Site o’ the Day
by chris on Mar.29, 2006, under Art
So I just invented this idea called “Site o’ the Day.” It’s revolutionary. It’s like I’m like some kind of pioneer or something. Blazin’ trails like nobody’s business.
Keep in mind that not all days will have sites.
I guess what’s happening is, in an attempt to have more frequent posts, but also in an attempt to remember cool stuff that I see in a slightly more meaningful way than adding to my already ridiculous collection of bookmarks, my site will likely become what nearly all blogs tend to become: link orgies.
So hopefully I’ll have something meaningful to say when I post things. Or maybe when I start looking at sites, I’ll find one that’s cool, post it here, say something, then stop looking at crap and get back to work.
Anyways. Today’s site… the inaugural Site o’ the Day site… a site I should probably find out more about before linking to…. here it comes… Tim McBurnie ’s site and, specifically, his portfolio and the Dailyscribble archive. Apparently the portfolio is actually part of a different domain. Does that mean there are two sites o’ the day? That apostrophe is going to get annoying soon, if it didn’t already. Maybe I will develop some standard Site o’ the Day linking procedures.
I was going to say that because it is the inaugural site and because I already wrote a bit about the idea of the site of the day (I just gave up, and I’ll probably give up a llittle more next time), I don’t really need to provide any background or thought about it. But I will anyways. The first thought I had, looking through some of the other folks’ work in the Dailyscribble albums, was that I wish there was some cool illustration stuff going on at UCF with characters and the like that I could be a part of or have access to. It’s possible that there is and I’m just oblivious, or that even if there were I’d ignore it because “I don’t have time,” but I like to think idealistically. Maybe.
The second thing I was thinking was about Monsieur McBurnie’s work itself, about the loose blocks of color working with the crisper (but still fairly loose) line. I want to develop some looseness in my painting, where blobs of color can sit together and work with each other to convey a sense of form and light and color, instead of just looking crappy, which is what they generally do now. I mean to say I want to be able to quickly and spontaneously block in such areas, not having to labor over them forever to get them to look decent. Hopefully in time I will get better at this.
Much work lies ahead of me.
More anatomy, though I’m getting somewhat comfortable with it.
Gesture.
Caricature.
Hair, cloth, accessories.
Form revealed by light.
But for the moment, a frog and a self portrait preliminary drawing.
Maybe some time I’ll have a retrospective Site o’ the Day (I rested a little bit there, so I’m good now) where I list some random things that stick out from the past. Or maybe I’ll get into the habit of posting a few each time I find something new. Like right now:
I guess that will be all for today.
