Portrait

Last class assignment was make a portrait with the background relating to the famous person.

I cropped image because it wouldn't fit in the scanner. Read a bunch of Poe's work in my 19th  Lit. class. What a tragic dude. 

Poison Apples and Smoking Lamps Junior Project Show

Here are final works from the Seven Ravens that were accepted in the Junior Show. 

 

 And here are the progress videos

 

Not Dead

I made a tumblr account. http://foolishfaunsandfriends.tumblr.com/  not much is on it but it's just for sketches. I'll use Blogger for more serious work.



Junior Year has gone extremely fast and I have only one month left until I'm a big bad senior. It's extremely frightening....But this year I put all my effort into my thesis project and I got into the Junior Show. http://public.sva.edu/brian/2011/0175/poisonedapples_page.html 
4 out of 5 painting I completed got in. I'm still in shock and feel like I know nothing, but woooooooooooo!!! I completed my one goal this year of just getting in. I think my painting has improved, but I stil have so much to learn. My colors come out too dirty. I guess I just give dirty Jersey a new meaning. :/

 

Here's the progress of the painting that did not get in. 

I'll post progress of the other paintings when the show is over. 

1st Image for my children book class with Peter McCarty. He was super chill teacher.

2nd image my scanner is poopy so I edited some things in Photoshop and it came out creepier than the original.

 

 

Basically with these two images I began by making a mistake in pencil and it turned into this thing (I won't call it a technique because it's more of an happy accident) where I carve into the paper with a "H" pencil and then shade over with a "B" pencil so it creates a weird pattern.

painting

Started painting.

underpainting

some color

sketch 4?

sketch 2

Oh look a tornado hit my room. :O

I haven't really worked on it in a while because of  cold

Playing around with different size pen nibs for fun

migraines,blizzard conditions, and pure winter break laziness. Ahhh. I need motivation!

Thesis sneak peak

First scene-2nd drawing on tracing paper. I think I worked  most of the anatomy out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second and thirds scene overlapped on tracing paper so it looks as if the 2nd girl is a ghosty. 

 

 

Now I gotta go work on other stuff and NOT procrastinate. :(

Thesisthesisthesisthesisthesisthesisthesisthesisthesis

Warning bit of a rant-
Bah. I'm going nuts over the junior thesis. I've been looking at so many French late baroque/rococo images that they have invade my dreams at night. I still have so much to do. (- _-  )

Here's small fraction of one drawing. I need to fix out the rest of the proportions still.

Should I really be updating this

Just proscrastinating my thumbnail sketches just to update some old stuff I found on my memory card from the summer.

Haha. It's an Eng-lusssssshhh gentleman.

Some weird human/creatures. *shrug*

crayon lemurrrrrrr

Crayon sketch from a national geographic magazine- Apparently a mantis can take on a humming bird and carry it upside down. Sooo crazy!

New- part of mini thesis- Hans my Hedgehog story set in the 1920/30s

lion and the mouse fable