Christmas Break

I don't have a good scanner at my disposal while home, so all of these cartoons of my dog are captured by my iPod.

I have successfully refinished two tables!

I have painted three different paintings that people over the holidays have requested.  They're not really my style, but they were still fun to do while exploring different ways of painting.

An illustration where I was practicing light with digital painting.

Another digital painting of my face.. I think.

"One of those days where all you want to do is pee, but there's a dinosaur by the fire hydrant."

Tomer Hanuka - Artist I LOVE

Idea for next project

Dog Work

Latest pics of my dogs

Played with the placement and I like the one below better.

Work

So I will admit that I have not be updating this blog as much as I should, but mainly that's because I've been trying to work on my website:

 ShelbyCanDrawToo

I will add some of my new artwork tonight or tomorrow before class.  This is all :)

Subject Statement

For my visual essay, I have chosen to document animal shelters, particularly dog shelters such as the Tunica Humane Society.  The shelter is over run with dogs and is adding to that burden everyday.  Whenever someone wanders into the shelter to look around, they are overwhelmed by the massive amount of animals there.  New kennels are being built by volunteers on a weekly basis to try and keep up with the demand for them while the county tries to cut the budget that the no-kill shelter lives on.  With only half of their originally proposed budget, the shelter is trying even harder to get their animals into good loving homes.  Because of how many animals are there, it is difficult to focus on one animal and give them the attention they deserve.  I know this first hand because I volunteer at this shelter every weekend.  This will make gathering information on site easy and I will draw out each dog there.  The dogs will all be rendered in quick sketch form reflecting the feeling of trying to give full attention to one animal whenever there are so many to look at.  These drawings will all be presented as jumbled together in the end, while in the middle there will be 4, 11x17s in the format of a window.  This window represents looking in or even viewing the lives of these animals.  The dogs in the 4 larger pieces will all be rendered in a much clearer fashion than the ones all around them.  The dogs surrounding the finished rendered pieces will be done on smaller pages and will be in different sizes and even colors.  The area around will be overwhelming and suffocating in the massive amount of drawings.

5.2 Ideas

So I decided to just draw some quick sketches of dogs.  I was able to complete all of these within about five minutes.  This led me to the idea that maybe I could base my piece, or pieces off the humane shelter in Memphis and how it is over flowing with dogs.  If I can do this many dogs in only five minutes, imagine how many I could do within a month's time.  Perhaps I could even do so many as to fill up a wall.  It would be the same as walking into a dog shelter.  There are so many dogs that it's hard to focus on just one.  Since you are constantly looking at these dogs, you cannot take in all of their details.  You see quick sketches of what you think they all look like.