Logging the world through Art and Writing.
Sometimes this is a feeling that takes over and its quite difficult to get over.
I got sick. So, I decided to draw! This will be one of the old school posts where we show our work in progress, haha. I like to draw area by area, so I just chose once section of my piece and dedicated a day or two on it.
I really wanted to draw a mask since the beginning of the pandemic and I kind of want every artist to do this! In the future, everyone will look at art between 2020 – 2023 and see all the artwork that has vaccines, shots, syringes, masks, and viruses in them. I just think it will be really nice. Something for the grandchildren I guess.
Another thing I wanted to draw was a moon. I’m obsessed with the sky and kind of wish there was a better view of the planets, rather than the little specks I see every day. I don’t even know how you can point out a planet vs. a star, but people can do it!
More corn. I like drawing on my bed, especially since the days I worked on this were particularly cool. So my bed was more cozy to be on than my desk.
I did different colored corn too. I used an alcohol marker to color in the entire food first, then I went in with the Faber Castel pencils after.
At this point I did the same approach, but with my sweater. This is my favorite sweater.
Added some flowers, then I colored in the background. The background was actually the worst. I wanted to do a gradient, which I had done before, but because I started with a dark color first, I messed up. None of the colors blended so I ended up making most of the background purple. Next time I would color in the background all yellow, then go in with the darker colors.
Title: Positive
Year: 2022
Dimensions: 11″ x 17″
Medium: Alcohol Markers, Colored Pencils, Gel Pens, on Strathmore Bristol Paper.
I’m a little worried about the next two piece I’m working on. I usually don’t like talking about sensitive issues, but sometimes you can’t help it.
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I really liked this art piece, but I grew quite sad while looking at it because it will always remind me of my last semester in college. It was the best I’ve ever had. I believe the pandemic definitely made me love the connection with people I missed so much. To be in college, or school in general, during the Covid 2020 to 2022 lockdown was something else. Almost something totally unreal.
I wonder what caused the entire thing, or perhaps in a decade we will all look back at this chapter in our lives and see exactly what caused it.
For specifics, I used prismacolor colored pencils, prismacolor alcohol markers, winsor & newton cotman watercolors, and sakura gel pens.
Paper: Strathmore 300 series Bristol paper.
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I think there’s a lot to say about artwork, but sometimes it’s hard to come up with the words on the spot. I met a bunch of grad students and was blown away with the way they spoke. It was like they were born to publicly speak and share their work or what it’s about. You don’t know how hard that is for me.
Anyhow, my latest artwork is titled The Artist and The Muse. I kept hearing about the Muses, and I’m sure everyone who might be reading this has heard of them. The Muse, they give the artist inspiration—isn’t that beautiful?
I see something special in artists, I don’t really know how to explain it. But it’s like they have something special going on inside their head, like they’re tapping into something beyond words and visions. Is that crazy?
There’s just something very extraordinary for someone who sees a blank canvas and can somehow think of a way to fill it up. It’s just all so beautiful.
Specific art supplies used: Winsor and Newton Cotman Watercolor Pans, Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils, Micron Pens, Sakura Gel Pens, and on 11″ x 17″ Strathmore Bristol Paper.
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What is it about unfinished work that makes it so satisfying? Every time I work on a drawing, it feels so good to fill up every part of the blank canvas.
I hope everyone likes aliens, because I definitely loved doing this piece.
My question for the world when I post the finished work: do aliens think about heaven?
Anyway, don’t mind my cat who thinks it’s okay to walk wherever she wants.
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When I look at art, I like to think about how the process was done. Does the person start with the background, with the main subject, or are they all over the place? I usually like to do eyes last, that’s how I model everything most of the time. I want to do the entire background first, then focus on the eyes.
Only when I do digital art, it always ends up being something completely different. I don’t follow my rules like I do with physical art. Making things on the iPad are fun still, especially because there’s no cleanup or disaster of a paint spill. In a way, there’s a lot of harmony in working digital because I know all I need to do is move my pen on the screen, and the coding does the rest.
I still want to fill the canvas though. I choose the size and I begin to fill the page up. With this piece, I wanted E (guy in the center) to be the main subject and have him posing as if his school picture was taken. You know the ones where you needed to sit and hold a mock tree? I loved picture days.
This was the result. I tried adding textures, the stary sky, and nice wood. Procreate is an amazing program to work with.
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Blogpost 2/11/2021
Sometimes I think people assume all myth and magic is completely absent from the United States. I don’t blame them either because when enormous buildings are surrounded by other massive metal structures, you assume if something can be made, it’s engineered by geniuses and put on display. So, when I make art, I feel that myth is looked into a lot—classical myth—like Leda and the Swan, or Perseus and Medusa, because there’s nothing around us now days that are fantastical. Right?
We have buildings that touch the sky.
I was originally going to draw a young girl with a dragon because I wanted to make something out of this world. But then I really thought about it and began looking at textures of alligators to reference reptile skin. I couldn’t believe how big these animals are. Like, they’re freaking huge, so huge I can’t believe they’re still walking around. It’s almost like they’re meant to be in some long-ago prehistoric Triassic period. It’s so odd, they seem so out of place, but it could also be because I live in California city-valley where the weather is the same and all the animals are cute.
It’s just, what I want to say is that I thought all the mystery was gone around me, but as I saw the alligator, I realized there’s still magnificent things around me. Because of this, I ended up making a girl with the alligator, because maybe one day alligators will be long gone and merge in the chapter of myth.
Procreate is a pretty amazing program and I’m glad I can use it to draw digital art.
– Priscilla
There was a lot of thigs that took me to other worlds and eventually sneaked into their way of Lightning—my book. One of the huge ones was the Electric Universe theory, a theory some people may not think too much about or not take seriously at all, but still a theory. The main part I like the most is the idea of seeing the planets as close as the moon. To see Mars, Venus, and Saturn all close up and intertwined into each other, I don’t know, I just like that idea.
Anyway, I drew this a while back and it’s one of the illustrations in my book.
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To anyone interested, I made my book Lightning with illustrations. I did all of them myself! I have been working on this a long, long time, and I finally got all the pictures in it. I’m really happy because now I can fully focus on my second book that is completely different than Lightning.
So, if you’re reading this and find the time to read a 600+ page book, you can get it on Amazon for free if you have kindle unlimited. If not, you can get the ebook for $1.99. The physical book is for the diehard who love a real book in their hands.
Search “Lightning by Priscilla Flores” and you should be able to find it. If not, click on the link I provided below!
Anyway, here’s the link:
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When I saw a movie called The Dead Girl (2006), there was a scene where the character Rosetta shows a polaroid of her daughter who had been murdered. The photo showed Krista—before she died—looking up in the photo as if it were a selfie. The photo made Krista look particularly prettier than she did in the movie and Rosetta says, “She said it made her look how she wanted to feel.” It was such a beautiful quote that always stuck with me.
So, when I drew myself, I made it how I felt. I wish I looked a little more like my drawing. Whenever I draw myself, I alter things just a little bit to my liking. When I was in my local community college, one of my professors mentioned that old classic paintings made the subject seem more glamours or beautiful because it was similar to photoshop. You just want to look your best.
Anyhow, this is just a shot post and I wanted to share my self portrait I did last year.
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