Research Artist: Rueme

There's this website, deviantART. Artists all over the world can post their work on it. I'm a member, and one of the artists I follo.w goes by the screen-name Rueme. I don't know much about her, as she tends to be a private person, but she lives in New Zealand and is studying to get a degree in graphic design. She does a fair amount of fanart for things she likes, but she has been doing a lot of work on original concepts and characters lately. I really love her drawing and coloring style, and I find a lot of her art inspiring. You can check her out here: http://rueme.deviantart.com/. Here are a few samples of her art.

Artist Statement.

This is not the one I wrote at the beginning of the semester; changes have been made.

When I was a child, I would listen to my father read me bedtime stories before falling asleep and I fell in love with the art of storytelling. I was fascinated by how a simple story can stay with a person for a lifetime, and how characters bring their tales to life. As I got older, I read for myself and grew interested in more complicated stories and characters. I had my own stories to tell, and wanted to do so with my drawings.

            I prefer a mechanical pencil for basic doodling, but will alternate between regular graphite, ebony, and charcoal pencils for my serious drawings. I also use conte crayons and have experimented with chalk pastels. For my cartoon drawings, I prefer sketching with pencil, then using black ink for lines and using markers for color. However, I have recently acquired a computer tablet and am experimenting with drawing and coloring on a computer, as well. I use the photo manipulation/digital coloring program GIMP.

Ch 1 Artist Assignment

So, for this assignment, I read Chapter 1 of the Taking the Leap textbook. There's a section of artists with interesting approaches and funny stories of how they got started. They're all pretty cool, but I don't feel I relate much to them. I don't have a funny story about how my career as an artist got started, and I don't have any "outlandish" projects. I'm pretty mundane. The closest thread I have is with the Guerrilla Girls, because I am a woman and an artist who is concerned with racial and sexual discrimination.

Senior Show Proposal

I'd like to draw realistic potraits of characters for a comic I want to create someday. Placed near those portraits would be full-body images in my cartoonish drawing style. I guess it's a kind of conceptual art thing, as well as compare-and-contrast.

5 Year Plan

1 year from now: last semester at St Ed.'s. Work hard! Graduate!
2 years from now: have some kind of job. Hopefully have enough to move out of my parents' place, try and save up for a car. Work on my art on the side.
3 years from now: hopefully I bought a car (used, of course). Start looking for jobs in artistic field. Still working on art.
4 years from now: maybe looking into companies to publish my comic, if I feel confident enough about it.
5 years from now: really hoping to have something published at that point. If not, there's always the webcomic route. I'm also hoping to have a doggy companion by this point.