The spirit of the time; the general intellectual
Lain is a drawing based off one of my favorite anime mini-series, Serial Experiments Lain. I watched this show in a time in my life when I was trying to understand the world around me with taking a Humanities class and beginning to use my creative talent and this show helped me see life from another perspective that we have the choice to act upon freewill and sometimes we have to reset our own life to create a new one. When I drew this I tried to outline one of the pictures of her face but blacken it out with red dots because in the anime series, there are parts when Lain is walking down the street and it shows a mixture between reality and the fake world where it creates a mixture of blots and blobs as seen here. This was fun because it helped me practice drawing an actual human head which I still need practice on but in time it will all be perfected. If you want a good cyberpunk-abstract anime, then go watch Serial Experiments Lain. Review of the show 5/5.
Tutelary, which pretty much translates to having the position of guardian or protector of a person, place, or thing. I got this concept of a drawing randomly from concept art found in this book Realm of Tolkien: Images of Middle Earth where it shows the Wraiths standing in the field with swords, cloked and mysterious. Instead of drawing that I got this idea of drawing these spirit looking creatures with a sword, two have fruit, and I honestly forgot what the other two items. And clearly the girl in the window is a beautiful princess who is captive awaiting her prince to slay the spirit gaurdians and win her heart.
13) A Visitor in the Night
A Visitor in the Night is a drawing that is based off a true story of mine where one time I woke up in my room only to see an old lady holding a plate of sandwiches smiling at me. There not knowing what to do at 4:00 AM, I just sat there as she walked over me and vanished into the closet. Thinking she was actually in my closet I waved my hands in there hoping to see if anything was in there, but strangely it was all apart of my imagination. Over various research and studies, I came to the conclusion that my ability to see weird people in the night, such as the one above, is called Hypnagogia which can be viewed here. Basically it is a transitional time between Sleep and reality where sometimes certain images can crossfade into each other creating a sense that you might be seeing a ghost or another out of world object. From what I can recall, this has been something that I have experienced since I was a little kid, so this pretty much explains many questions I have had in the past. Thanks to drawing, parts of my life come together.
14) Aberrant
Aberrant translates to differing from the normal or accepted way, especially in behavior. This drawing was a concept of many things together, one including my favorite artist, Wassily Kandinsky and an album cover from the Mathcore band, The Number Twelve Looks Like You. I do love the style of Russian Cubism and the entropy of things. All throughout my life, I like to wonder away from the normal status and do my own thing, and this is how my brain felt one night and that is how I expressed it using a paper and crayons, controled chaos.
15) Architecture
Architecture is simple as that, I like it. I just randomly drew my favorite things, squares, circles, arrows, and lines to make this random city. The thing actually is significant in this drawing is the sun because I had a dream once where on this distant planet, a small man made sun was used for energy and it had these rings around it kind of like in the movie Contact, just gyrospheres everywhere. Pretty simple and clean, just how things should be.
I hope you enjoyed my drawings and check back next time in the near future for Volume IV!
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1 comment:
Jon-o, I am a full supporter of your artwork, but also I think I must tell you that the stealing sign you were seeing on my stolen picture did not really exist. It still looks fine on my computer..
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