Burnaway Illustration

An illustration that I did for Burnaway's annual fundraiser. 

Based on installations and events held during the fundraiser. 

High Fructose Corn Syrup

21.5" x 11.5"

Watercolor on board

Raised by Wolves

15" x 15"

Watercolor on Board

This piece is part of the Spirit Animal show at MINT Gallery in Atlanta

Opening is this Saturday March 12th.

Come out and support the arts!

35 Faces

35 Acrylic Ink and Gouache Sketches. Approximately 3" x 5" in size each.

A little taste of what to come...

Here are some sketches of things that I am working on for my final bookmaking project! More to come for sure!

"Stained Glass"

Well the work load for this semester is starting to pick up, and I'm having less and less time to sketch for "fun" and that time is being taken up by other smaller projects.   Here is our first "conceptual" project for watercolor. Assignment was to do a stained glass window painting.  Main purpose was to practice washes and keeping the pigments from bleeding over into other lakes of pigments. 

I thought this would be funny considering the pedestal a lot of people place him on...

Ink Washing.

Well, after today my winter break is officially over, and here is my latest effort.  I know I said like a week ago the daily posts would stop, and well, they haven't they've just gone in a different direction... less "polished"  That happened for two reasons:

1) less time at my desk drawing.

2) a need for sketching rather than completing "finished" drawings.

With classes starting Thursday, now I will DEFINITELY have less time to draw.

But... good news!  I am taking 4 studio classes so I will have lots of "academic" art to share... 

Honestly, I am not completely satisfied with how this came out.  I was going for a stronger graphic look but this is what happened.  

Let me know what you think! 

**EDIT**

The above image is a better representation of the original.  

Self Portrait

For our final project in Drawing I, we had to do a self portrait, you know those "serious ones" I started three, and only finished one. The first two are drawings that I put about an hour into, size 24" x 36" and the last one is the one I came closer to finishing, but I would still make changes on it if I could.

The assignment was "you in your environment" So I figured I would just set up a couple mirrors on my drawing table, and draw what I saw, but I didn't like that once I got started...

I then decided I just wanted to draw myself, and my environment would be my background, but then decided that my proportions wouldn't be correct on this particular drawing, even though I think I came pretty close...
Then after two attempts in charcoal, I got bored kinda, and moved onto ink. If we chose to do it in ink, we had to use cross contour. You can see it if you look for them, and thats how I wanted it. Not perfect, but it will do... I hope.

Working with the Figure

Well, some might be wondering what I've been up to for the past few weeks without a post, and here it is, for the most part. These figure drawings were completed in class (Drawing I), and all were done with a purpose to demonstrate some aspect of drawing. Hopefully I've successfully demonstrated whatever it was I was being asked to demonstrate...??

Contour (Charcoal)

Proportion and Scale (Charcoal)

Representing the Figure in relation to its Environment (Charcoal)

This assignment was simply the figure on buff paper, but I assigned myself to think of it as how the light is affecting the figure, so I paid a lot of (general) attention to lighting (Charcoal)

Contour and Cross Contour (Pen and Ink)

Contour and Cross Contour (Pen and Ink)

This is all in class stuff, outside of class has also been crazy. I've been working on two final projects, one being a self portrait (as soon as that's finished you will see it up here) and the other a poster to illustrate a social problem. I had fun with the latter, and will also post that in the coming week or so. Both are in the final stages, and have consumed most of my free time for the past two weeks or so.

So please, I know I have a long way to go, but let me know what you think of these figure drawings. They are quite boring, but we're working on the fundamentals. This post if very much a part of the learning process. Thanks!