fish eater

I have reached my quota of finals work allotted to today. I should do more, but I haven't gotten to draw anything I want to in a while, so I drew this. Also, tonight I will go see LEGOWELT which will be exciting. I haven't gone to many shows since I moved here because I am so busy and hate leaving my house. A week from today there will be no more school for a month! I have nearly survived the 20,000 dollar semester. yay? I still suck at watercolor, but I haven't had much time to practice. The watercolor class next semester was full, so I am taking an oil painting class. I hope it is fun (and not to expensive, luckily I already have a lot of oil paints that sit in a corner unused).

also, here is the birthday card I made for gryphon and still haven't given to him. maybe I will give it to him tonight.

overdue

some thingz

hero haroweeeeeeen

this morning i remembered this funny song my little brother used to sing about halloween. it wasn't so much a funny song as the way that he sung it was awesome. i miss you little brother!
anyhow, this post hardly has anything to do with halloween except that there may be a few monsters and yokai about. i have too many things and none of them seem any good, so i just took some crappy pictures with my iphone. this is also because i have no scanner nor dan's camera around to help me out. enough excuses, here are some things and sorry for the crappy quality (both in drawing and photography).
<3 eliza

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

I just stumbled across these amazing prints on the Brooklyn Museum web catalog.  I'm actually supposed to be writing about something pre 1500, so I can't use them for my paper, but I just spent about an hour checking them out on the website.  The museum has scans of every print (as they are not often on display because they are so fragile) and they even have a pretty cool interactive zooming function, which is a lot of fun.  Needless to say, I hope they put some of these on display soon.  The color is amazing.  I'm really impressed with how muted yet saturated everything is... if that even makes sense.  I'm supposed to be learning how to talk about color in class, but I still feel unclear about the best way to describe it. 

Here's a screenshot of the zoom feature:

These are super cool.  I'm probably going to try to do some studies of a couple of them sometime soon.  First I have to write my art history paper and the five million other homework items.  I wish I had some more time to draw.  I have a bunch of sketches to upload, but haven't had time to digitize them.  Hopefully I can fit it in this week.  

brogg is mad, needs some attention

time and time again i fail at blogging. why was it so easy back in middle school?
i felt like the blog looked ugly and maybe this was why, so i changed it up a bit and hopefully it is prettier and i will feel inclined to post more, even though no one reads it anyway.

here are some recent sketches

also i am trying to teach myself to use watercolors, which is basically just me floundering around and getting frustrated when things don't go right. but color is a nice change...

perhaps more tomorrow.

sketches and then some

sktch dumpzz

long time no scan