Sketching out my paintings

I constantly doubt my worth as an artist, but every now and then I remember that my talent at illustrating in conjunction with my story concepts come together to create the art which defines who I am.

Here's a sketch of the next piece in my "Modern Day Religion" series. This series aims to show the dark side of society as good and just, while the good aspects of our society are illustrated as evil and demonic. The painting this sketch is of will be entitled "Demons of speech". It tackles the issue of freedom speech and how the system would have us view it as a source of evil.


Here we have the demons of protest, demons of the internet, and demons of the press (hard to see, it is a figure with a camera).

Sneak Peak

Here's a sneak peak of my senior show.

Identity

The constant struggle of the self is to find who we are. The events of our lie and the way we present ourselves in public work together to build this construct. But what happens when you loose a brick in the foundation? How do you cope with the lose? Do you leave it be and allow the weather and pests to seep into your foundation? or do find a new brick to fill the whole?

I ask these questions because for the past 2 years I have used my gauged earrings as a small outward expression of my self. A gesture that even though I may conform to to social norms there is still part of me which wishes to rebel. By accident though, the one is now damaged and cannot be replaced. What do I do? Do I get rid of the other one to create symmetry? Or do I let the broken whole heal and start over from scratch on it?

A trivial thing to some, but it raises some interesting thoughts about how we define ourselves to the world.

Gods of modern day society

It's been a while.
I've pretty much been living in my senior studio space this semester. So far I have 16 pages of my comic sketched out. Now I'm getting into the inking portion of the project and doing color tests with prisma color markers.
As for my painting class, I made a triptych of the gods of modern society (God of Capitalism, knowledge, and democracy. Now I have to figure out if I want to make a piece about the angels of the religion or the demons. I'll prob just sit down and do some sketch work for that over break.

Here's images of the triptych (so for the low res, my camera is dead right now).

Triptych

God of Capitalism

God of Knowledge


God of Democracy