![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Inktober 2017, Quotes : week 1
Title: Inktober - Days 1-7
Artist:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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
no subject
I've created an artist tag for you, and added it to this post, as well as the challenge title, content and media.
no subject
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
no subject
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)!
no subject
The haïku especially are wonderfully evocative... I will certainly use some of those!
no subject
no subject
no subject
The Land of Story Books - Robert Louis Stevenson
These are the hills, these are the woods,
these are my starry solitudes
-----
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.'
------
And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
Dylan Thomas
------
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
------