i’m a loser baby
so why don’t you kill me
watercolors & fineliners
©celine setiadi 2011
waa notes
some umbrella academy art from last night… once again done in lieu of starting my psychology IA. I can’t even begin to tell you how depressingly difficult it is to find time to do any of my own work nowadays. The closest thing I’ve got from stress relief that doesn’t impose guilt is escaping to the art room for several hours and working on folio work… and even then, it’s school based so it’s not quite my piece of cake, but it’ll do. I still paint when I’m stressed, it seems. Thank the lord that’s still therapy!
I desperately want to just hole up and re-read the entire umbrella academy series all over again but once again time is a luxury and it is one I unfortunately do not have… sob
also I admit I’m guilty of trying to draw boobs and butt in the same picture, to disastrous effect. Whatevs, it’s not like I meant to be anatomically correct anyway……………….
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my scanner has absolutely ruined this but this is a little gem I found whilst digging through some sketchbooks, as one does in lieu of doing work… it’s amazing what you might end up doing when you put your mind to not doing something else.
anyway, just a fun little attempt in color pencil to work up the luscious soft tones Audrey Kawasaki is so famous for.. her work is feminine, lush and a little lascivious. I’ve always been inclined to it because it’s just so pretty. If I had a penny for every piece of her work I’ve seen tattooed on someone I’d be rich. I understand why she’s so well received… the bottom line is that her work is simply beautiful and digestible by most.
last week had been a pitiful scramble at passing exams, and today marks the end of two out of four subjects I have mock exams for. I rewarded myself with a bit of free drawing time instead, which is tearfully scarce as time goes by :’( honestly this past week has made me realise just how much I’d love to be able to simply draw my life away
which is a lot
this poor color scheme is brought to you by the result of consecutive days holed up in starbucks working slavishly away at remembering psychology studies whilst wishing I had opted to drop out of IB before it ever got this bad.
Also, words are taken from Florence & The Machine’s song, All This & Heaven Too from Ceremonials. There is not a single song in that woman’s repertoire that is even minutely bad. I’ve pretty much been listening to Flo on repeat since I began hardcore revising and I have nothing but good things and gratitude
Much needed break from bio revision during a skipped english class up in the art room.. not the best idea but i think i really needed it. So therapeutic. I hate you IB you are killing me from the inside out
I left out an inked Katniss in my last post! Awkwardly cropped by the sketchbook bind, of course. Once again, this drawing was done months before talks of a film ever came about.
I ought to color this sometime. Not right now, unfortunately, as I’ve got a handful of nasty exams coming up this term… not a happy chappy.
Honestly all I really want to do is stay in my room and draw
is that so much to ask, IB?!
as promised, these are some of early hunger games sketches I started on long before the notion of any films ever existed. They’re fairly old, about summer of last year.. and fairly rough, as I did them all while I was holidaying in Bali. They were drawn immediately after reading the first of the trilogy; I was hooked and engaged and just itching to get these characters down on paper.
I get the biggest kick from illustrating novels, man. It’s like crack to me.
Katniss was kind of severe-looking in my head, because of her headstrong character as well as the difficult life she had in district 12. They were all kind of starving too, so naturally she was going to be thin. She’d be one of those teenagers with lines etched hard into her face, aging her to look weary beyond her years.
Peeta was… more full-bodied. I loved the idea of a proper, uncontrollable mop- really, I envisioned him as a bit of a puppy. Freckles, light, lost eyes- the whole lot. I just had a really likable character in mind, really.
Gale, like Katniss, had sharp features and a hard set jaw and brow. Brittle as they come. Dashing, of course, and definitely with more hair than film-Gale.
I won’t lie, I loved the idea I had of foxface inside my head and was a little disappointed by the film’s less dramatic take on her. She was nimble and far more cunning in my head, but the movie made us sympathize with her more than the novel did. She had a very distinct visual description and I wished I’d drawn her more, I feel like I’d have a lot more fun.
Rue is just, well, Rue. Adorable, vulnerable little girl, with an agile body with well-hidden vulnerability. And how anyone could ever have envisioned her as anything BUT a black little girl, as the book clearly suggests- and be upset about it, no less- is beyond me.
I’ve got some early Hunger Games art in the depths of my sketchbook that I’ll hopefully get around to scanning soon. The Katniss in my head was kind of gaunt and harsh-looking and Peeta definitely had a fuller head of hair and softer features. Gale was a total dreamboat, dark swooshy hair and intense glare etc. etc.
I kind of wish I had drawn more!
Got carried away with a doodle, all inked up and ready to paint… except i did it on the wrong sketchbook with the crap paper that doesn’t hold water well. AUGH.
I did this in lieu of getting ready… oops. i’m going to look a mess tonight, should probably go paint on my face now in hopes of looking absolutely nothing like myself. Ta.
Hello! My name is Celine. I'm 17 and I spend too much time indoors, drawing, instead of having a life.
My years of strenuous practice make up for the lack of any perceptible talent.
I like using pencils, gouache and digital media.
I also have an affinity for small, friendly mammals and I cannot for the life of me do maths. Or any academic endeavor, for that matter.
All art is © celine s. 2010-12
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