Senior Gallery Artist Reception!

This past saturday was my senior gallery exhibit artist reception! It was such a blast getting to have people come and check out the 2014 graduating senior's work.  It was a pain to hang them all up but, you can see here some snippets of my work. I'll be taking a better photo of my section of the gallery soon.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  These photos were taken by Bryan Ballinger. He is my senior project class teacher and he teaches other classes here at the university. 

                         The wall with the children's illustrations and animal drawings and the sculptures are my artwork. :)

Business Card -Rough Design

Here's a rough design for one of my business card ideas. I will probably do more versions.  But, its not in the right size yet. I'm still figuring out the right dimensions.

Sr. Project Poster

Here is my Senior project poster that I designed for the Sr. Gallery.  This is the poster for the spring showcase at the end of the semester. :)  I still have to adjust some text. 

Manticore Design

I managed to get a little time to finish coloring him.  I wish I could have spent longer but, you know you gotta meet deadlines for other things.

Sr. Gallery Design Finished! :)

Here are my final versions.  I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope everyone likes them. :) The 1st is the front image and the 2nd image is the back.

Sr. Gallery Designs -In Progress

FRONT

BACK

I had so much fun doing these. I still have to add the text and do some shading if I have the time but, it's coming along.  :) I hope everyone likes them when I am done.

Sr. Gallery Exhibit

The Digital Media Arts Faculty asked me to design this years Senior Gallery Exhibit poster. I was so excited that they asked me to do it.   I had a lot of fun doing this.  This is just the rough design work for it.  I am excited to start adding color and make it look pretty. =]  Here's what I got so far. I still need to check on some names because, there are a few that may be graduating but, the dma assistant didn't list.

 

Making Progress

I still haven't had much time to work on this guy because of homework but, here's some more progress. I just do a little bit per day.

Beauty Within'

I just wanted to sketch aelita and then I felt like adding some cute little flowers with her. :)

Revision and Color

Here's my second revision. I will start color him soon.

 

 

Doodle Dump

Wings!

I am re-drawing my design for my manticore. I decided to give him some wings.

Horse Quickies

Here's some quickies of some horses just trying to work on drawing quickly.

Books Come Alive Colored

Here's my rendition of my little project that I've been working on. It didn't take me very long I just haven't gotten around to doing it.  I may do a just color one later without linework but, I'm pretty pleased with it.  I learned more about shading and all that with watercolor.  I'm going to be doing more airbrush shading with my next project. Here it is. :)

Sr. Project Blog -Update!

I added my spreadsheets that I have been working on as well as my interactive touch book work. :)

 http://gawkandgasp.blogspot.com/

Pssst. Here's just a preview of what you will find there... :) Feel free to please check it out!

Books Come Alive - WIP

I wanted to color my "Books Come Alive" design that I did.  Its a work in progress.  I plan to digitally paint it I just started adding some basic color and later I will do more shading.  Here's what I got so far. :)

                                                                              Linework

                                                                     
                         Linework Overlayed (I think I might do this with just color instead of line work)

                                                               
                                                                 Color and Linework
 

Strange little lions

Just have been trying out different manticore designs. :)

 

Crystal Beast

Figure Sketches

Figure drawing, It isn't my strongest point but, I need to get better at it. So, I took some time today to do some figure studies.

Christmas Break - Trip Sketches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one above, was a drawing I did for my cousin something from "Homestuck". I have no idea what that is about.

 

Future Project Ideas

Here are some sketches that I've done over the past few days.  These are some rough sketches for the projects that I may work on later.  I am hoping next semester I can take some of my drawings and re-draw them and do some digital painting work as well as lighting, painting studies, and more anatomy studies of human anatomy. :)

Heres some of the projects I would like to work on later:

 

Manticore Character Designs

                                                               My Pokémon "Dream" Team

                                          (I've been seeing people do it and it sounds like fun!)

                                                                    
                                                                Mountain Landscapes

 

Bible Verse Idea

(Inspired by artist Katy Semour's favorite Bible verse and

title for her blog and artwork "The Deer and the Dove".  Her art page name gave me the idea for this sketch. )

 

 

                                                    47 Ronin Fanart for the shapeshifter

                 (I just saw 47 Ronin I loved the story.  Things could have been better because things were  not explained very well but, I loved the shapeshifter's design and really wanted to do a cool poster for her character :) )

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Thank you everyone who has been keeping up with my blog! :) It is much appreciated.  I know that I don't have a lot of amazing art up yet and that's ok.  I have been so ready to dive into some digital painting and doing more digital artwork but, I currently don't have access to Photoshop or a good computer.  The cool thing is I've been looking up lots of neat resources, tutorials, and artists to gets some good tips on digital painting. I'll hopefully be able to do that soon.

My first part of senior project went well.  I will be working on it all next semester to finish the project.  I am so excited for next semester!  I have one semester left of college and then I will be a college graduate!  I will be taking my senior portfolio class, senior project class, and a couple other core classes.  So next semester, I will be able to upload my artwork from previous courses like figure drawing, advanced stop motion, and other classes. I've been needing to take some good photos with a better camera than my old ipod so, next semester I will be able to do that. I'm getting so stoked and I am also so thankful for where God has led me throughout school. I am growing and learning and it's wonderful! I'm so thankful for what gifts and skills he has given me as well.

In conclusion, I would like to wish you all, a very Merry Christmas!  Thank you for all your help and support and enjoy spending time with your families over the holidays.
God Bless you all! :)

Don't trust my baking...

This is a fun little project I did for one of my close friends Dakotah Spears. :) It was for her birthday. We do this fun thing everytime we give gifts.  We frame drawings for each other and exchange them with each other.