I'll walk through this one first because it opened my eyes to a bigger world of picture making.
My Illustration instructor, George Pratt, was gracious enough to give us a version of the first assignment in the Illustration Academy and I jumped all over it!
Above was a little process on my ideation and composition thumbnails, the final is below. I find myself really enjoying this assignment after I was through - while doing it though I became burnt out on the subject matter, but I made it into something that I could learn from. Although there are things here that I like I still think there's more work to be done (as always)
Basically the assignment bottle necked what we had available to us - certain shapes had certain amounts of temperature , value and color shifts available and that led me into really concentrating on how to make a successful illustration with such little available. It forced me to really dig deep and put emphasis on things like the overall shape of an object and what kind of silhouette it makes.
I learned a lot from it and really hope to keep exploring it!
Moving on, this was the final assignment in Digital Illustration. Lately I've been completely flabbergasted by two things - Richard Solomon's 'Art On A Grand Scale' and a heavy influence by Josh Cochran and Pietari Posti ( which I'm sure are evident in these following images ). I really like how these guys tackle digital color, it reminds me in some part of the old Simplisccimus art where flat color and very fun, whimsikle drawing was key - but very contemporary and focused on design. I'm still trying to make it my own though, which has been a struggle all to itself
The assignment was simple, we are to do a personal illustration and treat it like some type of job (basically give it an application).
Anyway, my pitch was simple too. Our computer labs feel like a prison sometimes because the walls are always so dreadful, and I wanted to see how much it would liven the room up if there were something on the walls - so Art on a Grand scale was what I went with!
And here's the application, with the old image of the labs on the right.
Anyway, big props to Josh Cochran and Pietari Posti for having such a unique look to your art. As a student, it's really influential to see stuff like this!
Moving on, these are a couple oil sketches from figure class. the first was about a 4-5 hour and the others are all 1.5-3 hours
I feel like I've been growing which is nice, especially when I look back on the first oil painting I did. I've also found that I'm much more confident with the paint when I'm given a time limit - most of these were done in one class session and had a sense of urgency to capture what I see.
I'm going to start my first oil painting illustration over this holiday break also, so I cant wait to see how that goes hah!
Finishin up, these are some pastel character doodling;
And a Fechin mastercopy;
Anyway, it's been a long 2.5 weeks to say the least - but there's no rest in sight for me. I'm starting a couple of illustrations over the break (movie posters) and hope to have them done by the time school begins again!
I'll have more stuff up as soon as possible, sheesh
cheers,
tyler
