3 Weeks

It's the final countdown! Down to the last final weeks in the semesters and it seems like I'm still on schedule. Though, it's going to get a bit tighter. I need to manage my time well so that I can fit in more sleep than I did last night and not get into a habit of night-time naps.

Here is what I'm calling finished for my project 4 in my illustration class. Enjoy. (Also, that's a chunk of the moon, not a part of the earth. didn't realize it was that unreadable. I'll fix it someday)

I also hate the spot. THE END.

Project 5

Oh man, all this prep work is so much work and I'm getting so much practice. Despite that, it's still tedious and boring.

Here is some preliminary work for Project 5. I was inspired by the song, "When the Sun met the Moon" by Panic! At the Disco.

And the Color Comp of the one I chose. I'm only doing one this time, It's detailed and I know I'll burn myself out before I even get started if I do another one.

 

Not quite sold on the colors, but I think I'll take the top one...or mix them up. They're REALLY rough, I think I spent an hour and a half and that included picking colors to filling in. I also extended the border. You can tell more on the color comps than the value studies. My teacher is going to kill meeee. Oh well. In the end, it'll look just fine.

Also, I've got Project 4 all finished! Yaay!~ The print came out like crap, probably because of all the complex colors that I had used. I need to buy myself a printer. It's on my list of things to spend lots of money on after I graduate.

And last but not least, what I'm doing in my Illustration class. We had to pick a tabloid headline and have fun :D  I chose "THE MOON IS HATCHING . . . and whatever's coming out has big teeth, NASA says!" I'm pretty close to being done, I have to fill in the stars and put in other space-y things for visual interest as well as a spot illustration. Maybe of the moon just cracked, or of it cracked open with nothing inside? Haven't made up my mind yet.

So, that's that for an image dump. I need to focus and crank out these last few projects. I still have to start one for my Art History project! Gwaah! I should stop taking side projects and thinking about what I'm going to do over winter break and crank these last bits out. I'm a head in two classes and nearly behind in the other two! Better than being behind in all four, but not as great as being ahead in four! Kay, I'm done rambling.

Ready, set....GO!

It's that time again! Time is becoming limited and should be used wisely in order to pass classes and get all these projects done.

Instead of being responsible and using a rare day off to my advantage, I decided to take on a small side project. Someone asked me to draw their character. Cool! They asked me to make it a male. Do able...They also asked for me to place them in a plate suit of armor. Say what? I had a rather hard time with it since it was my first time ever drawing armor but I think it came out alright.

So, instead of school updates, I'll show you this. It took me 6-7 hours to complete, from sketching to finishing touches. :D

I'm hoping that perhaps I'll build a little clientele, do some free sketches, then begin to hone in on the skill of doing these a little faster, say 4 hours? and charge some monies! Wouldn't that be great? I sure think so. Well, anyway, we'll see what happens.

Project 4

Alright, well, that was a nice surprise. I'm nearly done with project 4 in my Composition class. It went along fairly easily with maybe 5 hours of work. I think I still have one or two more left for clean up but as of right now I am about 90% done. I really liked the feeling of this, but it's still a bit too heavy for what I had envisioned. Different,but still good. As you can see, I have some work to do on the ground.


This is a weird size... 10" X 6.6" haha. Anyway, I'm really liking the color I'm using in this one and for my final project hope to really continue to use more color variance. I haven't a clue what I'm going to do next. We'll see.

 Other than that, I've been doing some doodles with a new custom brush that I made. They're nothing impressive, just simple brush strokes. Here's an example of one. Kind of painterly in a way. I wasn't worried about proportions or anything, so I know it's off. Haha.

I also did some sketches that I have yet to scan in, so, maybe I'll get some of those up over the weekend.

Catch up...

So, I took most the weekend up to catchup on my much needed rest. By rest, I mean not going to work or working on school projects. So, that in turn, made me need to catch up to revisions and things tonight. That's alright though, cause I think I have done a really good job.

Here are the revisions for the Gypsy piece. I really hope it's not incredibly dark on your screen, I've checked it on three other screens and it seems fine, but the one in class really hated it.  I also gave you a peek at the background. Yea, I painted most of it in....that's why it took so damn long. I think I've put in 45-55 hours. I kind of lost track. Anyhoo, I might revisit it at a different time but for all intents and purposes...it's le fin!










I also thought I'd post some of my preliminary work for my next piece in Composition. It's going to be a lot less heavy in color and values, and hopefully aim more for a children's book illustration. We'll see.

This is the one I'm going with. They're not rabbits, they're a chimera I came up with(that look cute and cuddly, huh?).

  These are the other sets I had to do.

November?

Dang! I can't believe it's already november! This year has flown right by me.

Anyway, how was Halloween for you guys? It was pretty low key for me, hardly any trick or treaters came by and I was all dressed up! Boo! Ah well, it was a monday so It's kind of understandable...I think...maybe? Right, on to artwork.

So, the one for Illustration 2 came out alright, It's apparently kind of dark on some screens and I have some /more/ work to do (dies) but It's about 95% done.

Yaaaaaaaay. I kind of want to kill myself. I've sunk so much time and detail into this I dont even want to look at it anymore. All I can see are my mistakes (it's the claaaaw) and I need to finish it up by monday. Maybe I'll attack it tomorrow...or friday.

Other than that, we're already heading into project 4 in both classes with the preliminary stuff done for Composition and about to get started on preliminary stuff for Illustration. I've actually got a few sketches that aren't school related. They're not great, but proof that I do,in fact, still believe in the use of paper and pencil.

This is another sour faced Cora.This is one of the outfits she wears under her cloak...that she normally never takes off. You'd never guess she was attractive under all that frump. Not exactly thrilled with this, but it was nice to draw for myself.

I'm not really sure what the hell this is. It's a man, woman,snake...thing? I dunno, I was just doodling in class instead of doing thumbnails like a good little student. My bad. I wish I had brought my pens with me, I would have inked...it.