Another Week Past

    Once again we've been pretty busy this week and here's a bigger post. Hopefully we can get back into the swing of everything next week again. I have some new Illustration work in progress and finished that I'll try to photograph this weekend. I have trouble in my house getting quality photos of my work.

    First here is my first portrait for Painting class out of the two. They're not as developed as I'd like because I'm splitting my time between two models, but I'm pretty satisfied with this one. I had a lot of trouble getting her strong cheekbone and jawline to resemble hers. It was a defining factor in capturing her likeness and I think I missed it, but that's okay. I've never painted anyone like this before so I'm struggling with the face. It's my weakest point.

[Cody's portrait painting]

    In drawing we were doing more charcoal last week, though with white on a "toned" or colored surface. I had two, but my second one was not good at all. I tried to do a whole value drawing with charcoal pencils and it just didn't work the way I had intended. This one works well though, it looks a lot more like the model than my painting does to that model.

[Cody's charcoal/chalk portrait]

    As I mentioned I finished my second assignment for Illustration I, which was an ink/ink wash piece that I ended up really liking. I'll share more about it when I've got pictures... I feel like I had more work to share from last week, but I guess minus a drawing and a painting in progress and that's it for now.

    Tomorrow after Drawing Allison, my brother Clinton and I are going to see Emily Kinney of The Walking Dead sing/perform at the casino near here. Hopefully we can get into line early enough to meet her and get something signed. I have no idea what to expect, it should be fun either way though.

-Cody

    It's been a while ! It's been non-stop work for me. Between my independent drawings and drawing classes I've been producing a lot of work. I will post a section soon of all of the work. We had a hard time posting this week so we decided to create a huge post. 

       

     The first two are white charcoal pieces of a model. They both look like different models, but like the model... The brown piece was my second one and the blue was the first. I'm trying harder to measure where the features are. So I think the second one was more successful.

[Allison's charcoal/chalk portrait]


[Allison's charcoal/chalk portrait]

    Below is a drawing from my pastels class. Which I've had three times now, out of 7weeks. This image looks too vibrant. It's not so vibrant with the crazy bright colors. It loses its blend of color that way. 

[Allison's chalk pastel still-life]

    I've got great ideas for pieces, but they only seem great until I execute them. My Independent Drawing Projects class has a lot of abstract artists. So the feedback I recieve is more abstract based, which is unfortunate. 

-Allison 

"Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture." -Harvey Dunn