Don Cajones

Somewhere in Florida, in an art school whose name I do not care to remember, a class of very sleepy freshmen were assigned a project in which they had to create a room for a famous character. My list of potential characters included Don Draper, Donald Duck, and Don Quixote. I went with the last one, and thought, wouldn't it be neat is he was actually INSIDE the windmill as he was battling it?! I thought that was a great idea until I actually had to draw it out, and then I died. I'm ok now, though.

 As with most of my paint-things, the optimal viewing distance is four to five feet away. Because I rely on optical blending to make up for messy brush work. 

PROCESS STUFFFFFF:

My grandpa actually drew a wind mill for me! I think he knows everything.

In my head I was like, WHY DON'T ANY OF THESE THUMBNAILS WOOOORRRRRK?!

This one time I tried to use photoshop to map out the vanishing points, and it made me cry. 

Then my friend was like, bro, just redraw your line-work and forget vanishing points, and I was like, a'ight.

BIRDS, and a lemur.

So I'm not very good at prioritizing my time. I just finished drawing storyboards from the prison break scene in Toy Story 3 for a paper that's due in a fortnight, and still haven't started on my perspective assignment... which is due tomorrow. Good job, Adele.

Self-chastising aside, here's a bunch of sketches from our class trip to jungle gardens. I draw mostly the parrots, but really need to draw more lemurs.

Unwanted guest

Before:

             
                                                           Finito.
                                                       

For some reason I gravitate towards stuffed toy subject matter when it comes to perspective assignments. In other news, I've been drawing more bunnies lately, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

Figures, yo.

It took me awhile, but eventually these were really fun to do, especially that last one. Before she looked very cute, kindly, and... generic. 

Foxesssss

CHARACTER DESIGN! These are some of the foxes I've sketched up. Definitely falling into a pattern with some of them, but I'll keep sketching and not be generic.

BUNNNIIIIIIEEEEESSS

Midterm! This was for history of Animation. My friend JoAnn (http://soupytheoctopus.blogspot.com/) and I cranked this bad-boy out in four days before it was due. Fortunately, smear animation is inherently quicker to draw than traditional in-betweened animation; fewer drawings, you see. Twas fun.

Just some naked people

Figures! We had to push this pose as dar as we could. The middle one was 20 minutes, the last one 5.

Hoover rave

My latest assignment for perspective. I sacrificed too many hours of sleep. I loved the line-art, but got really insecure and hesitant when it came time to add the values. It was ridiculous. The fact that I hadn't slept the night before didn't help. Anyway. The assignment was "Strangest place you've been to", so I exaggerated this one group interview for Hoover salesmen that I went to.

Pershpective final

Here's a link for what relatively healthy food to buy on a budget: http://fanaticcook.blogspot.com/2011/12/budget-diet.html
Oh, and there's perspective.

2DDDDDD

I'm not sure if this is finito or not, but it's four in the morning and I haven't touched my perspective homework in awhile. Comments and crits would be super cool.



While I was working on this, I decided that I had in fact gotten better. This is the most ambitious digital painting I've made yet. I think, as always, the values and edges need some work. That deer skull was a fucking BITCH to draw, since I wanted a peculiar angle. Still, it's come a hell of a long way since my last progress shot of the piece.


 Just another progress shot. I like that you could see the background through the eye. Might have to revisit this piece sometime.

2d in progress

So this was my piece depicting the principle rhythm, for 2D design:



And this is an in-progress shot of the last project, which is supposed a representational reworking of the above piece:



So far, it looks nothing like my first piece. I feel good about this.

EMPHASIS

Mmm, 2D design. I didn't have to pull an all-nighter this time, and I even enjoyed working on these! The assignment was to use different principles, such as color, value, and line direction, to create emphasis in the compositions. Since my artistic interests are limited to slacklining and powerlines, well... you get the picture.

Feeeegyuuuurrrrr

Hur hur. Hands, feet and faces.

2 DEEEE

So I decided that updating my blog was more important than building my model car, or working on 2d design thumbnails.

Already turned this in, but crit is always appreciated. The point of the assignment was to create an asymmetrical composition using only greyscale silhouettes.

thumbnailzzz

Z's make everything way cooler. As for this nonsense, I was like, "Hey guys! Let's practice digital painting AND do a study for a traditional painting... at the same time!" I think I'm going to do a variation of the bottom one. May wanna break up the background. If anyone reads this, feedback would be coo'.

aRRRRRRT part dos

What do you mean there's more?! By the way, I suck at photographing art, and at formatting images with the text in the blog. I feel like everyone else knows something I don't. Anyway.













More still lifes! This was earlier in the winter semester. I struggle with rendering in charcoal, guys. I can draw forms, but using charcoal to give them depth is something that I have yet to grasp. Anyway, this bitch features a hipster shoe, a mason jar, and a sweet potato, so I guess it's a'ight.














This is a locking caribeaner, which Mozilla firefox has no idea how to spell, and neither do I. Also, I am scads better at typing than I used to be! Holy moley.















One day I'll get better at documenting work, I swear.















My mom totally gave me a dead, frozen squirrel to use as a reference for this. I love my mom.
















Another piece for the same assignment as the squirrel. This was retarded and last minute.




















This was an attempt to redeem myself for the retardedness of the mummy cat debacle. And that was drawing two, guys. Actual art school should be way more intense, but it was still a good semester. Really good. I feel like I got out slightly more often and did a few more things than I did first semester. I love college.

aRRRRRRT

HOLY SHIT GUAIZ I GOT A LEGIT ILLUSTRATION JOB. I'M ILLUSTRATING A COMIC ABOUT A GIRL WHO HUNTS TIGERS. AUGH. AND I WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RENT THIS SUMMER BECAUSE I'M GETTING A SWEET DOWN-PAYMENT. YESSSSSS.

I love this life. I love other aspects of this life, too, but back to the point. While I was at school I DID generate some art, if of dubious quality.






This is one half of a late figure drawing assignment from the fall. So many hours! I remember just poring over this in my dorm in late november, and I was frustrated with one of the guys in my life at the time. Funny story, for my final portfolio I ended up just giving him a sketch book and I totes got an A. Not gonna happen EVER again XD I was obsessed with Useful Chamber by The Dirty Projectors while I was working on this.











This is the other half of that drawing, sans the photoshopping.












I should be working instead of this blog. Anyway, this was my last minute drawing final, which brazenly features my roommate's face. Not proud of it, and when I tried to do the Byzantine thing it just wound up being Baroque. Those are speech bubbles, and the sketch looks way better. Oh well.













Yay, shitty photoshop jobs! During our intro to figure the model didn't show up, so
Reedy (our professor) made us circle up into groups to draw each other's portraits. I knew the drill, having taken figure the previous semester. This was my best likeness.















Oil pastels! Working on this during class with the actual still life was, for some reason, not working for me, but working from a photograph did. It took forever for me to overcome my fear of covering the paper with oil.







Let's see if I properly resized these bitches.