Right down to the bone...

So, illustration assignment, right? Ok. Well this time around it was to do a poster for a play... we got a list, we picked our plays and went to work. So when I got to thinking about what I could do, I got to thinking that Chris Sickels is pretty cool... and... well... yeah, so I sculpted my figure, built my set, hung cotton ball clouds and toy airplanes from the ceiling in my room and this is what happened:

The play was, by the way, called Souvenir. It's about Florence Foster Jenkins (a real person...) who was a tremendously bad opera singer, and famous for it.

It didn't turn out exactly how I wanted it to, and there were a lot of things that suffered from the time available, but all in all it was a lot learned that I can apply to the next time I try something like this (which I'm thinking I might...).

Oh, and because it's awesome, here's some process:

my favorite part is when I eat the sandwich...

by the way, if you don't know Chris Sickels, go here and cry sweet tears of joy

if you thought that was cool, check out Paulo Ventura ... if you can get your hands on it, his book War Souvenir is pretty mindblowing.

We'll see what the future brings...

12, 12x12 paintings

For painting class we've been working on a series of 12, 12" x 12" paintings for homework. This has been assigned since ages ago, which invariably means that time will not be spent appropriately...

In any case, they were due yesterday, so I thought I would post the result.

The theme I chose for my series was a sort of surreal animal mish-mash thing. Kind of a way of highlighting some of the bizarre things that happen in nature by taking them a little out of context (applying them to another animal). Some turned out better than others.

Vulturephant


Walropillar


Moosetopus

Bioluminescent Peacock


Snigeon


Chrout


Uh... Spamtis? (Hamster Spider Mantis)


Catepede


Fostrich


Mosqiwi


Barn Owlmingo


Beagle

And there (in no particular order) you have it.

Pygmalion

Something I did for my illustration class. We were to take an old fairy tale or myth and illustrate it in two images. We also had the choice of re-envisioning it if we felt so inclined. I took Pygmalion and replaced the statue with a corpse collage... yeah, a bit morbid I know.

I didn't quite get to get them as finished as I would like, I might come back and refine them when I get time.

Assembly

Presentation

Don't have time to post longer now but...

Fixed (sort of):

Painter, Graphic Design and ridiculous

So in my concept class they have us using Painter to produce and... well... I have little to no experience there. The program has it's ups and downs, there are parts of the workflow that I love and parts that... well it's not even worth trying to do some things in painter, it's easier just to pop it over to photoshop and back. In any case, here is the first "finished" thing I've ever pumped out in painter.

These are getting older, but I have some posters that I made for Graphic Design that I'm mildly happy with. We were to make two posters for a hypothetical MoMa exhibition of "the masters of poster design." One of which was to be purely typographic and the other based around imagery. I have this unfortunate love for large blocks of extremely tightly packed type... which are bad so I kind of shot myself in the foot on the typographic one.

And lastly we have the byproduct of reference/source photography and low sleep:

"no!"

Mid term figure dump

So I have it figured that rather than dumping everything at once in one super long post, I'll spread my figure stuff out a little better this semester.

To start things off, here is my first figure painting ever.  Hoo-hah.

Approx. 2 Hours

Some quick pastel gestures:

Portraiture: Approx 3 hrs each

vine charcoal and charcoal pencil

Graphite

Marker (Copic Wide)

Somewhere around an hour and a half

5 minutes

Conte Crayon 5-10 minutes

  

5 Minute Color Pastel Gestures

  

Pastel 2-3 hours

And that's everything for now.

Williams bear...

So yeah, this would be the first time I've ever elected to do an oil painting for an illustration project, and considering I'd say it came out pretty good.

In all his poorly photographed glory

Face Detail

I figured I'd put the explanation after the image, as it's probably better when there's some confusion involved. We were given the option of doing either a satirical portrait, an ironic parody or a glorified portrait of a faculty member of the school. My original plan was to draw Mr. John Williams here standing on a pile of dead ninjas, bears, tigers, sharks etc. shooting lasers out of his eyes at a T-rex, stabbing a shark and backhanding a student... which I was really really excited about doing but the teacher changed her mind on the idea when she decided it wasn't satirical enough (after letting me work on it for a week... ugh). So yeah, this is my replacement idea. I like the other one enough that if I find the time I might just do it anyways...

On another note I have to find a more effective way of photographing paintings.