Well, so things have been very crazy and busy and extremely exciting yet very worrying. I'm trying to put all of my extra time into thesis, which is a good way to forget all of the other homework I have. Such as this little character. I'm illustrating Medusa for a children's book, and this is my character development sketch of her. She's endearing, in a hideous way.
As far as busy goes, I've I just went to visit my mom and now I'm trying to find an open spot in my schedule to get myself down to KC again. Also, my cousin had her baby boy, so that's another place that I would like to go, I just don't see it happening right away. I actually had a moment today to do some chores so that was pretty exciting!
In all of this craziness of leaving homework behind, I have forgotten about writing a paper about my influences. And when I went to think about who all has influenced me, I can't remember any of them! So this week, I've been browsing illustrators to try to refresh my memory on people that I look at. Influences are so broad and so fleeting, that it's kind of hard to keep track of them. I never really am influenced by an artist as a whole, but rather by small instances of images or stories that I read or see. It seems a lot of illustrators have that one other artist that inspired them to get started. Well, I don't really have an artist, as much as I have that one story. Or rather, the idea of what illustration can be. When I see all of its possibilities, that's what inspires me.
Well enough of that, here's a real sweet illustrator, that I've always known about, always looked at, but could never remember her name. The only reason I remembered her is because of her sweet images and how she referred to her paintings as "creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales [which] are critical commentaries on the failures of capitalist utopias." I'm in heaven.