Not sure about this

I'm really not sure about this blog. I have a lot of things going on and most of them are going on in other places. I feel a little nostalgic about this blog because I started it as an emotional purge several years ago, and I don't really want to say goodbye to it. Even though I deleted all those posts. Haha.

But seriously. Most of my developments, career-wise, are with DawgArt. So I report there. And also with writing. So I report the writing stuff here. Plus I started that mommy blog. That's three blogs. THREE to update weekly. And I've been doing it. Mostly.

So I'm not sure about this little corner of cyberspace. Should I just give it all up? Should I just say, "Thank you, somethinglikeart, you have served a purpose, but now we must go our separate ways? Or should I hang onto it? I mean, I started TreadingWords because I needed a place to document the developments in writing. I suppose I could add the illustration stuff there. Since they will be combined anyway in the novel.

Yes, the novel is progressing again. After the release of my first short story collection, and much work on the second collection, which should be done by the end of this week, I have jump-started the novel. It was in a coma for about a year. And I promised myself I wouldn't feel guilty about it. But after being invited to read the first chapter aloud at an event last summer and being asked by several people in the audience if the book would have illustrations, I decided that it would. Yes, of course, why not? Why not, as Geary would say, make things harder for myself?

So I'm not sure what I'll do with this blog. The title is rad. And I started to discover the real me here. So it's an important place.

This is a weird post. I'm going to go read a book.

Original Fiction Series: 3

Third in a series of illustrations for my upcoming ebook.  It's gonna be zoppity.

Piece created with acrylic and Painter 12.

A Halloween greeting.  Made in Painter 12.

Happy October!

Original Fiction Series: 2

2nd in a series of illustrations based on original short science-fiction by me.  To read the story, stay tuned and get the book when it comes out.  It will be 99 cents.

This piece created with acrylic, ink and Painter 12.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet

to have a cup of tea.

Her spider friends then dangled down

to fill their cups for free.

Illustration created in Painter 12.

Original Fiction series: 1

So I don't know how many of you know I am a writer as well as an artist.  I have been working on a collection of short stories to release on ebook and the time is coming near!  I am hoping to release my book by the end of the year and in the meantime, I have started to create illustrations for the project, one illustration per story for a least six stories.

Here is the first illustration:

 To read the story, stay tuned and get the book when it comes out.  It will be 99 cents, which is a smokin' deal, considering that I write really good stories.  Seriously.

Anyway, this illustration was created with acrylic, ink and Painter 12.

Tomato Soup

Ever wonder how Andy Warhol came up with his famous idea.  I don't mean the story we all have heard, how he stole the idea from someone else.  I just have this image in my head, of Warhol eating soup, in his pajamas and suddenly . . . a vision.

Painter 12, Wacom Intuos 4

Tales from the Apocalypse

Conceptual illustration for an editorial article on the negative influence of employees being something that could destroy your business.  I like it because it's zombie-esque.  I like creepy things.

Painter 12, Wacom Intuos 4

Steampunk Self Portrait

Self portrait with a hat, focus on the eyes.  Done in Painter 12, with Wacom Intuos 4.

Many Changes

Here is a conceptual illustration.  Concrete image for a fortune cookie phrase:

"You will make many changes before settling satisfactorily."

Two things:

1. I like how happy this fifties paper doll woman looks.

2. This is kinda self-portrait-ish.  Except for the fringed vest...

the end.

except, this is still a WIP.

The Glamorous Life of an Artist

I made this movie as a commentary on my DawgArt business.

You think this is all a joke.

Think again.

Torctopus

 

Meet the torctopus.  He is a friendly, if swim-challenged, denizen of the deep.  Due to his laziness, he prefers to use his personal underwater scooter to get from lagoon to open ocean.  And who can blame him?

Power

This is an image created to illustrate an abstract concept.  The abstract word: Power.  Get it?

Anyway, wouldn't it be funny if a little muscleman dude popped up in your lightbulb every time you flipped the switch?  Awesome.  Maybe it would play a song too, like ... We Will Rock You.

Reboot

So I originally intended this blog to be a daily sketch blog, even when I first created it back in 2007.  And I was pretty good for a while, and then it became a journal blog and then a rant blog and then it was just sad.  So I deleted it.  Everything.  Finally, a few weeks ago, I felt ready to unearth SomethingLikeArt and start up a daily sketch blog again.  BUT!  I am sketching all the time in my sketchbook and I don't have time to sketch on the iPad right now.  (Because I want to do all the daily sketch blog sketches digitally.)  SO!  This is going to be rebooted as my illustration blog.  I will post a gallery, my contact information and begin having regular posts about my adventures in illustration.  Now, for those who know me, it may seem excessive and a little redundant, because I have about a thousand blogs: Treading Words, Lee On Life, and DawgArt are the only ones semi-regularly updated.  And eventually, I'll stop posting on Lee On Life because it's a school blog and someday I'll be finished with school.  So then it will only be three... ish.

Daily Sketch #14

WIP based on Langston Hughes' "Midnight Dancer"

Wine-maiden

Of the jazz-tuned night,

Lips

Sweet as purple dew,

Breasts

Like the pillows of all sweet dreams,

Who crushed

The grapes of joy

And dripped their juice

On you?

Birthday Greetings

For my brother on his birthday, to help take the "sting" out of getting older.

Daily Sketch #11

I said, "What should I draw?"  So Ty ran and got a book of poetry by Emily Dickenson.  Then he read a poem.  I don't remember it, but it had the words death, chrysalis and butterfly.

ArtRage.  On the iPad.  Fingerpainting.

Daily Sketch #10

Another dragon.
ArtRage.  On the iPad.  Fingerpainting.

Daily Sketch #9

Painter 12.  I love this idea, even if the sketch is rough.

Daily Sketch #8

Painter 12.  I worked on this for a while, but since it's going to be changed after critique,

I'll post the WIP here.