turkeys and thorns

Two spot illustrations for my Illustrated Texts class. These two are meant to accompany the short story The Turkey by Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor was a southern gothic writer who lived in the predominately Protestant south in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and often reflected on her Catholic faith as well as issues of morality and ethics.

Gestures

Gesture drawings! Going to do this 10 or so minutes every day. Yay practice!

Keep bleedin' love

Keep bleeding/Keep, keep bleeding/Keep bleeding love.

Sugar Bombs!

Sorry for the long pause in updates, school at Columbia picked, up, and then I was whisked off to a magical land called Canada. (which was cold for the summer! brr!)

Senior year started off in a whirlwind of projects, and I'm really excited about this coming year. There are a lot of projects, both in and out of studio, that are upcoming. For now, another project from Columbia.

At Columbia we had to create a fake cereal ad. I decided to create Sugar Bombs, the cereal for sugar addicted little kids. This was another experiment with gouache and fluid acrylic. Sorry for the quality, I had to take a photo, since I had no access to a scanner at home.

8-bit?

I'm going to Columbia College Chicago for the summer, and I'm sort of treating it as a mini-study abroad (even though Chicago is basically in my backyard). It'll be nice to bring new experiences to studio when I start back up again in the fall.

One of my classes is 'Applied Drawing'... which is basically a drafting class, lots of paralinear and perspective drawings. One assignment was to create a "future city"... which could basically be a city that didn't exist, and we were to create it in perspective. I was having trouble thinking of ideas, and my instructor just said to go with what we were interested in.

So of course, this is what happened.

Super Mario "city"! Ahaha.. ha.

(sorry for the low quality of the picture, I had to take a photo of it- it's pretty large, and I don't have a big enough scanner at home!)

Drew this while at ACen. Saber Lily, from Fate/Unlimited Codes! Ross thought I should color this, so I spent the better part of today working on it. Have to get all the anime out of my system before the fall semester stomps it all out of me by force.

Decided to update my blog in my procrastination for my upcoming final exam. My final for color systems... basically where the sketches from the last post ended up. Sorry about the watermark, I feel like a loser putting it up, but I've heard way too many horror stories about art theft, so better safe, right? And oh my gosh they look so different when I'm not staring at a 200% 600 DPI version of these things. Easily some of the biggest files I've worked on. 1GB per picture? what is this.

Anyway, the focus was a study on atmospheric color as it pertains to mood and emotion. I wanted the color to do most of the work, so that's why there are no props and a 'psychological background.' Aka pretty texture. There are parts of all three that are working, and parts that are not, but it was a really good exercise for me, I learned a lot, and it was fun! Many thanks to Louise for letting me take crazy ref photos for the poses.

Summer is coming up, and that means ACen! I'll (hopefully) have buttons, definitely bookmarks, and we'll see what I can do in the realm of prints. Come say hello! After that, I'll be studying at Columbia College Chicago a few days a week while working on a lot of personal art. Which means more updates. College really takes it out of you. Though I have more direction now of where I want to go. Which always raises more questions, but progress is always good.