Rinky-Dink Doodles!

The time has come.

2012-10-24T09:43:00.003-04:00

The time for me to leave this place.

I've been secretly working on a new art blog space to abandon this one.
So long blogspot. It's been real swell.
Maybe our paths will cross again one funny day.

Enough drama. Here it is folks.
http://sharirossillustrates.tumblr.com/

Enjoy.

Brains

2012-04-13T20:02:00.003-04:00

What low self-esteem looks like

I can hear the birds falling
For my soul sister, Hilary

Brain waves

Scrambled veins and bleeding ink

2012-03-06T15:27:00.005-05:00

Sometimes when I'm anxiously scribbling, I like to see each line as a vein as its own. And each vein has ink that bleeds when it's cut. Bleeding from the sharp point of my pen nib; sucks the ink dry and spatters all over the canvas.

Everything is okay.

2012-02-27T02:05:00.002-05:00

Seriously. Make a friend happy. Hold their hand. Holding hands is the best.

Rainbow Liquids

2012-01-19T21:41:00.003-05:00

Here's a series of rainbows I did for fun. Rainbow is my favorite color.

Over the moon again

2012-01-14T03:53:00.004-05:00

A dream-like piece I did for one of my classes last semester. It was a hell of a lot of fun to paint. I got to experiment with mixing different mediums together; I've learned that gouache, watercolor, and inks go together like baking cupcakes.

My original concept was gonna be a sequence sort-of thing, but my professor wasn't really into it.

And so forth, the one piece was created! Blessings to the beautiful universe.

We Are the 99%!

2012-01-03T14:28:00.009-05:00

Completed for my mentor project last semester. My mentor, Kat Hudson (http://katillustrations.com/) gave me an assignment where I had to illustrate an event flyer. I chose to do Occupy Wall Street, as it's something I'm in full support of and strongly believe in.

The individual people represent the 99%, and the demon spewing money represents the 1%. This was made as a collage using watercolor, and numerous hours of cutting out each individual person.
I had to edit some things in photoshop. For example, a strand of my hair got stuck under all that glue which was impossible to take out. But other than photoshopping my hair out and some color-fixing, it's all done traditionally.

P.S. It's 2012 now! How 'bout that? I hope everyone has been having their own fun shenanigans, and chaotic silly adventures in the first beginning days of the new year!

Lines of Lines

2011-11-06T05:41:00.007-05:00

Some few months ago, I was really into making things art nouveau-like involving a lot of tedious effort to make patterns, little details, and almost-perfect lines.

Flowers for your Eyes

Tarot World

Dream in Rainbows

Harold and Maude

SCARY STORIES

2011-10-31T01:27:00.003-04:00

Just in time on halloween. Here's some things for you all to look at!

Originally, this was an assignment to make a new book cover for our favorite author/book. I chose Scary Stories wirtten by Alvin Schwartz, with beautiful illustrations by Stephen Gammell. My goal was to get that same feeling of horror when looking at Gammell's drawings. Have I succeeded?

May everyone have a crazy-filled halloween!

Bless you.

2011-10-17T07:48:00.002-04:00

My cat likes to sneeze on me while I sleep.
And then he bites me after he tricks me into thinking that he actually wants cuddles.

Experi-mental

2011-10-15T04:07:00.006-04:00

So like, you know how sometimes you get these inconvenient things called 'artists block'?
I feel like it's caused by when you get bored of how you're drawing, and you need something completely new and different out of your comfort zone to excite you all over again. Or maybe it's not even just being bored with how you're drawing, but the things you make don't make you happy anymore, or they start to infuriate you because everything you try making just doesn't come to any sort of self-satisfaction.
So over the summer, I was able to throw my art block out the fire escape by using a bunch of mixed media techniques; gouache, pastels, brush-inking, etc. I would think of what emotion would be coming to mind or which direction my hand feels like it should go instead of my brain telling which direction my hand should go in.

This was the start of it, inspired by Masha

Silly sketch of a forest-demon stick-doll thing Alex made

Your brain, your waves

Movement

People as shapes

Faces in shapes

So last fall-winter...

2011-10-08T08:57:00.007-04:00

Would be about the appropriate time I made the majority of these sketches. A year later, I decide to finally upload them (great job).

Adam and Eve

Merging/Melting

Splitting Crosses

Witch Dance

Happiness

Violent Anxiety

Tangled Trees

Skin Burn

Subways @ 3:00 AM

Hell Sisters

More recent things to come sooniesh.

Also- a complete new design for my blog! Much prettier than before.

Edit- maybe a bit too green? Makes me think of puke. But green happens to be one of my favorite colors. I'm conflicted with ugliness and favorite colors. Oh well.

Oh, hell.

2011-07-23T19:37:00.003-04:00

A little hell series I did way back in winter. I had the bright idea that making a series based on pages that I've torn from my sketchbook was a really good idea.

The Daytime Moon

2011-07-12T18:25:00.003-04:00

Luckily I got to see this beauty right from my fire escape. The only reasonable thing to do was to break out my gouache and inks right away and sketch this gem.

Follow that guy. I mean skeleton.

2011-07-05T16:53:00.003-04:00

Made kind of on a whim a few months ago while riding on an airplane back to Ohio. Sky-viewing gives a lot to leave to the imagination. That's why I always get the window seat.
Of course, plane-riding at night is way more epic.

A patch? For you?

2011-06-28T14:47:00.002-04:00

These were some ideas I had in mind for creating some patches. I'll be attempting at carving in some of these designs in stamps and see how they turn out.

Creature Creature

2011-06-16T06:08:00.003-04:00

Three of my favorite things: rainbows, creatures, and trees all made up in the vast space we call the universe.
Made for Sonja's final project.

Ahoy!

2011-06-14T16:57:00.005-04:00

Well, last semester was definitely a struggle.
Anyhoo, this was my final project for digital painting. We had to create a self-portrait for a 'person of the year' Time magazine cover.
The lotus flower was very obviously rushed. Me and my terrible procrastination of finishing things last minute. Oy.

And here's the background that was a lot of fun to draw out.

Creatures creatures everywhere!

COLLAGE BOMB

2011-02-24T13:25:00.006-05:00

Collages I've done over the past few months. Order from oldest to newest.

Leftovers

2011-01-18T20:53:00.004-05:00

These were the last three projects I did for visual self-expression. Lots o' wack with those classes...

Oils

2011-01-02T09:11:00.003-05:00

Until a few months ago, I've never touched oils.

Painted in greyscale first before going straight to color.

Finished product; it was a lot of fun. It's a terrible photo though.

first painting

2011-01-01T08:26:00.005-05:00

of the new year. How lame is it that I'm awake really early with no hangover and not feeling like a hot mess?

I haven't touched my watercolors in a while, and I just found a very strong re-newed love for them again. Made this on a whim after re-watching The Red Balloon which brought back happy childhood memories!

last project, last year.

2010-12-31T23:08:00.005-05:00

Tomorrow's going to be next year. Tonight will be last year. Time flies a lot when you're not aware of it.

These are my DeerHunters, they threaten to shoot me when I'm being lazy. Created with acrylic, gouache, and ink.

Scratchboard/clayboard/something-board

2010-12-14T03:06:00.003-05:00

It was tons of fun using this thing.
This is an illustration based on the BP oil spill. Huzzah

The last few pages

2010-11-22T21:41:00.009-05:00

From my recently-filled sketchbook. Filling up sketchbooks is exciting but it kind of sends you into a whirlwind vortex when you realize you have to start with a new unfamiliar sketchbook. And trying to draw that first page in your brand new sketchbook is seriously nerve-wrecking.