Steven Smith (F)art

Pat's apartment #2.

2011-03-03T07:08:00.001-05:00

Pat's apartment #1.

2011-02-27T17:20:00.001-05:00

-insert joke about lotion and wacking off-

2011-02-16T21:22:00.002-05:00

Tripoddd

2011-02-15T20:16:00.003-05:00

Big Fun's tripod. I gotta give this back to him one day.

An old clock and a phone

2011-02-14T19:35:00.002-05:00

I loved the phone as I was drawing it, then I lost team with the clock. nomnom

Towels and about a dozen folded table cloths

2011-02-13T19:54:00.002-05:00

this is what happens when you try to draw before work.

2011-02-04T21:18:00.003-05:00

lots of half finished drawings. advertising is for the soulless. and I am the walking dead.

Fooooood

2011-01-30T20:28:00.000-05:00

got a little coffee urn' and cooler action here

2011-01-30T00:11:00.002-05:00

in the basement took 20min

Popcorn at the Agency

2011-01-29T19:08:00.000-05:00

Started doing a series of drawings at work, this specific drawing is of the old fashion popcorn maker we have in the kitchen. Took about 15min, trying to do one everyday at work from now on to expand the location from just my house.

ANOTHER SKELETON

2011-01-22T19:30:00.000-05:00

So, I started my new job as an assistant art director, my hours have been long, but I HAVE drawn every single day, but I only choose to upload and post the ones that I feel are satisfying to my mouth. Yes. Also, when you work 10hours a day in photoshop and indesign, the last thing you really wanna do is edit your own photos and drawings and upload shit.

I've been doing a lot of portraits of my family but they are so radical that I just lump them onto a pile on my couch and ignore them for a while. BUT heres another closet portrait.

CAWFEE

2011-01-18T21:27:00.000-05:00

Mo' Kitch-in

2011-01-17T19:12:00.000-05:00

The three chairs

2011-01-16T18:50:00.000-05:00

Cujo was a dog, he did not read harry potter or the bible

2011-01-15T19:11:00.000-05:00

a very lived in room

2011-01-12T01:52:00.000-05:00

I still love lmap and by lmap I mean Lamp

2011-01-11T18:16:00.000-05:00

MORE HAIR CUTS AHHH

2011-01-09T17:17:00.001-05:00

Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?

2011-01-07T20:28:00.000-05:00

Full Metal Jacket illustrations?

2011-01-06T22:23:00.000-05:00

not sure if I'll color these or not, but just a few shots of a bunch of drawings I've been working on. They're based off of the intro scene to Full Metal Jacket. Trying to incorporate it with this idea I had but I change my mind about what I like that I make more than I change my underwear. I'll explain the theme/idea in full if I finish them. Otherwise, they are good practice. WE'LL SEE

10min Tuesday no wait its Thursday

2011-01-06T20:02:00.001-05:00

IM A GOOBER

50th post! 68th drawing!

2011-01-04T20:09:00.000-05:00

SOWN EEEEE

2011-01-02T19:11:00.000-05:00

roomagin

2011-01-01T21:17:00.001-05:00

Ryan take 2

2010-12-30T21:09:00.001-05:00

Did a re-do of a portrait of Ryan playing Starcraft I really grabbed his likeness I think, totally proud of the drawing. Took about 18min says my ipod. Hope everyones having a Happy New Years eve eve

Blend Dur

2010-12-27T21:24:00.000-05:00

8min drawing

SOME STUFF ON MA DRESSA

2010-12-26T20:27:00.000-05:00

okay fine, I added the books in to draw

Ra and Da Bra

2010-12-25T21:38:00.000-05:00

Jimmothy Baxter

2010-12-24T22:52:00.001-05:00

Happy Holidays everyone! Drive safe.

DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YA'LL

2010-12-24T03:51:00.000-05:00

check out my flickr album for more of these! Blogger won't upload them all.

