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Drawing Mr. Spock

So for those of you who don’t know, I am a Star Trek fan. I’ll take a marathon of Star Trek, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine or Voyager any day over some of the garbage that’s on TV now a days (thanks Netflix). And to celebrate one of the most popular characters of all, I wanted to do a portrait of Spock played by Leonard Nimoy who recently passed.

Spock ©2015 B. Lewis

I did this portrait as an ink drawing with an Ink and watercolor background and I must say, I had a blast doing it. Color is something I hadn’t incorporated in my ink portraits as of yet, but after doing this one, I think I may make a splash here and there with some color because it really does add a little oomph to the image.

Spock Close-Up ©2015 B. Lewis

With this project I wanted to challenge myself in a couple of ways, one being to make an interesting background and two was to compose my own image. Though they were both really small steps in this drawing, doing so really gave me some practice in using those creativity muscles that can sometimes go dormant when all I paint and draw is what I see with my external eyes and not my internal eyes. In other words only drawing what I see and not what I imagine and I think as an artist, there has to remain some sort of balance between the two. In doing so, the art becomes more personal and introspective; which may be a little too heavy for this particular piece but one can learn a lot about how an artist thinks, what he/she think about and what that artist has to say based on their subject matter, the manner in which they create and how their art makes us feel. More often than not though, we as artists’, myself included, sometimes just want to make a pretty picture and there are few feelings involved. I think it would be interesting for me to do more introspective work. Let's see what's really on my mind ^_^. Without blabbing on too much I'll leave you guys here. Here's to you Mr. Spock:

New Year, New Beginnings

 Happy (super) belated New Year everyone! It’s a new year and I’ve embarked on new beginnings. I designed a new logo, new logo animation and new name for my YouTube Channel, blog, and I even have a website in the works. All designed by yours truly of course. I’ve changed my name from BnzyArts to BLewisArts and I have some big plans for this year. The most challenging of which, was designing my new logo.

Logo Sketches ©2015 B. Lewis

It took me a really long time to decide what I wanted my personal logo to be. For some reason, I find it much easier to design for other people than to design for myself, primarily because I don’t spend much time thinking about it. But for this occasion I sat down and over the course of several weeks (yes, it took me forever as it seems), I came up with something that really says “Brittany”.  I am a very big fan of musicianship, particularly with Jazz music. So I wanted my logo and banners for the different sites to express that in a very simple and clean way. I came up with a custom script for my initials. It’s clean, it’s versatile and it’s me. I can change the color if it based on the project I use it on, it’s very beautifully written and I’m super happy with it.

2015 Logo Designs ©2015 B. Lewis

The next step from designing my logo was to create all the banners to tie the different platforms together and once that was complete, I went into designing my logo animation. Now, this animation and the music that accompanies it has to carry out that free flowing, improvisation that reminds me of jazz music. I had an idea of what I wanted to accomplish and I was lucky enough to find a really helpful tutorial on how to make that happen and what you see below, is the finished product; just finished today as it happens. So what’s to come for B. Lewis in 2015? Every year I like to try and improve upon what I’d done the previous year. Last year I created more than I’d ever created and this year I want to make even more. Right now, I don’t have a large amount of art in the archives, so I’d like to have enough to do an exhibition one day. We also have a comic expo in June, which should be fun, and I’m currently working on two large companion paintings that I think would be a fun series and I’ll tell you guys all about that later.  So until next time, I’ll leave you with my super awesome, expertly executed, logo animation. Peace