Fire and Flowers

Finally some new work to post. I'll be adding images on a weekly basis now that classes are going on. For this we had to use a medium we're not familiar with, so I dried some flowers and grabbed a lighter to see what I came up with. Also I made myself another sketchbook for sketchbook class! This one far better quality than the one before.

Warms and Cools

oil

French Comic Exhibition

I recently received pictures of "Bulles a Croquer", a comic exhibition in Brittany, France this past June. One of the Illustration professors at MICA, Alain Corbel, displayed his student's work from his Sequential Art class but also extended the invite to Illustration Club. I haven't taken the class yet, but I made a six page comic to contribute to the show. Looks like it went well, some tremendous European comic artists attended.

My work hanging in the background.

The show was in an old car factory!

More Old Man

I started this sketch a few weeks ago but just got around to the watercolor today. Unfortunately I don't have a scanner handy so the powershot will have to suffice for now.



Graphite and watercolor on Rives BFK

Spidey Sense, Tingling!

A local gallery is having a show with the theme "Superheroes."

Needless to say, I had to hop on it.

Unfortunately, I only had a week to do it. Im pretty happy with the traffic light, but Spidey could still use some work. Oh well.




oil on rives BFK

Keith Progress/change

The left is after matte medium and a few ink washes, the right is after more medium and really thin oil paint. I'm trying to make a bunch of stages with it, but still keep it complete at any given one. it's fun.



oil

Keithers

I've been wanting to do a portrait of my brother, Keith, for a loonnngggg time. This captures his personality pretty accurately. I think im going to paint over it, or at least do some washes.

Once again, now the photo reveals the errors in my proportions. His arms are too short! Also poor camera angle, making them even shorter.


charcoal, graphite, on tan rives bfk

fun preliminary stage here

william bouguereau study 1

I've been doing some master studies both on paper and on photoshop, here's the first one. This sorta debunked my opinion that rives didn't hold graphite well. It does. I don't have a scanner back home, so the quality from my powershot isn't the best.

I always love how the inaccuracies always become SO much more apparent once it's on the computer. Oh wait -.-




graphite on rives

Progress in Oils

Oil on 240 lb. Hot press Arches WC paper, 19x25"

I've been working on this painting for almost 3 months, on and off. It reaaally tested my patience at times, but I learned a lot from it and where I want to go in my future painitngs. The scan didn't really capture any of the luminosity and made his skin too purpley, but it's interested seeing some colors the scan revealed that I hadn't noticed.

The pages read from right to left in a pretty scattered way to tell the story of the boy/old man's life. I used really thin oil paint for the crayon marks. It was fun to jump back into my early days of drawing.

Details

Sketchbook pages

This is a prelude to the sketchbook remix class I'll be taking next semester. This was great to do in the middle of other projects during finals.


Placemat from Chinese Restaurant, acrylic, watercolor, matte medium, sandpaper
I realized I need to know how to draw ears from memory, so I drew a few of some friends and a few of mine. I also really enjoy painting with oils on unprimed rives. I kind of emulated a few of my favorite pages from James Jean's college sketchbooks.



graphite, oil, acrylic, colored pencil.

This is on the last page of my current moleskine, but I think im going to work more with my homemade sketchbook now (the one above). The three women on the right are actually from the same image by Norman Rockwell. It's one of my favorite pieces by him, so I spent a lot of time redrawing the same portrait, trying to capture her perfect expression. The middle one is the closest, but I still didn't get it completely.





graphite, acrylic, gouache.