The last issue of Y: The Last Man came out today, and it was a great close to an incredible series. It really pulls at your heart strings, and allows you to reflect on all the great times you’ve shared with these characters. I haven’t read everything by Brian K. Vaughan yet, but I’ve loved everything as I try to. He is such a brilliant storyteller! If you like this, Ex Machina and Pride of Baghdad are also completely worth your time. And Pia Guerra’s art throughout the series has been phenomenal, so well stylized, and incredibly clear. What an achievement in comics this run has been! Even if you have never tried comic books before, give this a shot, everyone I’ve recommended it to has loved it. Especially non-readers.

Because I received so many compliments on my pastel figure drawing last week (check it out), I thought you might want to see a few other pastel pieces I scrounged up.

This is quite an old fruit and vegetable still life, but I enjoy the reflective quality of the fruit and surface, and the color of the wall. Then I have two self portraits: the pointing one is the older (and least successful) of the two, but I like that I was at least going for the foreshortening and distortion. And the colors have some life to them in the inquisitive one.

Another class I am taking right now is Figure Drawing. And let me tell you: at this point it feels so good to just be drawing again. It’s been three years since a model has disrobed in my presence, and as weird as it sounds: it was nice. The pure art center of my brain was ready to go almost instantly. And here comes a wide sampling of durations, poses, and techniques…

There’s a lot of great stuff going on in the computer generated art scene, it’s a nice mix of programming prowess and personal expression. I made one that combines nature-inspired vector shapes with a color sampling of this image. It is also a drawing tool, one in which I made massive amounts of swirls in. The faster you move the cursor the more it throws down and in wilder rotations. The longer you hold it in the same spot, the more blurry it gets. And each time you click it switches to a different color. Here are my results, overall and up close: