Gift Art

every year around yuletide I try to draw at least one peice to give to somebody as a gift; this year I did two.
the first one was for teeny and is to a song that I could of sworn was written by her that I read on her blog. turns out, it was by some system band called "Children of Bottom"? or something around those lines. the was every "time I die"; if I had known about it's origins I wouldn't of put pen to paper about it in the first place, but heh too late now. it's not my fault she didn't specify! I would include it here but, her blog has mysteriously vanished into thin air for no reason, I can't exactly reconjure it so you'll just have to trust me :D it did though have something to do with a candle going out and angel wings being broken, if that helps explain it, but no nothing about stitches I added that myself, but if teeny would be so gracious as to provide us with those lyrics you might see that it was inadvertently influenced by them.

Everytime I Die

my scanner has betrayed me!!!

(and yes a candle does smoke alot like that)

The second peice was done for Flo and is in fact copied from a picture of teeny off of hi5, no it's not quite obcession... I had planned a different composition of the same subject but it wasn't working out so I just took this pic and added all the trimmings :D

Fallen

Both were framed and I gave Teeny's to her on the last teen meeting of the year. Flo's took a little longer in getting to her... a whole month in fact, but hey better late than never...


oh yes and these are also for the challenge :D

everytime I die for...

28. sorrow (maybe I might not even count it for this) :D

I'll have to figure something else out for that but it's that one for now...

and Fallen

88. Pain :D

quite refreshingly "macabraic" for lack of a better word


*cackle*

-The Revig

Ghost

Ghost

I was there but then again I wasn’t. I was there but no one else saw me. Only you noticed me. Only you cared. Only you reached out and touched me when everyone else just walked right through me, not even seeing me. I was a ghost to everyone but you.
Vicariously, we laughed, we cried. We sang, we promised a dance. You showed me the world of the living, and I showed you a glimpse of my sweet death. But, through it all we never truly felt each other the way it was meant to be. The way we meant it to be.
Time and distance drives apart what was once so close, and now they torture us. What little that was there is now crumbled to dust and blown away. I didn’t want this. If I could I’d strangle the Time and distance that separates us with my bare hands. I hate these things that tore us apart, I wish they never existed, I wish things were not so. I wish we were together. But for all my wishing I cannot ignore the reality that we’ll never be together the way we long to be.
I hold nothing against you. We are apart this way because of things beyond our control, but know this; if things were different I’d run to you, I’d hold you in my arms and feel your sobs, dry your tears, and whisper what I have forever longed to say. But there is nothing we can do. Now my arms go right through you. I am still the ghost I was, immaterial, unseen; now even more so to you...

Stem--- heavenly music

The new stem album... in a word, yes indeed, it is heavenly. Their lyrics are in earnest, their melodies inspired, and the feelings invoked by each are stirring and gutwrenchingly pure. Both say so simply what I have felt all along, especially this last year, and no doubt I am not the only one who can say that. indeed, it is the songs like these that are making the revolution of today.

to give you a taste of what I mean here is the first song on the alblum. finally someone has said what I have felt all along...

Deathe Music

(V1)
Generation, defined by,
Words from a bleeding nation.
Long ago, music was so,
Different from what we hear now.
Feeling, meaning,
Now it's missing.
Celebrity masterpeices,
Rocking millions of sheep,
Deeper into their sleep.

(Chorus)I want the sound of,
Youth rebellion,
On the system,
Revolution,
Action,
Hate for evil,
Make me feel,
Something real in time,
Words that force us to action,
Chords that breathe
Dedication.
Turn off the radio,
Music, leave me breathless and bare.

(V2)I spent enough time hearing girls whine,
About their boys, sex, and toys,
Half naked, lip syncing,
Sex sells, so make it worth it.
Rapping, bling-bling,
shooting, bleeping,
Meaningless words for profit,
Skating, breaking,Desecrating.
Morals, don't think about it.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Bridge)
I know where I will go,
Run down this one-way street,
Whatever He will take from me,
I give it willingly.
It's death music,
system shit.
Pan, stay away from me,
Water poisoned for your soul,
You're gonna die on it.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Outro)
Why listen to the enemy, enemy?
Why cower to his vice on you?
Don't be as lethargic masses, friends.
Don't listen to the enemy.

