what are you doing?
Terry Miura
Pavel Dudrenov
"Terry Miura" <terrymiu...@terrymiura.com> wrote in message news:39EC8CC9...@terrymiura.com...
The Main Man
<terrymiu...@terrymiura.com> wrote:
>I'm drawing clouds today.
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>Terry
>www.terrymiura.com
A stone wall, still in the drawing stage...
Lar
doing laundry. Life goes on....
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"Terry Miura" <terrymiu...@terrymiura.com> wrote in message news:39EC8CC9...@terrymiura.com...
Frazer Irving
I'm drawing clouds today.
Terry
www.terrymiura.com <http://www.terrymiura.com>
I'm thinking about the latest gig I scored and maybe I should find a story to illustrate for my personal project.
I SHOULD be filling in a sketch bookbut that waits until after lunch...
Yobtra
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rfxN
>I'm drawing clouds today.
Lucky you. I'm trying to build up enough inspiration to start painting
after a day job of web design.
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/rfxN
Etaoin Shrdlu
> www.terrymiura.com
I'm finishing a pen-and-ink cover, trying to get up the gumption for my
new daily let's-lose-a-bit-of-weight bracing walk, doing laundry, trying
to find time to work on the novel, and, as always, cursing the RSI.
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Frazer Irving
in stereo to me these words.....
> "Terry Miura" <terrymiu...@terrymiura.com> wrote in message
I'm off to play some geetar with some buddies!
hey, I have a week off! yay!
How long before I get bored, eh? Eh?
yobtra
Terry Miura
I finished the clouds. the image was a part of a collage piece for a
health magazine. It was
a triptych (sp) of weather images, Sunny, Cloudy, and Rainy, and I
had the sun image
from one of those dover books of 19th century drawings. I couldn't
find the clouds in the
same style, so I had to draw it. Pen and ink... turned out ok,
but a pencil drawing scanned
and manipulated in PS had better texture, so I ended up using that
one. Of course I had to
redraw the sun image to match the clouds. Composed the image
with all these parts,
emailed it off to the client, and I'm off to Starbucks for my hourly....er...
daily fix.
I get a package in the mail from a publisher for whom I did a book jacket
back in March,
and it contains a pile of illustrations i didn't do. huh? Looks like
a bunch of kid's drawings.
then I remembered the book was written from a kid's perspective, in
a journal format.
Ah, so these are the inside illustrations. ok I see. I've no idea who
the illustrator is. Anyway,
I just send it back to the publisher with a note, 'hey, how about sending
me what *I* did?'
Today, I'm working on a study for a new painting, which will be a 4'
x 5' oil on canvas piece
of the western façade of St Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. I've
done a smaller
painting of it
before, and I wanted to see it much bigger, and with a little more
ambient light in the bottom
area. The study will be done in process watercolor. Process watercolor,
as opposed to traditional
watercolor technique where white of the paper is sacred. in PW, you
break all kinds of rules
of traditional watercolor techniques. First of all you use a plate
finish paper, and you abuse
the hell out of it in the course the painting. If you're interested
in learning more about this
technique, you might try a search on watercolor techniques of Burt
Silverman (there is a book,
although it's rare and out of print) , or David Levine. Anyway, that's
what I'm doing today.
I have a page on my website that's supposed to talk about my process,
but I haven't done
anything with it because frankly, whenever I set out to do a demo,
something goes wrong
and I can never articulate my point. That in itself may be amusing,
but it's bad bad bad for
my fragile ego. ok so maybe i'm just lazy.
Ok so what are you doing TODAY? and feel free to ramble a little.
or a lot. I find artist's
ramblings more interesting than spam. don't you?
Terry.
Here's a thought. I'm going to adopt this thread, and continue
to ramble. It'll be like,
performance art. (not)
Frazer Irving
thee to The Voice Of Fate)...
in an effort to keep this ng going after a pretty active few days... i'll
just ramble some more.
Fine. I have no problem with this. Like the tale of the rogue
illustrations...
Today I did squat. Absolutely f**k all. I don't think I can work in
daylight. Not in this room with it's o-so convenient south facing window. So
tonite I'll be drawing some harlequin chicks as there's zilch on the teevee
and I really should do something whilst I wait for the next script.
And redoing that website is NOT an option...
Yobtra
Arj.Exe
Some concept sketches for a new game, fenced a bit
and basicly had alousy evening...but the sun is down..
so perhaps I can get to work on my comic...
Grtt Arjan
Terry Miura
"Arj.Exe" wrote:
Once upon a time, I too used to paint by the moonlight. My creative
hours
were 9 pm to just before dawn. Those were the days. I'd forgotten about
that till frazer and your posts. I must be getting old, or stale, or
maybe both.
or maybe becoming a parent has something to do with it. I still do an
occasional all nighter but that wipes me out for the following three
days or
so.
well, back to work.
