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[TheHelplessLlama]

Over the past 7 months, I've adopted a style of drawing that I've settled on as a personal favorite. I have no idea what to call it, so any insight into that would be very much appreciated.

So, here are the 12 examples I have straight out of my sketchbook.

All of these were drawn out in pencil, traced in sharpie, and then painted using watercolor (tubes and pencils). As a rule of thumb, if the person is yellow-orange, it's most likely a kind of self portrait. None of these works have titles, and not all of them have a real motivation behind them.


9/15/2005
This was drawn at the beginning of my art class' cubism unit. I wasn't a fan of it. This is the very first example of this style. I wanted to contrast the smooth, flowing lines that I generally like to use, with geometric shapes.


9/28/2005
Simply put: I don't know what I was thinking.


2/7/2006
Again, just me being weird.


2/8/2006
This one does have a bit of a story behind it. I've had insomnia pretty much constantly for the last 6 years. I finally had a sleep study done, and this is how it looked while I was waiting to be hooked up to the monitors. My room consisted of a chair, a TV, and a bed. I ended up watching 4 and a half hours of TV before they finally told me to just turn it off and close my eyes. (I still didn't fall asleep for another hour afterward.)


2/8/2006
I was watching the 2nd season of ER, and it was when Susan Lewis was taking care of her sister's baby.


2/9/2006
I was weightlifting about an hour before I drew this. I completely overexerted myself and I couldn't lift my arms for 5 days afterward.


2/18/2006
This one has a slightly longer story. It was the day before I drew this that I had decided I wanted to leave my girlfriend for someone else. We had had a very rocky relationship before then, and at that point I knew I wasn't happy dating her anymore. We were together off and on for 14 months, but I only ended it last week. I had a crush on the other girl (the one represented by pink in the background) for quite some time, but I had never acted on it. We started dating shortly after I broke up with my ex, and it's going very well so far.


3/7/2006
This was one of those ones where I had a deep meaning all thought out. Those are rare. I wanted to show two different themes at once. I wanted to show the duality of good and evil, as well as brotherhood. I decided to show it over the course of three drawings.


3/7/2006


3/8/2006


3/11/2006
More randomness.


3/11/2006
Even more randomness, but the father and son in the back is very representative of my father and I. I remember spending a good deal of my childhood up on his shoulders just like that. The mother and daughter in the foreground don't really mean anything seeing as I don't have a sister (and my brother would kill me if I said it was supposed to be him).

[cleofus1]

1. very thoughtful work

i like it's simplicity...have you ever thought of doing animation with this?

[TheHelplessLlama]

2. Actually yes

When I went to Portfolio Day at MassArt the woman that reviewed my portfolio suggested that I look into animation. Unfortunately I don't know where to start with that aside from Macromedia Flash (until I move onto college art classes that is -- still in 12th grade).

[mdmc]

3. simplistic represtentitive style? I like it!

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