All while I was in school and through various jobs, I have realized that most success in life is all about "Emotional Labour". There is a podcast by Seth Gordin CBC Podcast Interview that tells all about it. What I learned about Emotional Labour is you have to go beyond and do the things that other people would think is a bother. Things like doing that extra research, making that extra copy, advertising yourself outside of the work place/school, pretty much going the extra mile when you don't really have to.   To have any type of success in life, you must have initiative and drive to put you in front of all of the rest of the competition. It's basically really putting yourself in your work, your "emotionally" putting yourself in your work. You have to really want it to get what you want in life. Taking that little extra mile will pay off in the end, it's just having to do the "labour" is what a lot of people don't like to do.

I have to pick three people or organizations that show the meaning of emotional labour. First person I chose was someone I know from a really good friend, her name is Sandra Hill and she is a photographer/artist. Her Facebook site is Sandra Hill Photography and she specializes in New Born Photography.

She has her own company and always has her stuff on Facebook and even when I talked to her before, you can really tell she is so passionate about art and photography. She has her family involved and started out in her own home. She's actually personally inspired me to really get somewhere with my art.

Another person is one I learned about in class, Von Glitschka. He is an amazing Graphic Designer and I like visiting his site and watching the videos he does. Glitschka Studios site is awesome and makes everything public and always has stuff published on FB. Thats taking the extra steps to promote what you do and that's also another sign for "emotional labour".

My last choice would have to be Leif Peng. I'm totally not trying to be a "brown-noser", I just think its a good example. He has a blog (LeifDrawing101) , flicker for inspirational photo's, always advertising different things on google plus and is always giving the extra help out of class. All this stuff takes so much extra time and this is what emotional labour is.

You have to always start somewhere and it just takes a lot of hard work and dedication to really make it anywhere in life.

It is Week 10 now for anyone who has been following Illustration Friday, this weeks word was fluid. I wanted to do something kind of abstract this week. For my inspiration (I don't know if I can do this) but I used this photo:

This photo is done by yours truly Mazinn Marissa Martin and I called it "Blue Rain". :) I came across this when I was doing a photography assignment and then I took it to photoshop, worked my magic, and made it look awesome! I really like how it looks like upside down rain. The colours are so vibrant and just pop out. I also love how it looks abstract and that's why I chose this photo.

When I think of the word "fluid" I think of the best fluid you could have, which is water. I wanted to sort of a water fall. Since it is abstract I didn't really do thumbnails but I did do a sketch:

After knowing what I kinda want to do, I came up with this process:

Here is my book cove design for my illustration:

Hello everyone, welcome back to another week with Illustration Friday! :) We are now on Week 7 and this weeks word was popularity. When I think of popularity, I think of the main place "popularity" really counts is in High school. There is always that popular girl that everyone talks about, knows or knows of.

For my inspiration I chose a water colour painting by Michael David Sorensen. If you haven't noticed, I have been really liking water colour for the past couple weeks. I just really love how the colours just blend so well together and it looks awesome! I like how it's realistic with the old school "shaggin'-wagon" and the part of the tree but in the leaves it looks really washed out and kinda abstract.


I know I wanted to do a scene of a "popular girl" walking down the hall with people wispering in the background because that's what happens in high school where alot of rumours get spread around. I wanted to also make it a read monocormatic red colour scheme since this week was Valentines week, I wanted to be festive and make it a lovey-dovey red.
Here are my thumbnails:

Here is my process I took after getting the thumbnail I wanted, I came up with this:

Here is my Book cover design:

Another week on Illistration Friday and this weeks word was "suspense".  This is a pretty crazy word to illustrate! I looked up the word and it means : a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainly about what may happen. The first scene I thought after reading the  definition was a scene of when you go on a roller coaster and its the first big drop. That is one of the most suspenseful moment I can think of.

For my inspiration was an illustration by Gerald Andrea. This is a very interesting painting cause it's detailed but also leaves out a lot of the background detail. I really like the analogous colour scheme with the green and the blue. Here are my thumbnails:

When I started to paint, at first I was going to make it realistic. Then I was thinking when you are in the moment of almost dropping on the roller coaster, that you have a lot of adrenaline going and everything isn't very clear. I made my painting look really rough and jagged. Here are my steps:

Here is my book cover graphic:

Welcome back to some Mazinn Art! :) 

On week 5 for "illustration friday" this weeks word is "forward". When I first heard forward I thought of a forward button, but I cant really illustrate a forward button and theres no meaning behind it, and I personally like to have a meaning behind my art. Then I was online and decided to look at some art for inspiration and some popped out to me, but then I across a painting by Walter Wyles and I really connected with this painting, its exciting and mysterious.
This painting also stands out to me because its water colour and the analogue colour scheme is bring and colourful, vibrant and alive.

