Life Drawing

I focused a lot on using pencil and graphite for my recent figure drawings. I like being able to control my mediums more. That's probably why I love charcoal pencils so much as opposed to plain vine charcoal. Any how, I've come to develop a sense of form and volume by using light, gradual lines and shading to create a popping 3D effect, causing my drawings to become more realistic. All my art still has a sense of stylization regardless, which I like personally.

Digital Painting: A New Approach

So I'm currently taking a class called "Drawing From the Tablet" which is basically a Life drawing course that utilizes Wacom/ Bamboo/ Cintaq tablets as the medium. I need more experience with digital painting and I feel like this class has already helped me rethink how I work with the tablet. Instead of using the pen pressure opacity jitter as a means of varying my opacity when I apply my stylus to the tablet, I was instructed to use the Opacity meter to create varying thicknesses of opacity. It really helps me blend my effects, it makes the finished piece feel more naturally painted. I hope nobody's bored with my self portraits but here's my finished piece that experimented with this new approach.

Self Portrait Stippling...AGAIN

Ahh so I wanted to rework my stippled self portrait, I wasn't happy with this one, so, again utilizing this digital stippling method I created a better version. There will be more self portraits..!

Self Portrait Stippling

Sooo for my last assignment of the semester my Illustration teacher asked us to create a nice self portrait that we would put on our Illustration website. A nice easy assignment to commence the year. I didn't want to take the typical digital painting approach when creating this piece, so basically all you could hear in my room last night was Tap Tap Tap Tap Tap Tap of the stylus on the Wacom. I really like this new technique. I may continue doing it and see what i can come up with ].

Even more SKetchy Stuff

Sketchbooks Are Just My Thing...Continued

Sketchbooks Are Just My Thing

Ahhh it's been awhile indeed Bloggers! Just uploading some sketchbook pages I'm rather proud of. I visited the National Gallery & the Smithsonian about two weeks ago and I thought I'd share some of my sketches from the Edvard Much prints exhibit, and a sketch of an Elvis at 21 photography exhibit. A few of these other ones are just observational drawing and such. Enjoy!