Ephemera and Bone

thirty

2010-02-10T18:01:00.001-08:00

New York City's having a blizzard right now, so I did the sensible thing and built this snowman on my window air conditioning unit.

twenty-nine

2010-02-07T20:28:00.001-08:00

A very tiny Totoro plushie.

twenty-eight

2010-02-06T20:47:00.001-08:00

Spent three hours painting these...spheres? Pebbles? Phases of the moon? Ghost eggs?

twenty-seven

2010-01-31T16:08:00.001-08:00

Sitting figure from the 2nd week of Watercolor class. Drip drip.

twenty-six

2010-01-30T20:54:00.001-08:00

Turned a "draw folds in fabric" assignment into "draw animal-headed people in Neo-Victorian outfits" time.

twenty-five

2010-01-17T21:20:00.001-08:00

New year, new semester, new living situation, new start.

Backlong from last semester:

-Comics about bird-people (above), rabbits, and witches.

-Etchings: multiple states, hand-blended colours, aquatint fuck-ups.

-Naked people! So many naked people.

Coming soon this semester:

-Experimental short comix

-Oscar Wilde. So many comics, so many drawings.

-Non-naked people.

-Watercolours.

twenty-four

2009-11-01T20:41:00.001-08:00

Happy-day-after Halloween! I made the whimsical monster-hoodie myself, a few years ago.

twenty-three

2009-10-26T20:04:00.001-07:00

So many comix! That need to be inked!

twenty-two

2009-10-01T22:52:00.000-07:00

Update on the previously mentioned gryphon etching:

After putting the second state in the acid bath, I inked the plate for a test print.

Which turned out rather well, I think.

Then, I covered the plate in hard-ground again again, etched a garland of stars and some other symbols into it, then struck the "negative space" of the oval to create a snow-like texture. Next week I get to see how it looks!

twenty-one

2009-10-01T21:45:00.000-07:00

For Principles of Cartooning class, we had to expand one of our four-panel autobio comics (I expanded "Long-Distance Relationship") into 24 loose panels. Then we had to draw two more versions of each of those 24 panels, to end up with 72 panels total. These images show my stack.

In class on Wednesday, we got in groups where we went through and picked "the best" version of each-other's panels to create a comic. Below are scans of the panels chosen by the people I was working with. Now I get to turn this mess into a two-page comic!

P.S. Click on any image, then on "view all sizes" to see it larger and more text-reading-friendly.

twenty

2009-09-29T22:00:00.000-07:00

Drawing class stuff from last week. This was the homework, another semi-blind contour drawing.

And random sheet of gesture drawings of the model.

nineteen

2009-09-25T20:37:00.001-07:00

Sick-day so no new artwork today, but here's this little cuttlefish (or cuddlefish) plushie I made as a gift earlier, seeing as he recently arrived at his new home in Scotland. Very cuddly, adorable, and cephalopod-esque.

eighteen

2009-09-24T20:53:00.001-07:00

Working on a gryphon today in etching class. I had to bite this in acid and re-apply the hardground to finish the image because I had an issue with the first coat flaking, you can see those already-bitten lines in light brown here.

seventeen

2009-09-22T20:57:00.000-07:00

Started making my first multi-page comic of the year in Storytelling. We're retelling a Brer Rabbit tale in our own way. I turned them into girls. Never been done, apparently. Watch it grow.

First, made several rough thumbnails to get down the pacing/panel layout. This is the one I mostly used.

Then I made "nice thumbnails" for critique in class:

With some tweaking this is going to be on it's way to becoming a finished comic. PS Also click on any to see it larger.

sixteen

2009-09-20T17:02:00.001-07:00

Three raccoons showed up by the pier at Turtle Pond today. Probably because the kids were feeding them. Bad idea, but they were awfully cute!

fifteen

2009-09-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

First assignment for Principals of Cartooning was to do small daily autobio comics. Here are three of them for your consideration.

fourteen

2009-09-17T18:18:00.001-07:00

First print pulled from the sphinx etching I made last week. Exciting!

thirteen

2009-09-15T20:06:00.001-07:00

Semi-blind contour self portrait; first homework assignment for Drawing. Got an A-.

twelve

2009-09-13T19:50:00.001-07:00

From yesterday: shopping list of art supplies, with ancient egyptian Sekhmet statues drawn at the Met.

And a Tochère also at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

eleven

2009-09-10T18:49:00.001-07:00

My first etching, of a Mannerist-type Sphinx, from the first day of Printmaking, getting bitten in the acid bath. Sorry for the bad cell pics, I'll bring a real camera in the future.

The plate, post biting and cleaning the ground off, next to some of my preliminary sketches.

ten

2009-09-08T22:10:00.001-07:00

Last semi-blind contour drawing of the first day of my Sophomore drawing class. How I missed you, naked people sitting there for me to draw.

nine

2009-09-07T19:08:00.001-07:00

I just moved into my new apartment in NYC, and this is Desmond, the kitten that belongs to one of my roommates. He is very cute but very able-to-move-while-I'm-drawing-him.

Tomorrow I start my sophomore year at SVA, so I'll have regular updates from that assuming all goes well.

eight

2009-08-12T00:09:00.000-07:00

I finally got my art portfolio website up-and-running. It has lots of pictures and Free Internet Comics if you're into that, so check it out:

skeletonzoo.com

seven

2009-08-11T23:36:00.001-07:00

Rode the Greyhound Bus up to Seattle for the weekend with my boyfriend, came back with some actual ephemera.

six

2009-07-09T02:18:00.001-07:00

Two monster kids with a Koinobori, because sometimes you just draw things. If you are curious: the sphinx is Jocasta, the werewolf is Aubrey. They're harmless.

I need to practice again at using nibs & posting more.

five

2009-07-02T23:49:00.001-07:00

Two pattern monsters as a warm-up in my sketchbook. Getting back into things after some stressful workstuff.

By the way, this blog will be closer to daily during the schoolyear when I am always in class or doing homework, natch.

four

2009-06-19T17:01:00.001-07:00

A young kitchen witch working her craft. I am not entirely sure how that stove works, but I wouldn't want to ask.

three

2009-06-16T18:03:00.001-07:00

Once, plants that grew sheep as fruits explained the confounding existence of cotton.

two

2009-06-16T01:03:00.001-07:00

Little drawing inspired by a news story about a fox in Föhren, Germany who has stolen over 120 shoes for her kits to play with. Illustrating odd news stories is a habit picked up during freshman drawing, during the second semester we had to illustrate one article a week for homework.

one

2009-06-15T16:58:00.001-07:00

Hello my name is Erin Roseberry and that is a drawing of me, by me, that started as an observation-piece from the mirror and then turned into something else.

Also, this is my new art blog. Every day (or so, ultimately there are No Guarantees) I am going to post a scan or snapshot of whatever art piece I've been working on. I decided to start this blog because at the end of my freshman year at SVA I realized that, for various reasons, most of the artwork I did over the year was going to end up destroyed and I didn't have very good documentation of most of it. With this blog I hope to keep a record of the all the stuff I make during my BFA program and, hell, you might get to see some interesting artwork out of it.