This painting looks to me like sails in waters on fire, but at the same time it doesn't, it makes it look like a beautiful but tragic moment, makes you wonder how the painter, Wyles was thinking and feeling at that moment.

For my thumbnails I wanted to draw a man walking forward to something important to him, like his cozy zone.

After connecting with Wyles painting I wanted to do somewhat the same effect as his painting. So for my painting for this week I made a mono colour scheme, I wanted this effect to represent the calm waters. Here was my process:

Here is my book cover graphic:

On Week 4, this weeks word was "Twirl". I was really excited when I found out I had to paint "twirl" when I think of the word twirl, I think of  Shawl Dancers. I always went to the pow wows as a child, it was very beautiful watching the shawl dancers twirl with their beautiful beaded dresses, and colourful ribbons that held their hair. My Inspiration was a painting called "Traditions Promise" by a Native artist named Tom Shropshire. I really like how he made the Mother and Daughter stand out with the beams of light in the background. Tom Shropshire did the complimentary colour scheme very well.

Here are my Thumbnails:

Here are the painting steps I went through :

I made it an analogous colour scheme also I made it so it had a symmetrical balance, I love to make it vibrant with colour! I painted a shawl dancer in the sky so she is close to the Creator when she dances. Here is my book cover:

This week is week 2 and our word for Illustration Friday is "prepare" at first I really didn't know how to illustrate something like that, but after observing things and people around me I came to see that this topic was easy! Preparing a meal!

My inspiration for my drawing is a pen and ink drawing by Daniel Vierge. I really like how rough  looking it looks. I want to make my drawing to look a little rough like how Vierge illustrates it. I also like the view and how he positioned the buildings, kind of a frame within a frame.

My media I chose was graphite pencil, I know I wanted someone preparing a meal. Here are some of my thumbnails:

I chose the first thumbnail because it was one of my best friends cooking and it was easier for me to draw with a actual model in front of me, like I said I was going for a kind of rough look with my drawing. Here are the steps I took to complete my drawing:

Here is my book cover for "prepare", after drawing for the word "prepare" and seeing what I came up with I thought it looked like the perfect old fashioned cook book! pretty proud of myself!

My 1st Week- Illistration Friday- "Grounded"

I am following this site called Illistration Friday and it's a pretty cool from what I can see so far. Artist from everywhere follow this site each week, and each week there is a word assigned to get inspiration from. This is my first week and this weeks word was "grounded", my inspiration for this project was a peice by René Bouché. I really like how she incorperates colour with white and black imaging. It is a beautiful but very simple artwork, it's also very well balanced. I want to put drawing and colour in my artwork like she does in this peice.

At first I really didn't know what to draw for the word "grounded", then I thought about it, when someone is grounded,  you are basically stuck, not moving, and going nowhere. I know so many people, including my own family, that let their problems and sorrows from their past keep them "grounded". Alot of people around the world let their problems define them. My three thumbnails are of images of a person who is stuck in a state of mind of being "grounded".

I wanted to have a guy sticking out of the ground trying to escape and that part of the my artwork I wanted to be graphite pencil. I want the colour portion of it to be the "problems" or "sorrows" that are all around him, keeping him stuck. These are the steps I took.

I have decided to make a book cover for my graphic:

(1st blog ever, PUMPED!) I am making a painting for Iternational Womens Day. I had to choose a women that inspires me, but I want to do something different; something no one else would do. One thing that has always inspired me the most in my life is our Mother Earth. I believe that every women is very much apart of mother earth. The artwork that inspired me is a Cosmopolitan Magazine Illitrated by Al Parker. I really love that way he positioned her and the cloak.  The complimentury colour scheme is really good and the star shapes on the dress are very dramatic.

                                       

I wanted to have a women of some kind to be in a position similar to Al Parkers Magazine, I wanted her to blend in with the scenery/nature. I wanted her dress to turn into the water or her hair to the clouds. Here are my thumbnails.

For my colour comp, I wanted to do a complimentary colour scheme so it could pop out at you! This is what I got but I have changed the position of everything a bit for the final. Stay tuned for more! :D