It's been a while since I/we last posted, but we're now three weeks into the semester and we have a bunch of work to share. This semester I am in Painting II, Digital Painting, Intro. to Illustration, Illustration II, Calligraphic Drawing, and Figure Drawing.
These are shots of my still life I did for the first two classes/weeks of Painting II. The goal was to zoom in and choose an interesting intersection of objects. I found the negative space behind the cup to be interesting so I started there. Our instructor encouraged us to work out from a point rather than focus on shapes/objects, more on color relationships. I think the painting turned out pretty well. I'm goign to use more color in my darker values/shadows for the next piece though.
[focus still life]
[focus still life]
I really enjoy my Figure Drawing class, there isn't an open one on Thursday nights yet, but I get an entire day Friday to do it. I'm actually very happy with how I'm drawing figures from observation, my next trick is to take what I'm seeing and create my own figures from my mind. I need to be able to do so for character/costume design.
[figure drawings]
[figure drawings]
[figure drawings]
[figure drawings]
For homework we had to do a self portrait of our whole body, this is an in progress shot.
[self portrait figure drawing]
In Digital Painting we had an image of a styrofoam sphere that was lit and we painted from it. For about an hour and a half I fell prety good about it. I'm not used to trying to replicate reality when I paint in photoshop. This class is going to be good for me.
[digital painting still life]
[digital painting sketch homework]
[marker concept/sketches]
I've also been trying to use my "spare" time in between classes better, so I've been sketching with my markers.
The next post won't be as large, but hopefully I'll have some of my personal work/studies to share as well.
-Cody
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Hello, it's been a long time since I've written on the blog. I'm getting back into the habit of doing art everyday, I took a little break on doing art.
[Allison drawing]
Above, I'm doing a self portrait in a mirror, in a very painful position. I've had to redo it three times now so hopefully the third time it will be more successful.
[body part painting in progress]
This painting is of Cody's knee, I'm doing for figure painting. It is supposed to be a body part as an abstract representation. Our assignment is to zoom in close until it's semi-unrecognizable. I'm still working on it and his leg looks super muscular. I used a flat rubber spatula to paint this one.
[plein air cemetery painting]
The cemetery I painted above is near the school, it's a little gloomy but I guess it fits the mood of the location. It's very messy but I like the feel of it. It's on a long canvas and I got a severe sunburn while painting it. Worth it, maybe.
[plein air underpainting]
This is an under painting from a location near the cemetery, I may go back to it depending on if our class does. I might go there on a free day and finish it. It's coming out nicely I've always been really lazy with my under paintings so this was refreshing to do.
[body part painting]
[body part painting]
Until next time, when I'll have more work to show.
-Allison
