Crit 3: Writing Blog 4

I've been working on sketches for the next part of the disorder series. The sleep disorders. Which have been kind of a nightmare figuring out how to visually show. Pun not intended because you know Nightmare disorder is a sleep disorder but moving on. I've been working on Insomnia because i feel have the best start on that besides the nightmare disorder. Here are the sketches for that.

I'm leaning either towards the clocks in the eyes being broken or fingers coming out from inside the eye lids forcing them to stay open. I like how they both are conceptually. 

I've also been working on live drawings still. 

The 1st is my niece caught in my little brother's jacket which  was pretty funny and the second was while we were at a game and there was a guy that looked sorta like me so i drew as fast as i could and i used myself later to fill in some of the details. I'm still trying to figure out how i'm going to include the unconscious drawings into these but when i do i believe that a much larger canvas is needed since most of these have all been about the size of a standard sketch pad. 

Lastly while working on my gif for Illustration i experimented with black ink and white gel pen on top of tracing paper and it came out very interesting so i believe i want to look further into this process. 

Artist Post

Mattie Parrigon's artist journalism series is a beautiful addition to her library of work. She's taking time to learn about the lives of those that many people have shut out and forgotten about over the years. It's not only a great art project for herself but has been a lively experience for the people she has spent her own personal time interviewing. I think it's a great direction for her work. 

http://mattieparrigon.blogspot.com/