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.

Landscape 2

[Yup, picture]

A. Landscape 2

B. Graphite

C. A non-reference landscape featuring a mountain-tortoise, an octopus, and more fog.

D. A wacky landscape.

E. 2 - 3 class periods

F. A, good work, does what it says.

Landscape 1

[picture here when I get to school]

A. Landscape 1

B. Graphite

C. A landscape from reference with giant whales in the sky and a shark below in a fog bank in the valley.

D. A wacky landscape.

E. 2 - 3 class periods

F. A, its good and does what it says.

Part 1

     My original project proposal was to do a series of 11 landscape drawings featuring strange animals or other weirdness. I ended up getting quickly bored with this and moved on to focus on figure drawings pending my upcoming application to Calarts. I do not regret the change and believe that I have made a fair amount of progress in my time. By focusing on building skills that were pertinent to what I wanted to do, I used my time in class much more efficiently.

Piano

A piano. Pencil and marker still life, not as good as first though, also it didn't photograph well.

Still Life 3

A life that doesn't move. Getting better, still pencil and slightly wonky perspective, but not bad.

Still Life 2

A stick. Charcoal and love, the last of the main series of basic still lifes, pretty darn good.

Water line

River drawn with marker in lines.

Still life 1

A piece of life that is still. First attempt, mediocre.

Self-portrait

My inner being. Mechanical pencil and soul. Not bad, fairly quick but.

Hands

Various hand poses in various styles. Uses brush marker, graphite pencil, charcoal pencil, and marker and colored pencil. Looks good and shows a variety of artistic ability.

Antlers

Antlers done with markers and colored pencil. Looks good, my first full experiment with markers and colored pencil.

Fabric

A piece of fabric in charcoal. Took a few hours and turned out rather well, +1.

Line Drawing

Still life in line.  Done without rulers or ellipses using markers, did pretty well, would recommend.

Dog Portrait

Mechanical pencil portrait of my grandma's dead dog. About 2 or 3 hours of work produced a fairly nice product, not bad.

Adobe Illustrator Work

Work done for various projects in Adobe Illusrator. Here they are sized down a fair bit but the full versions took a fair amount of time with reasonable detail, pretty good work.

Pointegranate

pointilist pomegranate, took many hours over many days in an epic artistic journey that produced an epic piece of art, 10/10.

Asleep in Class

Drawn with marker touchups and background done in Photoshop. Fun one point perspective study. The piece turned out rather well and took a reasonable amount of time.