The picture isn’t of the highest quality because I am hosting it on Imgur (because of hotlinking idiots) which edits the JPG, so there’s few artifacts on the image. Try to ignore them, if you don’t mind.
That said, due to a very nice commenter on Reddit this post will continue quite a long way further. I’m going to now explain how I did this image.
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“Providence” by Jyri, 2012.
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Good night,
It’s middle of night and I am working on a new painting. I think I should go to sleep actually, I think it would help with the headache I’ve had for the last three hours. Anyway, the new painting will be called “Providence” and it sure as fuck took a lot of work. Not just because it’s detailed (which it is), but because I’ve now done it three times. Thank fucking god for computers, it means I only had to do the very rough work ONCE.
At first try, I didn’t like the hands. On the second try, I tried fixing the one hand, and after a while I noticed it was too small. I don’t know how that happened.
But I just about slammed my pencil through my table for that mistake, and then went to sleep. Yesterday I started from the rough sketch again, this time making fucking sure the hand was right size and now I am today rendering it in Art Rage 2. Excellent. Still some small work on photoshop and it’s going to be finished. But, I am tired and I think it might be a good idea to do the final work with a clear head and vision.
All I’m going to say about the painting that it’s going to be rather epic, and not at all as disturbing as the previous one.
“Regurgitate“, by Jyri Straechav. 2012. All rights reserved.
I painted it almost completely in Art Rage 2, but I did some minor stuff in Photoshop. I laid down the composition on photoshop, and then used ridiculous amount of pencil tool in Art Rage to make it in to a painting. Some oil paint tool was used too for the overall colors, along with palette knife. I did some brushwork in photoshop, which does show in the full sized piece if you examine it closely. Mostly because the “canvas” texture disappears where I’ve painted on photoshop.
But I was a bit tired of the painting by that time and I couldn’t couldn’t be arsed to work in Art Rage anymore. Photoshop is still about five times faster tool when you just want to change little things, even if the results aren’t quite so nice.
And yes, I know this is a “regurgitation” of my older paintings. I don’t care, I do this for fun.
So, finally, back home. It took four weeks as opposed to the three weeks I was expecting.
Now, where was I? Well, I’ll finish uploading the last song for the “Seed” and publish that album tomorrow. Then I’m off to greener pastures and new musical soundscapes. I’ve already been working on some stuff for No More Cocaine. I did a lot of thinking and mental songbuilding during my four weeks away, so I have a bunch of ideas that I want to put on tape. I’ve also listened to a lot of Tricky and other older Trip-Hop artists and I have to say that it’s been influencing me a little.
I was initially hesitant on putting overtly electronic or beat heavy stuff on No More Cocaine’s music. But I think I’ll just go “fuck it” and do what I like.
So, I’m not home yet.
It seems that going back to home was delayed by a week. That’s a slight problem, because I needed that week to finish my solo album and move to new projects. We’ll see how it goes. The album is almost completely done, but I might have to drop off a song or two. I’m going to give a coupon code for that pre-orderers that will take off half of the price of any of my future albums in compensation for unintentionally misleading them.
That said, I’m still playing Saxophone and loving it.
Which leads to my next bit of stream of consciousness: I have a feeling that No More Cocaine will end up being my main project in the future. I’ve already made some test songs and I have great deal of ideas where to take the project in the future. Almost certainly it will prominently feature my Saxophone in it.
I’m thinking of making most of the music for No More Cocaine in a very eclectic combination of Blues, Jazz and Rock. It’s nothing unusual or complex. Basically I will be using Blues scales and generally the blues sense of aesthetics for simplicity a lot, and the rhythm will be more towards rock, and from Jazz I will steal the improvisational nature of the music.
In other words, I will be improvising big parts of the songs. Which is unusual for me, I’ve always constructed my songs fairly methodically, despite the simplicity.
But the big change in how I approach things is because I now more or less accept that despite the improvisational nature of what I am planning to do, it will still be fairly simple. I like simplicity and minimalism. I sometimes have a lot of things going on in my music, but it’s fundamentally very simple stuff.
So, I am pushing my music outside the old boundaries a little bit. We’ll see how that works out.
Hello!
I’ve been quiet, but not inactive. I’m practicing saxophone daily and still doing music in the small ways I can. I managed even to record some with a borrowed laptop and soundcard. I did some test recordings of the Saxophone and it worked out really well. I was quite happy with the sound I got out of it.
So, soon, more stuff. I’ll be home at 25th (wednesday), but I’ll be busy so I don’t know how soon I can actually make new music. Might even be the next week.
