Makes my nose itch just looking at it.

It does bring out the feelings for those with allergies.

Great work.

You are the number one person i would want to watch a livestream from.

I'm watching it now, and I love how you sketch. I love the arcs and swirls of that brush, and the thick thin lines. I love it.

What is this music and where can I buy it?

Thanks.

The band is "Balmorhea" and it's the album "Constellations" playing. As for where to buy it - ask the local music shop or google it, if you preffer online.

The Music had me.


Thank you so much for sharing this!
I always wondered how you sketch and draw, and now i'm all the more baffled, impressed and inspired.

I wonder if you know and heard Joanna Newsom.

Thanks.

No, actually I haven't. Might have heard her pieces, but I don't remember.

Plants do the nasty in my nostrils as well :(

Livestreaming, ooh good.

I'll be







watching.

Hands urged to give additional volume to the character?
The drawing method is similar to drawing by ink. Earlier it very much was pleasant to me.
Music at drawing irritates. Try it at a sleeplessness.
http://youtu.be/6XnkXQyPifM

Probably helps the volume, but volume in ink is hard to show. It tends to boil down to shapes and rhythm of marks all too often.

The drawing method would be closest to scratchboard. You can't subtract ink from the paper when drawing with ink, but that's how you work with scratchboard. Though it wasn't very popular in Europe and Russia, I don't even know what it's called in my language.

You can always mute the music.

i am loving the erich heckel vibe here. this is an absolutely gorgeous piece. do you do any printmaking? i would definitely buy a wood block print like this from you.

A good deal of what I studied was traditional printmaking. Although I never liked it. The only 3 techniques I could bare were: drypoint, engraving and mazzotint. My lecturer gave me his engraving tool as a present (talk about a burden of responsibility, he's the only recognized artist here who worked in engraving), but the technique requires a lot of practice, I'll prolly get to work on it when I have more spare time... and make my own press somehow (cause they're ridiculously expensive).

depending on how much you print you may be better off finding a rental press than making your own press. it has the added benefit of a studio space and community attached to it. if your only working 4x6" you can find a fairly shitty etching press for about $200 or so. i am surprised that those are the forms of printmaking your into, your work seems so loose and i always think of those as being incredibly tight media, at least the way most people work them.
i was also curious about your video, did you compress your working time or is that in real time? also are you changing your brush sizes as your working or is it all just done with touch sensitivity?

Well, I need a master's degree to use the university's press for free. Not gonna happen soon.
We don't have much on offer, the only press i've found was $1000. Was thinking hiring a metal processing firm to make a custom one from blueprints, but that probably won't be any cheaper.

Sure, those techniques are usually worked tight (except drypoint - that's relatively lose and sketchy, I even used to carry a plate with me for sketching in drypoint directly), but that's up to the artist. What I like about them is their directness - they're about mechanically manipulating the plate surface with hand-held straightforward tools, that gave me a feeling of control and versatility. (Oh right, I remembered the 4th one - i liked spitbite too, it's also relatively direct.) I really really hated sugar lift, aquatint was relatively unpredictable, etching was sort of ok if it didn't involve too many line weights and masking, linocut was too big and bold for my tastes, woodcut I didn't really try, also I didn't like the limits of relief printing - it was always about just removing, unlike intaglio.

The video time is not compressed, as it's not possible in livestream, I just work haphazardly/indecisively/nervously like that.

The brush size is constant throughout, the differences in line weight are all pressure. In contrast, I change brush size in painter every few seconds as a habit, I'll show you some time when I get to livestream that one.

i was curious about the speed because your line work is nervous but there is also an incredible confidence to the mark that is really interesting.

you can work in an additive way in block prints by drilling a hole taking a tapered wooden cork and jamming it in. then they would sand it down to match the height of the original block. i havent heard of anyone doing this outside of the middle ages but it is posible.

Oh, thanks.

That's an interesting method, athough a bit longwinded... "oh look, here is a mark I'd like to remove, I'll spend the next 5 hours doing just that. Then I can continue the hatching again. <6 hours later> Ok, so where was I? Right - hatching. <2 minutes later> Ah shit, here's another one..."

Reminds me of how engravings used to be fixed (like if a noble got a medal it could be incorporated in): They used to hammer the plate's back to lift the to be edited area into a form of a lump, then polish the area with a burnisher, then hammer it dow to be level again, then engrave it anew.

Man, you depicted pollen allergies in an amazing manner.
I know people who have those allergies, and the face expression, it's EXACTLY that!

Man, I'd pity the poor deer who gotta EAT WEEDS and suffers from pollen allergies. Gah! :o

Hah, yeah, that'd be one hell of a life. Also rut... it's in spring... Imagine having to get into fights on a daily basis while being all swollen, snotty, eyes watering, and sneezing own head off.

Curious fact - I used to have really bad alergies in spring and summer, but they kept getting better after i stopped taking anti-alergic medications. This year I have none so far.

oh man, I imagine deers sneezing while fighting due to OMG pollen. :o

Re: medications. Well, that's weird, but in some way, I ain't that surprised. First, cuz you can't say what's exactly in those medications, and second, because one has to build his own immunity.
BTW pollutions and quality of environment have much to do with pollen allergies, which might not be only pollen allergies but also a part of MULTI-allergies.

Very subtractive style.

wow, watching you work in alchemy is really something else. at first it's all kind of a jumble of pretty, but unintelligible lines and then SUDDENLY FORM


it's a shame you had to shut down the 3D stream, but i would definitely like to see some more streams from you

I'll make more some time, no worries. :) Just this model I'm working on seems to be special - it hogs up memory like crazy when skinning until max crashes, even clearing undo cache doesn't work anymore. No other model I worked on before did this and I can't figure out what the problem is.

And it's probably more fun watching work in painter - alchemy can get kind of monotonic when I'm working on the details like that, while only using one tool.

gaw i know the pain, they've given me a Pott's Puffy Tumor from the extensive amounts of sinus infections and what not through out my life. They're worse here though in TX than up in WA and OR.

Also i want to add that you have the most interesting and real unique technique to drawing! it's fun to watch and figure out what the figure is! I wouldn't mind seeing more of these <3

I want to shoot him and put him out of his misery. I want to tear his nose off. Because he's every allergy sufferer and we know how it is.

Amazing music. A lot better than that country folk metal one you sent before.

Geebus tho, two sketches during the warmup were very lovely. I'll have to screencap and put them on my desktops. <3

God damn this is beautiful.