kmajor

I'm getting into the final days of working on my thesis film and I'm going to be scrambling to get everything I want done done but it's exciting!  I'm in the clean-up stage for the most part, and moving into line-art this weekend.

I also finally published my portfolio website so you can check that out at www.kellymajorstudio.com/

Work-in-progress, sketches and doodles can still be found on my art blog at knmajor.tumblr.com/

I've been neglecting this site, and I'm sorry.  Over the next week I'm going to try and get this gallery caught up with my Tumblr, (though there'll still be some sketchbook and unfinished stuff that I'll share there and not here, so if you're interested in that kind of stuff that is where you will find it.)  Once I'm caught up I'll try and start posting finished pieces here around the same time that they go up on the blog.  Thanks so much to everyone who's kept me on their watch list or bookmarks in spite of my lack of posts. <3

Hi deviantart.  I know I haven't been around much.  Life got sorta rough.  BUT.  Right now I am back in school studying animation so that someday soon I can actually make art for a living.  (Crazy concept!)  So things are looking up.

I'm not sure what'll happen with my deviantart gallery.  I don't want to abandon it, but I haven't been doing a lot of fanart, and this doesn't seem like the best venue for original art.  We'll see what happens, I guess.

Comment and I'll...:


1. Tell you something I'll learn about you by looking at your dA page for 13 seconds.
2. Tell you which color you remind me of.
3. Tell you my first memory of you.
4. Ask you something I've always wondered about you.
5. Tell you my favorite thing about you.
6. Give you a weird nickname
7. Tell you what's on my shirt right now.
8. Challenge you to post this on your journal

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I was just looking through some stacks of old comics and found this free comics day preview of Wizard's "How to Draw" series, and just wanted to react to this passage.

"Many male students have told me that they find it more difficult to draw women.  Conversely, female students generally find it more difficult to draw men.  The reason is obvious.  Women tend to draw women and men tend to draw men."

My response, "Um, no."  As far as I'm concerned, women have an easier time drawing the female body because they have female bodies.  Likewise with men.  Apart from simply seeing that body when you look down and in the mirror every day, even physically feeling how your body moves gives you a greater intuitive understanding of how it works.  I suspect that if "women tend to draw women and men tend to draw men," as this passage suggests, it is more a symptom than a root cause.  Perhaps what the writer was trying to get across was that people don't overcome the initial difficulty of drawing the opposite sex because of their natural tendency to avoid drawing the things that they find challenging in the first place, but that wasn't the feeling I got from reading it.  (And if I sound annoyed, it's probably that the use of the word "obvious" in that kind of statement makes it hard for it not to come off as arrogant.  Presumably not the intent, I do realize.)

That's my take.  Wondering about your opinions!  And do you think that you tend to draw members of your own gender more often?  I'd guess that I draw both genders about equally, with slightly more women, but an analysis of my sketchbooks could very well prove me wrong.  Hm, I do have more female main characters than male.  I wonder if "women tend to write women and men tend to write men" would prove even more true.  Gah, statistics.  Speculation!