Another day, moar arts

Another day, and there's more arts about. Sooo...yeah.

Media Class, I have several projects going on. One is a scratchboard. It's coming along, it's almost done.


(But it'll look better when it's done....)

Then we've got these watercolors going on. Right now we're just doing test work. So I've got a cube, and a little test portrait done.



(Yes...the force will be with me. Always. LOL.)

You know what's really fun about watercolors? I own sooo many of them. My media teacher was slightly griping last class about how the paints the students bring in range from like, Winsor & Newton pro stuff (*drools*) to like, Crayola pan shit. So what did I do? Before I started my test pieces I made test swatches of EVERY SINGLE watercolor I own.

It was fun seeing the color variations by company...for example...compare the Cobalt blues from each set. the Winsor Newton stuff probably is the nicest looking, the Reeves stuff ain't bad, and the Sakura ain't too bad but might be a smidge too close to the other blue it has in its set....HUGE differences from company to company. I can see what my teacher was saying. I'll probably do my stuff in the Reeves paint because there's more colors to choose from, but, I do admit....the W&N stuff....*drools...*....it's great stuff on pans, and I imagine the tubes are like, kick ass.

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And then, more figures. I can start to see a little improvement....so this is a good sign. I tried out using charcoal pencils on the last one and my professor liked the improvements, and I liked it as well. I'll try working with that for awhile and see where it gets me. I also need to JOIN FREAKING FEWS already....I finally got my financial aid check from Ringling so I can afford to go now, now I just need to find out where it is and stuff. *shrugs*





Illustration and Painting are going okay, but er.....my last ILL project literally got ripped to pieces come crit time (digital printout though, LUCKILY. =/ ) so I don't know if I feel like posting it quite yet, and painting, I keep on forgetting to bring my camera to class so I can take pictures because I can't lug wet paintings home and all. Maybe next time.

Later.

Bang.

Doodle and Art Dump

Lots has been going on...yeah.....it's starting to get exciting/busy round here. But I can still post every now and again, when I get unlazy enough to actually take pictures (Mind you, I'm still too lazy to scan them all in...probably because it takes longer...durrrr....)

So yeah. Finally I got done with my first piece in one of my more "Illustration" classes.....it's okay...not brilliant....but eh, we all gotta start someplace.



Next, more fun times from figure class. I had a nice stomach flu creep up on me on Tuesday though, so I wasn't able to attend last class...but he's such a nice old guy I doubt he'll care TOO much- it was my first time missin his class.

The first two were 5 minute sketches, the last was....er...I think 40-60 minutes, I forget how many blocks of 20 min we took.





Then, what's going on in my other illustration class? Yeahhhh.....the political drawing is coming along DANDERSNATCH, but I probably shouldn't show it yet as I haven't turned it in officially. All I can say is that I've worked 18 FUCKING HOURS on this thing, and it's STILL not done yet. It's not even on color yet....ARGGGGHHHH....Well...I'll be getting...6 more hours worth of work on it in a little bit, this is my break time away from it...as at 8:30 I have that class....>_<....

Then finally, one day I bought brightly colored paper from the school store on clearance for a dollar. I drew some doodles on it. One (which I didn't like too much, ehh, but that's okay), I can't find right now,but if I do, I'll put it up. The other one is uhhhh...Xavier....enjoying a box of noodles. I dunno. It was a "early in the fucking clock" doodle. Kinda like I want to do now because I have class in 2 hours and I probably shouldn't sleep....



Later. I leave you with the huge massive Russian Army singing their national anthem.....why? I dunno, I find it amusing. Part of me is impressed because I've never seen a mass gathering of OUR soldiers singing like this....lol. I would love to be part of something like this....make you feel like you're part of one big family, I suppose....others may view this as some sort of socialism ala Soviet Union though...but...I kinda like it.



-Rogue.

Weekend doodles

It's the weekend...yayyyy....well, it was the weekend, now technically it's Monday, and I have class in 7 hours. But before sleepies, some drawings I suppose. Just outta my sketchbook to you. Sorta. This is like my digital sketchbook. Sorta. >_>

Yes, I like being ambiguous.

Anyways.....first, I got curious about Corel Painter, which I really haven't played too much with because last year I was zooed with too much animation homework. Right now I'm not too crazed with work so I'm able to play around some. So I took a photo of some bodybuilder/wrestler's back and just fiddled around with the oil tools in Corel.



Yeah, it's not done, and I'm not sure if I will anyways. It's just a study and after awhile the oil tools started to frustrate me a little. More practice is needed with them.

Then the other is my sketchbook...I started to doodle off of another picture using a ballpoint pen near me while watching wrestling...(yay for free streams, I can't afford WWE PPVs as a broke college student...), and this one...turned into a Matt ballpoint pen picture that's more realistic than I normally do him. Then I went a little crazy with the watercolors and white opaque ink stuff....and....something else happened.



Although I did make some happy accidents...and the lower half of the picture was NOT done from reference and thusly looks like half-crap...I kinda like it...it's....reminding me of all those Fabry/Bisley/Frazetta stuff that I've been looking like....and hey, I really like that sort of style. But it's not exactly the same, because watercolors are not like other paints and will always be a bit...spotty..and sketchy looking in comparision to thicker plastic-based acrylics or thick, lush oil paints. Glenn Fabry and Simon Bisley use acrylics, and if I remember correctly, Bisley also on occasion will use either airbrush or oils....Frazetta I have no clue but my first guess would be oils knowing classically trained artists.

