Time To Get To more Work

    So Friday was my last day of the semester, I had my final in Perspective, and I should have done just fine. I understand the material well, I just rush and don't think clearly sometimes. So I'm not worried, I didn't really have a final in anything else. For our drawing, and painting classes we had home work as well as finishing our in class assignments to do.

    Tomorrow I'll be going in with Allison to get finished shots of some more of our work, especially or sculpture work. Since some of the smaller work may not be kept, and I'm going to try and cast my portrait I did around the time that we go back to school in January to submit to the juried show.

    I also plan on cleaning up one of my pieces from digital imaging for entry to the show as well. Either the crustaceous environment, with the lake in the cave. Or the last one I did here.

[Cody's bot hangar concept]

    There are a few things I definitely like about what I've got so far, and a few that I don't. I'm trying to pay more attention to the perspective, and the "camera"/viewers eye together so that the painting reads correctly. This one is almost there. I enjoy the energy that the designs of the robots have, I'm a fan of the prosthetic foot design on the mechs[giant robots]. The light sources don't entirely make sense though. So I'll push the lighting situation into something more "cinematic". 

[Cody's deep space painting]

    We actually lost power on the second to last day we were working on these paintings, so I ended up "finishing" it up at Allison's house over the weekend last week. I think it was a successful learning experience at least.

    the last few days in drawing we were working on cross-contour drawings like the cow skulls we had done, but with pen & ink. We mixed in a little cross-hatching[laying lines over each other in repetition at different angles] as well. These are a few of the studies we produced.

[Allison, and Cody's cross-contour/hatching drawings]

    Now that I've got some time to work on art for myself a little more frequently over the break, I'm getting to work right away. Starting tonight! I'll share some images and thoughts if they're worth sharing. I hope everyone is preparing for a good holiday no matter what/if you celebrate.

-Cody

    

Speeding On By

    As we near the end of the semester I'm realizing just how fast my first semester at Lyme has been. We have about three weeks of classes left, and I have a lot more to do before it's up. I have a drawing to refine for homework, an interior painting similar to the one I'm working on in class, another project for intro to digital, and I'd like to round up some work to put into the Holiday Art Show to try to sell. 

    This is a concept that I got together for my last assignment for intro to digital. I like the idea, but I have a hard time working with the computers at school. I'd much rather use my set up here, my computer is much better at running photoshop, and my tablet is more familiar to me. 

[racing bike concept]

    I figured I'd share it anyways, I may come back to it myself once I have some more time to work for myself over the month that is break. I have a lot of stuff to get done then as well.

-Cody

Yesterday's Tomorrow

    We've been focusing on perspective in out drawing class for the last couple weeks now and this time we were working on two-point perspective. So we weren't staring straight at everything this time, the objects we drew mostly receded into two different vanishing points.

    I was having trouble trying to figure our where the longer orthogonal lines should recede to as they were off of our page/outside of our picture plane, but I'll just keep an eye on it. I had started one in the student commons and realized I had spent too much time on something that ended up creating a problem. So the one I've got here is a little less developed than I'd have liked since it was a bit rushed.

[Cody's two-point perspective drawing]

    I also had Digital Imaging today, and I got some work done on my crustaceous themed environment concepts, but I forgot to save them as a file type that's compatible with my software at home, so I'll have to fix that tomorrow.

    I've got half of my costume done/repaired. So tomorrow I'll be half of the Master Chief. I'll get some good pictures finally if I can. Then I've got to finish him up for the 11th, when Halo: the Master Chief Collection comes out.

-Cody

[Allison's two-point perspective drawing]

    I've done this before, and it comes pretty easy to me, so I was happy with the results of my drawing. I feel better about this drawing class now because, I re-worked my homework assignment, and brought my grade up to a B+[on the homework].

    I am a terrible sewer... seamstress... Tomorrow is Halloween, and I'm trying to sew my own costume.

-Allison

"So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view." -ObiWan Kenobi

Crustaceous Environment Designs

    Yesterday I had Intro to Digital Imaging again, and I've been trying to use the time to my advantage. I had done a quick sort of environment painting study/exploration that would work well with the crab-guy designs in my last class. For this "assignment" I'm going to explore some environment paintings in the same theme/style.

[crustaceous environment work in progress 1]

[crustaceous environment work in progress 2]

    I'm going to keep working on developing them, we'll see where they go. I think I'll get at least 3 pieces done for the "critique" of these in two weeks.

-Cody

We've Already Been Introduced...

    So one of the classes I'm taking this semester is called "Introduction to Digital Imaging". Which in short is an intro to  the program Adobe Photoshop. Which in case you don't know for some reason is a photo manipulation program, that can and is used for so much more.

    So for our first three sessions we were pretty much "assigned" to work on whatever we wanted to using the tools we knew, and a few that our instructor taught us. So I worked on a few fun photobashes for them.

 [Cookin' With Pope]

[Shark Ship]

[Dino Warfare]

    We were pretty much given no assignment, and just expected to produce something by the end of the class/week. I was hoping for a little bit more instruction, but the more I go through school/college/life the more I realize that I'm just going to have to dig through the resources I have access to, and push myself.

    I'm getting to a point where I see all the other "kids" around me and see that they aren't dedicated or even sure what they want to do with their art. I do though, and I need to push myself harder if I expect to get anything done/get anywhere anytime quick after school.

-Cody

"That's dedication Holmes" -Bungie[among others]