Cats n' Birds

Updates: I Swear I'm Not Dead

Howdy! So... we're halfway through the second semester of freshman year, and I figure I should update to inform all that yes, I am still alive. I've been busy with class, piles and piles of homework, and (cough) leagueoflegends. Priorities, priorities. Here's some of my (from a personal opinion, better) work from this semester.

A big focus is moving towards stories and narratives, and working with characters. For example, in figure drawing, we've been exaggerating models' poses and giving them stories, new clothes, expressions, props, etc.

Working with developing characters in Figure Drawing II:

A project in which we started out with a 15-minute pose, and then changed it to give it a story.

Check out the transition from the original pose (on the far left) to the final project.

Working with drawing different expressions.

We're actually developing characters in 3D Design and Traditional Animation for use in further projects. Check it out!

For 3D class I'm going to make a sculpture and environment for one of my favorite characters, Swampy.

Gus the Skunk!

For Traditional Animation, we were given a random animal to design and animate in a character jump. I ended up with Gus the skunk, an easily-frustrated loner who enjoys solitude, napping, competitive curling, and scaring away small annoying mammals. He's not afraid to speak his opinion, or gas those who don't agree with him. I'm looking forward to animating him :)

 Stay 'tuned- I've got much more coming up!

Ringling figure drawings & Illest of Ill sketches!

Here's a few figure drawings I managed to take pictures of. Each of these are 40 minutes.

Last Friday we went to the Illest of Ill opening night. It was an amazing opportunity to look at the work of upperclassmen and meet new people. Casmer wanted our class to get a few cafe drawings in so here's the results.

Yes, the event was 20's themed.

I apologize for the bad quality of the pictures-- I just wanted to get something posted!

Last Semester of Figure Drawing *SOB*

Goodbye, Visual Arts Conservatory!

15 minutes?

5 minutes- I love this one, I only wish I had more time to work on the face.

10 minutes- good shading; near-invisible chair.

10 minutes- this is a good example of something I ran out of time on but was shaping up to be pretty good.

15 minute portrait- I love her expression so much.

20 minutes- Two different colors. Gasp.

Trying out new techniques in shading.

Kind of reminds me of Pocahontas.

Drawn with the flat side of a conte crayon.

Drawn with charcoal pencil

Toned paper with chalk and conte crayon.

All conte crayon

15-20 minute portrait- conte crayon

Well, this is a lot of my better work from this semester of Advanced Figure Drawing. I'm quite pleased with the results. This year I tried a lot of different techniques and mediums, trying out conte crayon, chalk, charcoal, and pencil, and really felt more secure in fast drawing and both traditional and experimental techniques.

Also, I got an award at my school for Figure Drawing! I am so thankful to Mr. Blackwell, my teacher, for selecting me for the award. I'm gonna miss all my talented peers and the art classes in high school- can't wait for college though!