Academics- Intermediate Illustration

Assignments from my Illustration Class. I learned much from this semester and developed my knowledge of color more, though I still need further progression. My painting skills grew immensely and I learned how to "render," where you basically copy everything tonally to the core.

Music Video

A music video shot over night. It's pretty awesome. It should be on facebook.

Slumber

I sketched over the weekend during all-nighters with the crew. It was really fun hanging out late into the night. The most random things get said. I also watched a documentary of David Choe, Dirty Hands, which you all should get a chance to see.

Winter Sketchdump I

Here's my "sketchdump" for the winter sketchbook prior to getting our feet wet in the Animation/Illustration program. The sketchbook has been a very experimental and opened many doors to how I think about my approach. I'm currently obliterating pages I previously disliked and working on top of them with something new.

Here's a portion of the Chuck Jones documentary: Extremes and Inbetweens, a life in animation. It was a very educational watch and incredibly nostalgic. Check it out and the rest other 9 parts are on youtube.com.

Conspiracy Theories

Conspired on illuminati paper

Mass Grave Reversal

Here's that reversal project. I finally got a good pic, shooting for the portfolio (sorry Kristina). It's not done and there are alot of tiny shapes everywhere. I also can't bring out the white as much. I was actually about to use white chalk but it started to get really repetitive and boring. This was my first real understanding of tones.

Obligated To Post

I just wanted to add my friends Clam and Jeff to my list on the side and I always feel obligated to post everytime I update but I couldn't find anything new so here's an old figure drawing from a year and a half ago. I wish I knew what I learned in the classes I have taken since then because I didn't know squat about shadows and most of my drawings tended to be in high key. Fortunately, this was one of the ones that were suppose to be drawn in high key. Back then I always focused on certain areas that I reacted to the most. In this case it was the the hand and arms. I took the face a challenge because it's always been difficult for me to draw heads that aren't right side up.

I just got done with a rendering project and I remembered this quote my friend Dan showed me by Paul Madonna. After a couple of all-nighters, this quote epitomizes how I feel at the moment.

I've had trouble knowing when I've done enough in a day, unless I've worked myself to exhaustion./
What bothers me the most is that I try to measure accomplishment against time./
It feels cliche, but I wonder,/
Would I criticize a tree for how often it blooms?/

Here is the link to the artwork that accompanies the words.