Summer art and Mei Magazine

Hey, so this is just some fanart for Doctor Who, from this episode that was written by Neil Gaiman and was the fucking best episode of almost anything I've ever seen. After watching it, I just took like an hour break and just thought about it and was happy. It was called "The Doctor's Wife" and was about this aliens relationship with his spaceship/time machine and it was so romantic and sad and magnificent. I want to read everything Neil Gaiman has written.

This is different characters from the show, but it got weirdly popular. It got over two thousand notes on tumblr. I don't know if it's because of the simple style, or it's of a popular (straight?) couple, but whatever. (This show makes me go totally woozy over straight couples, so yeah).

And here is a lesbian couple from Doctor Who, from the last episode, which was the shit. They were an interspecies, victorian, cross dressing, detective lesbians. I was so in love.

These are some screenshots for the title sequence I finished at the end of the year and still haven't figured out how to upload. I'll do that soon.

This is from the show Sherlock, where new photos from next seasons filming came out where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were handcuffed together. It kind of made my heart race.

This is a commission for Batman, Jason as Robin, and his later incarnation of The Red Hood. I kinda dug how Robin came out.

I just wanted to genderbend Power Girl to make Power Boy. Turns out Power Boy is a thing, but I'm not into DC's version of him.

Also, this is for a magazine for girls adopted from eastern Asian countries, (mostly China, Vietnam and Korea), and I emailed them about their logo and some other design elements I thought could use some improvement, and now I am doing some spreads for them. This issue is Chang O, and next issue is either Chinese or Vietnamese New Year, or all Lunar New years, if I can figure out how. Since Lei will be reading these magazines, and maybe Sasha in a couple of years, I would like to continue to do articles for them, so they think I am the coolest. And I can't think of much I'm more interested in then adoption, so doing stuff for a magazine for adopted kids sounds awesome.

Guest Post from Laura!

Hey there everyone! This is Allison's friend Laura. I've been silently viewing your lovely posts for a while, and I just got back from an architecture study abroad in China, so I wanted to share the best of my sketches! These are all from Shanghai - we didn't do as much drawing once we were in Beijing.

This is a totally weird modern building in Shanghai. I think the architects thought that the whole world would look like the Jetson's, so they decided to get ahead of the game. There's no way to draw this building without having it look like a penis. 

I think this was my favorite modern building in China - this museum is beautiful and I like the emphasis of the horizontal in the design. 

Shikumens means "iron gate house" and they used to be all over Shanghai, but they've mostly been torn down and replaced with replicas. It makes the city feel like Epcot a lot of the time.

Perspectives are hard, and my attention span was short on this one.

This is a copy of the old-style characters. I wish writing still looked like this, although it probably wasn't very efficient. But it's so beautiful!

I did this rubbing at a temple that was built in the 12th century. I didn't have a crayon so I used a leaf. The character means spring, and it's a lucky character.

This is my attempt at Chinese calligraphy - it's my Chinese name. 

Thanks for letting me post!

Some drawings in no particular order.

Hey, I haven't posted in awhile, so here's just some of the things I've done in the past month or so. I'm trying to do a lot of commissions for cheap, to get some money, and also because it's kind of fun, like a sketchbook assignment, if sketchbook assignments were about guys macking on each other. So I'm having a lot of fun with them.

A commission for Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne.

Here's one commission I did of Red Robin and Superboy, who I've been wanting to draw for awhile. It might be strange to say, but I like the way Robin's butt came out, and his chest. Allison, have you seen 90's Superboy? His outfit was so strange, but I love it. I want to draw it.

So I bought the movie "Death In Venice," because I think it might be aesthetically my favorite movie, not even just because of the boy Tadzio, but the turn of the century clothes/architecture, and the colors of the film are stunning, and have changed the way I draw. And I can't stop drawing Tadzio. (Adam: Rufus Wainwright did a song about him called "Grey Gardens" which captures my feelings for him quite well).

The cover of my copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray is totally stupid, and the picture looks nothing like Dorian, so I thought I would make my own. I don't like when covers show Dorian's face, since I think the reader should imagine it on their own, and they so often have a masculine face with dark hair or facial hair, which is totally not how he was described at all. Whoever chose those pictures for the cover were NOT homosexual, I'm sure of that.

Um... I started watching Pokemon again. It is still amazing (but I am shocked at how little animation there is. Like 90% of the show is still frames).

Superman

I think this is my trying to get my circus obsession out, but it's still there.

Another picture for my fashion class. I did this after watching a shit ton of Betty Boop.

Genderbent Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

This is a character from the show Doctor Who. I was kind if trying different effects. I thin it looks kind of interesting, and I want to explore more with stuff besides flat colors on photoshop.

I did this after watching Death in Venice. I just want to draw dirty, turn of the century, beach erotica all the time.

Bucky, for my pin up sidekick thing. I was in a queer art show with my sidekick pin up drawings, so I added this one. I also have a Ron Weasley and Luigi that maybe I'll post later.

Again, trying to do something besides just flat colors. This one I did after seeing 101 Dalmations. That movie is actually very gorgeous. I totally crush on Roger, and the backgrounds are amazing. (Also I crush on Pongo, but whatever).

A headshot for my fashion class. It was inspired by Grace Jones.

Another fashion headshot.

Wolfie Girl and Calvin and Hobbes

Bowl and Photos

Yo YO YO! Adam here, got some new stuff for you. First up, this bowl that I made (Madelin and I took a glass-blowing lesson, more pictures of that on Facebook). Turned out pretty awesome.




Also I have some cool panorama photographs for you! I've been using this awesome program on my iphone called Photosynth, and it allows you to take pictures of the whole 360 degrees of your environment, and will piece them together to recreate it. I think the coolest part about it though is that for each one it also converts the whole thing to a single picture, which is what you're seeing. The first one is from this spot at Bard where someone built this platform up in the trees.



This one is one of my favorites, it's from a bike trail in Eugene, OR. The 3D version of this is also cool. Check it out here: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=935e1afd-ed69-4296-95ba-586c1256381d



This one is in the same place, but this time I tried taking the pictures while walking around and seeing what would happen. It's actually kind of hard to do anything too messed up, cause you kind of have to trick the program since it was designed to make it as accurate as possible.





These last two, I tried doing something more abstract, and I really like how they turned out. For the first one I printed up a black and white patter I thought was cool and just held it up at every angle and took pictures. For the second one, I took a picture of a small part of this painting I'm working on, printed it up, and did the same.

moving out

i'm moving out of my apartment, and i found this.

Dakota, I drew this for you one day in class and never finished/showed you.

I love all you guys.  Good luck with this summer!

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This is Adam. Here are the three latest paintings I've made for my class.

As you've probably seen on voyerbook, this is my self-portrait. It looks so much better in person. I gave it to Fred, and it is now hanging in his suite's living room. I think that's going to weird his roommates out.


This is my "outdoor painting." It's from this cool spot off of a Bard trail where someone built a platform between three trees overlooking the Hudson.


This one is of a nude model that we had in our class. It also looks much better in person. I'm really proud of everything EXCEPT the face! For some reason, I have a really hard time with human faces. It took about 12 hours of class time plus about 13 hours this weekend. It's the biggest painting I've ever done. I've attached another shot of it to show the relative size.