Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Product Illustration
The product illustration didn't really pan out for me. My original idea did not work as well as I had hoped it would, and I was working on it at the last minute. This is as far as I got after I removed most of what I had done.
I am going to be taking this general idea and illustration style and applying it with another idea I think will work much better. I will turn this in if I have to and hopefully I can just resubmit this new idea for a reevaluated grade.
Monday, October 24, 2011
MLK
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| I'm fairly happy with this illustration, and I think I'll clean it up a bit and add it into my portfolio on my website later. |
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| This second MLK I'm not really happy with, and it was pretty rushed. I might rework it later. |
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A sneak peek of what's to come.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Shoes
Let me just say that shoes do not tickle my fancy.
Feet and shoes have been, for some time, an area that I have devoted little to no practice in. I've been studying the human anatomy in order to memorize for some time now. Feet have never really interested me.
Drawing shoes, even from sight, is somewhat of a challenge for me. I don't really have the spatial knowledge to just guess how one works like I can do with a head or a body or a lot of other things since I haven't drawn them.
That is problem number 1.
The second problem is that I find it somewhat difficult to become inspired by something so mundane as my shoes. Some shoes are designed quite interestingly; there is clear thought in their choice of color and design. My shoes are simple slippers.
My task is to make them interesting when I myself do not find them interesting. The duty of an artist with subject matter like this is to make something interesting out of the mundane. I am having a hard time doing that for this project, because, for the first time in a while, the thing I am trying to prove to the world is interesting is something that I myself also finds boring.
C'est la vie.
Feet and shoes have been, for some time, an area that I have devoted little to no practice in. I've been studying the human anatomy in order to memorize for some time now. Feet have never really interested me.
Drawing shoes, even from sight, is somewhat of a challenge for me. I don't really have the spatial knowledge to just guess how one works like I can do with a head or a body or a lot of other things since I haven't drawn them.
That is problem number 1.
The second problem is that I find it somewhat difficult to become inspired by something so mundane as my shoes. Some shoes are designed quite interestingly; there is clear thought in their choice of color and design. My shoes are simple slippers.
My task is to make them interesting when I myself do not find them interesting. The duty of an artist with subject matter like this is to make something interesting out of the mundane. I am having a hard time doing that for this project, because, for the first time in a while, the thing I am trying to prove to the world is interesting is something that I myself also finds boring.
C'est la vie.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Line Working
So the line work stuff is coming. Coming along, working out nicely, whatever you want to call it.
Line work is something that I'm quite familiar with. Line work and me go way back. We're like practically soul-mates or something. So when we were tasked with a line work project, I practically squealed with excitement at the prospect of working in ye old lines.
So, my basic idea was to do this. In my first drawing, I have my face with solid shading. Solid shading is similar to cel-shading but not quite. They're often mixed with each other subtly or otherwise to create a dramatic effect in comics and and animated film. In this case, it creates an extremely graphic looking image.
My second drawing, which isn't finished (yet) will have hatching, or so I'm planning. Knowing how me and plans go, (we don't go way back, and I think planning hates me) I don't know if that's what the finished product will be or not. I guess we'll have to see!
I may post images later. Whatever floats my boat.
Line work is something that I'm quite familiar with. Line work and me go way back. We're like practically soul-mates or something. So when we were tasked with a line work project, I practically squealed with excitement at the prospect of working in ye old lines.
So, my basic idea was to do this. In my first drawing, I have my face with solid shading. Solid shading is similar to cel-shading but not quite. They're often mixed with each other subtly or otherwise to create a dramatic effect in comics and and animated film. In this case, it creates an extremely graphic looking image.
My second drawing, which isn't finished (yet) will have hatching, or so I'm planning. Knowing how me and plans go, (we don't go way back, and I think planning hates me) I don't know if that's what the finished product will be or not. I guess we'll have to see!
I may post images later. Whatever floats my boat.
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