Some of my works from high school...

I was rummaging through some old things yesterday and I ran in to my old sketch book and two ceramic pieces I made my senior year. I don't know why I don't draw or even doodle anymore (probably because I don't have to sit in class), and I really wish I still was involved with ceramics, I absolutely loved that. I guess the guitar took over my way to express myself through art.....sort of a sad yet simultaneously good thing. (Sorry for the poor quality, all I have is my friends camera and no scanner)

Anyways, here's some works from my sketch book:

2006 (My thoughts on the year 2006)


Buffalo Soldier



Mount Fuji (I love Japanese history...especially the Sengoku Jidai period)
(The color seems to have faded a lot though, you can barely see the blue in the sky)


New World Order

 

LSD


Perspective


Ganja, The Healing of the Nation


Incomplete (no title, I guess I just didn't finish this one) (edit: I finished it, it's on the second page)

 

Ceramic Buddha


Robert Nesta Marley (I remember some of his dreads broke off the day I fired it)

 

Fantastic work! Tis a shame you haven't kept it up, you clearly have a unique style and a wonderful imagination for this stuff. I especially like your Buddha, its very sell-able (if thats a word) x

 

I love this type of art! I imagine that thats what it looks like inside in your mind. The intricate details are very cool! Keep Drawing, Buddha does rock too

 

I never really intentionally showed others these, I really thought I'd be the only one that saw any value in em. So, many thanks for the kind words.

Oh and yea, everything I draw or play (art in general) it comes directly from my thoughts, which are highly influenced by my emotions towards what I experience, see, hear, read etc....So I guess they are little snip its of the way in which I view certain things in the wold and it as a whole. Art is really all I "have" come to think of it, I just don't "do" nearly enough of it....

 

Oooh I really like Perspective and both ceramic pieces are very nice, you should start up again. Theres always time for more art!

 

Yea that piece I actually made after seeing New Orleans (went there to build houses after Katrina), so it means a lot to me. That's why the tears are falling onto the city, I cry for all those who experienced any form of loss (even death) despite who they are.

I'll try to post a painting I did of a tree and the forces of "good" and "evil".

 

I like it man, very intricate and precise, and some cool concepts. You shouldn't give it up, creating art/music is probably the most important thing in the world, in my opinion of course.

 

Your pictures, nice... Very much details. Weird and intresting ideas... Also you know how to use the pen, so keep it up...

 

good stuff bth

I especially like New World Order

 

I'm honestly in astonishment that people actually like these. Like I said, never really showed em to people, but I can only remember one time that someone complimented me on these works. It was a girl in my religion class (yep I was forced to go to a Catholic school for a while....hated it, hence the drawings) who said that she really liked the 2006 one. So many many thanks for all the kind words, it's actually acting as inspiration to take up drawing once again....

Oh and because the pics are pretty poor quality you can't read any of the writing on the pyramid in the "New World Order" one. I remember when I wrote it....it was right after the two weeks I spent most of my time on either acid or mushies. (Therefore it may not make much sense, but it did to me at the time and that's all that really matters eh?) Anyways, it says:

What we perceive we believe is true. A sight is part of both our imagination and reality. Therefore everything has meaning, for if there is so much present, but so little we see then what we are given the ability to see is made that much more beautiful. Failure to not see an object does not make it fiction, it simply means that it is a possibility. A chance or unknown truth, no matter what the odds. The ability to perceive then takes on our capability to think and imagine. Belief is no longer right or wrong, but rather a way of physically judging things and composing ideals, words with reason only because we allow for them to be. Thoughts that amount to no more than billions of varied reactions allowing for what we call a process to happen. Simultaneously we are at ease. At ease with the body and at peace with the mind. Predetermined or determined? You decide..........

Seems as though it belongs in the "Perception" piece, but as you can notice all those works have somewhat of a similar theme(s).

 

very nice, you are only 19 now... how old were you when you made these?

 

Good art- you have talent. You strike me as a skilled writer as well. People willing to use language with respect are a dying breed. Too few appreciate how valuable that is.

 

Some of them I was 17, others 18. When I was even younger (15-16) I wrote a lot. I loved descriptive writing (still do), I even wrote a short novel with most my inspiration coming from my favorite American author Mark Twain.

Thank you so much for the kind words man! I have a lot of respect for language, but part of that respect is derived from that fact that I realize language is just a way to relay a message. Words are just auditory/visible symbols we use in order to communicate. They can act as a great medium, but people all to often put way to much of an emphasis on them. I mentioned Mark Twain above, one of my favorite quotes of his is, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." Pretty self explanatory.....

Exactly why most if not all writing classes I've ever had or heard of are full of a lot of bullshit. They act as a perfect example as to how schools are being used to create obedient drones that do nothing but show up to work everyday and consume....ie. thesis, body paragraphs etc...read Catch 22, then see if it really matters.

Oh for fun and I obviously because I smoke and at the time my friends bong actually looked like that stereotypical bong too, I put a bong in the 2006 piece, it's like a "where is Waldo?" type of deal. So can you find the bong?

 

Are you sure you're only 19? Damn...

Yes schools in practice are more about indoctrination than they are about education setting up obedient drones to participate in the economy as tools at the convenience of the elite... to not question what's being done in our name and at our expense. Conformity in expression and thought- there are numerous other theories I harbor about the power-elite that are way off topic in your thread so I shall just defer- it's all part of the broad spectrum known as self expression and you're clearly mastering much of the entire range.

It is important I think to know the "proper" rules of using the written and spoken language so you can more appropriately violate them... and true intelligence lies not in one's capacity to compile data but rests in the ability to comprehend and use it.

 

Yep.....19, but I'll be 20 in February. I completely agree that one should at the very least have a good basic understanding of language and forms of writing. If one didn't have a decent grasp of it, then I suppose they'd have no right in claiming that it really isn't as important as "they" (schools etc...) stress it to be. One must first know and understand something before they can pass any form of judgment on it and that applies to just about everything in life, not just language.

 

Well, I finished that incomplete work just about 5 minutes ago and figured I'd share it with ya'll since you've been so kind as to enjoy em. (the incomplete version is still at the end of my second post)

I think I'm going to call this piece "Life", because it does a decent job at showing many of the things involved in my life. The bottom left section includes my guitar, his name is George by the way (he's a George Washburn) and that's my rendition of me playing him. That bubbler (like a pipe but with water in it) is also a piece that I actually own, we call it "Jesus Christ", "the Messiah" and the "second coming", because originally I had that exact same pipe, only a bit bigger...anyways long story short it was misplaced and my best friend (brother pretty much) bought me the same one, only a bit smaller for my Bday. All the nature obviously symbolizes my passionate love for her. Here it is fully complete:

Life

 

Since your life isn't complete you may want to re-render a version that is deliberately incomplete.

Just a thought...

Cool picture though...

 

You know what I just unintentionally noticed right after you said that man?

Look at that smoke billow thing (coming from the hookah that's coming out of the pipe)...it's never ending, but towards where it goes off the paper in the top left it's white...perhaps that could be my life's "unwritten" part...aka the future.