Terry
Damn, the plate finish paper that i thought i had stretched turned out
to be
cold press. I'm slipping...
Artboy
Being in the reverse end of the world, I have the opposite problem, Yobtra.
I have a great little studio, lovely views of trees, ferns, hills, yada,
yada. Except it's rather full of North-facing windows, right over the
drawing board and the old puter. It's overcast today, so I'll probably get
something done. It's not a matter of choice. The windows were here first.
What am I doing today? Trying to find a creative spark somewhere. I
promised Her Indoors that I'd take a few weeks off and do home maintenance,
badly needed, but the old studio draws me back.
I'm plugging away at the new web site, but it's slow going. Nothing looks
right after I start. Hopefully it'll be a mix of rather brilliant
hand-drawn stuff (yet to be conceived) and some equally inspired Photoshop
masterpieces (yet to be done).
All rather pitiful, really.
Terry, I have a book you'd be interested in, perhaps. It's called "Sharp
Focus Watercolor Painting (techniques for hot-pressed surfaces)" by Georg
Shook and Gary Witt. If you like leaving the rules behind, these are your
guys.
It's published by Watson-Guptill of Noo Yawk.
By the way, I find your site inspiring, especially the segment on life
drawing.
Hmmm... I have this illustration project to work on, but inspiration's a bit
thin on the ground at the moment.
I had a call yesterday. Another "dead dog portrait" with last-minute lack
of planning, therefore a stupidly short deadline. So many people wait 'til
the last minute for these things. Do they think we pull 'em out of our
arse?
I'm already sick of furry little animals, but my new listing's already in
the book.
Gee, I feel much better. Now I know why women bitch so much. No wonder
they live longer!
Good to see meaningless banter on the rise
Greg
"Frazer Irving" <fra...@frazerirving.com> wrote in message
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> on19/10/00 6:44 pm I overheard this subversive nonsense (and shall report
> thee to The Voice Of Fate)...
>
> in an effort to keep this ng going after a pretty active few days... i'll
> just ramble some more.
>
>
Richard Marchand
series of critters I'll be posting on my site. I'm also pounding back a
few brewskies, sitting cross legged and feeling buzzed...
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Frazer Irving
thee to The Voice Of Fate)...
> Once upon a time, I too used to paint by the moonlight. My creative
> hours
> were 9 pm to just before dawn. Those were the days. I'd forgotten about
>
> that till frazer and your posts. I must be getting old, or stale, or
> maybe both.
> or maybe becoming a parent has something to do with it. I still do an
> occasional all nighter but that wipes me out for the following three
> days or
> so.
So I'm NOT a freak? Well that's ok then. I don't mind doing it now...so it's
5 am out here, just got up after a night of some REALLY weird dreams about
this Judge Dredd convention I'm at in a month, and I've got a hankering to
draw some foxy chix. Y'see, I look at the strip I'm srawing and it's all old
men and zombies...would be good I think to draw some sensuous lines and some
pritty little curves...hang on, just better wipe the drool from meh
keyboard...so I'll be scribbling poses to trace around lunchtime.
Let's hope the sun keeps itself to itself..
Artboy
I like your style....you're a sick puppy and I like that in a feller.
Giger meets Escher meets Dali. Very eclectic, I think.
Actually, I don't lnow nuttin' about nuttin', I just like to show off my big
words.
Greg
"Richard Marchand" <rlmar...@home.com> wrote in message
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Frazer Irving
thee to The Voice Of Fate)...
> Hey, Richard, I just visited your site for the first time. Very impressive.
>
> I like your style....you're a sick puppy and I like that in a feller.
>
> Giger meets Escher meets Dali. Very eclectic, I think.
It's crazy isn't it?
groovy
yobtra
Richard Marchand
certainly make for an interesting tea party!
Thanks!
Richard Marchand
load up Photoshop I end up working on a new image! It must be done
though...
Say, why do you have Yobtra as your sig? Are you the Bizzaro World
Artboy?
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Frazer Irving
thee to The Voice Of Fate)...
> Thanks, man. I've been meaning to polish my site design but everytime I
> load up Photoshop I end up working on a new image! It must be done
> though...
yer wellcum...
>
> Say, why do you have Yobtra as your sig? Are you the Bizzaro World
> Artboy?
Yup. As for the Artboys of earth 1 and earth 2 well I dunno where they
went...
Yobtra (currently struggling with version 3 of a title page...almost there,
almost there...)
Terry Miura
> Terry, I have a book you'd be interested in, perhaps. It's called "Sharp
> Focus Watercolor Painting (techniques for hot-pressed surfaces)" by Georg
> Shook and Gary Witt. If you like leaving the rules behind, these are your
> guys.
> It's published by Watson-Guptill of Noo Yawk.
> By the way, I find your site inspiring, especially the segment on life
> drawing.
hey thanks for the info! I'll check it out.
terry