St. Patrick's Day!

Dee di li, dee di li, dee di li Potatoes! Happy Saint Patrick's day!

Took yesterday off drawing and came into today very inspired to draw a leprechaun

 

The original Pencil drawing...

 

Final Ink, from my sketchbook.

Here is my redneck leprechaun from last year...

 Cheers!

VLOG 001

Trying something new... just talking to the camera about art, first one just an intro... bla bla blah... maybe ill do more... maybe not... I listend to the video and there is a fair bit of mumbling... so you will need to turn it up. Also the sound is terribly distorted, Ill try to fix in the next one, I just needed to make one to start.

CPCC Student Show

Im currently at Central Piedmont Community College here in Charlotte, NC, working on getting my general ed. done before going down to SCAD Atlanta this fall. Last year I entered "Breaking Boundaries" into the Annual Student art show.

This year I entered 8 pieces and 4 of them were accepted into the show.

"Salsa" pastel and collage

"Paw vs. Quail" Digital Painting

"Lightning Bug Lamp" Aluminum Wire - off

"Lightning Bug Lamp" Aluminum Wire - on

"Unconditionally" Paper Sculpture

All my work is up for sale, "Paw vs. Quail" will actually have prints for sale. If you are interested in any of my work contact me for more information.

anderson.carman@gmail.com

The exhibit has been delayed due to the snow in Charlotte so some of the information on this page is outdated. But for your reference the show will be on display during Sensoria in Charlotte NC.

http://sensoria.cpcc.edu/event/307/

Photo Restoration

Sometimes Digital art gets overlooked for being not 'true' art however, I have learned in my Computer Art class that it does still require skill and artistic knowledge. The computer is just a complicated pencil. A tool.

Here are some photo restorations I did in photoshop including a retouch of a self portrait of myself.

Today's Sketchy: February

Its been a long time since I posted, so here is a massive post of my February in sketches.

Lord of the Rings Marathon

Superbowl

Good dreams

cutting paper

Flo vs. Soccerball

Gluing paper

#sochifail

Logo work

Bingeing on Orphan Black

Drawing for someone

sending packages, and driving

more driving... Finished reading "...The Chamber of Secrets"

Figure skating

Valentines day

Grannan and Paws 50th wedding anniversary

My sisters 18th Birthday

Art history test

ChickfilA dinner

The great masters

Best day of the year yet!

Powerpoints

Telling stories

Driving home

Sharkweek

wire sculpture

Photo restoration

Haircut

Ice skating and Illustrating

I got behind a few times during the month, I hope to stay on tip of it better this month. I also hope to post a few more "regular posts.

Today's Sketchy

I know its been a while since I've posted, but that doesn't mean I haven't been drawing...

Last year I attempted to draw a sketch a day sort of as a visual journal. I made it all the way to October but then I ran out of paper the same size as the paper I had used the whole year and I never got around to cutting paper to match the dimensions. In short last year I failed. But that is what art is really all about, failure, but only if you learn from that failure. I was working on my graphic novel over the summer and experience several failures but I have learned so much from them, I have now been accepted to SCAD and I attribute that to the lessons I have learned from my failures.

In short, Learn from Failure and succeed next time.

So here is the plan for this year... I will fill a 3.5"x5" sketchbook with drawings that showcase that day in my life. Some things I learned from last time are that I want each page to be more finished artwork, and I don't want to limit myself to just pencil.

This series will be titled "Today's Sketchy"
meaning both that today is sketchy and this sketch is today's sketch (see what I did there? :)

Without further ado lets start with January...

I retired my Pocket Bible after reading the whole thing in a week and 8 previous years of service.

Selfie!

Saw "Jobs" great movie sad story

Stayed up all night and made a tree out of wire

Photo-shoot with my sister

Feast of Fools!

Retired my second pocket sketchbook

Errands and "Next to Normal" OST

Finishing some color pencil drawings

Road Trip to Atlanta

SCAD day in Atlanta

iMessaging

First Day of School Semester

Rice krispies with banana

2D Design, Computer art, Art History 2

3D Design

Accepted to SCAD! And the afternoon out with a friend

Sherlock

BACON!!!!

MLK Day, 10k Run

Some Great time with my best friend David

Computer art is the worst class... just not a good teacher.

Art gallery

Adobe Illustrator

A day out at my Chick-fil-A's

Instagraming

Beetle pin

SNOW! (and World War Z)

Working with Triangle based pyramids.

3D project design

Painting in Photoshop

And that's January! Come back soon for February...