Metaphorical Realism | August 7th, 2010

Before I get onto uploading stuff, I had to share my love for the artist Vladimir Kush.

I don’t actually have many favourite fine artists or influences in general, but surrealism is definitely my favourite genre and if I had to name a certain influence for anything I draw creatively, I would have to add Vladimir Kush to the list.

His paintings are simply sublime.

I first learned about him a few years ago when I was looking up some info on Salvador Dali, and his work has stayed in my mind ever since. I remember seeing this painting:

…and thinking if only I could draw like that. In fact the ideas conveyed in almost all his works contain some sort of mix between realism and whimsical dreams, which is something I like to add in most of the stuff I draw.

I was going through my old folders and saw some of his paintings, and still can’t quite believe how amazing his work is.

They really are timeless.

Jakki posted @ 5:26 pm

Free stuff | August 7th, 2010

I spent the last few hours deleting old subdomains and going through my old files which were on Elusionerie, and I uncovered a whole load of free stuff. As in, stuff I had made for other people AGES ago, which are now sitting in deep multi leveled folders waiting for someone to use them.

They’re pretty old and totally nostalgic, but I will probably put them up later .. just because.

I also updated some dead links and in the process of compressing stuff so I can update the art on this site.

People might remember my new year’s resolution at the start of the year, saying how I was going to draw something every week. Well, I kinda have been doing that. Only thing is, I have to admit I did get lazy for a few weeks and drew incredibly scrappy drawings which are completely embarassing.

In order to make up for those weeks of creative apathy, I have decided I am going to post something new each week, either hand drawn or digitally drawn.

My visual diary still has quite a few pages to go- It’ll be a huge accomplishment if I do finish it by the end of the year!

Here’s something I drew quickly while I was on holiday recently (hence the off centre lines and such):

People always talk about how amazing it would be if robots could do housework- well what about machines that can produce floating cake?!

I’m surprised millionaires haven’t already started backing research into this.

Jakki posted @ 4:09 pm

Hallelujah! | August 6th, 2010

YES THERE’S A NEW LAYOUT!!

About time right?! I think I’m going to miss that old scrolly layout though. Just a bit. I feel like confetti should be going off right about now though. I remember saying at the start of the year I would update this more often, but its already August and … I’m finally getting around to it. Time goes by way too fast!

I wanted this site to be a bit more user friendly so I hope it GOD it works on other browsers. It should look fine on any resolution but I haven’t actually checked on the PC yet so I don’t really know what it looks like other than what it looks like now on my 13″ screen!

Oh well. I didn’t actually spend all that much time changing it up either- which is cool since it usually takes me a while to figure out what goes where and stuff. But I’ve done heaps of little things too…getting rid of old plugins and updating stuff, and changing images a bit.

The only thing I’m worried about is the header loading a bit slowly because it’s kind of a big file but I may change that later when I have more time.

I still don’t know what to do about the background. I think I might make it a tad bigger. And if you’re wondering what I’ve drawn is all about- I wanted to depict a mix of new and old symbols; the contrast between nature and civilization…and the enduring power of the horseshoe crab. Heehee.

I was going to change the image links because green on brown doesn’t really look that great but I was stuck for ideas and … well I think I’ll leave everything for now.

I listened to the same song on repeat while updating this site, and I’m really digging the song at the moment because it’s just the most beautiful song ever, but literally- two hours+ of the same song. It was definitely the tea and Conor Oberst that helped me finish this layout without leaving it half done overnight!

Well now that I’ve accomplished my mission for the day, I might catch some zzz’s. I will update all the links and images very soon!! And add more new stuff. I have a whole load of things to add to this site, once I clear out elusionerie.com.

Hope you like the changes

Jakki posted @ 2:20 am