ILL2&CF3

Heyo!

As promised, my work from Illustration 2 (watercolor) and Clothed Figure 3! Enjoy.

These are my first watercolor paintings since I was like 12. Watercolor can be tricky, but you sort of get hang of it soon. Anyways, our first homework was just daylight vs. indoor light, nothing crazy.

An in-class assignment. We went to the prop room and picked out our object of choice (mine being this old, old camera bag), then we were supposed to paint it, with emphasis on textures. As you can see there's bunch of textures there, but mostly its just a jumbled mess. Looks alright from far away though, haha.

Another in-class assignment. Our next assignment will be a portrait, so we were supposed to practice painting a head. I painted this out of my head. My generic male head, heh.

Alright! Our first watercolor illustration! The assignment was to create a design for a shopping bag for a store. I didn't know which store to do, so I did this for my friends store, Krakk, on Skólavörðustíg back home. It's a store that sells designs by independent artists/designers. Really cool. ( I might be designing something for them in the future).



Alright, here are bunch of my clothed figure drawings from the first few weeks, organized by pose duration:

5 minute drawings

10 minute drawings

15 minute drawings

That's all for now!
-PAAC

Sketches and random stuff

Posting some more adv. perspective sketches. First two's theme was Noah's Ark. The second pair was Geisha themed..



Here below is some random stuff:

While I was sketching out the layout for one of the drawings from last post I got frustrated really fast and starting doing stuff like this. Then I got myself together and managed to do something presentable...
I found this while looking through crap on my flash drive. It's a character from my digital imaging class. We were supposed to be designing a cute dinosaur character for a childrens book, and I did this because it was funny. I did the assignment properly afterwards though. Because I'm such a GOOD STUDENT!!11!1


Made a new brush in photoshop, was testing it out...


Another assignment for digital imaging. We were supposed to distort the head, but I took it a little bit further....


Gahh some clothed figure drawings coming up, along with my first watercolor illustration :0 stay tuuuned. Goodnight. (Band plays, credit rolls)

Samurai

First homework for Advanced Perspective class. The topic was samurai. These are not finished illustrations, but more compositional sketches...

Sneak Peaks

Hey everyone,

I'm back in San Francisco after a nice holiday break in Iceland. While I was at home I completed a prototype version of the boardgame me and my friends are making, and got various freelance projects as well. Since most of these project are yet to be published I will only show you small previews of some of the stuff I've been working on.

But as the new semester starts I'll be posting some of my school work as well, so check in soon!

Later,

Pétur.

Final Week!

Alright guys, a big upload!

It's the last week of the semester and I'm looking forward for the break. I've got some new stuff, including final projects, so let's get to it:

This is my Illustration 1 Final. The project was a Circus poster. Enjoy!
12x17 in, Digital.


And a high-resolution one for a better look ;)


The Circus Illustration Process for those interested...
(edit: for some reason Blogspot shrinked the file, it's probably too big)

This is my two week in-class final for Figure Painting class.
16x20 in, Oil on Canvas Board.

A figure painting homework. I don't like it, except for the shoes...
24x36 in (it's huge!), Oil on Canvas Board.


Our last in-class drawing from Heads & Hands class.
18x24 in, Black & White Charcoal on Toned Paper.

And finally some sketches I did at a coffee house.


That's it for now!

Sketchoff!

Last night me, Ed and Kelly had a sketch-off!
The limit on the first one was 20 minutes and the theme was vampires! Then we decided 20 minutes was way too short, so our next one was 45 mins and the theme for that was werewolves!

So here are my sloppy attempts, I need to get into digital more....

Toned Paper

More drawings from Heads and Hands class. Black and White charcoal on toned paper...

Editorial

Here's my finished editorial illustration. 10 3/4 x 8 in, Gouache on Ill. Board. Sorry for bad photo quality, my camera is dying :(

A little in-class exercise I liked. We were exploring a so-called "pull-off" technique. 4 x 6 in, Gouache on Ill. Board.

Gouache

This is my illustration for our Fable project. I chose the Icelandic myth telling the story of when the King of the Danes sent a wizard to Iceland on a scouting mission for invasion, but the wizard encountered the "landvættir", the protectors of the land. You can read the story here. Anyways, it's painted with gouache paint, a medium I'm still getting used to and not sure if I like or not...

These are two color thumbnails painted in gouache as well, for our next assignment, an editorial illustration. The final will be a little different, but with the same idea (future president Obama overlooking his new land on Pride Rock (from Lion King) (that's not an explosion on the right side, they're supposed to be clouds :P).

I had a nice thanksgiving, turkey and all. Only a few weeks left until Christmas break...
Finals are creeping up on us!

Some more in class work...

Oil on Canvas board, 8 hours.

Black & white Charcoal on Toned paper, 1h20m

Black & white Charcoal on Toned paper, 1h40m

Nupastel on Newsprint, 1 hour.

Nupastel on Newsprint, 20 min.