Class soon. I'm going to get my arse kicked because I accidentally overslept his class last time, and I didn't get to show my thumbnails to him....*bites lip*...not that I'm enjoying the political thing really....I HATE POLITICS....thus why I had so much trouble thinking of a concept and thusly why I overslept. *sigh* But of course I'm not going to say that to him, that would just be suicide right there for my grade and probably wouldn't make a nice impression....=_=...but then again, I doubt I had little impression to begin with, nor did missing a crit (granted, only a thumbnail crit) put me any better off. *SIGH*

Later days.

Another figure class, another drawings...

Fridays are always so relaxing for me. I go to painting and figure class, where I learn in a relaxing atmosphere (specially since there's no homework in this class- w00t!) from this adorable old Scottish guy. He's awesome. Today at the end of figure he was telling me how he was going to go home, put the greyhounds out, and have a cup of tea. Other times he'll tell you about his time he worked for the BBC and what not, or just kindly help you with your drawing. (Not yell at you like one of my other teachers does, but that's his modus operandi I guess.)

Awww. Makes me want a cuppa tea meself, but I have errands to run, and I may go play some pool with some new friends later at the pub. Yus.

Anyways, here's a figure that I did, a bit more detailed than the normal ones as he let us have a WICKED LONG pose....hmmm.



I'm fairly pleased with it, except that I need to do some more anatomy studies...I can render it...but knowing exactly where things go I do not really. But I WANT to know! =) Maybe I'll do some this weekend along with working on my Ill media project.

Oh, and here, a mini sketchbook pic I did in between the figure drawing....5 minutes here, 5 minutes there...that sort of thing.



I realized that I really never draw pictures of Matt's back this way. He has lots of scars on his front side, but as for where they are on his back? Hmm. I'll have to think about that one, I was just playing around here.

Later days!

Still Lives....

Shit...I hate doing some things, and worst of all, I kinda hate anything to do with politics. They're all around us in life, and especially when election time is coming up, I tend to get annoyed with them very quickly. Sure, art has a message, but I'm not in the mood for doing propaganda as of late.

However, it is for school, so I have to think of something.

In other news, I've been having fun doing a still life in my painting class. Granted, this isn't paint, but it's pastel, but the basic concept is the same- lay down color and light and then refine it, right?

So I have the "before and after" of the still life, so the speak, showing what I could get done in a 2 1/2 hour block of time if I was in the right mood...towards the end I was sleepy because I had stayed up the night before playing Sims 2. Ehhhh. Any hoo. It might still be WIP, I might try and fix a few more things before I move to another still life....






I've been in a "I need to start from Ground Zero" sort of mood lately, really wanting to improve, and this class makes me happy that I can do something vaguely useful with simple objects....still lives don't move so yeahh....

Today I have Illustration and Illustration media though, and for those classes I need artwork that has well, er, "meaning"...and that will trip me up for awhile. ILL is the one doing "Political" art, and I'm having a problem with that one....I may just draw like a soldier, because I mean, soldiers are political tools, come on,you KNOW it's true...tools to a mean of political peace, war, or some sort of image. Hmmm.

Laterz.

The New Adventures of Figure Drawing! *dramatic theme song*

Well, the new semester has started and I'm starting to get into some sort of place in the world of illustration. Sorta. We just started our new projects, and I just got my portfolio filled with cartoon animation crap blown to bits. It is quite literally a "whole new world" compared to Computer Animation.

So I haven't done figure drawing work in like......a year and some....I'm a tad rusty. Not to mention I can admit, that the Illustration students are taught a different style of figure drawing than the animation students were. The animation students were taught a lot about gesture, the figure as represented by motion....and often times that stuff was very linear looking. I was used to composing the figure and stuff like this, way back in freshman year 2 years ago:



(Not the best example I have, I admit....but...you get the idea.)

But, seriously, I got tossed into this figure class....most of the kids, because they're fresh out of freshman year and thusly still pretty well oiled at figure work, and, their focuses in illustration are long, detailed poses that are less linear, motion based, more, "painting the figure" by laying down value and light instead of composing using line and then value-ish ala animation...so my stuff got blasted my stuff out of the water by most kids there. But I have a feeling I can work my kinks out quickly so long as I have these classes, ya know? That, and I'm going to join the figure drawing club that's here, so I can....get more practice......more practice until I go insane doing it!





I also have a still life class, but currently my work there is locked up in the studio where I have the class....maybe I'll take my camera to school tommorrow so I can give a WIP in this journal just for shits and giggles.

But man. I love figure work. It's fun...even if I ain't the best one out there, I want to be. Seriously, you want to know the sort of artists I admire? Freaking...like....Simon Bisley:








Or hmm....Glenn Fabry is similar to Bisley too:



(Same character, different artist....it's Slaine from 2000 AD....Bisley and Fabry are both British comic book artists....)





Oh, and of course, let's not forget about the original, Frank Frazetta.....





You get the idea. It's a tough thing, depicting dynamic, meaningful illustrations....but I intend on giving it my all to get my work to this level by the time I graduate.....because I want to. Not what he said, what she said. Because I WANT TO. And that's the best inspiration of them all. >)

Later, my folks....I still have homework to do and I have an 8:30 am class. >_>