Composition

Another vignette and a composition assignment without the text.

Gotta Lose Those Edges!!

Playing with my new intuos 4. I love it! Another attempt at a vignette, I still don't know if I understand it well. Now that I look at it, her arm is darker than it should be, and the face could be rendered more, but it's kind of at an awkward tilt. I always miss these details when I'm done but catch them about an hour later.

Nupastels - 15 minutes.


I feel like I've lost the wind in my sails a bit, I have so much personal stuff going on it's hard to concentrate on anything. I need to focus and keep my life and career in perspective...having perspective is so hard...and letting go of ego too...I never thought I had such an ego until The Academy, and I still have it, though I'm letting it go piece by painful piece, and now it's starting to feel good, I can see progress and the long, long, oh my gosh such a long journey ahead. Though this piece is too chalky!! :)

Charcoal, working on making a vignette...vignettes are so hard...pushing through.


Nupastels, 20 min.

Nupastels, 15 min.

Nupastels, 25 min. Wider than the model actually is, I have such a bad habit with making people wider, something I'm going to have to overcome...

Nupastels, 18 min.

Still a work in progress, I'm not happy enough with the text on it yet...

TAD and The Academy, mostly works in progress.

TAD figure drawing, took maybe 15 minutes.


Composition and Color Theory class, still not done with this.


Plein Air painting in Kansas City, I think it took 45 min to an hour, I can't remember now.


Shape assignment.


Book cover of Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, but totally bombed it, I mistook illustration board for matte board, gonna totally redo this.


Academy figure drawing.


A conversation assignment, not finished.


Quick oil painting of Rendez from the Academy.

GOING TO THE ART DEPARTMENT

I'm going to The Art Department!! I'm so excited!! Classes start tomorrow!


But I have much more to say, I've been doing so much within the past 6 weeks.


First, I went to The Illustration Academy for 4 weeks, and I must say, it completely changed my life and career. I am excited and a little upset that I learned more in 4 weeks than in 3 years of university. I was surrounded by so many great teachers and students, made some great new friends, networked, and learned sooooo much. The teachers that were there were Sterling Hundley, Josh George, Doug Chakya, Anita Kunz, Jon Foster, Jason Manley, and CF Payne!!


Then, the day after the academy, Colin Boyer, Charles Valsechi (two good friends I made at the academy), and I drove out to Kansas City, MO to catch the last week of a three week workshop of TAD. That was also amazing. I made my friendships stronger, met even more teachers and students, and got to see a beautiful city. Kansas City is so vibrant and very similar to Richmond...but better! We got to see Mark English's studio too and see some paintings he's working on, it was so inspiring! We got to meet both John and Mark English, George Pratt, Marshall Vandruff, and Andrew Jones.


Then, we made our way to Philadelphia to meet with our academy friend Sarah Alfarhan, and we celebrated the 4th. The next day we went to Chads Ford and saw all the amazing works at The Brandywine Museum. All the greats are there, I saw all three Wyeths, Charles Dana Gibson, Rockwell, Parrish, so many great illustrators and painters works! I had to cut the Brandywine short, I had to make it down to South Carolina for a family emergency, so I took an Amtrak down and I'm still here.


The great thing about TAD though, is that the classes are online, and I'm so lucky to live near a POD. The first class is actually in a few hours!! I'll post some images soon, got to get some sleep! I'll also write more in depth about the adventure I just had, there are so many details. TAD is the most exciting thing to happen to the art world, I'm so excited to be a part of it!