{"id":1547,"date":"2009-12-10T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:07:04","slug":"scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"scans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on my lunch break I took my sketch book and scanned in some of my favorite sketches from the past six months.\u00a0 Some of these I posted shoddy camera shots of back in August (?) and some are newer.\u00a0 Some will become paintings later – and some will not…<\/p>\n

The real reason for scanning these is that I’m working on a new version of the website that will be much much much easier for me to update.\u00a0 I haven’t got any good shots of my newer (as in 2009) paintings, but I can at least share these sketches.<\/p>\n

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This will be a painting at some point.\u00a0 It is calling out for a large work – but I’m procrastinating and working on many other pieces before I’ll tackle this guy.\u00a0 I guess he’s sort of a “sequel” to the the ribbon girl I did a few months ago.<\/p>\n

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This one reminds me of Amy Sol’s work a tiny bit, so I’ll probably paint this on one of the wooden panels I have.<\/p>\n

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This one has two separate ideas overlapping two pages of the sketchbook.\u00a0 I really like the on on the left.\u00a0 The giant eyeball and crab hands seem much more curious.\u00a0 I changed the boy from a baby into a young man with a helmet too.\u00a0 The larger one is less developed, but you get the idea.\u00a0 The alien was turned into more of a “devil” so you could see more emotion.<\/p>\n

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This one will become a painting one day as well.\u00a0 This is my favorite from the “Astronaut and baby” series of sketches.<\/p>\n

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professor Byrd.\u00a0 Supposed to have a chain around his neck, but it’s hard to see, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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I love drawing hands.\u00a0 although I like feet too, I like hands much better, so one day (while in Seattle) I kept sketching these women with hands for feet.<\/p>\n

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This was the first “real” sketch in the new sketchbook.\u00a0 Sort of a return to my old comic book character drawing days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The first sketch of the “Astronaut and boy” series.\u00a0 Isn’t his suit awesome?\u00a0 He’s got fat Bender legs, a patriotic star shoulder and a WWF championship belt.\u00a0 the boy here was drawn intentionally a little “alien” so the viewer doesn’t know if this is the start of an embrace, or regarding an alien specimen (holding it at arm’s length) trying to attack.<\/p>\n

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I sketched this in five minutes before going to my last Finance class.\u00a0 I suppose it isn’t finished, but I’ll probably not go back into it.\u00a0 The most interesting part for me was the head\/face and that’s done already.\u00a0 You can use your imagination to fill in the rest….<\/p>\n

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Here is a short sketch I did while waiting for a script writing partner at the woodland hills orange line stop in September.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, this is a photoshop collage of two sketches done on transparency paper in preparation for the painting I’m currently working on.\u00a0 I know he looks kinda like Jesus (maybe) here, but he won’t look like that in the final painting.\u00a0 The Owl has metamorphosized a bit since this sketch too.\u00a0 I spent four hours painting the Owl on Tuesday only to realize that the shape was all wrong because the body was stretched like a cat.\u00a0 I’d used freehand sketching with a light grid to set it up, and somewhere something went wrong.\u00a0 So I had to white-out the Owl and start from scratch.\u00a0 You’ll probably have to wait a month to see the results as this one is on a 4’x3′ canvas.\u00a0 I’m also painting on top of a paper collage cemented to canvas this time instead of directly on canvas.\u00a0 I find this gives the work more “personality,” especially in cases like this where there is a lot of symbolism and the paper (in this case pages from a book) can add meaning to the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today on my lunch break I took my sketch book and scanned in some of my favorite sketches from the past six months.\u00a0 Some of these I posted shoddy camera shots of back in August (?) and some are newer.\u00a0 Some will become paintings later – and some will not… The real reason for scanning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}