The Jay and The Peacock: PART 1

Our new assignment in Children's Marketing Class is to do a double page spread illustrating a story, such as a nursery rhyme, fairy tale, or Aesop's fable.

So I chose to do an Aesop Fable, which are interesting, I've never taken much notice of them before. I chose The Jay and The Peacock. I like the moral, "it is not only fine feathers that make a fine bird."

So i began with collecting reference and then doing a character study, ending with a thumbnail. All of which is on the following paper.

DIGITAL PAINTING?! AHHHHHH!

So, I've owned Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since about last spring, maybe. CS4 version (yeah, didn't know that CS5 was on the way in a few months. Kind of miffed at that, cause there's no way I can afford to buy it again, since I was waiting a year just to buy Cs4. So I was up to date for a few months at least. sigh.)

Anyhoo, I've decided I should build up my digital skills, or I would build on them if I had any. :(

To get me started, I decided to buy a WACOM tablet. Since drawing with a stylus pen is easier than drawing with a mouse. So I took some of my birthday money (thanks grandpa Bowman) and bought a little one, a pretty basic, no bells and whistles kind. I got a Bamboo Pen, these two images are some of the things I've done so far with it. I've come to like doing the line in Illustrator then painting under it in Photoshop. But we'll see what works best, I have just begun my adventures in the world of Digital Painting . . . pray for me please. '~'

Have a PURR-FECT day!

sorry, i can't resist an oppurtunity for a "punny" pun.

alright, i'll stop for now . . .

Illustration Stuff

The first assignment in my Illustration Professional Practices class (I tend to refer to it as Ill. Practices ^_^) dealt with occupations. We were each assigned a different occupation in a somewhat random way (our teacher called on us and we chose a number 1-21 and were given the occupation assigned to the number we called). By the grace of God I chose number 18 and was assigned Animal Trainer. Even better, our teacher said our assignment was open to however we interpreted it. YAY!



So my idea was a little girl training an octopus, who happens to be balancing on a large ball, juggling, and spinning plates. I'm going to show you different stages of my painting process.





I like to sneak up on color when using watercolor (any media really), so I lay down light washes of color to see whether they're going to get along or not.










Now a little more color and a slight suggestion of value . . . oh, and a slight composition change. I put a crowd of kids in the bottom right corner. You probably didn't notice that, right?





Oh no! Now were starting to create depth! AH!

And now the FINAL!

Sorry, was that too big of a jump for you? Forgive me, I didn't take more pictures of the process. I always mean to, but I get caught up in the project and want to keep going. When I'm like that there's no time to stop for pictures (which isn't a bad thing, no sir!).

Before the end of this, I added a lot more color and value. Which was accomplished with some help of colored pencils.

Farewell for now! Thanks for visiting and have a GREAT week! ^_^

Another Watercolor

This year I'm in Advanced Watercolor, my third semester of taking watercolor. YAY! ^_^ Being in Advanced Watercolor, I'm allowed to decide what I paint. But the catch is it has to be fine arts like, so NO illustrations. Sad face. My teacher used to allow Illustration majors do illustrations, but he kept thinking they were doing homework in his class instead.
Anyways, I chose to do portraits of loved ones. So I decided to do a picture of my brother and niece. It's such a beautiful picture, I love it a LOT! So I thought I would paint it. ^_^
Of course it doesn't look exactly like the photo, but then if I wanted that I wouldn't of painted it I would have just enlarged the photo and left well enough alone. It was fun painting it and a little nerve-wracking. As I progressed and saw that all was well so far, I got nervous wondering if I'd mess it up. But I think it's pretty well done. What do you think?


Let me tell you, babies are HARD to draw. And HARD to paint. I think this is the second baby I've EVER tried to draw realistically. I can see the mistakes ...

Father & Daughter

watercolor, 2H pencil

September 21 & 23, 2010

It was really fun painting my brother's hair, and I couldn't help but giggle as I painted in my brother's chest hair. ^_^

Alright, have a GREAT weekend lovelies! ^_^

Humorous Il.

Adam West

watercolor, colored pencils

Fall 2010

This year at CCAD (also my LAST one), I'm taking the Humorous Illustration class. Our first assignment was to draw a caricature of a famous person. I chose Adam West, the best Batman EVER! I chose a middle aged picture of him to work from, not totally sure why.
Maybe because he has glasses in his older life and I'm a sucker for glasses on anyone. ^_^ Or maybe I wanted to make it seem like he's taking up his cape and cowl again for the greater good. Hmm, who knows? Don't you love how profound I am? ^_^

Portrait Drawing

graphite (F, 3B), 9-2-10

This past week was the LAST first week of school for me (hopefully)! I am now a senior (I still find it hard to believe my teachers passed me those previous years) at CCAD (Columbus College of Art and Design). Crazy, right?

Anyhoo, this little guy is the first portrait I've done in my Portrait class I'm taking this semester. I feel as if I should have taken that class last year, but my schedule was crazy as it was. Better late then never I guess. ^_^

I set myself up to do a profile view of the model, I feel that's my strength when it comes to the human head. I had fun drawing him, though the beard was different, I've never tried to draw a white beard before. The ear is messed up, the angles aren't quite right. But I LOVE his nose and eyes. ^_^ I wish I had time to finish it off, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Alright then, bye bye!

Commercial Figure Drawing

These drawings are a few that I have done for my Commercial Figure Drawing class, where models were dressed up in costumes so we could practice drawing folds in clothing and on

the props arranged about them.

Graphite Line Drawing, emphasis on folds

Graphite Drawing, Close up/Crop of Drawing

Graphite

Unfinished Charcoal


Charcoal

Charcoal

Pen and Ink, the man is actually my teacher because the model didn't show up that day.

Graphite Drawing, Crop of drawing