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This Saturday The Winners of ArtSHINE's Draw ME A Calendar competition will be announced. With your help, Nina and / or The Couple will be among them! This is democracy in action, people!
I took a while away from The Lady to work on some other stuff, like Art On Board, but now I've had the chance to go back and work on it and add some colour.
I'm glad I got her finished because I've got a few things coming up to work on, and it's always nice to have a finished piece under your belt, rather than hanging over your head (I win at mixed metaphors).
This is something new I'm trying after a suggestion a friend made. I want to keep this an art blog, but sometimes there's stuff I want to talk about, so here's some art I did specifically so that I could talk about something I wanted to.
Tkay Maidza's someone I've learned about recently, who seems like a musician tailor-made for me. A singer / songwriter / rapper from here in Oz, with a distinctive style and flow, plus a penchant for cool anime-inspired music videos? Result.
So here's my response to her whole hip-hop afrofuturist thing she's got going on. I was especially inspired by her latest video, M.O.B., which I've stuck below. It's a great song even without the video, but with all this anime sci-fi space stuff going on, It's something else.
I'm going to be really interested if this is something that sparks a subgenre of Aussie hip hop. I love that Maidza's sound incorporates plenty of Electronic Dance Music, as that is something that represents a big part of Australia's music scene. I know Flume has done pretty well, and big EDM festivals like DEFQON show that it's a big deal here.
I love hip-hop first and foremost, but I think a country or region needs to find its distinctive voice for hip-hop to thrive. The UK had great rappers the whole time I was growing up, people like Roots Manuva, Ty, Estelle (nowadays maybe better know as Garnet on Steven Universe) and Blak Twang, but it was only when the UK hip-hop scene incorporated home-grown styles, like Grime and Dubstep, that it really took hold and started to break through like it has in the last decade with people like Tinie Tempah and of course Dizzee Rascal.
It was the same when hip-hop started to leave it's New York birthing ground: The West Coast took a while to really break out with NWA and Ice Cube, and really defined itself with G-Funk; The South needed acts like Outkast and Lil' Jon and the Crunk scene.
I loved watching these voices be found, and I'm excited to see if what Maidza's found is her voice, or the voice of something bigger. Either way, there's great music being created, so I'm happy to wait and see.
The original photo I based my picture off, from Sodwee.
It's open to the public, and this is me officially inviting anyone who reads this to come. See you there!
Even if you can't make it, you can vote for your favourite piece for the People's Choice award. Now, my piece is number 7, so it's great if you vote for that, but there are also a bunch of other good pieces that you might like more, and you can see those on ArtSHINE's Facebook page, and pick a piece and vote for its corresponding number. You can win a $50 voucher too!
To vote, email them on gallery@artshine.com.au , copy and paste the text below into the message, and fill in the details. As I said, my piece is 'Art on Board #7'.
Hey, and by a weird coincidence, I researched purely by looking at images, and found this one, which I think it's clear to see, I have based the composition of my piece on.
Turns out this piece is Sarah Bernhardt by Paul Emile Berthon, who is the artist whose work I based L'ermitage on. Coincidentally, I feel I should offer friendly reminder that L'ermitage is available on tote bags and postcards on Etsy right now, and some more things in the coming future.
I've opened up a store on Etsy to sell some products I've made with my designs on. Have a look below in the handy widget-thing they let me use.
Here's a better look at the items on sale; they're all based on either the Street Art Superheroes or the Cyberpunk Art Nouveau sets, but I'll add more as I'm able to source products:
Blimey, I started this in 2011, and this is the final page (although, I still want to do a cover). But, yeah, here's the final page of the first story of Acquisition.
Trying to get what will be the final page of my Acquisition comic finished before I head back to the UK for Christmas (which will cause a bit of a break in my posting, though I'll get some different stuff on in the meantime).
Something I knocked together for a t-shirt design. This is the first thing I've drawn from start to finish on my tablet. I enjoyed it as a learning experience, I definitely like the more controlled quality of colour I was able to get, and the extra time I spent on the colouring felt worth it.
This was a quick Christmas poster I knocked up for the Year 4 class I was working with this time last year. They'd been reading The Iron Man (Iron GIant in the US), by Ted Hughes, with illustrations by Andrew Davidson. I loved this book so much as a kid, so it was a treat to work with it in school, and to do this tribute to Davidson's distinctive woodcut-style illustrations.
