Moving to a New Blog

The bad news is: that I'm probably not going to be using this blog anymore(as you may have noticed that I have not posted anything in over a year.) But the good news is: that I've made a whole new blog! This one's for whatever random art I do for fun(so mostly character designs) and you can check it out here.

The Queen

I'm taking life drawing again this semester and Caitlin and Alison are both in my class. To make the homework more exciting we have decided to model for each other with costumes and props. The assignment was to draw a figure partially obscured in some sort of transparent drapery. Thanks to Alison for posing this week.22in x 30in, charcoal

Ariel

It was too much fun to stop doing Disney fanart. Drawing Ariel, however, was a lot harder than drawing Jasmine or Mulan. Her eyes are huge, but even harder to work with her pupils are also gigantic. The first couple times I did her eyes her ended up with this drugged out expression which was not what I was going for. Also I foolishly tried to give her first an yellow and then a pink backgound, but everyone knows Ariel MUST go with a blue background. Things went a lot smoother after that.

Still Life

More photoshop class stuff. I think I'll have a final image due every week for that class till the end of the semester. This week the assignment was to do a still life. I found it easier to work from life in photoshop than it was to do the previous illustration. There is no guess work in figuring out a color palette that works together when the answer is sitting right in fount of you.

White Witch Red Witch

Assignment from my photoshop class. The project was to do something vs. something, and it could be anything we wanted. Since I wanted to focus on process I decided to work with subject matter I was already familiar with: pretty girls in magic forest. I found that finishing a piece with an actual background in photoshop was a lot more difficult than the portraits I had done previously. I used a comibination of scanned watercolors for the background and digial painting for the figures. I'm not sure about the results, but I think that this technique had a lot of potential.

Digital Self Portrait

First assignment for Advanced Photoshop Techniques class. I actually did this piece before the Disney stuff. It was the first time I had ever tired to digital paint. I learned a lot doing it once I got past the "this looks terrible stage"(which took a while.) I should really do another one since I know it would go a lot easier the second time around.

Disney Fun

School's started again. But even more fun than doing homework is drawing Disney fan art. I drew Jasmine cause this week's prompt is Disney Princesses and made me want to do a whole bunch more fan art. So next I drew Mulan since she's awesome. Another exciting thing is that they're in photoshop which I've just started attempting to use for final images. For Mulan I sketched the whole image digitally for the first time. I like the result cause that makes it easier to paint on top of but I'm pretty slow at it. Must practice more.

Prince Ucay

Another piece from my Illustrated Book Project. This actually the first final image I got done. It's from the 2nd and 3rd pages of the book and would be a 2 page spread. This is also the first time the prince is pictured. The text would go on the left side between the tree roots. 12in x 18in, watercolor, gouache.

Also now it's winter break, so more updates after Christmas

Evil Witch

Piece from my illustrated book project. This is the first page where you see the witch Minga-Yang. Minga-Yang carries evil spells and potions on her back so that she can spread disease wherever she goes. 9.5in x 12in watercolor, gouache.

Prompt # 2

The second prompt. Inspiration is here. Watercolor, gouache 8.5in x 11in

The Monkey Prince and the Witch

Part of my big project for Illustrated Book. I'm doing a children's book based on the fairy tale from Philippines. The story is about a prince who can talk to animals and an evil witch who transforms him into a monkey. These are my first ideas for the designs for the prince and the witch. I also have a color piece that is very, nearly, almost done. So more to come soon.

Prompts, Again

So my friends and I have decided to do prompts again. This time we'll be posting them to a separate blog, which is here. This week's prompt was to go to lookbook and create an piece inspired by an image. 4in x 10in, watercolor, gouache.

The Third Floor Bedroom

So I have sort of been failing at posting regularly, but hopefully I will change that soon. This is my second assignment for Illustrated Book. I actually got this assignment a while ago, but I wanted to touch up a few things before posting. We each given a title and a caption of a stories from the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. Mine was the Third Floor Bedroom with the caption: it all began when someone left the window open. So I decided to go flying fish ship things. Watercolor, 8.5 x 14in

Hades and Persephone

Another piece from my Illustrative Print class. I'm finally getting around to taking pictures of my work from the end of last semester. This is my first attempt at a two color print. I had a lot of trouble with the registration and made a bunch of copies, most of them screwed up. I really like the look of multiple colors, but they are super annoying to print. The subject matter is the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone seen here in the underworld next to a pomegranate tree relief block print,12 x 18in.

Maleficent Monarchs Manufacturing Macaroons

First post of senior year! Now that I'm back in school I should be posting more regularly. This is my first assignment for my Illustrated Book. We had to come up with a 4 word phrase that used alteration to illustrate. 10.5 x13.5in, watercolor and gouache.

Wizarding Ware

For Lifestyles. We were each assigned an upcoming film and told to create an image of a femal model that draws inspiration from the movie. I got Harry Potter 6.The illustration is of that creepy Inferi-filled lake Harry and Dumbledore cross to get the Horcrux. The clothing is all from current designers. 9in x 12in, watercolor and gouache

Guns, Gloves, & Gems

This was an in class assignment for Lifestyles from a few weeks ago. We were given the words guns, gloves, and gems and told to draw something. In my picture: The space amazon, in her bejeweled bikini, rides her winged laser-lion(also the lion has a unicorn horn). 9 x 12in, pencil.

Feather Island

First assignment for Concepts II. It's an illustration of this place called Feather Island, where all the inhabitants are women and the upper class women have feathers instead of hair. Watercolor, gouache, 16.5 x 20in.

Wild Swans Again

Second go at the wild swans story for Illustrative Print. This time I used a bigger block and printed it using the press instead of by hand. The cutting got a lot easier the more I did it. Relief block print, 12 x 18in.

Museum Gala

First assignment for my Lifestyle class which is a fashion illustration course. The assignment was to choose a location and find existing designer clothes that draw inspiration from the place. I chose the Museum of Natural History and looked at Jean Paul Gaultier's couture collections for the past five years. Having the four illustrations due at the same time was a challenge, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Watercolor, ink, 8 x 13in