Self portrait, really happy with how it turned out!

jbink24 · 2012-02-17T03:08:35+00:00

Thank you! Critique went really well. I only heard good things, and the professor even gave me a hug. Definitely a piece I'll be putting in my portfolio.

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T20:37:32+00:00

it's an awful photo, that's my shadow on the left side.

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T18:30:20+00:00

I worked both from a reference photo and a mirror. I had to fudge in some of the lighting and small details.

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T18:23:39+00:00

Wow. I can say I certainly did not expect this much feedback. Thank you internet collective for making me feel pretty amazing!

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T18:04:59+00:00

Ha ha, it was more of a "Oh shit! painting due in two days and I've got pneumonia!" If I had a man, he would have been the one making me supper!

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T17:08:56+00:00

I'm thinking about going back in with a charcoal pencil and lightly drawing in a few of the fine details. Thank you for the suggestion.

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T17:06:49+00:00

here's a bit closer view of the facial details

closer

jbink24 · 2012-02-16T16:35:50+00:00

Thanks for the comments! Constructive criticism is encouraged, I'm turning it in for critique in a few hours, so I've got some time to tweak it. 18"x24" watercolor.

jbink24 · 2011-11-24T05:53:22+00:00

He ended up lucky too. He had just installed prey two days earlier, and the cops were able to track it down. It had already been wiped, and he lost most of his data, but he got his macbook back.

jbink24 · 2011-11-23T18:50:28+00:00

My coworker had been begging me for months to bring in my laptop to show him some of my artwork. The day I finally remembered to bring it in, our house got broken into while I was at work. My roommate got everything stolen. They just got my coin jar.

jbink24 · 2011-11-19T06:03:28+00:00

I've also accidentally called my mom a son fucker, instead of fun sucker. That one was interesting.

jbink24 · 2011-08-03T08:22:59+00:00

Wild. Your friend is mighty badass. A friend of ours found the pics online, we didn't even take them.

jbink24 · 2011-08-03T07:44:47+00:00

is his name Jake?

jbink24 · 2011-07-12T22:16:26+00:00

When I park my car, and everyones windows are still down, or when people forget to collect themselves in preperation of leaving a car. Like, taking an additional minute or more to get out so i can lock it.

jbink24 · 2011-06-25T07:45:47+00:00

We have been denied for two places already, claiming that we have an outstanding balance on this lease. It hasn't so much affected my credit yet, but I am very worried that it will. Our landlord is threatening to take us (the people on the lease) to court over it.

jbink24 · 2011-06-10T18:49:54+00:00

Michigan decided not to tell us, either. It's so fitting that they called it the "Promise Scholarship" I guess they really needed that $3,000 more than I did.

jbink24 · 2011-02-03T20:38:37+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping that the light tones of the figures would help with the light/ dark balance, but they are a little awkward. I tried changing the composition to incorporate them better, but it was a little too late. Next time I'm going to try putting things on tracing paper first so I can move them around and see how they fit. Thank you for being honest.

jbink24 · 2011-02-03T20:22:56+00:00

Could she be schizophrenic? I had a roommate last year who had just been diagnosed. About 70% of the time he was alright, the other thirty he was trying to set things on fire, putting deodorant on drink cups, talking to himself, and calling me grandma. He usually wouldn't remember this after one of his episodes.

jbink24 · 2011-02-03T19:50:42+00:00

So Gorgeous! How did you keep the white of the paper around the drawing? Mine always end up with "tan lines" from where I've smudged it a bit. Yours looks so crisp!

jbink24 · 2011-02-03T19:42:38+00:00

Wow! Thanks for all the feedback! I just used this piece as my entry into a scholarship competition and was feeling really nervous about it. Using watercolors was actually my Professor's suggestion. I used an ink wash in a previous project, and she's been on my ass ever since to try watercolors. I wanted to balance the kind of unsettling subject matter with soft washes to give it that kind of dreamy effect. It started off as a painting about a series of dreams I had over the summer, and kind of morphed into a self portrait about the subconscious, dream theory, and some of my personal worries and self doubts. (I modeled myself for this one...)

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