Hello and welcome to Aniko Atilla's Defifee Blog. I'm writing about graphic design, typography, old books and figurative drawing.
24
Aug
I’m still not sure whether I’m going to take anothter drawing course this semester. It’s not really cheap and I missed many sessions because I felt tired or exhausted.
As long as I don’t have a model I’m drawing myself. This was my first trial with only watercolors without an underlying pencil sketch. It looks like watercolors are much more intuitive than pencils.
24
Aug
I tried to draw a furry vixen with pencil and watercolors. I learnt about the furry culture in Second Life. There is a big furry art community. A lot of artwork is depicting anthromorphic animals in erotic scenes.
21
Aug
I bought a watercolour set. It’s so easy to paint little figures and create shadings. You can’t compare it with any digital painting stuff and even pencil drawings seem unexpressive compared with watercolours.
And it’s fun to just colour line drawings or old life drawings.
But I find watercolour landscapes or still lifes totally boring.
14
Jul
Totally overhyped and worn out buzz words and fonts that annoy me. Most articles/books/websites that contain the words design, geek, creativity, ipad are are a waste of time.
14
Jul
My notes of a funny yet not comprehensible lecture on video codecs, cameras and video editing at the technical university.
24
May
Peace demonstrations during the 80s. Undertitles: “Letters on single boards make sense when read altogether”
School kids welcoming guests from the USSR ?. Undertitles: “Boards written in school font;
An old rotten wall with anti-US graffiti and a white pigeon. Undertitles: “A contemporary statement on an old wall”
Obligatory demonstration on May, 1st, International Workers’ Day with a big display: “Long live May 1st, day of action of the international working class.”
Covers of mostly politcal books.
Poster for obligatory paper collecting at school.
Peace demonstration with a poster: Practice solidarity. Undertitles: “personal commitment/involvement is displayed in the font but it can be recognized elsewhere too”
Some real life examples from a GDR school book for typography. All of the photos have a political message. A quote from the book’s preface “Artistic type plays an important role in advertising but in political agitation as well.”
24
May
Snippets from the photo album: four laboratory workers/chemists in about 1973, probably taken in a laboratory in Kazincbarcika, Northern Hungary. A typical women’s job at those times?
22
May
Some time ago I bought a book called “Keine Wolke stille hält” by Max Dauthendey. I don’t like his poems and stories that much but there are some beautiful woodcuts by Hermann Naumann in the book. Hermann Naumann was a famous GDR artist who specialized in engravings but his paintings and sculptures are beautiful too. His erotic works like here and here are even more interesting, very strange..
24
Apr
“If they knew how attractive they are”
All young girls should be charming, fresh and adorable.
I found a book for teenagers from the 1950s „Das Teenager 1×1“ Actually I just bought it because I liked the illustrations by Helma Baison, they are so sketchy and 50s like. I couldn’t find out anything about her. Probably she made a lot of children’s book illustrations in the 1950s and 1960s especcially for Astrid Lindren’s books.
Here is some advice from the book from the author who was a man:
“Women can only be happy with their job when they unfold their female qualities.”
Whatever that means..
16
Apr
I made some new nude sketches again. I think my drawings are getting better. Or maybe it’s just easier to draw men?
