Sunday, October 31, 2010
Dead Brain Cells
Another page of warm-ups done before work. Struggled this morning, couldn't get much on the paper. Blah.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Color Study and some other things
This is me figuring out values and colors for the Jack and the Beanstalk painting. It's still not right... I might make Jacke/the rat yellow instead of red, and the stalk a little less saturated.
And here is Poison Ivy painted in green because I was trying to figure out the green I wanted to use and she was a good test subject.
And finally, some doodles. Hooray doodles! Some of these are going to be bigger projects, I'm just scoping out the feel for them.
LOOOVE IS IN THE AIIIIIIRR. Also, I made friends with a bee.
And here is Poison Ivy painted in green because I was trying to figure out the green I wanted to use and she was a good test subject.
And finally, some doodles. Hooray doodles! Some of these are going to be bigger projects, I'm just scoping out the feel for them.
LOOOVE IS IN THE AIIIIIIRR. Also, I made friends with a bee.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Smoking Frog in Technicolor
Ok the technicolor bit is a lie.
So these new watercolors are lovely in that they are so vibrant and bright. But I am experimenting with ways to knock their intensity down since the vibrancies all start battling each other for attention in a piece. Even when I mix a grey, it's a very intense grey. So I'm adding little bits of gouache to them to try to fade them out a bit. It seems to be working ok so far.
Ruined two color studies just playing round with it for my final Jack and the Beanstalk illustration. Going to do a few more tonight hopefully with better results!
So these new watercolors are lovely in that they are so vibrant and bright. But I am experimenting with ways to knock their intensity down since the vibrancies all start battling each other for attention in a piece. Even when I mix a grey, it's a very intense grey. So I'm adding little bits of gouache to them to try to fade them out a bit. It seems to be working ok so far.
Ruined two color studies just playing round with it for my final Jack and the Beanstalk illustration. Going to do a few more tonight hopefully with better results!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Vegetarians are Sexy
One day I'll have the guts to be Ivy for Halloween.
Anyways, just doodling last night, going to watercolor this at some point. The pose needs to be more dynamic... meh.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Kitty Love and a Smoking Toad
Couple of thingies I doodled in class. Will bring them to a more finished state tonight if I have time. Cat love might become a sticker or card.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Jack and the Beanstalk
This is a homework exercise about finding the moment to illustrate in a story. We had to pick a section of text from a story given to us ( Jack and the Beanstalk) and illustrate the before, during and after moments. I couldn't decide which one to do, and because more practice is always good, I chose to do two of them.
I was having trouble getting the emotions and sightly threatening feel of the story in while keeping Jack completely oblivious (Jack was always sort of a jerk idiot in my head), so I added in his rat friend who has much more common sense and is more aware of things than Jack is to help out.
We will choose one in class today to bring to a finished product.
I was having trouble getting the emotions and sightly threatening feel of the story in while keeping Jack completely oblivious (Jack was always sort of a jerk idiot in my head), so I added in his rat friend who has much more common sense and is more aware of things than Jack is to help out.
We will choose one in class today to bring to a finished product.
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