A Change in this blog

For all posts related to Unconscious Ink and my other projects as well as my everyday life I will be using: http://joenisnorac.livejournal.com

Anything Related to Anhedonia Blue from here on out will be posted here!

excitement!

we'll i was bored tonight.. i sketched out nine new [ui]'s! i may or may not put them all into ink.. but ill probably start inking them tomorrow. So i hope you all come over to unconscious ink Thursday I'll have a new one up!

exploration

so i was playing around with Photoshop last night before i posted [ui] #8 "i'm sad that i'm flying" and i was really please with it.. so i decided to go back and play around with #7 "all alone"... the out come was kinda cool.. i'm almost considering replacing it for this.. any thoughts?

the break and the birth

Well it's as good as official at this point. If you go to Reeder Rabbit theres an announcement basically telling the world that i am on break... but i link off to Unconscious Ink and The Noir Project in REALLY BIG words to hopefully pull some of that traffic over to whats gonna be my main focus in the next few months, [ui] inklings. I'm really excited about this transition and I've already drawn out a few of the up coming UI's so that i will be ahead. Unlike Reeder which i felt i could never keep up with, i will definitely be posting every Thursday at midnight and possibly more then that per week (but i don't know for sure about that yet). After working on Ali's website and making it look really clean, I decided to fiddle around with the Unconscious Ink's site a bit. Ideally this is also my art portfolio for future references, and potential clients so i can pick up some freelance work. I currently haven't posted any art yet (most everything is here in the blog), but i plan to over the summer at some point since i should have a bit more free time. For now i think the site looks good, and I'm excited about how things are turning out right now. Any feed back you can give me would be appreaciated; i fixed most of the noticeable glitches, but if u see others tell me. Thank for the support while i go through this non-Reeder comic transition! :D

retirement

i've really deeply been considering retiring Reeder Rabbit for good. I'm not sure tho, i mean worked really hard getting it to be something and its just not what im happy with. That doesn't mean im done with art or anything like that of course! I just posted a new UI tonight and ive been doodling a lot again. I stopped doing Unconscious Inks in the first place because doing them purely in Photoshop took hours. As i'm learning alot about different mediums i'm finding that i can do traditional pieces a lot faster, and I'm realitively please with the results. I posted about this in the forums but i didn't get alot of responses. What do other people think about this idea? Over all I feel like id be happier just doing a few creative illustrations a week which keep my creative juices going and run the noir project while i do this. I may bring reeder back at some point,but not till im satisfied with what im doing artistically. I may even just do another concept entirely once i get better at drawing. peace.

3 piece love & death

These are taken from photographs i took about a year ago. I printed them out at a lower quality then traced out the most distinct areas. From there i transposed them back to a canvas board and painted them in three different color schemes. The first is gray scaled with red accents, the next is primary colors, and finally the one of Cassie is a mono-chrome blue. I chose the colors for specific reasons:



The Grayscale is to dull out who died, which accents the intensity of the red; the blood is what was important to me in this painting. It symbolizes the passion of life and furthermore that of death; the idea i had while painting this was something along the lines that we all love, and we all have a passion for what we love, and often we will go to the extent of death (or risk of death) to fight for that love. This is why i wanted the red to stand out so much.



The primary colors were chosen to give it more of a comic-classic feel. idk what about the primary colors do this but it really made me think more of Cowboy Bebop; which the picture inspiration came from.




Finally the monochrome blue just gives a feel of depression. First off, the colors reminded me of her because she has this dark melancholy quality to her that i love already. On top of that the colors are rather symbolic for our relationship at the time when we were together. It was a weird period, i would assume in both of our lives, when we both moved up north. I was really depressed about a lot of what was going on in my life and in effect i was hurting her. The reason i added this to the other two in the collect was for this very reason. A large part of me died during that time. I'm in now way saying that she was the cause of this, but we were both in a way the catalyst of which pushed major changes in each other while we went through this. We both pulled the trigger on each other, and the melancholy i left her with and the death of a part of me was the result of that time of our lives.

Things are good now. :D

(i think im gonna do more touch ups on the cassie painting,, i dont feel its done yet)