Drawings From Intermediate Drawing

   Instead of a final exam, there's a final project. This image is a 18x24 drawing that I created by collaborating different reference images to get this composition. The goal of this drawing was to create a single image that displayed a scene of collaboration, so here I have created a room full of artists/painters who are all collaborating together to create several paintings for a gallery of they're work.

 

Live model charcoal drawing.

  

Tea Time For Animators

   This was just a simple sketchbook assignment that I decided to clean up to a full image. The assignment was to draw something from life and add something imaginative to the image, so here is a mug of tea on a saucer and inside of the tea is two Orca whales swimming in the mug. Tea Time For Animators.

 

 

Surface, Sketchbook Assignment

Structure

   This assignment was to focus on structure and I chose to interpret that with the structure of the body. I found that the Ancient Egyptians believed that there was a pyramid (or triangle) within ones torso, and that acted as the base of our structure. This is where I got my general idea and then I just played off of the natural angles our body has in this position. I really enjoyed doing this drawing.

 

   This is just a few ways I considered digitally editing the image. The significance of the pink triangle is that in the Holocaust gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle so that everyone knew. This was something I never learned in Junior High during our unit on the Holocaust. I have realized that much of the LGBT history is typically overlooked in the public schools.

   Drawing from a personal photograph. I chose this image because my family had just gotten a beagle right before I left for college so I was kind of obsessed... okay I still am but I also thought that it was an interesting angle, with a good composition and the variations in textures and surface I could really showcase my skill.

The Five Styles Project

Drawing Myself in Different Character Animation Styles

In the Five Styles Project, I was to pick a variety of different styles that  appealed to me. Choosing different artistic styles found on blogger, tumblr, and the world wide web I found these very different but very awesome styles!

 This was a very fun project and through this experimenting I found some different ways of creating characters and I know now how easy it is to experiment with different styles and finding what it is about them that makes them work without any teachers or other animators telling me how to do it. I know now that I am very capable of teaching myself new things beyond what I learn in the classroom!

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Drawing Myself in Different Styles
turned into
Cut-Out Animation

Process, Tests and Construction.

The Final Image

Close-Up

Cut-Out Animation: Welcome Home!

Using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects this was a fairly easy process. Cut-Out Animation is something I want to further experiment with and can't wait to get the chance to do so! Apparently a common theme so far I have is using my puppy as inspiration, I'm okay with it since he's so darn adorable! :)

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Final Project Preview

The Journey Begins

A clean rough of my scene that I am digitally painting.

Process, Tests, and Constructions.

A close up of my painting on the beagle pup.

I am very proud of what I've accomplished so far! :)

A close up of the Barn in the background as well.

The Final Image.

This was inspired by my six year old nephew and my year old beagle, two of my very best friends. My nephew just played in his first T-ball Little League this year and I chose to use them as my inspiration. Naturally it sets place in the rolling hills of the plains with rich farmlands, just like Iowa where I am from.

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Gesture Drawings in Sequence