Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Using graphite and charcoal together.


One of my teachers (Richard Morris who's listed in my blog list) recently told some of us that he did a drawing in charcoal and graphite. I thought this wasn't possible but then I realized what he was doing. He was rendering with charcoal in the shadows and graphite in the lights. That way none of his values in his light patterns could ever get as dark as anything in his shadow patterns. When he was done you couldn't tell where one medium started and the other one stopped. It was a brilliant drawing!

So I tried it out as an experiment. Using a form modeling exercise that one of our other teachers showed us how to do. Basically modeling value patterns on round shapes.
Very interesting.


Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Some very talented (and helpful) teachers I had this quarter.

They're now all on my blog list.


Maurice Carmeli.
http://mauricecarmeli.com/index.html

Vadim Zang.
http://www.vadimfineart.com/

Sang Bang.
http://paulaesthete.blogspot.com/

Joseph Todorovitch
http://www.onejoseph.com/index.html

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Alien general.


This is a study for the last project I did in my painting for illustration class.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Dwarf with axe.

Finally got this sketch scanned in. What a hassel!!!

Oh well enough griping.



Truth be told I think his left foot needed to be darker.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Engaging in deviant behavior.



I have a Deviant Art page now. I don't think I'll be updating it as much as I do here, but at least I can network with more people (fingers crossed.)




(My scanner is being dumb today, sorry about the image quality)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Naruto Shippuden.

narutoshippuden-anime-keyvisual-sm by mochi01.


So I've taken to watching Naruto Shippuden on Viz's website (which uses Hulu.) They have episodes of the series ready for viewing, and they update it frequently.

Wow...that's all I can say. I'd read some of the manga but I didn't realize it was this good. I did like the original Naruto series but I think I'm starting to like this even more.

Check it out.

http://naruto.viz.com/

P.S As soon as I can get the kinks out of my scanner I will update soon.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Self portraits from class.


Unfortunately one of the drawings got a paint stain on it before I could scan it.