girl with ring.

Fun little sketch after work. :]

mermaid-y sketches

So it has been a while! Getting settled back at home and getting back into my summer job has definitely been a little tiring. It's going to be one long hot summer at my old summer job again this year. But hey! Poor college students need as much money as they can get! :]

Here are two sketches. The mermaid one is actually something I did at the end of school and the other is something I did the other night for a little bit before passing out after work. But both of these sketches kind of prelude to a project I've started working on recently!

secret garden.

Second digital painting! [I'm having fun with this new media.]  Overall I'm pretty pleased with it considering the time I've had to work on it during finals and it only being my second one. [But of course there are some things I'd love to change with more time and practice.]

But here she is, Mary from the Secret Garden, a little illustration for one of my class finals.

portrait sketches

This coming week is the dreaded week! Almost all my finals will be due at some point so its going to be non stop homework! Though, it will all be worth it for the final week of school with nothing to do but pack up my things and hang out with friends.

Until I can post some of my finals here are some sketches.

some studies.

Just two quick studies from one of my classes.

girl portraits.

Here are some portraits from my portrait drawing class. Learning a lot as always, but I'm excited about this week because we start using charcoal instead of graphite!

egg project.

Since I wont have anything new to post for another week or so here is something from last semester.

We had to paint these three colored eggs realistically. I chose to paint in acrylics. This piece was different for me because I had never painted acrylics in this way before but I definitely liked it better than my previous way.

head studies.

For one of my illustration classes we had to take two artists and do 5x5 inch head studies. I definitely learned a lot. I like the way I painted both of these pieces, but my drawing skills need some work. For some reason I draw everything I do longer and thinner than it actually is. But over all I'm very happy with them both. They were both done in acrylic.

JC Leyendecker Study


Peter de Seve Study

Sargent watercolor study.

Quick watercolor study of John Singer Sargent's watercolor Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies.

Studying some masters in class and crying at how good they are. I personally love Sargent's watercolors as much as his oils. I think we will be doing another master study tomorrow. This one was done pretty quickly so I chose a more simple landscape painting of his. Tomorrow I'll probably pick a piece a little more difficult. This copy is really no where near how loose and detailed the original is. I'm okay with the mountains, but not so much the foliage and water.

landscape.

Here's another watercolor. For class today we had to go out to the library again and paint a landscape. I chose a simpler subject so I could try and paint darker with more "pigaments" as my teacher would say. And look I did! Showed him I'm not afraid of those "pigaments" anymore. :] Now that I have courage I just have to get better at technique and style.




So it looks like all I've been posting is watercolors but I promise to post more different types of projects soon. Lately I've been sketching a whole heck of a lot more but that's because I'm trying to change my sketching style to be more loose and alive looking. Once I achieve that I might post some sketches. For being half way through the semester I really don't have any other projects to post just yet...but I'm sure in a few weeks that will change. Plus I've been slowly working on some of my own stuff as well lately. :]

And a side note...I need to learn how to either scan better or learn to take better pictures of my watercolors because these pictures are all so washed out looking.