ANI113A- Artwork Dump!

What a crazy semester!

Since ANI113A is done for me, I want to make a cumulative post on almost all of the work I've done for the class (except the color comps...there are too many of them for me to scan right now). It'll be a good way for me to see all my successes and failures together, as well as the progress I've made.

Wow. This was my very first painting for the class. As Inga said, shapes first before tone. Which is what I wasn't doing over here...

 

Here are most of my black and white object studies, including the ones selected for my portfolio. The only one here that is missing is the painted version of the egg. I may scan that one in later, but it isn't really that impressive. And wow, those ellipses on the pencil mug...yikes!

 

These are the black and white drapery studies, including the ones selected for my portfolio. The diaper drapery was a bit of a flop since I limited myself to using one pencil (a 7B), which was a big mistake. The wrap-around drapery...actually looks not bad as a thumbnail. I still think the best draperies I did were the first two (the portfolio ones)/

Ah, the still life rendering. This was perhaps the most monumental artwork I've ever done. There isn't much for me to say about it, other than that I'm very happy with the result.

 

Psychedelic draperies. These were supposed to look like white cloth. Someone clearly wasn't following directions.

These were the last in-class paintings we did. Inga was very happy with how the one with the eggplant came out. It was a big jump from what I did the week (and weeks) before in color.

And finally, this:

There are still tweaks I need to make, but overall I'm very satisfied on how this came out. Funny how the black and white version took a month, while this only took me five days to do. I guess that's how mileage works: spend 50 hours learning how to do it in 10.

Anyhow, that's all folks! Hope you enjoy this cumulative post! It was a great semester, one that started with uncertainty and ended with a passed portfolio review. Big thanks to Inga and John for being awesome teachers, and to my friends for crits and moral support.

Portfolio Final Pass

This is essentially the final push for this portfolio. It's been a long battle! Hopefully one that pays off.

Bootcamp Figures!

A couple or so weeks back, I enrolled in a week-long course of Sheldon Borenstein's bootcamp. A week worth of tracing and going over the same fundamentals I learned in my figure drawing class under the same teacher has resulted in these two pieces. I've still got the whole world to improve on, but I was pretty satisfied with the improvement I made with these two.

Photoshop Speedpaints

Feng Zhu recently posted up a new video on his Youtube channel FZDSchool called "Chaos to Control." No, it's not about Sonic the Hedgehog (although the related videos section hilariously suggested so), but about a certain type of process that Feng Zhu often liked to do to stay loose. Since I had been in a bit of a rut for the last few days, I figured I would give it a try. I wouldn't say these are really awesome speedpaints, but compared to what I normally do in Photoshop (render the eff out of everything), doing these really quick speedpaints felt really liberating.

ANI12- Tonal Study of a WWII Warplane

Another tonal study for John Clapp's class. This one kind of kicked my ass.

Tonal sketch of an old car

Here's a tonal sketch for my light and optics class. This one was a lot of fun to do, though it took a little more time than I intended it to.

Figure Drawings and Location Studies

After some three weeks of being in a rut, I finally managed to make some breakthroughs with my figure drawing. I also discovered that I have a love for perspective. So anyhow...

Top left, top center, and bottom right are from photos via the Pixelovely figure drawing tool, whereas the other two are were done in my figure drawing class. Yay, Sheldon Borenstein!

This is a location study of some of the temporary stairs that construction workers need to access the Student Union construction site. It was too late for me to really work on tone, but I'm really happy with the structure of this one.

These are some tonal perspective studies. Nothing really amazing, but I think I'm starting to get tonal drawing. Thing about markers: they're pretty fun, but...sort of confusing. I think I'm going to do the next few in ballpoint pen crosshatching.

 This one isn't exactly either location or figure studies. Actually, I was debating on whether I should show this one, but...ah, to hell with it. Here's my specimen project. Getting the crit for this felt like taking a rocket to the face (since John Clapp was immediately able to tell that I was faking the shadows). But in all honesty, the project was a lot of fun. And I learned that...well, reference is paramount, haha. What I'll probably do is go back and redo the hand over the summer, cause I really do like this idea.