Soooooo its that time of the year again. Jim and me went nuts and did more money art. fff

3x3 no.7

2010-12-23T16:04:00.000-05:00

Hey! So I just got my copy of this years 3x3 Illustration annual in the mail today! I entered way back a few months ago for their student competition and got in! I didn't win a medal but I did get merit based on the judging. I figured I'd upload a few shots of it! Congrats to everyone else that got in, I know a bunch of SVA'ers had some sweet images. Congrats to Johnny Dombrowski for his piece too! Also, Marcos Chin has like 7 pages of his stuff in! Congrats everyone! Feels great to be published along side so many Illustrators that I look up to. Happy Holidays!!! NOMNOM

Bra Ra is home and he's chillen bra fa sha

2010-12-21T21:09:00.000-05:00

Clean em up

2010-12-21T12:59:00.000-05:00

Somewhere in the 40's now

2010-12-20T22:07:00.000-05:00

b00m headshot1!!!111

2010-12-19T21:24:00.000-05:00

WINTER CLOSETS AHH

2010-12-18T19:35:00.001-05:00

more closets

2010-12-17T11:07:00.001-05:00

Chris mess

2010-12-16T20:51:00.001-05:00

I can almost see my skeletons

2010-12-15T13:40:00.000-05:00

Drawing #35.

2010-12-14T01:32:00.000-05:00

Buh Buh Bathroom

2010-12-12T22:08:00.001-05:00

Old D's Kitchen

2010-12-10T21:10:00.000-05:00

Snow Plow your face off

2010-12-09T21:04:00.000-05:00

So yeah, about that paint

2010-12-08T21:01:00.000-05:00

I haven't picked up a brush to paint with it over 2 years now. YES I know, but after junior year my electives were all drawing and my portfolio was basically all ink and digital. I was never too crazy about paint, not so much that I wasn't able to do it, but I just have always been a drawing type of person. I love line and I love that graphic sort of feel to it. Painting was more slow and had such an "ancient" mystique about it that to be honest kind of scared me I think.

So, out of complete craze and cabin fever I grabbed and apple and decided to paint it. Its in acrylic, and I stopped when my timer hit 30min. I like to time myself on a lot of drawings and everything just to see and gauge myself in terms of what I can get down, information I can process, and, well now with the painting how much I can complete. Like I said, I haven't painted in a while, so I don't even know what aesthetic I feel most comfortable with pushing the paint, so I just went for a traditional approach to this. More to come I hope.

ANOTHER SNOW DAY

2010-12-08T20:49:00.000-05:00

Snow Day = Black Ops Day

2010-12-07T11:57:00.000-05:00

8min timed, Dougie pwns n00b nubs in the face with throwing knives.

CHEESE ITS no wait NIPS

2010-12-07T00:04:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure why but Blogspot is messing up whenever I upload photos, the first photo always doesn't work when you click on it, I scream at it a lot and try to re-upload but sometimes I give up. So I apologize if some don't work :/

Its a dune buggy

2010-12-05T17:40:00.000-05:00

I never was that fond of painting

2010-12-04T21:22:00.001-05:00

My basement holds the most obscure and dirty collection of wires, car parts, coal, chairs, dirt, and buckets and buckets of pre-used paint. Although, my father has proven a master at taming the wild beast of chaos and always uses these big blue bins to keep the storm at bay.

Got some chairs here

2010-12-03T22:20:00.001-05:00

My first

2010-12-03T20:22:00.000-05:00

December, 2008

This is probably my most loved drawing. It was the first time I felt that I actually could feel the essence of the person I was drawing. I remember this woman coming into the starbucks I was drawing at, and she just seemed so down. I believe she was homeless, and she asked for a cup of water from the counter and sat down adjacent to me. She closed her eyes and just sat there for a few moments and right in the middle of drawing a scene, I skipped to an empty space on the top of my paper and focused on capturing her. Its not the most detailed drawing, or the most proportionate or "correct." I don't remember how close the likeness was, nor do I recall how long it took me, but when I was done with it I realized that I could feel this person within the lines that I created.

the wuh-wuh-wuh water heater

2010-12-02T20:52:00.001-05:00

she took me 15 min and I broke a pencil doing it -.-

Drawing #23.

