Art major here LOL. I love painting, drawing, sculpture (metal mainly), photography...But I am a graphic design major because I had to justify the degree to my parents. Just do it. There will always be someone to appreciate your work. I hate everything I do a month down the road LOL, but I still manage to get A's
I am kinda morbid in my taste. I have an accute interest in human anatomy, so many of my pieces will deal with unatural, sometimes unrealistic modifications to the body. I haven't had a chance to do any studio type art in about a year though, due to my main focus being on graphic design now.

After I got an unrelated degree, I went back to school and studied art & game design, then entered the game industry intending to be a character artist (saving women's rights, one sexy-but-not-skanky female character at a time!)...and ended up falling in love with a project management career path instead. I still doodle constantly, though. My meeting notes are always full of doodles. How unprofessional!

I absolutely LOVE this sort of thing. Human anatomy is mind-blowing -- there is so much art and rhythm in the way the human body is built, and there's so much room to morph and play with it (to macabre, bizarre and/or beautiful effects). If you have any work online, I would love to see it!


Idealmuse>> do you ship to Canada? Your style is exactly to my dearest friend's tastes, and I've been looking for a nice gift for her! I imagine the shipping will be more than $5, so I'm willing to pay extra. Please let me know! (Feel free to PM me if you'd prefer to discuss it that way.)

The only thing I have done recently that is online was a self-portrait, and I did it digitally LOL.

http://a186.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...6dd4920fe1.jpg

I haven't got to do real art in a LONG time.

Yeah, I'm going to do them from some of the *cough* 2000 pictures that we took in France, Luxembourg and Belgium (500 are of the Eiffel tower, different angles, different times of day). I also have one in particular of a cafe in Bayeux, Normandy.

Oh, if you get the scrapbooking bug, it'll bite hard! When I got the pics from the France trip, it took me 6 months, but it was worth it. When I show that scrapbook to people, they get the "itchies" to do one themselves... I started the same way and did about 6 pages/2yrs., but now I don't want to stop. I would say, get your pics in order first and then go buy the big scrap books of paper from Michael's when it's on sale and have at it! Oh, get some extra tape whilst there too. Nothing like running out when you're really into it that day.

Digital is intriguing, but I'd still have to add embellishments! One of the scrapbook stores in my area has "scrap happenings" and they have digital classes. I'd like to learn more but hands on and with some guidance as well. I dunno: jury's still out on that one.

Good luck with getting 'bit'! Have fun!

What a bunch of talented people we have!

Loved the stained glass! WOW!! So beautiful!

You should all be proud of yourselves!

Idealmuse: I know you weren't advertising, but your work just makes me "gotta have it"... I can appreciate all the hard work and love that goes into making art. But when we love what we do, it's not work, n'est ce pas?

Wow, that is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

mall sure I'll Pm you later today. Canda is no probably it usually runs about $10...

"I am kinda morbid in my taste. I have an accute interest in human anatomy, so many of my pieces will deal with unatural, sometimes unrealistic modifications to the body."

That sounds fairly up my alley. I just bought a book from the mutter museum in Philadelphia though so I'm kinda an odd cookie

aymster - true. true. I do love love it just need nudge in the motivation department sometimes. Part of the reason I do the shows in the fall it keeps me productive. Now that I'm losing weight I'm hoping I'll have more energy to direct at it!

Anyone else have some cool things to show off? I loved the digital photo and stained glass!

Lets see if this works:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...ya/samurai.jpg
This was an original piece I made, based on a tiny, tiny photo of a historic Japanese painting. I interpreted the painting into stained glass!
It is now hanging in a local dojo (karate studio)

Aymster: You did it now! I have been researching digital scrapbooking since I read your post and I am getting into it. I have done two pages so far. The below link is to the one I did tonight about my weight loss journey:

http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777/my-weight.jpg

And as for more artwork to see, here are some links to some of my things (I've been trying to make a webpage but can't find a free service that can handle my images). I do digital artwork, too:

http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777/1989-barefoot.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777...ruth_hurtz.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777...eds_prozac.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777..._in_motion.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/chriszee777...in_deep-fi.jpg

Sockmonkey: I love anatomy stuff, too. That digital piece of mine above (beauty is skin deep) has a skeletal/tissue outline in it.

Ha Troo! That darned bug! Good for you! I love it when the fire comes and nothing will stop me until my body aches and I can't!

I like your apple pic very much!

Sockmonkey: I missed your self-portrait! I like it, esp the colors. The eyes are so empty: any particular reason for that?

Symbolic of course..Left up to your own interpretation..I know what it means ot me, but what it means to others? *shrug*

Trooworld those are cool! Love your colors!

Sockmonkey: (love that name, btw ) Oh, yeah, I totally agree that the fun about art is that it IS open to interpretation. I was just wondering on a personal level. It's a pretty deep painting in my eyes. It's fabulous!