This is what I have felt so recently.

The thrill of freedom.

The thrill of flight.

This is my song.

Nothing to lose


Let's Go!


V1
.You can take everything from me now,
My pride and my selfish way,
Everything I used to hold so dear,
I swear it's making me sick.

Chorus.
Nothing to lose,nothing between,
Nothing can stop lean, mean machine.
Everything to gain, aeroplane,
Until my death I swear allegiance,
Cause I make my stand now.
I'm moving forward,
I'm with you now,
And there's nothing to lose in the end.

V2.
Here I stand, unafraid and fearless,
I'm ready, I've made my dying wish.
I've been here before, but I know,
This time with him I'll end victorious.

Repeat Chorus

Bridge.
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise.

Repeat Chorus

End!

Traditional Media Comments

this is for any comments you may have on my traditional pieces... feel free to leave one if you have any questions regarding my art.

Thanks

-The Revig

Digital Art Comments

This is for any comments you may have on my digital pieces... feel free to leave one if you have any questions regarding my art

Thanks

-The Revig

Fanart Shmanart

I have some good news...

I got a tablet for christmas!!!

(a little late no)

its only a 6x8 graphire though so don't lose your socks which is alright I guess as far as tablets go but still its not as good as an Intuos since it only has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity instead of 1,024, but still I'm not one to complain... mainly since the things cost a small fortune and I'm lucky to have even gotten one... so yeah I'm happy with this one... it works just fine so fine in fact that I finished my first peice with it within two weeks of getting it...

it just so happens to be a fanart for... "Earthsong" a webcomic I am reading

and incidently it is portrait of the name sake of the comic: Earthsong!

now what is this "earthsong"? good question I think our good friend wiki can explain that a whole lot better than I can. she is so much more better with words than I am. Wiki!

and of course after you have digested that substantial chunk of information you can visit the webcomic itself here


I'll have to tell you though that it is in redux, which means it's being redrawn... and another thing as of december 18th in order to encourage sale of volume one the last two chapters of it(of three mind you:D) are presented in text form... fortunatly I started reading it god knows how long before... which is probably why i did a fanart for it in the first place another thing because of this flux in information several of those characters listed in the article will not be showing up in the comic for some time... that is if you've followed it from the begining as volume three is going up...



-The Revig

Waited Too Long

for those who find themselves bested by love... for those who hesitated... for those who knew they were never meant to be...

Too Long 

We never saw
That everything was wrong
Too late
Our hearts to break
Our song never wrought
Waited, too long

We’re lost to each other
With no one but ourselves
To blame
For our pain
Our worlds crumble
No passion fell

Now sing we
A lacryment song
A requiem
To our dream
Distortion bleeding
Waited, too long




I know this place
I have been here now
And now I know




-The Revig

peices up

okay, the traditional media pieces are up along with the challenge ones... 
more drawings will be posted when I can transfer them,
 but for now these are the ones I have up. 

the scanning quality varies on account of my old scanner breaking down and my having to had use a camera. now though, I've got a scanner that eats my lines like cereal and white washes the rest. I want the older one back!!!

links

Dear all

on account of my blog being labeled as an "art site" on the family blog community's gallery next to my work, I have decided to make things more professional looking by putting up a list of links to my pieces. this way you don't have to go swimming through all my nonsensical posts searching for that one particular piece, but now you can access it simply and effectively via the links to your left<- savy?

the cgs are up first in chronological order as to when they were finished. the traditional media pics will follow as soon as I can get our good friend imageshack to host them for me. I probably, might as well, put up one for the challenge too, but time will tell


cheers


- The Revig

I got my computer back!!!

