Thesis

Character designs pour Thesis: Genghis Khan, Rasputin, and Florence Nightingale.

Midterm crits went... well, I guess. I don't know. People seemed to be OK with it. I think doing the individual pin-up poses will help flesh out their personalities even more. Probably going to do those in a more "Asian" coloring style since I had imagined the target audience to be more into BlazBlue than Mortal Kombat.

I am exhausted. I should quite bitching and moaning. Thank god for spring break.

XI -力-

M. Kitchen Dry homework: tarot card in color pencil. It was kind of nice coloring something the traditional way, although I would have preferred to color this in watercolor instead.

Fur

Thesis part deux.

alice

Thesis part one. Six more to go...

ジャッキンといっちゃうよー

Fantasy Art: concept art and all that good stuff for a video game that came out before 2000.
I chose Bobby (aka scissorman) and his baby brother Dan from Clock Tower: The First Fear. Had a lot of fun with this stuff.

人狼

Illustration for "The Werewolf" which is a short story by Angela Carter. I have 2 more bw pieces, but I'm not too fond of those = no scans :D

YAY.

It is finally spring break... it will be filled with glorious amounts of sleep and mindless fanart doodlings!


Illustration Concepts homework. We chose objects from a pile that was selected by our teacher, and then basically did anything we wanted. My thing was an old perfume ad. Yay drawing girls!

Baba Yaga

Fantasy Art homework: 1 color, 2 b&w illustrations for a fairy tale. I decided to do Baba Yaga. Most everyone in the class did too, so we will be critiquing a lot of old hags and girls and houses with chicken legs.


... So I only have two so far. I still have lots of time to do a third one, but I don't know... kinda worn out and not really feeling my third sketch. Plus my printer ran out of ink. I'm going to think about it.

...Actually, I'm not going to make it sound like I might do it; I won't, and I'll just have to deal with having only two pieces. Merp.

Buckets! Girls! A Raging Fire!

Concepts stuff. Keynesian economics and the stimulus package.

オロチ伝説

Fantasy Art class final, the Yamata-no-Orochi myth.
There's something about it that makes me want to redo everything, but the crit went pretty nicely so I dunno. I'm ready to move on to the next assignment.

A Very Sad Place

First official homework post of the year/semester, I think. Alifbay thing for Illustration Concepts II finished. I really need to have the inking finished before hand because it was a BITCH to do everything at once. Sooo over this thing. Ready to move on!

Baby Orochi

I'm doing the myth of the yamata-no-orochi (which is basically a Japanese Hydra) for one of my classes. This is one of the studies I did for it in my sketchbook that I thought would be nice to color up, but I'm sick of it now so I don't think I'll ever finish it.



Digital painting keeps me occupied and up at night, which is great since I have days where I need to stay up all night or I won't get to class on time. I know that doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense to me either.

the waltzing horses

Concepts: pick an instrumental song and illustrate accordingly.
I chose Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2- Waltz.
The music is very merry-go-round-y, so I decided to go with
some centaur-y girly creatures.
Also ribbons. Love them ribbons.

Rrrrrrroller

Brian's roller girl assignment.
She's Little Red Riding Hood with a side-kick basket thing.
Maryland flag colors. I had a lot of fun. Blah.

Survivor

Character Development homework.
I have a grayscale cellshaded version as well, but I'm kind of having mixed feelings for that one... so no post of that :)

nu-ay

So for our first assignment for character development we had to design a figure playing a musical instrument (create an interesting silhouette, shape, exaggerate etc)


It's a "Nue", which is basically a Japanese version of a chimera (tiger body, snake tail etc.)
It's also a kind of a thunder-tiger-monster, so I put all sorts of thunder motifs EVERYWHERE.
The instrument is a taiko drum, although I considered a rockin' electric guitar or whatever too.

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Being in CD made me realize that I really enjoy seeing other people's work...!
I just really enjoy being around illustration people so much.
Sure, they make me nervous sometimes when I think about all the competition around me, but still! Sooo fuuuun I loooove illustraaaation....

OMG ELVIIIIIIS!!!

Ha! Rock'n Roll history final! Illustration 2! No sleep! Ew! Yay!
Actually ended up finishing much faster than expected, but I made the stupid decision to just
stay up aaaaaaallllll niiiiiiight XD
I am going to be dead in just about an hour. Must... drink... red bull...

eeek

Narrative Ill homework; "Poor Old Mr. Death"

He visited my family
And then he stole my mother
My mother who was everything
Loving, strong, wise, and beautiful
The sun was sucked out of my sky

Photoshop

Photoshop in-class thing. Cats!

texture

Ok, finished the linework piece posted before:


Ta-da--- very purple!
I wasn't really in love with the linework to begin with, so I just colored it pretty roughly.
Turned out to be a much more "gothic/dark" looking piece than imagined.
It was all fluffy and pastel-y at first...