Another true story

UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH.

Quite rusty.

After i filled up my last sketch book, i discovered that having not done much regular sketching outside of class has had me slowly but surely losing my confidence with drawing people. I bought myself a moleskin to try and get back into the swing of things...things are off to a rocky start, whoooo boy.

My life drawing has gotta a little stiff, i need to find some ways to loosen it up a bit.

Children's Book Illustration

Here are a couple of finished assignments from class. I had wanted to do space girl in traditional media, but i ran out of time after and was too behind in my other classes after i spent a week sick and thought it better to do it up photoshop for the sake of ever finishing it.

The aliens were fun to come up with.

EPIC FAIL and lesbian pirates.

lately I've been totally unproductive, either feeling too sick or too busy or just too tired to draw, except for a few attempts which are unfortunately the result of reading too many artists blogs, cold medicine and a whole lot of frustration.

I somehow think this happened because i read too much shoujo manga. Id like it to be, but I don't really think that is a valid excuse for all the anatomical fail happening in this image. But hey, cleavage.

More awkwardness and self-deprecation from anthropology class.

To summarize:

OSKAR kittehs!

The rest of the character sheets from my Layout and Production Design class, featuring Oskar, the feline companion to my little Russian gal i posted the other day. Not as sharp a design, but for the assignment, it works.  I guess it would help if i drew more big cats....it's hard to do character design when you're trying to learn how to draw something at the same time, lol. But seriously, drawing big pather-cats with hammer and sickles on their chest has got to be about as fun as crazy rogue military communist villian chicks any day.

I really had to resist putting a little fez on him, srsly.

P.S. If i hadn't mentioned it before, i really really like feedback/critique of any kind on my work, so don't hesitate to leave a comment, even anonymously (although it's still nice to sign your name or something at the bottom so i know you're not like...some crazy android feedback machine. but wouldn't that still be okay anyway? i digress...).

Hey, even if you only do it so I can follow your blog, as long as you return the favor, that's fine too!


okay, enough of my blathering. durdur.

 

in between sleeping and eating

Two projects for school, collectively eating up my time :D
But, actually, all my assignments so far have been pretty fun/interesting.

First up, a model sheet for my Layout Production and Design class:

There's another character sheet to go with it, a panther named oscar, but i am too awesome to have finished those on time (or at all). We'll probably get to see him in the next update.

For my children's book illustration class, we illustrated a nursery rhyme. I choose "Old Mother Hubbard" and took the oppertunity to model her dog after my charlie, who passed away last year.

SUMMER IS SUMMERY KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

I am so done with winter. I don't even mind the weather..just the cabin fever and drama that comes along with it.