Inktober 2017, Quotes : week 1
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drawesomeTitle: Inktober - Days 1-7
Artist:jainas
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: original art
Characters: none
Content Notes: This year I decided to inspire my inktober from quotes and do illustrations mixed with handmade fonts... Some are in english, some in french and I decided not to have rules regarding the use of color.
What is great with this thematic approach is that it gives me a great range of styles to call on depending the quote...
It has been a long time since I didn't draw everyday, and finding my feelings again proved a bit challenging and frustrating at time, as my hand doesn't always do what my mind would want... And I know I'm kind of weak on the handmade-font front... Something to work on next week. ^^
But I'm also having a tremendous amount of fun and for now I'm experimenting with as many styles and diverses quotes as possible... Maybe I will repeat myself later on, but for now I'm trying to keep an open mind in the treatment of each quote.
Also: I have a google doc full of quote people gave me, that I draw from when it's time to break out the ink... but I don't have enough yet to last 31 days! So do not hesitate to give me more quotes, verses of a song or a poem, perfect lines in a book… Thank you! <3
All drawings here on my journal!
jainas.dreamwidth.org/187812.html
Artist:
jainas Rating: PG-13
Fandom: original art
Characters: none
Content Notes: This year I decided to inspire my inktober from quotes and do illustrations mixed with handmade fonts... Some are in english, some in french and I decided not to have rules regarding the use of color.
What is great with this thematic approach is that it gives me a great range of styles to call on depending the quote...
It has been a long time since I didn't draw everyday, and finding my feelings again proved a bit challenging and frustrating at time, as my hand doesn't always do what my mind would want... And I know I'm kind of weak on the handmade-font front... Something to work on next week. ^^
But I'm also having a tremendous amount of fun and for now I'm experimenting with as many styles and diverses quotes as possible... Maybe I will repeat myself later on, but for now I'm trying to keep an open mind in the treatment of each quote.
Also: I have a google doc full of quote people gave me, that I draw from when it's time to break out the ink... but I don't have enough yet to last 31 days! So do not hesitate to give me more quotes, verses of a song or a poem, perfect lines in a book… Thank you! <3
All drawings here on my journal!
jainas.dreamwidth.org/187812.html
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Date: 2017-10-08 02:21 pm (UTC)I've created an artist tag for you, and added it to this post, as well as the challenge title, content and media.
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Date: 2017-10-08 05:28 pm (UTC)I realised I did the 'presentation challenge' drawings... but then work picked up again and I forgot to scan and post it... I will try to find the paper I did it on in order to share (I hope I didn't throw it away)!
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Date: 2017-10-08 03:17 pm (UTC)Être adulte, c’est être seul. - Jean Rostand - To be adult is to be alone.
L’enfer, c’est les autres - J-P Sartre - “Hell is other people.”
La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel. - Victor Hugo - “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - “Love doesn’t mean gazing at each other, but looking, together, in the same direction.”
"Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser." - Alfred de Musset - “The only true language in the world is a kiss.”
"Le monde est un livre dont chaque pas nous ouvre une page." - Alphonse de Lamartine - “The world is a book – with each step we open a page.”
Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé. - Alphonse de Lamartine - “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
From e.e. cummings' poems:
"i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
"It's always our self we find in the sea.”
“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
Some Haiku:
An orphaned blossom
returning to its bough, somehow?
No, a solitary butterfly.
― Arakida Moritake (1472-1549), loose translation by Michael R. Burch
A crow settles
on a withered branch:
autumn nightfall.
― Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), loose translation by Michael R. Burch
A white swan
parts the cherry-petalled pond
with her motionless breast.
Roka (1671-1703), loose translation by Michael R. Burch
An ancient pond,
the frog leaps:
the silver plop and gurgle of water.
― Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), loose translation by Michael R. Burch
One apple, alone
In the abandoned orchard
reddens for winter
― Patrick Blanche, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Will we meet again?
Here at your flowering grave:
two white butterflies
― Matsuo Basho, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
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Date: 2017-10-08 05:30 pm (UTC)The haïku especially are wonderfully evocative... I will certainly use some of those!
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Date: 2017-10-10 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-10 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-15 08:39 pm (UTC)The Land of Story Books - Robert Louis Stevenson
These are the hills, these are the woods,
these are my starry solitudes
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T S Eliot
The Journey of the Magi
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
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And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
Dylan Thomas
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I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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