Wrapping up.

Well it’s been a small journey in the least this past semester, whether I got as much as I wanted done or not. It’s absolutely something I’ll continue to look into, as it has helped me not only find an effective method to brainstorming for ideas and inspiration, but also as a method of relaxation and development of my personal skills and styles in traditional art. Gaining insight as to how far it could be taken as a concept of development and inspiration was the primary goal, and in the end, the primary achievement.

I just hope that psychokenesis is actually just an elaborate hoax, and if not, that I can become the most powerful cloud bender the world has ever seen! Muahahahaaa...

Have some more cloud doodles as I wave farewell~!

See you next time, folks!

Repetition... Repetition... Repetition... Re...

A rather peculiar problem that I’ve faced with looking into random shapes, and not just clouds is an interesting form of repetition appearing. If there’s something floating on my mind like an idea for something, it tends to be all I can see, no matter how hard I try not to. Of course, that trying not to see it conflicts with one of my initial fears of the project, of being able to control the outcome by not drawing the first thing seen.

In order to combat this I just carried on with it and produced a large number of dragons, which then spanned into a deeper idea about dragons, monsters and beasts living up in the sky which produce clouds through pores on their backs as they slumber. As I got to that deeper strange, I realised I was sidetracked, and so hopped back onto reading the clouds. However, it did help getting dragons off my chest. Not entirely, but it was enough to let me think freely again.

I will need to revisit that dragon idea in the summer...

Mugshot!

More updates of images! Cloud faces! Giving myself a theme to concentrate on in terms of picking things out really makes things easier. I would really suggest it, especially faces, as it turned out to be really fun to just sit back for a couple of hours looking to the sky and drawing out some wacky people! A lot of large noses mind you... and rat people...

Fear me, Mortals!

By the power of Thor, sky, I command thee! Turn into a Teeeeeee-shaped Cleeoooood!!
Something not directly related... but if psychokenesis truly exists and somebody out there is actually making these shapes I see in the sky, is my ultimate source of randomness gone?!

WELL, nothing ventured, nothing gained!

*concentrates* Turn into a dragon cleeoood!

But Peter, why did you think clouds?

Drawing from clouds came to me after finding a book I long ago lost under a pile of... stuff. It’s a book about everything a man would ever need to know about clouds. I received it way back in 2007 for my birthday from my two extremely supportive Uncle and Aunt (again with the mentioning) who are also artists, who gifted it to me with the notion that I would fill the wee doodle book they gifted to me alongside the factual book.

So I guess in that delightful twist of things, it would appear they tried to ignite the same spark that I’m now trying to find through these experiments and such! I can only hope I uncover some strengths to this method of idea storming!

Images were not doodled by me, they were put in the wee doodle book before i was given it! :D

Clouuuds, glorious clouds!

Onto something new now! I’m sure many of you have done a variation of what I’m going to call ‘Cloud Gazing’ when you were kids, where you pick out familiar shapes created from clouds up in the sky. From here on is a turning point in this valiant quest, as cloud gazing takes its turn! Drawing from clouds at first glance is going to be good fun. The sky is HUGE and clouds are forever changing, never to be in the same shape ever again! Natural randomness! I guess a small downside would be half of Dundee’s cloudy flat grey days... but... hm

TILL NEXT TIME!

Mysterious Shadows~!

Yeeeet another batch, except not using only black chisel tips and a black brush fine-liner to create some rather interesting silhouettes. Interesting... there’s more cowboys than usual...

Forgive the shoddy work on correcting the lighting... I need to re-learn how to use the scanner...