2010-11-30T17:56:00.001-05:00

BA-ROOM and moppp

2010-11-29T19:22:00.000-05:00

THE EMPIRE

2010-11-28T11:44:00.001-05:00

My favorite building, in my favorite spot on 23rd. This was an older drawing done back in May of 09.

ITS IN THE BASEMENT the pump

2010-11-27T19:03:00.000-05:00

4am, sure I'll draw my pantry

2010-11-24T03:44:00.001-05:00

Central Park Longboard Race Spring 2010 (2)

2010-11-23T21:01:00.001-05:00

Central Park Longboard Race Spring 2010

2010-11-22T08:27:00.000-05:00

on location drawings I did of one of the races in the spring. PUSH CULTURE

this was about 10min drawing

Garr-ich again

2010-11-21T14:18:00.001-05:00

I SAID DRY EM

2010-11-20T15:17:00.000-05:00

Its an Oak

2010-11-20T03:19:00.000-05:00

Fuh Ridge

2010-11-19T17:53:00.000-05:00

"I love Lamp."

2010-11-18T23:53:00.000-05:00

Garr-ich

2010-11-18T16:55:00.001-05:00

Took me about 10-15min I think. Was starting to get so cold, couldn't feel the tips of my fingers anymore. Garage in upstate New York in November = 38degrees. GGRRR nomnomnom

Dishes

2010-11-17T20:05:00.000-05:00

Old' D at her best.

"for the inside of some suburban home"

2010-11-16T19:19:00.001-05:00

For some reason a lot of these aren't working correctly with bloggers upload option. Only half of them seem to be able to be made larger so I apologize, I'm trying to fix it.

where I spend the majority of my life if I'm not on my longboard. nomnom

Organic and Geometric

2010-11-16T17:36:00.000-05:00

took a little less than 7min

A drawing a day

2010-11-16T01:19:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates. I've been going through a lot of changes. I grew a little bit, I've been experimenting with a completely new aesthetic, and I've done a lot of searching in terms of where I've been with my art, where I'mat now, and where I'm going. Or rather, where I want to go. Its been a tremendous struggle to say the least, but I am extremely pleased at where my energy has been.So, to keep myself in motion so to speak, I've been doing series of drawings on location. A kind of "documentary drawing" project. Until I am co

mfortable with posting and updating everything with my new work I've been dabbling at, I figured I'd post the drawings I do each day with some explanation of each.

All of these are less than 8min each (bra I literally time them, ok well most of them), on 18x24 plain drawing paper, with an extra soft 9b woodless graphite pencil, unless otherwise noted. I'm trying to keep up and do at least one a day and I hope to eventually have 360+ of them thi

s time next year.

Most of these are drawings of where I'm living, right now, they're of my parents house, different rooms, closets, tables etc. I have a lot that I did when I was in Manhattan which I will post as I slowly dig them from my closet and s

torage.

Like I said, these drawings are all what I consider, "Essence Drawings" they are extremely quick unconventional drawings of my surroundings. Most of these are done right when I wake up when my mind is still swimming from sleep and my energy is just being released. I am not going for detail, or perfection in the least, I am trying to get the "essence" or feeling of what I'm looking at down. I've been pulling and studying from artists primarily from the early-mid 1900's. I find that there is a specific "feel" and thought process to the way these men approached drawing that most of my contemporaries have lacked. I wish to re-discover that and bring it into my own finished work. I will talkmore about that later. For now though, here are some drawings to look at! Please let me know what you think.

-Steve

A fresh new start

2010-09-06T23:03:00.001-04:00