Phelps...

I've finished my Michael Phelps piece, I have posted it below. Next on the agenda for me is a cd cover for one of my favourite bands. I am still trying to decide on a band... But I am thinking Devildriver. This is my next project for electronic illustration. Our next project for editorial is an illustration about lies. Should be interesting. I still have to get to the sketch phase. Today will be filled with drawing for me!

Phelps Progress

I started my Michael Phelps assignment today. At first I was thinking of doing a portrait of him in high contrast, but I didn't end up liking that idea. So I switched to a side view of him looking disappointed. Below is the shot of my process in trying to draw an accurate face. I battle with portraits so it took me a lot of time to try end get it right.

First Digital Piece

I finally completed my first digital piece. Here it is, complete with textures.

Weekend

Busy weekend ahead of me. I have to start a piece for my editorial class, we're doing celebrity scandals. I have chosen to do Michael Phelps and his bong rip. So will be getting going on that. I also have to complete my first ever electronic illustration for my class. Below is the work in progress, we scanned in the line work and have been working with that. And on top of that I have to almost complete my etching project for printmaking. Hopefully I can get going on that!

Finally... A scanner.

The reason for me not updating my blog as often as I wanted to is that my scanner has for some reason not been working. It's not a very high quality scanner but it is enough for sketches and such in my blog. But now I have managed to get it working, so will be updating more often. Hopefully every day.

Lately I have been noticing that my figure drawing is not up to par. I have to use tons of references and it takes me far too long to get a decent figure in. And even when I can get the figure in, I battle to get a likeliness out of the face. So I have been doing a lot of drawing from life recently. And will probably be doing a lot more. Below are some of the quick sketches I have done over the past 2 days. Don't judge me on these alone!

Anita Kunz Approved.

Anita Kunz and a bunch of other Illustrators came to speak at SCAD today. But we were lucky to have Anita Kunz come and speak in our class, and also to critique our latest project. Our project was to do a TIME cover with the title: The Art of Gardening. Slightly lame, I know. Well I wasn't too happy with my cover, but Anita Kunz chose 3 covers out of the class that she thought were the best examples of a TIME cover, and mine was one of them! So that was pretty bloody awesome. Below is the cover with the TIME masthead.

Finally Some Art!

I have finally managed to get some artwork up. I will more than likely upload it onto my website sometime in the near future, but for now it will be on this blog and Facebook. The first two images are a portrait of my friend Tyson, he let me and some friends crash his place in Miami for the entirety of Spring Break this year. So as payment we all chose to do something art related as a present (us being the cheap art students we are). I am hoping to do one more for him, but am not sure if I will have time for that.

The second is the owl you saw me carving on two posts back, it has finally been finished. And I had some time to print it yesterday. I will, however, be doing some more prints when making editions. I'm pretty stoked as to how it turned out, and will probably be making a shirt or two. Hopefully some other people will want it too!

Here we can see some detail of the owl woodcut

Some detail of Tyson's hair.

Productive Weekend

Haven't updated in a bit, sorry about that. But the post after this will be well worth the wait, it shall be heavily loaded with pictures. Of two completed projects and one under construction. So hold on for one more day and you will be rewarded :)