I am proud to announce that I have a online store to sell my art. I have planned for this day for a long time and finally it has arrived. The store is located at shop.launi.com.
This is my second drawing that I completed in my hotel room in Cincinnati, Ohio. I wanted to capture the feeling that I have when I am running. This picture along with the self portrait that I drew last week are two pictures that have a common technique. Most of my pencil drawings are worked on until I get completely tired of them. I work to get everything finished or just right. These two pictures still have some rough edges and show some sketch like pencil lines. I like drawing on the 13 x 17 size paper.
So what I am doing is drawing faster and focusing on what I am drawing so that I can finish the drawing quickly. Sometimes I like not knowing what I am drawing, but those drawings are harder to finish and take longer to complete. I want to get to a point where I can have nice drawings that convey what I want with minimal amount of color work. I want to develop a quick light style of drawing to complement my very meticulous style of drawing.
I am drawing a portrait that may be a self portrait. I have been working on the drawing in the hotel after my training. I never know where a drawing is going until after I finish it. this drawing depicts a male with dreadlocks and a checkered shirt. I started the drawing on Wednesday and I worked on it Thursday after class from about 4:00 PM until 2:00 AM on Friday morning.
This is the second portrait that I have done in recent years. I have a limited arsenal of things that I like to draw that can be easily recognized in my art, but portraits of humans is one that I like. Usually my drawings are so abstract that they mainly consist of wild blends of color that leave the viewer with the task of figuring out what they are looking at. That is the main goal of my drawings, I want to draw nothing that the viewer has seen before and at the same time draw something that allows the viewer to feel that they see something in the drawing that is familiar.
Drawing a self portrait is something that I have not done in a long time. I think that the last time that I drew one it was a pen and ink drawing and I may still have it. My hair is about as long as it was when I was in my twenties back in the 1970’s. I believe that artist draw themselves for several reasons. One reason is that they want to continue to explore how to creat art from the human face. Another reason is that they want the viewer to see how the artist sees temselves. Currently I have chosen to draw myself because I am at a point in my life when I feel very peacful and confident with my being me.
Happy in being me does not mean that my life is a bowl full of cherries. There are several aspects of my life that I would like to transform, but for the essence of my being I am confident enough to sit in a room and draw a portrait of myself and like it. There is a saying that you have to get up each day and look your self in the mirror. When I talk about looking at yourself in the emirror and drawing yourself I am not in the realm of vanity. I am looking at myself in the realm of self awareness and confidence that I am who I creat and that my possibilities that I create are real and possible.
Here is the shirt artwork with a black background.
Here is the shirt artwork with a gray background.
Here is the shirt artwork with a aqua background.
Here is the shirt artwork with a white background. Thsi file is 200% of the previous files. It can be used for printing.
Here is the shirt artwork with a transparent background (PNG).
Here in Texas it was a hot and dry August but as school starts and September starts to roll in the rains age
finally starting to flow.
I rented an animated film that you may be interested in seeing. The film was written and directed by my favorite animator Hayao Miyazaki. I am sure you know his work as you have some of his films on DVD like Spirited Away. The film that I rented is Porco Rosso and it is very good. You may recognize some of the actors who do the voices like Michael Keaton. The story involves a young woman who helps Porco re-build his airplane. She has an engineering background and the plane is built by all women.
The images on the card were taken by me out at the ranch. I have started to take pictures of myself by holding my camera or my phone camera away from me and just taking pictures. I was inspired to do this when I was in New York visiting my sister. I met one of her step sons who is a photographer and he was doing this with his camera. He told me that sometimes it is not the quality of the photo image but the fact that you took it that matters. I have started to take some of these pictures and make images for cards for you to enjoy.