I got my computer back!
I got my computer back!
I got my computer back! 
and in return it has been exchanged for a kick ass machine of 2.01 ghz, 1.00 GB of RAM, and 111 Gsof hard drivespace with a ninteen inch flat screen monitor and a six
 speaker system(including a "sub woofer") for  the optimum veiwing and listeningexperience eqauting total awsomeness and making us the envy of the san antonio area jk

of course all the thanks goes mostly to my brother dale whom without we might still have our dinosaur lets all give him a round big round of aplause.


*claps*

can you feel the music?

The Revig

quitting...

I have decided to delete my deviant account....

(akward silence)

It wasn't going anywhere... and when I seriously thought about it I realised that that wasn't the way I wanted my life to go... it was an inroad for compromise into my life and I knew it. Every time I went on I felt it sapping at my convictions, and my strength to resist was wearing away fast... finally I gave in... I submitted my closure request and never looked back...




I will still continue with the challenge... though I'll have to completly rebuild the links here... still I feel it a worth while choice...




heres to the future


- The Revig

lethargic lullabies

here's some lethargic lines I came up with at nine PM some night

to be sung in a sing song drawl wilst weaving bed sheets around your prey...

Sheets

Take your time
to setlle down
Loose your voice
as in silence you drown
Guilt aside
just lie around
Make no noise
and forget your sound


-The Revig

rabbling

well that was a lovely week end... now if only I can keep my head on for the rest of the week... only four hours, FOUR HOURS of sleep am I running on right now... did I mention I'm having trouble prying my eyes open...

we went to gatti waste today with my half brothers... I humiliated myself on the stomping machine... I'M... OUT... OF... PRACTISE... (s if there was such a thing that one could be in) pummeled my brother at air hocky, after subjecting my right hand to a bizzarre massage on the adams family generator(BRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZ), or wait... was that before or after I had a bite taken out of my fish on the "feeding" ticket frenzy machine I can't quite remember... it was all I blurr mostly, anyway I did a grand barrage of other things that I'm way to tired to remember or write down...


it amazes me
how spiritually dull
people can be
the stones SEE!!!
but your ears are blind...

-The Revig

art

okay here we go again

I finished the second elemantal in the series this one being: earth. I really like how this one came out although it doesn't really follow the style of the other one nessicarily... but ah well with skills like mine you can't help but improve:D... ehh?

here are also two peices from the challenge I recently scanned:

8. Innocence
10. Breathe Again

Breathe deep... Seek peace

-Freakdearts

poetry attack!!!

I don't really consider myself a poet but then there are those times when somerandom inspiration will grip me and I can't keep from rhyming... of course this is poetry not songwriting... for some reason that gift hasn't been very co-oporrative, anyway with out any further ado I give you three of my poems I have written...

this first one was written sometime back when I still was fanatical about the craft

Troubled Waters

Singing to an audience
That's just not there
Couldn't care less
This silence
Too hard to bare
Endlessly crashing ambience

Layers piling up
Apon my skin
Of bells struck
I've had to much
Of this light too dim
Fearlessly passionate touch

Something feirce
Is in the air
A fire within my tears
My greatest fears
Of this dare
Toyingly haunting mirrors

Days of Nights

"I will not love!" shouts I,
Spreading wings in the wind
"For nothing can I find
in my humanity to give"
Amnesty to live
Death taunting grin
graces my face
I can no longer waste
my tears
so dear
as to be my only dream to shed
But, Oh! the dread
of endless days
Of sleepless nights
Without the sight
of your face
Oh how I pray there will come a day
when I can touch
It aches so much
And nothing can I do
to soothe
The pain
of these joyless days
Of dreamless nights
Without the sight
Of you

a little free verse, anyone?

Evanescent

GO, find your light
Bring what you have within
and it will be your guide
Every night you scream
your tainted soul
This insanity within you
furrowing upwards to find
Nothing to bring
To give
to the sorrow that thrives
Within your breast
Where is this peace that you long to hold
Hesitant to see it
in your own eyes
Silence reigns
Although your screams explode
And everything comes
back to your pain
There is freedom
Now your own song
and yeild to the light
Before...


enjoy!

challenge update!

okay!
here is an update on "the challenge ":

1. introduction- finished

2. love- finished but unscanned(actually teeny has it... getting her to do anything is like trying to move a large boulder)

5. Seeking Solace-finished

6. break away-finished

8. innocence-finished but unscanned

10. breathe again 60% finished

no limits!

