Wizard of Oz

Watercolor Paintings

Thats a Funky Phone!!!

the boy genius who hears everything

Alien Balls

Obsessed with Balls

More Balls

Grassy balls

Lighting Exercise

Orange-ish Ball

Black and White Ball

Balls

Winter Landscape (PhotoShop Brush Exploration)

Tie it uP!!!!!

Technical Illustration Gag References

This is Daniel Dare he is a great photographer who's in town shooting my band Walk The Rio. We switched roles for the night to complete this assignment. woot woot. beer was involved. 

CHECK OUT HIS WORK HES AWESOME!!

danieldare.com

danieldare.com

danieldare.com

this is my eyeball....extremely close up

Bird of Paradise Exercise

Hello friends this is a job im working on for a Map Direction Ad for the El Dorado Hils Town Center. This is my initial design, comments and critiques are welcome!

My Life Map

Over the weekend my band Walk the Rio went out into the desert, far away from the city, far away from our jobs, friends, school and problems, and spent two days recording our second EP. 

We were in an amazing studio totally engulfed in each other and our music. 

This is the first video i have ever made. I wanted to post it on my blog cause it feels like my baby. haha I have discovered a new hobby. I now carry my flipcam everywhere. 

The video looks way better on youtube. 

http://www.youtube.com/walktherio

peace!

Music 38 hrs  (+13)

Art 37 hrs  (+15)

I had 15 minutes and 10 triangles to create "Little Red Riding Hood".

I think she looks more like a scary Nun...

Eye (1) One Brush Only

Color Exploration

Eyes (3)

+36 Hours

Music- 3 band practices (8 hours) 2 voice lessons ( 3 hours), Show Prep (10 hours) show (1 hours)

We have been practicing our new songs for our next 5 song EP. We have 2 shows coming up and we will be going into the studio on September 25th. We are working through dynamics and fine tuning everything about these songs so we are completely prepared to record. I had to miss a couple practices cause i played a solo acoustic show Northern California! Video coming soon!

Art- Illustration B (5 hours) Special Studies Illustration (5 hours) Sketchbook (4 hours)

School has started! So i can automatically start adding 10 hours of work a week, not including homework and outside projects. Im currently building a website and working on various projects for my classes. I sketch every day, its kinda hard to guess how much i sketch, so i low ball it.

Music: 25 hours (+22)

Art: 22 hours (+14)

15 Icons 9/16

Abstract Self Portrait

+11 hours

Other then the night i spent eating pizza and drinking beer, i was able to get some hours in this weekend. Nothing crazy and out of the ordinary but part of the weekly routine of practice. 

I went to work and drew for 6 hours. the other two were spent sitting there doing nothing. I work at a theme park as a pastel portrait artist. I can draw the side profile in under 10 minutes with 70% accuracy and the whole front face in under 15 minutes with 75% accuracy. 

 In the 6 hours i was there last saturday i did 14 portraits. lots of profiles, which is weird, people usually want their whole face. In the time between drawings i would sketch. 

Sunday was band practice for three hours. There were a few hours here and there that i dabbled around on the piano but im not going to count those because it was not focused practice, just a much needed emotional release.

 I filled out a few pages in my sketchbook over the weekend which would account for about 2 hours of drawing. 

sooo.......

Music: 3.0 hrs

Art: 8.0 hrs.

Why 20,000 Hours?

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Outliers. I haven't actually read it (i should probably read it if I am going to base my entire blog off its principles)....but a teacher of mine mentioned a theory from this book called the "10,000 hour rule." I had no idea what he was talking about so i scribbled 10,000 hours on my hand in blue ink and googled it when i got home.

The 10,000 hour rule is the idea that you are NOT good at something until you have practiced it for 10,000 hours. Being dedicated enough to practice something for 10,000 hours requires the mindset that you WILL succeed because you believe in your work.

INSTANT INSPIRATION!

I am a musician and i am an artist but i am not great. I am great at trying to be great, but in no way would i call myself great. This was the answer! 20,000 hours of undeniable work.

10,000 hours of music and 10,000 hours of drawing.

I have been playing music since i was in diapers and i have been in art school for four years so i am not technically starting at "zero hours" But for the sake of "meaningful work", i am going to start at the bottom and work my way up.

This blog is going to be what keeps me on track. I will try to post a blog every night with a description of what i did that day to become a better musician and artist and how many hours i did it for. This is not just a daily log of hours, its a place to work through the bull shit. Playing music is difficult, drawing and painting and learning new computer programs is difficult, competing with other artist and musicians is difficult, and all of these things bring on some serious doubts and insecurities. I REFUSE to let these worries fester inside my heart for one more minute. So, I am going to blog about them.

I will upload drawings from my sketchbook and post about various forms of inspiration. Song lyrics, photos from my life that inspire my words or my paintings. Pictures of my processes and then the final works! Music Music Music!! Upcoming shows that i am playing or showing work.

I do not care if a single human being reads any of my posts. I care about having a place to sort through my thoughts and share my work even if the only person that reads this is my loving mama.

This is the video that inspired me to work...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYUMwxKFzo&feature=related

The guys hair is rad by the way... love it. (Caricature of Malcolm Gladwell coming Soon)

peace

x

Musician: 0.0 hrs

Artist: 0.0 hrs