Still Alive, Just on Break

Well, my break is just ending in a couple days, but here are a few things I managed to make while not stuffing my face with home-cooked meals and staring at the computer screen...

Advanced Drawing Final

My Advanced Drawing final was supposed to be a series of paintings, made into a book, but at the end instead of a book I made a comic page...whoops. All the paintings are based off of a jumble of WWII reference images of American planes, mechanics, and factory workers. Anyway, here's what I made:

New Layout

So, you may have noticed I switched up the layout to the "dynamic" style template blogger encourages users to try out. It gives you the option to view a lot of posts at once, try it out! Just click the different format options at the top bar to mix things up. I'm not sure if I'll be keeping this format, so let me know if you have any strong positive/negative feelings about it!

Conceptor Four!

Agh! I made another page with time to spare! It's only 1:30am and I'm done with comics homework, what's going on?!  Things get a little interesting on this page. I haven't really had to paint/draw a dense forest scene ever, so the whole rainforest thing was pretty difficult to figure out. More conceptor will hopefully follow in the near future...

Also, a big thanks to Moebius and the Hoh rainforest for this page. And as previously, the maximized version is desaturated for some reason (thus the smaller preview size so you can see the real colours. sorry!)

Conceptor Page One Redo

Sorry for the duplicate posting of this. I've been having some technical problems with image quality so I needed to experiment a little and had to delete the last post to do so. For some reason, when the image reaches a certain size, it loses a lot of the color quality and appears desaturated. Ugh. This is a reworked version of the first page of conceptor, this time in watercolor.

Conceptor Page Three

The saga continues. I feel like I'm starting to get a handle on the materials a little more now, but still some spots are pretty thick with paint. For my comics final, I'm going to redo page one in the watercolors and (hopefully) add a page four if I have time.

P.S. by the way, if you want to see the REALLY BIG version of any of these images or you just can't read the text when it's so small, you gotta right click the image and "open link in new window/tab" instead of left clicking to view it in a slideshow. Besides letting you see all the tiny details, I think it also just lets you see the colours better (or maybe that's just a placebo effect). But don't trust me, try it yourself!

More Machine-People

Here's a couple more bits of my advanced drawing final project. The first one is the most recent piece (and perhaps my favourite so far), and the second is one of the earliest experiments I made for the project. You can see I deviated pretty far from my initial vision. This is mostly due to A) reading too much moebius B) switching from bristol to watercolour paper C) figuring out how my new paint set works, sort of.

Both are about 7"x8".

Shirt Design

I just finished up a shirt design for the Knowledge Bowl team of my dear alma mater, West Sound Academy. The zombie thing was their idea, I swear! I hope the team likes it and I'll be psyched to see how it prints in a couple of weeks.