Some recent and retouched work

Just got through my 6 art classes final today. Its called Survey, and you have to pin up 3 complete pieces from each class you took (in my case 6) on a very small space...

I'll post some photos of my wall soon. For now here's some eye candy to hold you all over.

BEFORE YOU ASK:

No, I did NOT win a competition. There are 25 OTHER posters exactly like this from all the other students in my Design Procedures class, each claiming that THEY won the competition.

It was part of the assignment.

Assignment:
Create a poster for your completed stamp that emulates YOUR stamp design.

The arrangement of type was intentionally placed to echo the stamp (top left corner!).

CC welcome.

Tea Time in Hyrule

Class assignment to create a cover art for 'Better Homes and Gardens.' I chose to make homage to the Legend of Zelda seriese and do a Hyrule themed painting.

Medium Watercolor.
Three stages depicted below:
Concept/reference gathering sketches
Refined Sketch
Final 11"x17" Watercolor painting

Another attempt at painting - Acrylic style!

Almost a whole month without posting! Sorry!!! I've been really busy! My semester ends in three weeks!

This time around I'm painting for my Illustration class. Assignment was to illustrate this story on a 10"x14" page:

Bedtime Story
"Careful, honey, its loaded," he said, re-entering the bedroom.
Her back rested against the headboard. "This for your wife?"
"No. Too chancy. I'm hiring a professional."
"How about me?"
He smirked. "Cute. But who'd be dumb enough to hire a lady hit man?"
She wet her lips, sighting along the barrel. "Your wife"

Business card time

So for my design procedures class we've got an assignment to do a WHOLE package of self promotion stuff. Step one, design three business cards for myself. Step two, pick one. Step three take the design you picked and use it to make a CD Lable, CD Jacket and Envelope to mail your Digital CD portfolio in...

We also need to pick something random as a 'free giveaway' to design packaging for with the same theme. i.e. a box of pencils

Here's one of my designs so far. The censored parts are my address and phone number, for obvious reasons.

And when I'm NOT art-ing...

...I spend my time with my silly friends learning choreographed Japanese dances.

Jump!

Some of you may know this already, but I am TERRIFIED of painting. In many shapes and forms, I am terrified of it. The only think I can claim to have slight confidence in is watercolor painting, but other than that I am incredibly intimidated by it.

That being said, my illustration for Susannah's Song is an Opaque Gouache Painting. AAAAAH!

Stayed up real late last night working on it with a friend of mine, who was working on her's as well. Brought it to class and continued to work through class. I seem to be doing an ok job, suprisingly! Hooray!

So here's a progress shot. Its not done yet, of course.

Warren Jeffs

My Illustration Professor, Don Albright, is really big on having us do illustrations for tabloids, interesting people, current events, etc.

For this one he had us research Warren Jeffs, a particularly unsettling Mormon sect leader who was charged with rape as an accomplice for forcing a 14 year old girl to marry her 19 year old cousin (among other things and countless other marriages like that one).

The angle I decided to play up in my illustration is that Jeffs held control over all of the community's assets. People's homes, land, etc. belonged to him, and he often excommunicated younger men in order to give older members more wives.

I was going for a godzilla effect.

Stephen King Assignment

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So in my methods and media class our current assignment is to create a book cover for any stephen king book we choose. I chose Susannah's Song, book 6 in the Dark Tower series. The book cover I designed features Susannah, who is a black woman whose legs are amputated at the knees. In the series, she becomes posessed by a white woman, during which time she 'obtains' white legs. This moment, once fully painted, will be portrayed by the glowing materialization of said legs, while Susannah watches in horror, her wheelchair abandoned in the background.

And so it begins...

Welcome to my blog-folio! To kick off what will be a regularly updated archive of assigments, illustrations, and probably doodles too, I'll begin with
a three part assignment from my Methods and Media Class.


Dip Pen

The first is a portrait using a dip pen and black india ink. Not my best medium, I have to say... I'm actually a little intimidated by it.

That being said, I managed to survive using it for this assignment! Hooray!


Paint Brush

Same assignment as the dip pen, but using a paint brush instead. Again, not something I'm particularly skilled with. There's definately room for improvement here. I particularly enjoyed rendering the hair for this piece.

Ink Wash

For the third installment we learned to use ink wash (the dilution of ink to create different gray tones with which to paint. Kind of like watercolor). We were given a choice of another self portrait or a portrait of somebody else, and, being horribly bad at drawing men, I decided to torture myself give it a shot. The original image can be found here.