My colored pencil final.. COMPLETE!! Took roughly about 30 hours this past week. All tonal and burnishing. The actual size is about 10"x16"._WEB2.jpg)
My midterm assignment, done in charcoal and using dramatic lighting on 18"x24" drawing paper. :)
Sandwich illustration using gradations and burnishing with colored pencil and blenders.
First experiment with art stix!
I actually created a logo that I like within an hour.. when I usually struggle for a few days with the whole logo creative process thing.. Yay!
My second project for my summer watercolor class. The assignment was to choose 3-4 colors and create an abstract painting using glazing and some of the methods learned in class. I used tipping, splattering, tape masking, and liquid masking. This is not my usual style, but I do enjoy the way the tree turned out and the colors that I chose.
Here she is... the terror that has taken over my house. :)
Here it is! A few days late, but with this sickness I've been poisoned with and just my crazy month of April, I've still finished it! I've chosen to create a poster for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. I've created everything in Painter with the watercolor brushes except for the type, which was done in Illustrator.
Here is my first draft for scene 1 of "The Mystery Marshmallow Toaster."
Apparently my other logo was just "not me," soooo.... here's my newest creation. :) What do you think?
Can anyone give me some input on this? It's not as simple as I had originally planned, but I like the shape of it and the way the letters bleed off. The first one seemed a little boring to me so I added a few different elements to see how it would look. I like how the "pea" (yes, that green circle is supposed to be a pea) is coming off the "S" and bouncing in the 4th one, but I'm afraid it might be too busy. I have a clutter tendency. :) Also, I can't decide if I like the lines defining the "P" and the "N" on the outside or not so I added one on the bottom that doesn't have those little defining lines.
backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out
Here is my slightly revised "George." I've changed the trunk and took away some of the highlights on the trunk and lip. I also added some pink to the pipe and some bubbles coming out of the pipe. I was trying to add some pink or purple to the elephant but it wasn't working well with my texture. Perhaps in the future I will try to add more color when I have more time to add it in so it looks good with the texture.
My spot illustration for "an elephant, pipe, and fez hat."
my punked out version :)
I used the pictures above to create this...... (set on a purple background, that's not part of the final project)
"today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you, by now you shoulda somehow realized what you gotta do"
After our class critique, I've added slightly more texture to the hands and an all-over texture to the whole piece. Overall I am happy with it, and I am happy to have learned another painting technique.
So this is what it feels like to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling......
Here's the original!
She might just be plain lazy.. but those are not plain ears! She's always listening..Hooray! My first Illustration Friday artwork. And just in the nick of time! Phew! This was painted in Corel, and the only brush I used was the captured bristle acrylic brush. I used the fine detail blender for some of the ends of the hair, and the smear blender for the pillow and ball. I wanted to do the entire piece without using a blender but I was running very low on time and this was taking far longer than expected.. Maybe in the future I will try to finish it without blending it.
This is something I finished for my design studio class today. We were just supposed to make a visual biography of ourselves with a couple pieces of work that we've done. For the background, I decided to go with a tree picture I took last winter. I took out the telephone wires and houses and changed the color from blue to this orange and green color scheme. The tree represents myself and my journey to where I am today. The tree also branches off in different directions representing the different sides of graphic design and myself. The other pieces of art are my alphabet I designed, my country music concert poster, my Cooper Black typeface poster, and a logo that I created for my dad (B2P). I also have my logo on the bottom next to the blurb that says:
Hello! This is my first blog for my first class in digital painting. This is also the first time actually using Corel Painter to paint something on the computer, more specifically, an apple from memory. It's been a bit of a struggle to figure out where everything is in this program (and I still know practically nothing about Corel or my Wacom tablet) but hey, I'll eventually figure it out. :) I would also like to add the disclaimer that I did not have enough time in class to work on this to get it to where I am pleased with it, so this is my unfinished version... with more editing to come!
