TARDIS Mug

I had to copy a cup in ceramics, so I copied my roommates TARDIS  mug. Here's the result:

Before glazing

After glazing

I'm not happy with the color so I'm gonna glaze it again at some point.

Epic Internet

An illustration assignment. We had to make a piece based on 'crossroads.' It's was extremely open ended and allowed me to do this:

The finished piece :3

 My professor approved :)

Figure Painting Finished

I finished my figure painting! I might go back and touch up a few things later, but for now it's done.

I'll take a better picture at some point. Next week we start a new figure painting :)

Figure Drawing

I haven't posted any of my figure drawings here yet... I believe it's high time I did. So here we are, three of my most recent drawings done in class.

I'm still experimenting with different styles, hence the different looks :)

Life and Death WIP

Methods and media project: illustrate life and death in two illustrations. I chose the phoenix because life and death doesn't mean a beginning and an end to me. It a continuous cycle. Here are a sketch and a color sketch of what the two pieces may end up looking like.

I apologize for the crappy quality of the photos. I'll have another update with the finished pieces.

Figure Painting WIP cont...

One of these days I'll start updating on a schedule, but that day is not today. Here we have updates from my figure painting class. Sorry for the bad quality.

Final mono-chrome touch-ups

Skin-tone started

Isn't that exciting... more later.

Toxics in the Environment

My science class final project: do a piece of art that has something to do with what you've learned in class. What have I learned? A mother's arms are a dangerous place for an infant to be. Also her belly; just as dangerous.

Now I'm off to finish the artist statement that goes with this. I may or may not post it... We'll see.

Bunnies WIP

One of my illustration class assignments: do a portrait of someone famous without painting their face. So I will now chronicle what I've done so far from sketch to under-painting.

Really sketchy thumbnail

Slightly less sketchy thumbnail

Sketchy sketch

Final sketch

Sketch on canvas

Under-painting

Exciting... Hopefully you all know who this is a portrait of. I'll post the final painting up when I get it done. This is what I've done so far in the past two weeks.

Figure Painting WIP 2 & 3

So I realize it's been about two weeks since I did an update on my progress for my figure painting class. Here are the crappy cellphone pics I took.

Added a background

Worked a bit more on the figure

So there they are... I'll probably start color this week.

The Fortune Cookie

So Illustration seems like it's going to be the most challenging of all my classes. My professor focuses more on conceptual and metaphorical projects, which is not really my cup of tea. Exhibit A: We had to illustrate a fortune from a fortune cookie without being literal. I got: "You find beauty in ordinary things, do not lose this ability."

 So my first idea was shot down in class (we won't go there), so I came up with illustrating a scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (not the Disney version). I figure it works because Quasimodo has a horrendous visage yet a beautiful soul. So I thought that would go over well. Not so much, but it wasn't shot down. My professor just said a better scene would have been a better choice.

Anyway... here's a few shots of the progress and final. I'm not a fan of how it turned out, but maybe after a few more layers it might look decent.

Original sketch on top of a collage

Addition of ink and watercolor

Final after a layer of gesso, acrylic and charcoal

This was also much bigger than I'm used to working in (22x30in). But I'm staring to sound like I'm making excuses so I'll just end with: I learned a lot of new techniques that will be fun to improve on, and I'm learning how to think differently.

Homework Update

Methods and Media homework: create an illustration for a book that utilizes two layers. I chose Little Red Riding Hood, and used gesso as a layer divider.

Little Red

Not too bad, if I do say so myself. Though the wolf needs help. I haven't met my professor yet, so I'm not sure if this is what he's looking for. Should be fun :)

Figure Painting WIP

Work in progress for my figure painting class.

Grey-scale base

 Crappy cell phone picture is crappy. I'll get a nice picture when it's done though.

I'm Alive!

I'm back at school, and after a summer of no internet I'm glad. I'm looking forward to all my classes. One project done so far. As I complete assignments I'll post them. So here's the first one:

Snow White and the Seven Aliens

I have some other projects planned that should be good, stay tuned! I can only get better from here!

Finals Week

I have a lot of work to get done for finals week, but by the end of the week I should have some snazzy pictures to upload.

A new day...

Why hello there. Hmmm... don't really know what to write so here's some artwork...

I Eat Humans! Digital illustration.

Earth Nymph Digital illustration.

Water Nymph Digital illustration.