zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

Nice! Last two look like self portraits loosely in the style of Schiele?

strong process bro

ass kicking detected

these are great

hey, thanks you all!

xp lavator i have definitely been looking at my Schiele books a lot, recently. third from the bottom is the one i'm working on now, and although it's a bit of a mess i have been trying to incorporate elements of his self-portraits, like relatively clean lines, flat washes of color for clothing (sometimes), clearly delineated backgrounds and foregrounds.

i've been drawing a lot more, recently. i need to get back to the store and pickup a broader range of colored pencils because my current set (pack o' 24, prismacolor) is not cutting it

oh and that top one from that post above is just a copy of Schiele's Grimacing Man (self-portrait) from 1910, trying to pick up something from him via osmosis. what's crazy is that the original was made using gouache, watercolor, and charcoal.

schiele is pretty much my very favorite painter, i think. that dang spanish flu took out a real one

a couple more from early summer

https://i.imgur.com/jgYuLP6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JDGzc8L.jpg

i actually like that bottom one, despite the sloppiness. that was the last drawing I did using chalk/pastels as the source of color. too fucking messy. but in this case it reminds me of the horrible feeling of robotripping

https://i.imgur.com/OoDi7Vd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/l6zHaQq.jpg

i'm kind of in the uncanny valley between abstract and a realistic portrait, so apologies if that's just incredibly fucked up looking. i am sick of looking at this guy

(gotta light?)

spent some more time on it. i don't like it, but it's the first time i've tried painting a face with much detail and i hope that my subsequent tries will be better. also this is a funny painting to put in dark windows imo!

https://i.imgur.com/mzF3mly.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bbaWdjS.jpg

i don't know how i managed to use a camera setting that produced the moiré effect, but i did it. also i should probably let the paint dry before taking photos. i am the fukken woist

man, i fucked up the finger spacing, too. that's a more serious problem, i have to fix that. god i'm the laziest

that is super cool Karl!

thank you corrs! i have a long way to go on faces but ya gotta start somewhere!

i just started this fun saturday workshop for October. no one else signed up so it's just me, 2 instructors and a model doing a pose in a nearby park for 3 hours (with breaks for the model and check-ins with the teachers every 15-20 minutes). the 2 instructors are really awesome and i'm very comfortable with them and want them to be my friends after the workshop. i feel like i'm going to learn so much this month. :)

https://i.imgur.com/B5dI3VT.jpg

i realize that some people would have done a lot more in 3 hours, but for me this was like speedpainting. i have a few more things to fill-in (sky, chair, and grass clumps) but i liked how being forced to move so fast leads to a certain level of detail. I'm happier with my trees at the top than i have been about trees i've spent 10x the amount of time on.

the nicest thing is that they were both asking if i planned to finish it and seemed genuinely interested to see what it looks like at the end! that's the kind of encouragement i will gladly pay $200/month for

If I could be so presumptuous as to offer an opinion on the face-and-arms piece above, the arms and particularly the fingers are where the work comes explosively to life for me. The face looks too concerned with accuracy whereas the hands are free, and reimagined in an exciting way. Can you block/break the face in a similar way?

you may be 100x more presumptuous than that, and it wouldn't bother me at all!

i have been dying to break up that face ever since i made it, and have been thinking of different ways to do it. it's been nice to let it sit for a few days because now the oil is in a state where i can either revive it to a zombie state with linseed oil and blend a bit with previous colors, or paint over it entirely. i'm gonna bust out the ol' scraper too

i wish i would have written "happy helloween"

https://i.imgur.com/qyqIGOA.jpg

yae it’s like the zen archery thing, you ain’t gotta fuss over it, just ~let go~

fantastic work, and cheers on scoring double tutelage!! pls continue to keep us apprised of your progress <3

o shit a scary skelly!

*awwoooooooooooooooo in the night*

https://i.imgur.com/lRo89PO.jpg

(many awwoooooos in the night later)

https://i.imgur.com/OoYAzg3.jpg

a few of my friends have recommended guoache and i finally gave in and purchased a cheap-ass student kit!

https://i.imgur.com/80Rhwuu.jpg

i loved it. when i first started using oil i bought a bunch of the very worst student quality and figured that if i ever made it to the end of the paint and still wanted to go on, then i would "deserve" to buy better paint. i don't know why i always feel the urge to prove that i have to spend some money. but i feel the same with gouache. i have enough to last a few months, and hopefully by the end of that supply i will still be excited about and ready to get some better quality

GO-U-ACHE

GO-YOU-ACHE

i will remember how to spell this

I say you deserve that quailty gouache right now, great colors!

i used cheap gouache for a long time, but upgraded to expensive stuff and it is more enjoyable. it's satisfying using pigment so rich and bright it makes you wanna eat it

thanks corrs! i think it's the brightest thing i've made in a long time, lol!