I finished another cg...

no limits!

inspired by the song(whadya know) "no limits" by steven mcnair

I quite like how this one came out as it was my first experiment at painting clouds in ps and I was kinda unsure as to how it would turn out...but I like the final impressionistic (orange ice cream WOOOT!)effect they have and I think I'll do all my clouds like this from now on...

the studs (yes those are what those little grayish things on his belt and too-low-contrast armband are) were done with a brush I created but came out different then I intended them to...

akward lens flare moment...

lineart in pencil... inking with pilot rollerball(fine) and colors in photo shop

what happened how and why...

okay originally I had the idea of telling why I got that punishment on the first place through an eight page long short story of the events as I remember them(in the first person of course) but then again I realized that it would probably take me next to forever to finally persuade myself to type it up, but I just might do it anyway and post it for you to see...for no apparent reason....but yeah!

ANYWays...

well to make a very long story short, on the 13th of september I "crashed" my computer by downloading a virus which I thought was a patch for a computer game I wasn't even supposed to be playing. as a result I had a punishment of one months absense from any sort of computer usage... I'm serious not just online, but reading, writing, and yes shocking as it may seem art(of course that would be my cg I have been plenty busy with my other "genres"). about the only thing I could do was my school and put on music. aside from that the computer was completely off limits...I griped and groaned about it even tried to get around it by still playing the game... but, then I figured that if I kept going on like this I would get nowhere and still be unable to get the lessons strait, so finally I just buckled down and did it... that was a month ago... it was hard let me tell you that much... I even had it suspended a week twice(although the second one I was semi-expecting as it was on friday thirteenth*shrugs*)... but for all the times I was tempted I just told myself that I had brought this apon myself, there was no turning back, and the reponsible thing to do was to get it over with and learn from it for the experience that it was... but, then again it wasn't so bad it gave me a chance to step back from everything, see the big picture, and get a fresh perspective...

-The Revig

I'm baaack

so, where have I been?

oh nowhere dramatic except for the fact that since wendesday the 13th of september my computer use has been limited strictly to schoolwork and the "putting on" of music.

needless to, I can't say I didn't enjoythe period in a strange sort of way. for one it gave me time to back away from things and take a good look at what I was doing with my time. and for another I found I had all sorts of time for things that before I had hardly any to do as a result of my time glued to the screen. although I did miss the hours apon hours of mindless surfing, during the time, not to mention I had left my relations with Nats hanging on a line(quite literrally as she asked me"the Question" that very day) and my creativity was cramped by the fact that I couldn't even cg (not that it would of mattered as my hardrive got wiped a couple of days later as a result of my actions.[don't worry it was backed up] yes my hardrive, on the computer that originally had no internet access and [still does poorly now that it has] was commandeered by my brother to be used as the home pc... now it's a dinosaur!) and now I'm as disoriented as ever. but despite all that I think I'm all the better for it. at first I was really miffed about it all, but then something clicked and I just bit the bullet and now I don't know why but I'd do it again...


shortly shall you hear oh why I had this time of drear :D


-the Revig

The Challenge!

I promised myself I would never do anything like this before, but whaddaya kno I broke down and took z challenge... that is the hundred theme challenge going around Deviantart of which I am a somewhat shameful member of :D...I still haven't read the complete list yet but at least I have something to kill spare time between my work, and why not... after all the best way to improve a skill is to practise it whenever you get the chance and you never know... I might weave some of these things into my book and other projects... the only problem is I have a dificult time sticking to one theme in a piece but a well
winkies

pasted from theumbrella's journal (in other words these are not my actual words)
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the point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist. After 100 pics who wouldn’t be better. Please forgive me if this in any way excludes you from taking the challenge.

The rules

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. for all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that......
A.)You are in the challenge
B.)What you have completed

5.) make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.
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THE LIST
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation