Clay's Daily Sketchbook- August 8th update

[clayrodery v.03]

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/hassna1-0_full.gif

[TJ Verhagen]

thats some very nice work! My favorite is the 4th, the woman in the golden light.
great stuff, keep it up!

[I.was.ink]

nice stuff you got goin on there. I love the fourth pic. Awesome lighting!:)

[clayrodery v.03]

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/s21-0_full.gif

Later,

Clay

[clayrodery v.03]

last minute sketch...

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/s61-0_1046568743_full.gif

[TJ Verhagen]

Nice work again:D

[clayrodery v.03]

hey thanks TJ. here's tonight's sketch and subsequent screenprint.
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/s41-0_full.gif

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/s31-0_full.gif

Later ya'll,

Clay

[Jens]

The very first one is my favorite, good work!!

[StephenC]

i like this last one 2-1-03, the line wieght the pose , its elegant, from a class?

[clayrodery v.03]

thanks Stephen, it's from a class, but it's not really as much a class as its a place to draw naked people :)

[StephenC]

don't forget to put this in the guest sp gallery for february....the expression speaks well...seems very much looking forward or to the future past

[clayrodery v.03]

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/r11-0_full.gif
Quick 5 minute figure drawing in oil pastel...

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/r21-0_full.gif
...and an update on my self-portrait from a few days ago


Later,

Clay

[clayrodery v.03]

ok, i've gotten a new host (thanks iwasink!) and now i can continue with dailys, so yay! here's today's
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/selfportrait41-0_full.gif

another selfportrait, yay rah, not really :)

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

from yesterday...
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/211031-0_full.gif

later,
clay

ps- i recommend reading anything by Jiddu Krishnamurti, this piece was inspired by a quote of his on love. you can't really see it in the pic, but at the bottem it reads:

"That is the extraordinary thing about love: it is the only quality that brings a total comprehension of the whole of existence."

ok, enough deep thoughts for today :)

[clayrodery v.03]

a bust self portrait for today, later guys
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/bust1-0_full.gif

clay

[I.was.ink]

Nice bust there clay. It almost looks like a real bronze cast of you. Nice execution. I love your pieces in your sketchbook btw. Good stuff!

:)

[clayrodery v.03]

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/selfportrait51-0_full.gif

i dont know what it is w/ me and self portraits lately. today i drew w/ ashley wood in mind.

later

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

new sp
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/screenprint1-0_full.gif

later,
clay

[kilgard]

Hey Clay, you've got some beautiful artwork here. Unique style as well. I especially like the sp in red and black, the one with stars, feb 8th. And feb 12th! Splendid. kil likes.

[clayrodery v.03]

word-up ya'll...got a figure drawing and a blind contour sp today:

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/d1-0_full.gif
Done w/ charcole and white-out

http://images.customize.org/category/aim/blind1-0_full.gif

later,
clay

[clayrodery v.03]

i also wanted to post these 2 figure drawings, so far they are my favorites:
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/fig11-0_full.gif
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/fig21-0_full.gif

later,
clay

[chudzta]

Hey, yes i agree those last two are swell.. personally i felt like so much more nice thought provoking emotion on the figure drawin in the post before.. anywho, im gonna try and post more replies on these sketchbooks, traffic seems ot have slowed since the sub forum was created, peace _ry

[Yaseck]

Hey!
I like Your style. Especially these "komunism star". Keep postin'.

[clayrodery v.03]

Thanks guys :)

Anyway, I have a self-portrait with me as Frankenstein's Creature

enjoy!
http://images.customize.org/category/aim/fr1-0_full.gif

later,
clay

[Chewy Muntz]

very impressive. I love the self portraits that combine illustration with graphic design. what tools do you use on the life drawings, as far as light is concerned. I usually use charcoal or conte, but want to tackle light, but don't know if I should use chalk, pastels...

[clayrodery v.03]

Chewy Muntz- What I usually use for figure drawings are white charcole pencils (Gerneral) and ebony pencils on some kind of toned paper, usually that brown paper-bag kind. lately though i've been using those same materials with white-out to create even more extream highlights.

anyway, new sp today, i'm lazy, as you can see
http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/popart/cold_clay.jpg

later,

clay

[rimwalker]

This latest self-portrait of yours has to be one of my favorites out of all the ones I've seen in this forum. Very skilled use of plain black shapes and making them so expressive. Cool.
(Your SPs always look so sad.)

[rimwalker]

Ha. Okay, so this pair of Self-portraits aren't sad. You look downright sneaky.
I like the bottom one better. There's a better feel for the forms of the face in the softer sketch lines than in the top picture's more flattened tones.

[clayrodery v.03]

http://www.joinedartists.com/gallery/sketches/readingisfun.jpg

READING IS FUN!!

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

Ok, this painting is about a month old, but think it belongs in here now because...well...it just does. right. yeah. ok.
lol

http://www.joinedartists.com/gallery/sketches/thegun.jpg

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

In my spare time I copy drawings from Gray's Anatomy and draw over it to make it look really cool. This is one of those drawings:

http://www.joinedartists.com/gallery/sketches/sketchbook1.jpg

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

Three updates in one night, holy crap. 1 hour watercolor from my figure drawing class:

http://www.joinedartists.com/gallery/sketches/waternude.jpg

later, for real now,

clay

[rimwalker]

Your "READING IS FUN!!" post I find particularly cool because right now I'm taking a typography course and our current assignment is having us use text as texture. Getting ideas...

