Speed Painting #9!

Came to join Jess and Anh's's speed painting marathon, except now they're playing Settlers of Cataan. SLACKERS. Just kidding. They're still ahead of me. 

Photo Credit

Time: 1hr? ish? Time is an illusion!

Speed Painting #8

Haven't done one of these in a while! Kinda forgot how. I need to start focusing on bigger shapes, spent way too much time zoomed in while working on this.

Time: ~1hr 30min?

Photo credit: msanchezimages.blogspot.com

Portfolio: Tentative final draft?

Submitting this tonight! Fingers crossed... 

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback! Leaving the old post up for reference of what I changed from beginning to end. 

  

Portfolio: First Draft

Hello all! I am applying to the portfolio review this semester. Tonight's the peer review, and I want to fix up a few things before then (some things need to be re-scanned, lighting on the Maya project needs to be fixed, and I still have some figures to go over), but here's what I have so far. There are purposely more pages of figure drawing than I'm planning on having in the end. 

Critiques are more than welcome, tear it apart! 

Secret Santa 2011

Starting last year, some of my classmates and I have been putting on a Secret Santa gift exchange as something to do over winter break. This year, we had to give a list of our favorite songs and our santa would do a drawing based on them. My giftee asked for a landscape, and this was the illustration I came up with, based on these songs: 

• "Dream On" - Aerosmith 
• "Float On" - Modest Mouse
• "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
• "Syracuse" - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas soundtrack

This was a lot of fun, and I feel like I learned a lot working on it. Can't wait until next year! 

113A Acrylic Paint Still Life

Another semester done! Here's the result of my biggest project over the last few months. I'm aware my still life subject is not obvious, but it's the story of how I dislocated my kneecap last November. It was the night the Giants won the World Series, and when my roommate rushed to see me in the hospital, she brought me gummy bears. The weird object on the right is a leg brace. (Thanks to Danny for lending that to me, as I threw mine away in a fit of frustration).

I learned a lot from the beginning to the end. I think my color rendering turned out a lot better than the b/w one! I couldn't quite get the colors to photograph right though, in real life the blue violet is much less blue and more violet. If anyone knows a good trick to fix that, let me know!

Color Comps

Have a good winter break, everyone! :) 

Fall 2011 Figure Drawings

Hello! Been a while since I posted anything. These are the three portfolios I turned in for Sheldon's figure drawing class this semester.

(SEPTEMBER)

(OCTOBER)

(NOVEMBER)