Lady Turnarounds

Some turnarounds. The to lady's side view is all wrong (at least her head). I need to correct it.

Ladies Line Up

I'm in a collaborative class this term than merges students from the Fashion department with students from the Animation department. We animators were tasked with coming up with a few characters for the fashion students to use as inspiration. Here are my sketch ideas. I'll pick a couple and do turnarounds and full character descriptions for them.

A New Year, Some Big News!

Hey guys!

I Spent the Holidays with my family in Belize. It was beautiful there, but not very inspiring art-wise. I did, however, document this true event in comic form:

So... EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! =)

I also drew some dudes we met in Belize, a hut on the water, and a doodle for 2013 while we drank rum and waited for the fireworks to start.

School is back in swing, and I'm anxious to show you more work so be ready!

Oh Tenebaum...

I'm off to be with my family for the holidays. Here is a quick little doodle and a painting I did to celebrate the season.

Happy Holidays, y'all, however you get through these darkest and coldest days!!

Holidays Are Coming!

Here are some quick doodles of backgrounds I did on the bus.

 A couple of ladies...

 And here are some quick Holiday sketches.

Holidays and Such

Here are some sketches from the last few weeks. I've got a bunch scanned, so I'll be uploading them a little at a time.

The class I did in-class tutoring for this past term had to take a vehicle design and come up with 3 solid design variations on the original. I tried my hand at it while everyone got started.

Here are some sheep I drew while fighting off an anxiety attack.

Preliminary sketch for a t-shirt.

Goblin sharks are best. They are champion huggers.

IKEA Dress Me Up Challenge

Hey guys!

I participated last month in a scholarship challenge sponsored by Ikea. I submitted a concept sketch to a panel of judges depicting how I would decorate or "dress up" a standard Ikea Tarva dresser, and was one of 11 finalists chosen to actually bring the design to life.

This was my design idea.

We were then given a box of wood and supplies that, when following the instructors, eventually turned out to be a dresser.

 

Then I had to get my supplies. The paint place only had a blueish stain, no lavendar, so I ended up having to alter a bunch of colors to achieve the harmony I wanted. My original design was very royal blue, and my final one took a more traditional teal approach.

Here's the blue stain process.

And then I blocked in the colors. I was using teal, turquoise, royal purple and metallic gold.

And finally, the finishing details!

I'd say the whole thing took about 32 hours. I've never done anything like this before, and was SO impressed with what many of the other students did that my mind was blown on several occasions! This was a big group of super talented people!

The dressers are on display at our school gallery until the end of January, then will be on display through February at IKEA. At the end of the February, they'll be auctioned off to benefit the World Forestry Center.

Whew! (And yeah, I realize I totally lost a neck in there. I keep kicking myself over that.)

Here's a brief article on the design challenger winner!! http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2012/12/interior_design_news_art_insti.html