Sculpture sketches

New entry in non-pear related art... some sketches I did in preparation for my next sculpture project, a wood relief sculpture...

Portrait studies - Facial Features

Photography I Final - Opposites.

For My photography final, we were assigned a project designed around the idea of opposites.  I decided to create a children's book and explore the possibilities of photographic illustration to bring two opposite worlds together.  

Black and White photography, color added with copic markers, enhanced further with a sharpie.  

Tonight's the big night, no telling what I’ll see

My friends having a sleepover, and the invited me! 

Some call it crazy, I call it fun,

An adventure for sure, Come on lets run!

Got into the car, and what do I see?

Our driver has feathers, I wanted to flee! 

I buckled up, got ready to go, 

Thought to myself this could be quite a show.

Into the house, to start a perfect night,

We were greeted by people of a miniature height.

Some out of this world, others ready to set sail,

Wherever they’re from they’ll tell quite  tale.

First on the list, seems harmless enough,

A friendly game of cards, this shouldn’t be tough.

In walks the dealer, seems fishy to begin,

Has his poker face on, “Antie up! Whose in?”

Then down to the basement, time for a show,

Oh look an open seat, there, in the front row! 

An interesting character, in the next seat,

His hair, thick, white and matted, he’s really quite neat. 

Down from the kitchen came quite a smell,

What’ cooking for dinner? I can’t quite tell.

Up the stairs we ran, He’s makin’ bacon I think!

Holy cow! Oh man, do I need a drink!

With dinner now ready, we circled around,

The foods on the table, with lots to be found. 

To our chagrin, a baboon took a seat,

Locked onto his food, and ate with his feet.

Dinner now over, I can’t believe what I’ve seen

Into the bathroom to try to get clean.

Rounded the corner, looked into the tub,

A Gator! A Shark! A Rub-a-dub-dub!

I’ll pass on the bath, I’ve seen the strangest now,

If it gets any weirder I’ll throw in the towel.

As I was brushing my teeth, I was tickled pink,

By who… or what was sharing the sink! 

It’s been quite a night, this group is quite unique,

I’d like to come back, sometime next week?

As I lay down to sleep, I started to see

That they are not that incredibly different from me.

They play games, they bathe, drink and eat,

The memories of this day will always be sweet! 

enjoy!

Floating Heads

Sketches

Two more quick sketches of random faces from the Drawing Board...

Coeur Brise

I have a piece in a show tonight, Couer Brise - The Anti Valentine's Day art show @ Eyedrum in Atlanta.  Should be a fun time maybe? Come check it out if interested! 

February 14th, 2009

8:00pm - 11:00pm

Eyedrum

290 MLK Jr. Drive Suite 8,

Atlanta, Ga 30312

More Drawing Board Folk

More sketchbook sketches

A high school friend..

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and another drawing board face

Inauguration 2009

Out with the old...

And in with the new...

More quick Sketches

Couple more drawing board folks.  I've been working on watercolor swatches for my painting class,  they can be quite monotonous so I do these in-between for a change of pace.  Real quick, especially the second one...

Quick Sketch

Also, look below at my previous House post for an updated, more accurate version.

Copic Sketching.

Alright, while it's possible to create fully rendered drawings using these markers, I think their strong suit is to do quick gestural value/color sketches.  Heres one I did in that manner, once again I think that the likeness could be stronger, but I'll work on another later probably.  For now, this is what I have. 

Last Month in Review

For the past month or so I have really been pushing myself, and set a personal goal to post something up on this blog everyday for the month of December.  Well, December is over, goal was met, and now I want to share what I learned.

Copic Markers are GREAT!  They can do so much in so little time.  They allow the user to be intuitive, throw colors and values into a sketch, and if it doesn't work, they are forgiving because they can also be "erased" using the colorless blender (0).  

Copic Markers are at best sketch markers, good for quickly conveying a basic idea, but inadequate for the completion of a full on illustration. 

