The man who never slept

Previously, I posted about a project on fatal familial insomnia that I was working on. It featured an Italian man named Silvano, who got this disease in the 1980s. The end result is a book which you can see below.


 http://issuu.com/krisizhupali/docs/insomnia

Daydreaming

I'm going to update on what I've been doing this year, including projects, life drawings and others!

But first, this is something I found in the depths of my computer from last year. It was going to be the background of an animation about daydreaming. I'm not so inclined to show that animation as it was my first very attempt (and I didn't really know what I wad doing) but I've learnt a lot since then so I intend to retry again soon and animate this just like I imagined it.

Sketchbook.

Insomnia

Not only have I been having a stupid sleeping pattern (which I've gotten into the habit of calling "insomnia" when it's far from). I'm also currently working on a project about Insomnia and it's effects on a person's mind and body. I guess I can excuse my chronic sleeping problem as "research". 

This is one of my favourite images so far, though these guys aren't being used in the story anymore. 

Few and far between

This is long overdue but I took part in a friends exhibition at the beginning of the month. It's always fun doing this. :D I'll post better pictures of the pieces later. For now here's one of me putting them up, whilst asleep apparently...

Photo was taken by the awesome Venus! :D

Sketchdump

Here are a few sketches/studies I've done the mast month or so. 

Need to draw and improve much much more.

Resurrection!

I am going to resurrect this blog, surely. For now, I will just post an artist I just discovered: Marko Djurdjevic.

He's awesome, check him out. 

On a personal note, even when I draw I prefer my sketches, because when I go to "finish" them, my drawing loses some of it's life and energy and expression along the way. The lines, everything just becomes stiff. Maybe this is why I never finish anything or rarely attempt colour, I get a bit intimidated that I'll draw something "not up to my standards" or it won't look at all like picture it in my mind and fall into a pit of depression over it (it's about the only thing in the world that frustrates me so). XD I guess this is something I need to work on. I have been realising more and more lately that if I just put the time into it, I will absolutely get to even the crazy high standard I want my art to be at. I just have to stop giving up and persevere! XD I know its really obvious but sometimes I just forget that you only get back what you put into something. On a more positive note, I am so glad that I am falling in love with drawing all over again, long overdue.

That's all for now.