Watercolor Self portrait for practice

Grow

Done for The Grey Journal's April Theme: Seeds, Roots, and Growth.

Watercolor and cut paper, photographed on a rock outside my apartment.

It's about time

So, I've been missing for a while, school (or lack of it as was the case during Spring Break) has gotten me off track. Waaay off track.

So, since I've missed so much, I'm posting much more. I won't be explaining much in this post, so feel free to ask if you have questions! (I like answering questions)


Inspiration comes in the strangest places sometimes, and can induce attempts at world-building. Like this, the idea beginning at some clouds I saw outside of the window of a plane I was on.
More sketches for the same world-building attempt
Sketches of some characters of mine. Ignore the bad attempt at a gun. I'm working on that.
Hand done type assignment for my Illustration class. It's an invitation to come see a documentary that's being shown at a film festival in Rwanda.
More fun with those grey markers on brown paper. Also white gel pen this time.
Quick mermaid sketch.
Character design sketch.
Practice at drawing poses, dresses, expressions, and fabric, done from the stock photography of Faestock at DeviantArt
Practice at drawing expressions, done from the stock photography of Faestock at DeviantArt.
First of three illustrations done to Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Second Metamorphosis Illustration. Tatting shuttle, a pen, and a needle and thread
Last image of the Metamorphosis illustrations. This is the final version of the one from previous posts.

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day!

Have a Rose. (Done for a magazine layout for my Image Design class, but I think it works for this, too.)




Also, have a cool link - Some of the art of Mark Khaisman. This guy does art out of packing tape. Yes, you heard me. Packing tape. He layers the tape on plexiglass and lights it from behind, which creates a really interesting effect:

Check out more of his works at his site.



Explanation to the poster from my last post to come in the next post.

Simple, but here!

So this'll be a pretty quick post, but it's here, and I'm posting in a timely manner for once! Got to appreciate that at least.

So, I feel like I'm copping out on you all for doing this, but all I have for you this week is another watercolor...ok, so I don't feel so bad about it. It's break, I'm out of my normal routine and I don't have a scanner handy that works decently, so you all get stuck with what I got.

Enjoy!

Blood, Sweat...and Ink?

So, this blog's not even been up that long and already I've missed a week. At least I have a good excuse? School obviously thinks my life is tasty, because it's been eating it like crazy. BUT! I have goodies for you now! I'll let you see one of the things that I've been working on that was due two days ago.

Meet my type Specimen book. The concept: If you could only use 6 typefaces for the rest of your career, which 6 would you choose? We chose, and then took those 6 typefaces and made a specimen book for them. We wrote the content, designed the books, drew the illustrations, got them printed, and hand bound them, even wrapping the covers ourselves, if we had hard-bound covers (Yay for scrapbooking paper!) The photos don't do it justice, but they can give you an idea.







So that's it. Front to back. It looks so much better in person, but it's there! And It's done! And it cost me way too much money and stress.

It's pretty.


Aaannnd, as a bonus for not yelling at me for having nothing up last week (all 3 of you...ooh, proportional oldstyle lettering....) Have another watercolor Self portrait.




I look like one of the heads from Easter Island, which makes me laugh, at least.

It's a Miracle!

Two posts in one day? Unheard of! Except, perhaps, right before a break. And I feel guilty because my last post had a portrait that I'd already posted.

So now, have a watercolor!


This assignment was possibly my favorite of any we've done so far in my Illustration class. The assignment was do do a self portrait in watercolor, but we had to distort our faces somehow. I rather abused the wonderful thing that is Photobooth on my macbook. Did 8 paintings for that assignment because it was so much fun. I love watercolor.