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drcaligari — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:59:00 -0700

Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while since I last posted, but I’m in Taiwan + Japan again and I’m re-opening up my photoblog from last year if you care to follow along in my food + sightseeing experiences! Thanks for looking :-)

shingeki no life

drcaligari — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:48:57 -0700

shingeki no life

cream-starter: happy birthday giorno

drcaligari — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:53:49 -0700

cream-starter:

happy birthday giorno

rivaille is one of my favourite characters

drcaligari — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:38:00 -0700

rivaille is one of my favourite characters

When did you first get interested in art?

drcaligari — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:33:00 -0700

I don’t completely know for sure, but I think it was when I first saw my cousin drawing Sailor Moon when I was a kid!! Those were some good times.

What was it like to take a figure drawing class?

drcaligari — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:27:00 -0700

It’s fun???? Hahahaha our models were all very well-built people with great bodies and were really nice too. It made drawing them less stressful/uncomfortable for some people in the studio!

Did figure drawing come easily for you or did you struggle sometimes? 0:

drcaligari — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:20:00 -0700

I didn’t really think about whether or not it came easily for me or not, but it took some getting used to in the beginning! I’m not sure how figure drawing is taught for everyone but when we had to measure proportions I found that difficult, but got it down right according to my instructor? I definitely learned a lot by taking life drawing, because there are some slight things your brain observes when you draw as opposed to drawing something from your head. It’s kind of cool!

old-ish stuff I uncovered in one of my sketchbooks today

drcaligari — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:21:00 -0700

old-ish stuff I uncovered in one of my sketchbooks today

Do you know Chinese and Japanese? :D

drcaligari — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:28:00 -0700

LBR here I’m not good at either language to call myself proficient but my background is Mandarin Chinese, so I can speak it and read a good portion of it, but not enough to read a newspaper. As for Japanese, I took a solid four semesters of it, but I’m still unsure of grammar structures and I can type/read more than I can speak (largely reliant on kanji dictionary, translators, various other sources though) /_\ wish I could take more classes…

Here is my embarrassing language background exposed to everyone who ever wondered but hey I speak perfect English so there’s that

I'm in love with how you proportion your characters. ;_____; <3333 Did you take anatomy classes?

drcaligari — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:21:21 -0700

Thank you so much!!!! I’m not very good with anatomy, but it’s still a learning process! I’ve taken one life drawing studio in my entire life, and I wish I could take more! They are so fun…..

old drawings from last summer (and a couple more recent) that I...

drcaligari — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:42:00 -0700

old drawings from last summer (and a couple more recent) that I forgot I had! I’m making huge changes to the current stage these are in so I guess I don’t mind sharing.

i struggle with dynamic poses and posemaniacs just isn't cutting it anymore :(

drcaligari — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:58:00 -0700

Well! This is kind of hard to answer since everyone deals with anatomy problems differently. I think if you think too much about how things should look, it sometimes inhibits you from being able to understand the form. It isn’t good to force yourself to try poses you maybe aren’t comfortable with either. Dynamic poses can be pretty tricky and I actually tend to avoid them unless I can get it to look right. I don’t really use posemaniacs or any other pose site often anymore so I eyeball everything (wow this is really bad) until it looks right to me (probably not right to most people)….

But all this aside, I think that drawing the same pose a lot (and while I’ve seen artists get slammed for this—it’s not actually a bad thing) really helps. You start to understand how things sit and interact with one another in the space in which you’re drawing them. I hope this kind of helps? I’m really sorry if it doesn’t, you can tell me if you want further clarification…

lecture sketches from instagram

drcaligari — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:33:00 -0700

kira is such a beautiful woman

luv the new david bowie mv and luv andrej

lecture sketches from instagram

tired sketches

drcaligari — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:29:00 -0700

tired sketches

i remember stumbling across some of your traditional sketches and im curious about what kind of fountain pen you uses c:

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:37:35 -0700

ohhhh I don’t draw with a fountain pen! I do like brushpens though, they’re either cheap ones I got from Daiso, or these two! Hope this helps a little!

WAH thanks to you and your incredible fanarts I started watching/reading JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it's really great omg THANK YOU.

drcaligari — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:35:00 -0700

WHOA DAAANG I’m really flattered!!!! I haven’t been keeping up well with JoJo lately and I feel very bad about it but I’m really excited that you’re watching/reading JJBA!!! IT IS AN INCREDIBLE SERIES I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE WHOLE RIDE

*reusing this edited panel I posted a while ago

*it’s ok to cry over jojo

KEEP READING JOJO!!! ARAKI forever!!!!

Your art work is a huge inspiration to me and I hope I can be as good as you some day! ;3; I hope this doesn't sound silly. Your works help encourage me to keep going.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:31:57 -0700

Wehhhh hhhhh thank you so much! I’m certain you’ll be way better than me!! :) I’m extremely honoured that my work encourages you… this is one of the most heartfelt and kindest compliments I’ve ever gotten, thank you….

you probably get this alot- do you have tips on how to improve drawing? i'm stuck in a rut when it comes to art and i just dont know how to overcome it. i want to transition into coloring better but i just dont know how

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:40:00 -0700

I don’t get this a lot, thankfully, because I’m not very good at answering it when I do. I’ll do my best to answer this in the most honest way possible, because I’m in the same boat. I cling to black and white a lot more because I’m pretty poor with colour theory. It’s a lot to take in when you aren’t familiar with it!

For me, it really helps if you build an aesthetic, or an archive of things you like, which I’m certain you may do already! Colour combinations that catch your eye, or maybe a composition that elicits an emotional/intellectual response from you might guide you along what you want out of your art.

I look at a ton of saved pictures when I decide to do something in colour (never), and improvise on what I see based on a predetermined mood/setting I already have for the image I’m working on. References are never a crutch. And practice, always practice. I cannot stress that enough!!! Every single day, draw something. Anything!!! Even if I don’t post every day, I doodle every day. It really gets your mind thinking alternatively and seeing what your habits are (so you know what you want to improve on).

what is graphic design like? i'm thinking about doing it. your help would be much appreciated!!

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:29:25 -0700

I think it really depends on what school and what program your school offers! You might want to ask students who go to the school you want to go to in order to get a better idea. Mine was very Swiss (we were taught by a professor who was taught by Bauhaus successors), and so it’s a pretty austere program for about two years. You learn a lot though, and it sticks. You cover a lot about the basics of typography, print, colour, composition, etc. what to do/what not to do. I hate clichés, but here’s one: design is all about the details. There’s no frills, no frivolity, no bullshit. Every piece, every element will have purpose behind it. You won’t worry about your work being “just some other art piece”, the faculty will make sure of that. (though I’m sorry if I took a jab at anyone, my major tends to poke fun at fine arts)

And there’s obviously a lean more on digital media due the world today. It’s a very fast-changing curriculum, to catch up to the world of work outside this major they also focus a LOT on webbased languages, coding, scripting, motion design and animating. Markets change and thus we have to adapt to it.

I’ll be honest though. I’m nowhere near as hardworking as the rest of my classmates, who actually plan on getting jobs after graduation….

hope it's ok if i ask you what your major is 0:

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:35:27 -0700

Sure!

I’m studying visual communications, which is a fancier term for graphic design. I don’t particularly like it though, but I’m going to graduate this spring anyway.