Finals, Part I: Digital Painting

Hey-o, Spring semester is over! It was a rough batch of finals (I only had two, does that count as a batch?) but they finished up nicely so all the stress and lack of sleep was worth it. Here's the first: my digital painting final assignment, a finished illustration. We were given four themes to choose from, and I chose David vs Goliath (although in my illustration I doubt the little guy will come out on top.. it adheres to the theme rather loosely). We worked on these for three weeks - first thumbnails, then value and color comps, then final.

Please do zoom in and have a look! I'm happy with how this one turned out, and I think it's a good wrap-up of all the stuff I learned in this class - that's what a final is for, right? It was rough going for a while (a long while) in this class, but I learned a lot and and am a million times more proficient in Photoshop now than I was three months ago. Good times.

Next up: my portrait painting final! Should be up soon, I haven't photographed it yet. Thanks for reading!


emily

P.S. You can check out my digital painting teacher's awesome work here.

P.P.S. I ate that tomato. He was delicious.

Midterm illustration, digital painting

Oh hey, so this is a little late, but I wanted to work on it some more after it was critiqued in class and I've just now gotten to it. Our midterm project for digital painting was a finished illustration, either science fiction or fantasty. We took a few weeks to do thumbnails and color comps before doing a final illustration. Since sci-fi and fantasy aren't really my thing, my thumbnails all ran along pretty conventional lines: UFO crashes, first encounters, abductions. Boring, huh! Here they are:

I ended up doing number nine. I won't show you my color comps, because I ended up changing it a bit for the final - it turns out I am just total crap at drawing spaceships. Who knew! Well, I kind of knew. Anyway, I spent a long time trying to do it and being frustrated and then at the very last minute I replaced it with something else. So here's the final:

And here's a detail, since the figures are so teeny tiny:

I'm calling it (as if I have to call it something) Goodbyes. Poor little guy, I guess his alien buddy has to go home. So there you have it! Thanks for reading!


emily

Pastel madness!

Hey you guys!

Seeing as it's week twelve, I guess it's as good a time as any for a Sustained Figurative Concepts update. I did a lot of terrible drawings in the beginning of the semester.. part of that was adapting to using pastels (completely new to me), and part of it was just that I've never taken a dedicated figure drawing class before and I'm just not that good at it. So we'll go chronologically, and hopefully things will start looking better as we progress.

All of the following drawings (except for the last two) are in-class studies, so they're unfinished. All done in pastel on grey-brown Strathmore charcoal paper.

We started the semester off with nude models. All of my drawings from this period are pretty terrible so I'll only post one:

Some quick hand studies:

A couple of weeks of head studies:

Then clothed figure. Emphasis on value pattern.

We also had two clothed figure homework assignments. It was nice to have more than three hours to work on them; they're a lot more finished than my in-class work.

from a photo on artsyposes.com

big gigantic thanks to Kendall for being my model!

Anyway, that's about it! We're moving into finals season, so I may not be back for a while.. but that wouldn't be too unusual, would it! As always, thanks for coming by :)


emily

To slay your enemies

One-week prop design assignment in digital painting. Weapon design's not exactly in my wheelhouse, but it ended up being kind of fun. Now I know! I used Alchemy to start the thumbnails - I would have been lost without it. (Thanks Young!) It was an interesting exercise to find form and function in crazy spontaneous shapes, I recommend it!

'Til next time!


emily