Overall I think it's pretty cool.

Both of these drawings were produced through the same process. I get some clean copy paper, a pen, and some crayons. I get some good, loud music going. I usually try to capture the energy from a particular song or album and get it onto the paper. My hands move fast and I don't think too much about what I'm doing. I'll go through pages like that. Not only is it tons of fun, but It's also the best way to kick around creative thoughts and ideas that I know of. I basically do the same thing when I need to come up with sketches and ideas for Industrial Design. Once I loosen up the ideas start coming pretty fast, and I can get some good work done. Typically I generate a lot of bad ideas, a fair amount of ok ideas, and a few really good ideas from a session like that. 

Man, it feels like so long ago that I did this one. Really it was less than a year ago. I did it for an art class final. Fun stuff.  A bit silly maybe, but it has a certain neon bluntness that I admire. From what I remember, it was lots of fun to do too. It's still on display in the upstairs hallway of the art building at Samford University as far as I know.

I wanted to leave you guys with this simple little drawing I did on illustrator a long time ago. There's a lot to be said for analyzing visual art and figuring out what makes it tick, but at the same time, there's a lot of mystery that has to be maintained too. Sometimes I spend hours sketching and come up with nothing I consider to be good. I did this sketch in probably less than ten minutes, and now years later it still makes me stop and think. I don't know why art works this way, but it does, at least for me.

Alright thanks for reading. Will try to post again soon. 

-Joseph