Back at Bat

    We're back in town from our vacation in Colorado, we had a lot of fun and I got a little bit of work done on my homework so I'm catching up to where I need to be. I'll be back into the swing of things by the end of the week here. hopefully with regular blog posts and more digital work because I now have a new tablet! It's a cintiq 21ux and I love it, being able to see exactly where my hand is takes so much pressure off of my brain I can use for thinking about what I'm drawing rather than how.

[gargoyle concept]

    I'm trying a sketch a day again with gargoyles this time. I'll probably just post up all seven as one post on Sunday, rather than rush to draw and post them every day here. I did this one with the new tablet though. I can't wait to keep working and get back into working digitally more often.

    I've got some illustration stuff I'm working on and even finished, but alas they're in the wrong file type so my photoshop cs2 won't read them. I should have some work to share later this week for my other classes though. I'm trying to get back into doing work for Project Contingency the Halo fan game I was doing concepts for a while back. We'll see what's going on there.

-Cody

Transformation...

     I haven't had the chance to share most of my work in my illustration classes this semester. So I've scanned some of my sketches from yesterday in Illustration I. For this assignment we have to show some form of transformation within the composition. So I've designed a landscape/environment where these large rocks[natural formations] are being pulled down into these receptacles[technological structures].

[transformative sketches]

    At first I was playing with different compositions for the rock formations, that I'm basing off of Asian scholar rocks. The final piece will be done in ink and watercolor, but to figure out what color scheme I wanted I worked on it in photoshop for a bit.

[transformative sketch]

    I don't know if I'll be able to achieve the same effect in watercolors, but we'll see. I have all of break to do studies and finish it up. Along with my tarot card that I shared sketches for before. I won't have my tablet with me because my laptop doesn't work. When I get home from break though I should have a brand new Cintiq coming in to learn on. I can't wait to see where my hand is drawing when I'm working digitally. It looks like there's more transforming here than just in my pieces. Hopefully it can show in my work/production.

    I'll make a point to share my progression these two pieces. Maybe I'll do a sketch a day while I'm there traditionally. Any Suggestions on a theme?

-Cody

Late Night Catch Up

    It's a little late tonight, but I wanted to share something before I head to bed. We've had a busy weekend, with even more snow. Then this coming weekend we'll be flying out to Colorado to visit family and friends for a week!

    Last Thursday in Drawing we had our first figure model in class, we worked on everything up starting with short gesture drawings to a longer 40 minute-ish pose. I don't remember how long each of these are, but I chose 3 for each of us to share tonight.

[figure drawing by Cody]


[figure drawing by Cody]


[figure drawing by Cody]

    It's been a long time since I've done any figure drawing any I had missed it. I need to get in on the extra figures sessions after break.

-Cody

    I'm so excited to draw the figure. I had a lot of fun with the gesture drawings and there was a lot of great poses our model did. As for other classes, I'm doing a self portrait in my pastels class and a reproduction of a masters piece I want to copy. I will have to work on my homework In Colorado over break. I'm going to be missing a lot of work Friday when we leave and Monday when we come back, I'm not really prepared to work on art homework across the country. I'm going to have to figure a way to compromise.

   We are currently working on the figure in sculpture as well. So I have to make a small figure and finish my skeleton/musculature for the next time I have class. Which will be hard to catch up on.

[figure drawing by Allison]

[figure drawing by Allison]

[figure drawing by Allison]

-Allison