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Speedpaintsby ~cryslara

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

Despite my fierce love of art school and everything I do there, I've missed doing illustration as well. These little paintings have snuck out over the past couple of months in between organisations of my first exhibition and preparations for a fourth year of uni. Over the past few years I've made woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, screenprints, etchings and aquatints - the studio and lifestyle of art immersion is aboslutely invigorating. And with more time and work, I think I'll start to produce work through these methods that I am proud of to show.
This year though I am getting back to the roots of the things I love - straight out drawing. I've always found I work better in creative communities than alone; I love the energy of artists in groups. As such, I'm going to try to see if I can return to a little activity around these parts (but no promises! Art school is a demanding mistress). You guys have always been an inspiration and support and I am forever grateful for it.

So these are quick sketches from over the summer! Uni has changed how I draw and what I draw, but not the love of the act itself. These are reminiscent of old times of curling up at the computer for hours in a haze of art and it was a little bit nice. I don't have much time for long involved works these days but I'd like to make what I can.

(These have mostly been on my journal so I apologise for repeats if you've seen them already! If you'd like to see more of the sketches and little things I do, I post more actively in my artblog here: [link] )

All the love and thank you for coming by. These are all done in Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.

~Witbik Apr 21, 2013

These are inspiring.

`hibbary Mar 2, 2013 Professional General Artist

They are all really nice.

~alligirl Feb 18, 2013 Student General Artist

That cat's been having fun!

I look forward to seeing your work around here more, but I'm glad you're doing well in school.

Thanks for posting these pretties for those of us not on tumblr (like FB, I'll tackle that rhino of joyous distraction when I have something of my own to promote).

~Chlorophylltheleaf Feb 18, 2013 Student General Artist

Oh...my. OoO
Your speedpainting are really.....amazing! *u*
I love it!

*Celepsi Feb 17, 2013 Student Digital Artist

As soon as you said "uni" I just thought "... you're Australian?!"
What uni are you going to?

~cryslara Mar 10, 2013

I'm at the Australian National University - it's a beautiful place.

*Celepsi Mar 11, 2013 Student Digital Artist

ooo yes it's so clean and quiet in Canberra. Too quiet for me though haha!

~AirSabre Feb 17, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

pssh more like MATSERPIECES rather than speedpaints! >< I love them all! ooh especially the fourth on the top row!

~Zeimyth Feb 17, 2013

So good to see more posted art from you! Definitely a change in style from what we used to see from you, but beautiful pieces all the same. Sounds like you're doing exciting stuff in uni. I took an art class from a phd student who was doing a lot of the stuff you're talking about, it seemed unusual compared to the illustration artwork I'm more familiar with, but still very cool stuff.

~cryslara Mar 10, 2013

Doing something so different is great for developing a whole new sort of perspective on what we do, I think. I really enjoy it!

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