New project: The Devil's Garden

So I decided to revamp my 100 Theme Challenge pieces with a series I'm going to call "The Devil's Garden".

Basically, I'm going to do 100 pieces that are based on a version of the 100 themes challenge, but they're all going to be the same theme- carnivorous plants. They'll all be giant and eating things or will have eaten things in the pictures and I'm going to be doing them all on some interesting papers I got at the paper shop awhile ago.

I think I'm going to have to go back and see if they still have the sparkly brown paper because I think it's perfect for this project and I like using it.

As I get pieces done, and as I can, I'll start offering them as prints/originals in my Etsy shop. All of them will be rather small pictures- they should all fit in a standard 5 x 7" frame. They'll be done in colored pencil and possibly chalk pastel if I can find my set of Nupastels again because they're fun to use.

The pencils blend really well on the brown paper and not much else is sticking to it, so it looks like as far as that color goes I'll be using those.

As I work through these I'll post the finished ones and WIPs of whatever ones I'm working on when I photograph on here.

My goal is to have this done by the end of August (or around August 19th) which gives me 49 days to get all 100 pictures done and photographed. It should be easy enough if I finish 2 a day.

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Quick note: The 100 Themes Challenge is a project where you take 100 words (there are various lists that have already been made, or I guess you could do your own) and you do a drawing based around each one. I'm using it to get out of a weird creative block I've been in for awhile.

Projects

I haven't meant to neglect my blog or my Etsy account lately, but I needed to divert my attention and put all of it into finding a job. Next month is when VFS is expecting me to begin paying my monthly tuition things, and I haven't had any luck whatsoever finding anyone who will hire me lately.

I'll be balancing my time more efficiently between Etsy promotions, job applications and a major project that I'm working on in the background. It involves a lot of hands on fine art and craft stuff, so it's going to be taking up time on its own.

My idea is that I'm going to develop deeply a fantasy culture that I've been working with on and off over the past three/four years. Beginning from the ground up, I'm compiling all of my reference information and materials on them, and putting it all together in a PDF file to be bound so I stop losing track of all of it.

The goal I'm working with right now is to write three pages of information per day, plus drawings and schematics of buildings, social structures, languages, etc. Part of making it more "real" for me is to also be creating things in three-dimensions. So that would be things like ships, jewelry, sculptures, models of buildings, wall carvings, etc. All in all it's pretty elaborate and will definitely take awhile to complete. I want to have at the very least 150 pages of text plus photos and drawings bound together by the time I go off to VFS next February.

I'll probably also be sending this stuff in to be copyrighted once it's all together, that way I don't have to pay too many different processing fees. What this blog will be tracking daily is the art and crafting part of it. The model building and the sketches detailing some parts of what I'm doing (pictograph languages are really fun, by the way) and probably tutorials dealing with in-depth world building exercises.

The cover art mentioned in my previous post didn't get used by the paper, so I'll be offering the original and prints of it on my Etsy shop in a few days. Waiting to hear back on the price estimate of the prints from the printing lab that I use.

Also, the new Predator movie has gotten me really excited. I'm a sci-fi/horror nut!