Although Copic Markers have a wide variety of colors, their options for creating a "believable" skin tone are limited.  Sometimes it works, but most times it doesn't.  The colors are very saturated and at times can overpower the work you have already done.  

But I have also noticed that they act a lot like watercolors, in that they are a translucent brush tipped marker.  What I have learned using them will more than likely translate into my work in my upcoming watercolor class next semester.  I am extremely excited to be jumping into watercolors next semester. 

I started off the month looking for an "illustrative style." Hoping that I could find something that was quick, easy, and appealing.  I didn't find it.  Although I am significantly closer than I was at the beginning of the month.  

With all that said, here is my last effort for the time being in this particular "style." I started this one off with a quick sketch with a non-photo blue col-erase pencil, and jumped right in with the copic cool grey set.  Because of that, I am not completely sold on the likeness,  but I like the overall effect of this method.  Let me know what you think

This ends the daily posts on my blog, although I will be sketching much more in the year 2009, and sharing them here, it is a lot of work to put new work up on a daily basis, and with school starting in a week, and life starting to pick up again, it is not within my capabilities anymore.  Thanks to all those who have offered their advice and input on my sketches. It was all greatly appreciate! 

Thanks! 

Ringing in 2009...

...With a real loose copic sketch.  I decided that I didn't want to take this one further, because I liked how it seemed to be emerging from the page, and wanted to retain that, but didn't think it would be kept in a tighter more refined sketch...

Last post of 2008...

This one was a lot of fun for me, and I feel like I got pretty close to my initial goal of what I wanted to accomplish with this drawing, to get a somewhat painted look with the markers.  I don't mean that in the sense of the strokes used, because that would take FOREVER!  But I mean that more in how I build up form, and use color and what not...

Hope you all had a great 2008, and that 2009 treats you even better! 

In color...

I think this one looks creeepy... and I'm not sure if I enjoy that look, because it really wasn't what it was going for.  I was going more for the intense look he usually has, but this is what came out.  I think the grey scale drawing does him more justice.... but I did enjoy the treatment of colors on this one.

Plus, does anyone know what I am doing in photoshop to get this color negative look when I upload picture online?  This is a new problem for me, I experienced it with my "lot of chin" post, and never before that....  The JPEG image looks normal on my computer BEFORE I upload, and kinda cool like this after... I fixed it by saving it as a GIF image, and presto! no color negative... 

House Head

I really want to do a decent drawing of this guy, so I decided that instead of going straight for the exaggeration this time, I would focus more on nailing the feature of his very unique face.  It's not a portrait because I feel I focused on bringing out his subtleties, but the exaggerations are definitely toned down.  I have a color study currently in the works, and will be sharing that with you guys hopefully tomorrow... 

A lot of chin.

Watched Get Smart the other day and this guy has a VERY unique face!  I just had to draw it, but I wish I had sketched him out during the movie because I couldn't find a picture of him that had the look I was going for.  I'm not completely satisfied with the way I handled the chin, and I let the vehicle get a little out of control in some areas...  But it is what it is! 

Stupid Grin.

Yet another Christmas post.

This was done as a Christmas gift for my brother because he threatened to kill me if I didn't draw him... So I drew him.  I wish I could lighten up some of the reds I used (not all of them)  and I wish that it felt more of the same style of my self caricature.  But Alas... This one was done on official copic paper, bleed-proof! and VERY different from what I'm used to...  The ink kind of just sits on the surfaces of the paper, never soaking in, and is very susceptible to blending...  Sometimes good sometimes bad.  I don't know if I prefer it to your standard (cheaper) paper, but figured I owed it to myself to try it out... Plus to gift this I would have had to rip it out of my sketchbook if I had done it on the same paper... not something I am fond of doing...

Oh, and Nicholas... if you are reading, every line, color, shade, hue, exaggeration were completely and utterly intentional...  In no way was this just me experimenting with new paper...