Figure Drawing Inks!

Some inks from figure drawing as well! All sharpie! I tried posting them with my previous post, but when you click on them they became blurry, but when I put then in a separate post, they were normal. Anyway, these are my favorites of the inking exercises done for Figure Drawing 3.

FALL 2011: NOT OIL!!

The amount of oil painting this year was a bit frustrating, here are a few things with a only a bit of oil. The first is a figure drawing distortion piece, the second is my final for figure drawing, the third is the thumbnail for it which I like a lot more than the finished piece because I like the energy in it, the fourth is a figure drawing assignment of two figures in one piece, the fifth, sixth, and seventh are figure drawings done at the pod.

Fall 2011: OIL!

Another semester of TAD down, two more to go. This past semester was definitely really hard, and very focused on oil painting. I really need to update my blog on a regular basis to avoid large art dumps. For this post, they are all oil paintings!

The first one is a plein air, the second is a pear study painted with the help of Josh George, the third is my final for still life painting, and it's my biggest painting yet although I cannot remember the size at the moment, the fourth is an hour long quick painting of sardines under a light (so the smell will make you paint faster), the fifth is a figure painting using the Zorn palette, the sixth is a painting of a sculpture that Jon Foster made, and the seventh is a figure painting of my good friend Kaitlin Demayo in her Hans Solo costume.

It's been forever!!

Wow, I haven't posted anything here in a while!  I've been busy, but that's not an excuse!!

I changed my blog's name from "hodgeepodgee.blogspot.com" to "juliahodgesillustration.blogspot.com".  I also got a tumblr, but I have yet to figure it out.  It's at "juliahodgesillustration.tumblr.com".

I've decided that I'm going to post more of what I do, not just stuff I'm proud of.  I've had a ton of failures, but those failures are very important to me and I learn a lot more from them than my successes.  It's also an effort to be more transparent.

In the Fine Art and Illustration branches of TAD, the students have done a lot of master copies.  I copied these from copies that I got printed to size (makes everything so much easier, copying from a small screen to a large painting just doesn't translate for me), and then looking at the computer copy to get what I couldn't get from the print, mostly the colors.  

OIL!

Used different colored bulbs for the butterflies, different times of day and seasons for the landscapes. :)

More Figures

Some Finals

The figures are my 'Ideal Male and Female' assignment, learning about the differences of males and females, and learning where the muscles go and proportions, and all that good figure stuff. The comic is my 'Little Nemo' assignment where you had to make a page based off of Windsor McCay's 'Little Nemo in Slumerland". Used watercolor, gouache, and ink on board. The second image was an ongoing assignment of doing a composition study almost everyday. I got up to 30 days. They are small digital copies with notes about composition and metaphors on the side. :)