Christmas Mood

Recently, due to a bout with my vision, I tried to draw everything that came to mind. I really didn't care if it looked good or came out horribly or feared that i would ruin a piece that was going fairly well, I just drew.
This piece I did because I found mystery gold ink in my art supply bin. It was fun actually. the gold would settle which left this flat sewage color but I'd just have to stop and shake it every so often. Gold in my mind is accompanied by silver in my mind (thanks 70s claymation/puppet Christmas movies) so I did shades of gray. Again, I drew anything that came to mind.
My friend told me it looked like a christmas card meant to depress. Maybe an insite into how I was feeling about my then failing vision?

30-45 minutes.
I used gold ink, black ink, microns, different nibs, sable brushes.. anything.

10 minute color experiment

Same as last time. Loud colors. Weird composition. Playing with colors and shapes. Only this time with a man. Care to enjoy.
Critiques always welcome.

20 minute exercise

I've been hanging around a professor of mine and trying to watch how he draws women. He likes to draw nasty women (his words, not mine) So I'm trying to combine my experiments from his class and how he draws...
Just playing with shapes and shading. Also colors. I think I'm getting better at drawing woman finally. yayy

School Projects

There's been two projects that have really been taking up a lot of time and a lot of effort; my portrait painting of one of my great friends Kyle and my illustrator piece which you've all seen the progress on up to this point.
The painting of Kyle that I'm doing is an acrylic black and white. First, we had to find a painting to reference, then take exact photo reference copying that original painting, sketch it, full render it on tracing paper, survive harsh critiques, redraw it all, photocopy it, gesso masonite, transfer our drawing to the board, cover it with layers of mat medium, paint black and white acrylic versions, and then we get to paint over it with oils. The whole thing sounds very tedious and very long but it was actually really interesting. Painting it was the hardest part since I'm not one for painting. Heres the black and white acrylic version.


Now is the possibly finished version of my illustrator piece. I'm not sure if I'll be able to work on it again.. but here's more or less what I'm probably handing in.



I'd love to hear critiques so feel free to comment.

Adobe Illustrator 3

Its that time again. Update on my Illustrator Project. Unfortunetly I realized that I won't be able to add all the details that I had planned so I started to rush today. I'm going to fingure out how I want to render things (I keep thinking of how to do it in Photoshop). Anyway, slightly more shading, fixed the guys ribs, added more to the boy.

Adobe Illustrator Piece II

So I made a little progress on my current Adobe Illustrator piece. I think I hit a few snags. A few.. mental.. snags. "Brain farts" as my friend calls them. Im up to the tedious work of the work and I've lost steam. My enthusiasm has dwindled.. I'm sure it'll come back once I work more into it.
A few changes from my original design. For one, my Professor asked if the scene was a mural on the boys wall. It's not. But the original wallpaper color scheme suggested as much. I'm hopefully solving this by changing the panels to warm colors and later I'll be adding a lit lamp to warm the whole situation a little.
I need to research waves too to make it not look like mountain caps..
Another snag I've hit is the boy. So I just threw him in. Ill define him later. Drawing children.... not my favorite thing to do...
Heres what I have so far:

HIgh Seas

School man. It's a killer. I was able to do ONE personal project admist all the chaos of school. But I like how it came out [its the first one post below].
My brother, a long time ago, asked me to draw him some art of clipper ships. So I tried. It started an obsession with rustic nautical things stemming from my father receiving an old sailboat and fixing it up for 2 or so years.
The second piece is work in progress for my Adobe Illustrator class. We have to illustrate a brochure with 4 panels. I chose to, instead of making 4 individual panels, make one long piece that is (hopefully) visually pleasing even if you look at each frame alone.
The steps will be posted every week! Keep checking! (Im really excited for this one)
Personal Project:


Adobe Illustrator Project: