Fee Fi Fo Fum etc.

You guys, it's winter break! And a long one, at that. But classes are starting back up soon, and my brain is getting back into work mode. That means I'm finally posting an illustration that's been pretty much done for a month: my Jack and the Beanstalk final from perspective class last semester.

digital

We were given a paragraph from the story to illustrate. First we did a couple full-value visualizations (super thumbnails!), then line work, then finished full value, with shadows and a reflection, color optional. Viz and line below:

It was interesting to work off of the full-value visualization, sort of like everything was planned out but not quite right. That candle in the back was lit in the version I submitted in class, with related shadows and bright reflection in the picture glass, but as cool looked, it distracted from my original lighting scheme, so out it went. So anyway it's there for a reason.

I'm excited about spring semester! Hopefully I'll have lots of fun things to show you. Hope you're all keeping warm.

Thanks for reading!


emily

Death on prom night

Hey! Last post before finals, and as promised it's stuff in a mirror. Exciting! We were given a couple paragraphs from a story and told to illustrate them (like real illustrators! Woo!). The story, in a nutshell: a girl's gettin' ready for the prom. She hears her date's car door close outside, hears him come up the stairs to her room, he puts his hands over her eyes (like, guess who!) and she tosses him off but... doesn't see anyone in the mirror behind her! omg. So he's a vampire I guess. And a creeper. Check it out:

look out!

As with the last one, I'd love to finish it off by painting it, hopefully I'll have some time to do that later on. But for now - time to go work on this final some more! Thanks for coming by!


-emily

Food fight!

Ahh it's been over a month since my last post! Sorry guys, I'm the worst. I've had this drawing done for weeks now and just haven't gotten it up here. Now I'm in the midst of finals and there's nothing like procrastinating to make you do everything you need to do except for that one thing you should be doing....

So we're still talking perspective! This was a long assignment, three weeks, and I'll just show you the end result because why not. First week was to draw two nude figures interacting with each other in action poses - second week was adding clothes with patterns - third week was adding an environment. We've started putting everything we've been learning all semester together! It hard and frustrating and complicated but it's also much more fun to be drawing something you're excited about and these were exciting! Here's mine:

click on the image! it's too tiny here in the post..

I'd love to go back and add value and color - maybe I'll do that over the break. Right now it looks like an empty coloring book, but whatcha gonna do.

Thanks for reading! Next time - mirror reflections! Yet another technique I've learned in this class that I had absolutely no idea how to do before..


-emily

Catching up on perspective, round threeeeee

Heyy last one! I'm combining two weeks of work into this post cuz hey we can't all read blogs all day now can we. Heads and figures! Ohh yeah I was dreading this before the semester even started. First assignment, we were given three straight-on photographs of people, and we had to draw them in perspective. Here's two of mine:

two point perspective

two point vertical perspective

Both done digitally. Pretty darn difficult, I'll tell you.

Next: figures, completely without reference you guys, these came from my head and I'll be doing this for years before I get really good at it (like my teacher is - it's mind boggling, really):

reclining figure in two point

walking figure in two point vertical

seated figure in three point

Well, that wraps it up: everything I've done for this class in the last month. All of those figures were done digitally, by the way. Thanks for stopping by!


emily