Artist Inspiration & Growth

I have been trying to work on practicing with new mediums. I've never been the best at shading digitally but, I really enjoy Ann Marcellino, Brittany Lee, and Meg Park's mediums that they use. It really excites me! They have  fantastic mediums. I have like a week until school is out and then I'll be able to start working more on personal projects. I am hoping to work on doing practice sketches in similar mediums that they use as well as practice other types of oil painting skills as well. 

Here is some of Ann Marcellino's work: (I DO NOT OWN OR DID NOT CREATE THIS ARTWORK BY: Ann Marcellino 

ARTWORK BY: Brittany Lee

ARTWORK BY: MEG PARK

The Circus is Here - Trailer Poster

Here is my poster for my senior project trailer. Technically it is my second poster.I had a lot of fun with this.  I hope people will like my senior project its pretty simple and basic compared to other people's projects but, I'm happy with it.

Banana Speed-paint

I've been working on some exercises to work on lineless shading. So, here's a banana. The porportions are a bit off but, it's getting there.

Apple speed-paint

I have a lot to learn about shading quickly. I can do well but, I need to learn to pace myself.  This was a speedpaint that I did in about an hour and five minutes.  It's not great but, I will get better eventually. 

It's been a while since I've posted.  I haven't had much doodling time since I've been working on my senior project but, I did a couple little sketches today.  I've been studying and mixing some animal anatomy.  

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.