karl can i ask which brand you're using now? i am enjoying the lower-grade gouache but now i want paint that i want to eat as well! :)

i use lukas studio gouache, i like it a lot. it's a little bit cheaper than turner, which i have heard is better, but i haven't tried it yet. really tho i like having a variety of nicer stuff and cheaper stuff on hand to experiment with. i'd feel guilty using the expensive stuff on random pieces of cardboard trash and mixing it with spit and coffee grounds or whatever, which i HAVE done cause i AM wild and crazy

nice! i have some lukas acrylic paints and they've served me well.

my secret ingredient is dog hair. every painting includes well-mixed dog hair

Everybody's gouachin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind

https://i.imgur.com/y04Kp3F.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/G5GMJhr.jpg

very nice

thank you! still falling on my face but i don't mind.

https://i.imgur.com/lc4wkgu.jpg

just realized i need to fix those foofy boots on the bottom right

https://i.imgur.com/UF2D3G4.jpg

gettin tougher, more visceral, keep goin

thank you, and yes that last one was interesting because it was monochrome (or at least, sort of - "red with white and black" was the mission), and a final, new 20 minute pose after 2 hours of working on another one. the one i spent so much more time on, with all the colors available, is so much worse. it started off bad and got worse. the refresh at the end end, the new 20 minutes with a new pose and a limitation of only red + white/black, that was like plinko

it's also kind of eerie how red + black can come out like blue, but it does, at least after drying

like pThalo green and red can come out purple

my landlord installed new porch lights. they're so bright that they shine all the way into the middle room of the railroad-style apartment, into my bedroom. in the middle of the night i can raise my hand up in the air and the porch light will cast a direct and crisp shadow onto the headboard. shadow puppets. the lights have no switch and are always on.

https://i.imgur.com/KScSKl9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EmyRCsR.jpg

i used that monochromatic titanium white/ivory black mix to throw a bucket of figurative paint on my bad self-portrait from a few weeks ago. i like it more already and am already feeling much more comfortable with it as my weird half-real face is now buried beneath many layers and will never emerge fully again, but only partly through scraping fuck yeah

https://i.imgur.com/P4ZtXcs.jpg

uh shoot, i deleted the top image (a real life image of my front porch) because i forgot that my real life address is on there. in case it still somehow gets through, please do not sell my real life address to the spam crew

here is a sanitized version https://i.imgur.com/bz66tbA.jpg

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/5/54/Seinfeld_kenny_rogers_roasters.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101004134329

ugh, sorry you have to deal with that km. can you gently suggest he replace the bulbs?

and i really love the painting!!!

uh

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/5/54/Seinfeld_kenny_rogers_roasters.jpg

thanks lavator!

yeah, the light thing is funny and impossible. i'm not even going to try to do anything about it. the deal is, one of the tenants (one of those doors) is elderly and all she cares about in life - besides stopping abortion and banning contraception and saving people from the covid vaccine, which she believes makes men impotent - is calling the landlord and complaining about stuff. she moved in on the same day i did, last year. since then i've heard dozens of things that she believes are horrible and insufferable in our apartment. there has never been a time, since the very first day, when she was not on an epic tirade against the property management and waiting for them to call her back, waiting for a maintenance guy, always waiting on something that she was expecting to happen. i mean, of course i respect the endless epic battle against the landlord. i think i'm on my 14th or 15th rental in 20 years. landlords are horrible. but in this case...our house is...fine? maybe my standards are low.

ANYWAY, for months and months she complained about our front porch light. it was too weak, and it starting to flicker. it was kind of annoying, i get it. the problem, though, is that she had bugged them hundreds of other times about other things that were trivial. so around the time the porch light was flickering, she went on another epic quest to get it fixed, and annoyed them so badly that the property management sent out an email to every single tenant asking them to no longer call them with requests, but to put it in email instead, and that "our agents are doing what they can to get your concerns addressed...while constant phone calls actually impedes the process and slows down our response times to and for you." which was kind of bullshit but i 100% get it with this tenant. she asked for my number repeatedly and i never gave it to her because i don't have the willpower to listen to her complain about how everything in life sucks so badly, every single day.

ANYWAY, they finally replaced the light, i'm sure she wanted it as bright as possible, and i'm sure they were like "have at it, here are the airport lights"

i asked if she renewed her lease. she did. "why?", i said, given all the problems. she just shrugged and laughed. hey i get it

i see. obnoxious tenant vs passive aggressive landlord. sorry you're caught in the middle. but maybe those lights protect you from covid so it all fits together

i use the lights to tan my balls to counteract the sperm-destroying character of the covid vaccine

it's a delicate balancing act to be sure

Characteristics of a Railroad-Style Apartment
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Commonly found in tenement-style, walk-up, multi-family buildings
Long and narrow rectangular floor-through layouts
Rooms flow into one another generally with hallway(s)
Railroad layouts may include one central hallway, room-dividing archways, or in some cases a hallway off to one side with multiple entry points
Bright annoying light in front of building
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