;)

[2kre8]

your paintings are nice, what school are you attending?

[clayrodery v.03]

Thanks 2kre8. This fall I'll be a freshman Computer Animation major at the Ringling School of Art & Design.

[clayrodery v.03]

done for another post, but is home here too:

http://www.joinedartists.com/gallery/sketches/CHEVADER.jpg



clay

[Johannes]

A very fine sketchbook indeed. I especially like Ur selfportrait "Fusion 40". Very graphic, arty feel to it. Comic style, yet very true.
Keep em coming :D

[jester]

Great sketchbook, really inspiring! I especially like the hand studies you copied from Gray's.

Jester

[clayrodery v.03]

Hey guys, I'm back, holy crap that was a long time w/o posting anything. Ok, got a new SP for yall

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/redself.jpg

i'll have more tomorrow,

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

hey ya'll, i finshed a new painting the other day
http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/vaivedrai.jpg

This is what happenes when you go to see Cirque du Soleil and become obsessed.

ok, later

clay

[Rusty]

bin ages since ive been on these forums,never thought to look in here....

always good to look at yer stuff clay,that charcoal sketch second post on page 2 is great man,youve captured something about her character in that peice,and those 2 studies a bit further down r excelent tonal studies.

man i need to get back to drawing again.

Rusty

[clayrodery v.03]

Thanks Rusty. Hey new sp for tonight, yay, not

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/selflazy.jpg

sleepytime,

clay

[rimwalker]

Hey, Clay it's good to see more great stuff from you.

I;m going out on a limb herre, but is it safe to say you like red? And black? That's fine you know, so do I.

[JProvost]

Really nice work.
Toned paper sketchbooks are the greatest, I discovered them a few months ago at my school's bookstore.

I was wondering how you did the typography/symbols on the sketchbook pages, like your 2/8/03 self portrait (red with stars) and the other one below it.
I know of a technique to transfer xeroxed images/text to paper using ChartPak markers, I was just wondering if you had another way (unless it's all freehand).

Cool beans, all around.

[clayrodery v.03]

Thanks, man. That's exactly what I do with the xerox transfer, but I no longer use markers like the ChartPaks. The chemical in those markers that do the transfer is a chemical called Xylene or Xylol. You can just buy the Xylol straight in a can, which is what I do now, but will need to use a fume hood because the vapors are really quite toxic.

[clayrodery v.03]

sketches for upcoming paintings, the bottom one i'm starting today

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/sketchbookcirque.jpg

later,

clay

[Dromond]

Interesting. I've discovered the joys of painting from a median toned wash, I didn't quite make the mental leap that sketbooks could be similar. What kind of media are you using on these mostly? Conte crayon?

[clayrodery v.03]

wow, been a while since i've posted anything, but i'm back for good now...maybe

Dromond, lately i'm using black compressed charcoal, white conte, sepia and sanguine conte, and ink and some other deals.

2 sp's tonght

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/selfportmain.jpg

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/selffleur.jpg

later,
clay

[Rusty]

That one with the Da Vinci-esque drawing is great,Its got this wierd balance to the whole picture,it just seems to work..

C U
Rusty

[JProvost]

I've finally gotten my hands on some xylene. A friend of mine has a summer job installing windows and he uses it to clean the metal frames - so he jacked some for me in a water bottle.

Any suggestions for application? I've only played with it a bit (it'll have to wait until I'm back at school with photocopiers everywhere). What I've done is apply it with a cotton pad to the back of the photocopy face down on the sheet of paper to be transferred to. The transfer tended to blur/bleed a bit and come out a bit grey and speckly.

I'm guessing what's important is having a lot of toner on the photocopy (a nice, dark black print), a good amount of xylene and a little T.L.C when it comes to rubbing it on.

Any pointers would be appreciated - and get back to the Daily SB!

[endregan]

wow i like your style. sort of experimental and free, and really undefined, dont know whats next :). I really like your sps's!!

[clayrodery v.03]

sorry for the lapse everybody, was in spain and has lately been packing up my life for ringling, so i've been out of it, but here's a sp still hot off the scanner:

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/selfport.jpg

usually when i do these, i'll stylize something about either my nose or the shape of my eyes, but i feel that this is as close as i can get to a true reflection of me and who i am. or i'm really tired and i'm just rambling. most likely the latter.


yay rah, now i can go get a coke and go to bed...

later,

clay

[clayrodery v.03]

new spin on an old sp. i'm bored...

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/matrixme.jpg

later,

clay

[Iiori]

Wow, Great SPs. OO What medium do you use for these? Looks very high contrast which I like. Great work I hope you will keep posting here since I can only see about half your images.

[Rusty]

good to see you back ol friend :)...
i see that time of hasent phased yer style one bit,still doing great sketches..

Rusty

[clayrodery v.03]

Thanks Iiori. I mainly use traditional drawing media; graphite sticks, charcoal, conté, and a little white-out to do extream highlights. I'm going to have a website up soon, probably mid september w/ all my stuff, so i'll keep you up to date on that. Thanks again!

Rusty, thank you, as always.

and another for tonight, a quick "i dont give a damn" one in charcoal

http://www.cox-internet.com/crasheternia/clayrodery/charcoal.jpg

fight the power

clay