A Yeti and a Raccoon Get Posted Onto a Blog...

The racoon was more of a warm-up than an actual contestant, but he's kind of cute. Snowball fights are serious business. I need to come up with a better pose for the Yeti.

I'm thinking of doing a whole series with the pandas from yesterday.

Panda Family Time

First design of 8 on the list of possible greeting cards.

Fun with the Figure

We did some figure drawing in class today. I whipped out my watercolor pencils. I started out just messing with shape a bit and it took me a while to warm up. The first batch is pretty bad.

Always good practice!!

Just a little thing

Got in the mood to illustrate a few basic fairy tale scenes. I tried to watercolor the beauty and the beast on at 1am, and ruined it completely. Trying again tonight.

I am trying to work on my penmanship so I can stop coming across as a 7-year-old serial killer in my hand lettering. More of my works will include text so I can practice that.


Of course, I wrote "Cindella" instead of "cinderella". Obviously I was so busy working on my letteirng I failed to notice everything else. Hooray for 2am spelling failures.

Snake Lady and a Hasty Comic

Here is a doodle from yesterday that turned into a little watercolor warm-up.

And a hastily sketched and colored comic about crosswalks.

 

Not making fun of Koreans- I seriously heard a Korean tourist say to another "No no no we not walk during hand!!" . I just loved it.

Adding the Narrative round 2 (ding!)

Here is my second attempt at this homework for the Childrens book illustration class. I had a chance late last night and this morning to see what other people did and now I'm much more inspired (man I love school!!!). I will probably do more of these this week on top of whatever else my homework is. I obviously need to work on adding a narrative to my work.

Sunday Cyclops

So I painted that little cycops doodle and am not terribly pleased with how it came out. it think i overworked it. The thing about watercolor is it's supposed to look effortless, and I'm still dabbing and rubbing and scrubbing at it like Acrylic or oil. Blaaah.

Anyways, I'm working on this assignment for the childrens book illustration class, and struggling. The assignment s to take a very normal scene or character, then add an element to it that makes it abnormal, or throws the viewer off, or adds an element of storytelling or danger. This is what I did yesterday and I think I'll try a different scene today, see if I can come up with something less terrible.

I'm working on another one that has to do with a swing set. Hopefully it will be less lame!