New Year

Continuing my gradient studies...

Graphic Style

Keepin' At It

Whenever I can, I'm trying to get back into my art. Here are some new ones I worked on for my coworkers.

Playing with negative space.

Painted silhouette, in a sketchy style.

New Additions

Keeping myself busy...

New Office - New Art Work

I have been working on some paintings again (yay!) and drawings for my new office job and coworkers. Wanted to show off some of my recent works...

I did this last year, but just never got around to posting. (acrylic paints on Illustration Board) I must do better at working on my background designs & posting them!

Some Card Designs

Thought I would add some blank notecard designs that I am doing to sell on my etsy page.

Check out my collection and check back for updates on new designs.

Craft Fair

In preparing for an upcoming craft fair, I have been practicing my book-making and pen and ink techniques. Here is a set of cards I made with ink pens; and a book using a chain stitch binding.

Cards

A baby card I did for a family friend. I have always liked the simplicity of Classic Pooh characters and their color palettes. Therefore, I did a rendition of them for a baby shower card.

More Books

Since my class on book making, I have been doing some experimenting on my own. These are mostly created with different papers and binding techniques, but a few have my artwork on them too.

Book Making

Some samples of what I've been working on in my latest class. We are making books in a variety of bindings and applications. This example is my altered book. I took the story of Little Red Riding Hood and altered the story a bit. It is an accordian fold book with the well-known version on the front side of the pages and the wolf's version running parellel on the opposite side. Both versions finish with an explosion of fur and red fabric.

Some Storyboarding

A scene from my short film, "Fence Friend," completed during junior year.

More Backgrounds

The painting from blue rendered piece to finalized acrylic work.

Backgrounds

I thought I would post a background I've been working on. It began with a black and white layout designed by Ron Pagenkopp that we needed to color key. Here is my prep work:

And then the finished piece, using acrylics:

Character Design

Here are some preliminary sketches for a character design I did for my cartooning class. We had to design members of an animal family. My character was the mother seagull.

The final product.

Personal Work

I had some time over the winter break from school to try out my new found inking techniques. My sequential art class helped to get me practicing inking (or at least using my paint markers).

Update

I finally have a few moments to spare. I thought I would share some character designs I'm working on for a special studies class. They are based off "Alice in Wonderland," but with a few little tweaks. These pieces are the sorceress Queen and Alice.

Herakles Graphic Novel

In my sequential art class, we have been working on a Herakles graphic novel. The whole class is contributing a part of the book. I am an inker, so I have had to learn a lot about how to ink (and ink well). Check out the site our professor put up: http://csufsequentialart.blogspot.com/ or click on my link to the left.
More art updates once I get more time! :)

I haven't been on here to update in a while. I've been busy this summer with an internship!

Here is a painting I did recently, though. It will be going to my sister's to spruce up her room. It was done with acrylics on a 10x10 canvas.

Fence Friend