[Socar MYLES]

I spent the last three minutes or so running through my apartment like a bat out of hell, with a piece of paper with a texture painted on it in acrylics in each hand, flapping madly. I'm working on a mixed media/digital painting for tomorrow's 9 AM class, and I need these papers dry five MINUTES ago so I can get them scanned!

[Shiro_tengu]

hair dryer
SLOW SPEED
hot
1.5 feet away

[Lunatique]

Hey there, rat-girl.

Hmmm, do I detect a "The things you've done for your art" theme coming up?

Here's mine:

About 3 or 4 years ago, I was working on Enchanted, a creator-owned series published by Sirius Entertainment. During one deadline, I had to deliver 2 oil paintings for the cover and back cover. I had stayed up 48 hours straight working like a madman(I remember leaving the TV on, as they were reporting about Princess Di's tragic car accident), and just ten minutes before the FedEx guy arrived to pick them up, I had come up with a great idea to keep the surface from being ruined. I used litle pieces of cardboard and made these "L" shaped brackets which I taped to the corners of the back of the paintings. The brackets were about 2 inches deep, so the surface of the painting would never touch the inside of the shipping box. Inside the box were instructions to allow the paintings to dry for another 24 hours before taking them to the printers. I think that was probably the most brilliant thing I've ever contributed to my art--cardboard "L" brackets. . ..

[Blitz]

hehe
*mental picture of socar running about flaping madly*

[Ian]

Acrylics dry quickly.

[Ahcri]

I never had a problem with deadlines, guess I'm not a real professional. The thing I do for my art is: I think ahead.. very far ahead. For example, I would phone my art gallery and tell them I want to have an exhibition in January 2002. That's when I have already finished most of the works, and starting to paint some new stuff for the next exhibition, say, in August of 2002. And when I'm working on the stuff for the August show, I would think about the next one in 2003.. and so on. And that is the reason why I am never able to catch up with other people's thoughts and the speed of this forum.

[Ian]

you should try planning ahead more.

[Bishop_Six]

I've done stuff for my art like.. uh... you know.. stuff... uh, I don't have any good stories. *hangs head in shame*

[Socar MYLES]

I should try planning ahead more? Well, maybe I will, between working madly on the following projects:

5 half-page grayscale paintings, due Oct. 15
29 full-page grayscale paintings, due Dec. 1
39 paintings for school
7 miscellaneous commissions
and a Christmas present for my boyfriend's mother.

[Pat]

Flapping is a time-honored tradition for art students. I myself flapped quite a bit in color class. Our teacher had us construct gouache color charts. Hundreds of little tiny squares. Tints. Shades. Tones. 10 degrees each. Painted in the middle of the night, hoping they didn't darken while they dried, praying your lamps cast a similar light to the classroom. Prof. Roskop, wherever you are, I still hate you.

-Pat

[gekitsu]

hehe *thinks of socar running around like batgirl*

i often play model for myself when drawing alone. (when drawing in the same room with a friend, we help each other with modeling, but alone, it's not as easy)
so, i appear quite often jumping around in my room (mostly half-naked) imitating sexy swinging hips, soldierlike animations, street fighter or other characters' moves or drawing faces in front of a small mirror.
i remember nearly knocking out my mother when she came in and i wanted to draw a samurai and just fought against a non-existent enemy with a wooden stick as a sword in one hand and musashi's book of 5 rings in the other hand as reference