Chiaroscuro class assignments so far.

These are some of the charcoal renderings I have been doing for my Chiaroscuro class. We have been using mostly white objects so far like fabric and plaster casts. I haven't finished the female torso, head, or the old wrinkly man yet. Each one has at least 15 hours into it, and often closer to 25 hours. I usually use the blending stub to smooth out the charcoal texture and blend the values, but I didn't use this technique on the 5 object piece and the wrinkly man. This class is insanely fast....I'm having a hard time keeping up. I printed out the wrong calendar to start with, and lost a week...which turned out to be the equivalent of two weeks worth of work on a normal semester. I couldn't afford the plaster model kit till 3/4 of the term was over, and now that I have it, I may not need it. With Renaissance art history to go along with this class....Plato, Aristotle and the like...I have been hard pressed to do anything else. Sometimes I have to take a break and watch some Bleach (anime) in between. Anyway, these are essential skills to develop from chiaroscuro. I hope I can survive the last week and a half. I need to work to earn money too....somehow. Anybody want to buy a print? :) OH, and each drawing here is 18"x24"

Candle or Explosive

Just something that expresses how I feel lately...with options.

Another Sketch

This is just another BIC pen sketch in my little sketchbook. Although I love doing these...when I finished with this one I didn't feel like I had accomplished much. Must be because I took a break to do some artwork other than schoolwork. My schoolwork owns me pretty much (like 4 times the amount of work of a bachelors degree during the summer), so until August 5th, I'm off the map.

A sketch of boredom

So, when I get bored...well, and frustrated, this is what can happen. So this is an angry alien face. Um, yeah. The bad guy alien I guess. Well, I used ballpoint pen initially, then copied that from my sketchbook and used dark brown prisma color colored pencil over that with some black prisma to define the darks I lost. It was fun. I watched some Feng Zhu tutorials while I did it. (Ok, it was in the back ground...I didn't watch the whole thing actually) Pretty fun and simple. This is just a little character concept. I don't know that I am interested in doing a design for the body, but this will be here to refer back to if I need a bad alien. :)

Illustration Friday: unfold

I decided to do this weeks Illustration Friday entry on the word..."unfold". My initial thoughts were of something unfolding before my eyes...but that kind of ended up being reinterpreted as my actual eyes unfolding. Mostly it ends up looking like a lot of intricate detail. But there you have it...my eyes unfolded...something. Enjoy. Photoshop CS4. 6-8 hours of nonsensical fun. :)

A finished Landscape!

Well, today was a good day for painting! Each Wednesday me and my friend Mark paint together to break away from our lagging artistic enthusiasm. Here we see the painting we did, or the one that I did. I started around 1 pm, and finished around 6...with several interruptions of course. Anyway, its a 9"x12" canvas painted with a 1/2 inch flat brush. I had fun. The second one is from a previous week and I didn't get it finished...although I tried to give it a sense of finish. Its a 11x14" canvas. Not quite what I wanted, but its ok. Now if I could just earn money with this kind of stuff! :) Enjoy.

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Another step in technology connections

Connecting the world…well, the world of blogs, emails, and social interaction sites! :) Now I can edit through my windows live programs....which makes life feel kinda like option overkill, you know, like how many ways you can adjust the volume on a song you are listening to on the computer? I have external speakers, which I then hook up to my nice stereo, so they have their own control. Then the computer operating system has a volume control, and then the program you play music in has one too. Its pretty nuts how there are like 10 ways to do something. I hope options don't kill our society. :)

School finals

My semester at the Academy of Art University is over now. I was up till 6:20 doing my final for one of the classes, but yeah, its done. I am pretty happy about my drawing from imagination class even though, I still have finishing touches to do on my final for that class. I am kinda worried about the figure drawing class though...man I struggled on that one. I did get the final done in that one though. I'm gonna post the finals for those classes as they are. Now it is down to job searching in this struggling economy. Whether I do art, Melaleuca, or find a job digging ditches, I hope I make some money soon. Good luck everyone. Enjoy summer!

Finally

All thumbnails are now "clickable" to open in their own window. This is again, a modification for touch devices where rollovers do not bring up the image. I have added a row on the bottom of the Sketchbook page as well as one more oil painted piece on the Traditional page. Done. Finally. Enjoy :)