Thursday, May 28, 2015

Brush pen drawings

A. Brush pen drawings

B. Brush pen and sometimes watercolor

C. Brush pen figure drawings, sometimes filled in with water color

D. New media, more figure drawings, picked brush pen because it is a loose form that goes against my usual methodical style.

E. Each was rather quick, 10 - 20 minutes.

F. A, they turned out pretty well overall.













Pen drawings

A. Pen drawings

B. Pen

C. A large number of various pen drawings

D. Exploring the medium and translating movement and life.

F. Probably about a month's worth of sketches (not the only sketching done in the month)

E. A, lots of varied and detailed sketch work to study life and how the media works






Water color figure sketches


A. A series of water color figure sketches

B. Watercolors

C. A series of relatively quick figure drawings done in water color

D. New media, focus on life drawing.

E. Each probably ranged between 20-40 minutes

F. A, successful exploration of new media.



Life drawing


A. Life drawing

B. Charcoal

C. Large drawing of a live model in charcoal, faded.

D. Life drawing is an important skill to learn for animation and is heavily emphasized in many applications.

E. About 40 minutes.

F. B+, good start, not great and needs a bak

Pen landscape

A. Pen landscape

B. Pen

C. Incomplete landscape in pen. I wanted to do a non-reference landscape with a focus on textures, in retrospect I might have better spent this time finishing my mushroom landscape, but I forgot about it.

D. Working on strengthening important skills I'm going to need to have in order to get into Calarts. (working without reference)

E. At least 5 class periods in.

F. B, potential, but incomplete.

Gray tone portrait



A. Gray tone portrait

B. Black and white charcoal on gray toned paper

C. A portrait of a man

D. Exploring new media and techniques

E. One class period

F. A, successful exploration of a new art style.

Landscape 3

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A. Landscape 3

B. Pen

C. Mushroom forest with hills in background, incomplete.

D. Wacky landscape

E. Must be at least 8 class periods into this one.

D. B, good potential, will eventually be completed, got distracted from it.