The Quality of a Saran-Wrapped Life

Hopefully my posts will all be nice today and actually let me post these images. Comment on them when you do see them. More are in the works and the basic color schemes for these are started, so have fun critiques and leave nothing behind!

The first one is the broken china doll with basic colors (the blue might be too much and I might change it), but the other one of the discarded teddy bear is already started.

The Impossibility of Round Squares

After five million times of trying to post these sketch pictures online (Blogger was down for service, connection was reset, Javascript not enabled...), I think I've finally got it......................or not. I guess my image files are corrupt (imagine that...)

So, unable to see the sketches, I'm not sure how much critique you all can give me, but I have a few questions and a few answers to questions.

Question:
1. Should I keep a neutral color scheme for my work to signify the personal experiences in my "past" to make them feel like old sepia photographs in the back of my mind (old memories) or since they are pictures of child's toys (a teddy bear and a china doll), should I go for a brighter color scheme as to keep a pure innocence and denial of the world around it?

NOTE: This question most likely cannot be answered without viewing the images (I'll try to get them up ASAP!)

Answers:
1. From a previous question, yes, my work is based on personal experience and a glimpse to the inner self through the simpleness of the work to symbolize the mind of a child. However, as for historical reference, I am not sure at this point whether I will include any in later works or stick with what I've got.

2. From a previous statement, I changed the green to blue. Any better, Amo?

Immortality's Never-Fading Flower

After many hours of searching for the right picture to reference, I finally put out a sketch that I'm somewhat happy with...yet I don't have a scanner at the moment available to me. However, I want to get some more solid sketches down before I post them (so I have sketches worth posting)

I find myself very inspired by music, especially gothic symphonic metal (Nightwish, Epica, etc.) In fact, the one image I am happy with is inspired by the song "Eva" by Nightwish off of their most recent album. The lyrics are slightly morbid, but welcome to the inside mind of the artist. I draw from the subtle and create what I feel.

Ciao for now and may I have better luck the next time I write!

Beginning of A Series of Serious Endeavors

One of my favorite quotes deals with the power of silence. I have discovered that silence has its own voice, and as an artist (or what I hope to be), I want to portray this in my work. Even though the voice of silence might not be the largest, loudest, or most enticing, I believe it is the most meaningful.

I plan to start on a series of images done in both Painter X (which I own on my laptop) and Photoshop, heavy on custom textures and rich color, but with a subject that dwells on pain and suffering. I find the most emotional works can be simple, yet painfully beautiful, and this is what I want to achieve with this series.

My focus will be on the pain of singularity, loneliness, and the feelings of being deathly alone and afraid. Doing so, I've heard many times that people like my sketching style (which I think has an uncharacteristic roughness to it), so I want to combine that with color and more texture to make emotive images that might be pleasing to the eye, but slightly repulsive through subject matter.

Coming SOON...sketches/images of some ideas for perusal and critique