Color and Design

Color and Design was taught entirely in gouache. Apparently our school is the leading consumer of gouache in the nation. I could totally believe that.

The class' three major projects:

1. Posterized self-portrait using analogous colors (I chose red-orange and blue-green)


2. Piece relating to your major (illustration was pretty much free-reign) using a limited palette (red-orange/blue-green again)


3. Mandala with center focal point and split-analogous palette. I used Winsor&Newton's gold ink (microglitter-type) for the keyhole and key outline.



All in all I learned a lot from this class, and I wish I had taken it earlier in my school career. Hopefully the work I do from now on will be a bit more color-coordinated. I'm glad I got to work with traditional media painting since I'd only done digital up until now. Though this was more like vector art than anything, since we could only use flat colors and not mix or create a gradient effect. I'm taking oil painting this upcoming semester so I'll get a lot of practice with traditional painting and mixing very soon. :)

Children's Book Final

lineart

final

That was fun. :D
My first time trying to achieve atmospheric perspective... it was tough. Gotta practice CG techniques more! Or painting techniques in general. Being forced to watercolor for my earlier pieces did help me see color significantly better.

I'm sad this class is over, all my classmates were awesome artists and it was inspiring being able to work with upperclassmen~ Matt Faulkner is an awesome awesome teacher. The class flowed really nicely and we got great tips on not only art but the children's book industry in general. I hope I get him as an instructor again~!

lineart in lead pencil
color in Photoshop

p.s. Also, I made it into AAU's 2009 Spring Show! :) I submitted this and this (after a few fixes), I'm not sure what got in but apparently one did. Exciting~~~!

Sakura-con Photoshoot

Private photoshoot from Sakura-con 2009 (Seattle, WA)
Kingdom Hearts themed cosplay

photography and edits by me

The Young King: part 3

Watercolor is my enemy. I'm learning a lot but these are far from how I wanted them to look. I cheat-added a photoshop gradient in the last one, partially for effect and partially to hide the value problems I was having. It was actually drawn to be a full spread like the first piece but then we were allowed to crop it half-sized, hence the odd chopping of limbs.

The next project is our own manuscript in any media. I really want to use Photoshop but am nervous since the two digital pieces in our class so far have been done in Illustrator, which seems to be the norm. I'm worried it'll turn out looking more like concept art in PS, but... we'll see.


Lead pencil, color ink and watercolor
Sizes 8.5x22" & 8.5x11" Arches 140ib cold pressed paper

The Young King: lineart

detail

... before I watercolor them to death.

I was actually gonna work the heck out of the second one's background but my teacher said it was ready to paint already, so, uh, that's fine by me. :X

The Young King

Three roughs and a color mock-up for Oscar Wilde's "The Young King."

Planning to do final watercolor pieces for the first two roughs. (I hope.) The color test is for the cover with room for title/author text, and the second is an inside spread. They'll be the same size as the previous one, 8.5x22", except now I have two pieces due in two weeks. Uh, to add to the stress, I'm trying to do a few fanart CGs for Sakura-con next week... Priorities are kinda fighting each other right now.

Clothed figure classwork

wk 1, 10 min

wk 2, 20 min

wk 4, 20 min

wk 5, 5 min

wk 5, 10 min

wk 5, 40 min

wk 6, 20 min

wk 6, 20 min

I'm really enjoying clothed figure, I think it's easier to render than nude figure drawing. Still need to get faster, though, and work on lower body.

In "wk 5, 10 min" the figure on the left reminds me of Mifune from Soul Eater;; *dork*

In-class drawings
3B charcoal pencil on newsprint