Painting at Wine Country

My new baby

about 2 hours

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More landscapes

Trying to capture that early morning light, started painting this at like 9 in the morning..


Started another one around noon. This one is pretty bad, and it got smudged too..

Landscape painting

So the summer semester started this week. I'm taking two classes, one of them is landscape painting. I'm enjoying this class very much so far. These were painted at South Park.

I'm trying to improve my eye for color and really trying to capture the light. I'll be painting around four of these every week so stay tuned :)

Jóli

Icelandic-santa character design, part of a job I'm working on...

Sketches

Springshow

The Springshow opening night was yesterday and I got in 7 pieces. I also won the Barbara Bradley Appreciator Award, which I'm very happy about.

Last CF3 class

Last day drawings in Clothed Figure Drawing 3... Good times. I think I've grown a bit in this class. My direct-drawing technique is a little better. I was in a more of a painterly mood this day, as you can maybe tell...

Last Illustrations

Hey guys, last week of school! Finals went well and I got some pieces into the Springshow, but I don't know which ones. I submitted a lot...

Here are my last two assignments for Illustration 2: Watercolor. Watercolor is much more diverse than I expected, but I'm not sure I'll be using it much in the future.. we'll see. The theme was a book illustration, both cover and interior. I chose a novel by Jim Butcher called Turn Coat in the Dresden Files series. It's a Mystery-Detective-Urban-Fantasy book, I love it.

This first one is actually our final, but we were running out of time in class so we had to finish this one and the other one at the same time, so I went for a very simple design that I could paint fairly fast :P Here's my process:

Super messy and fast sketches, playing with ideas and composition.

We painted our color rough in class, trying to figure out how my final's gonna look like... I actually like the colors here way better than in my final, I messed up the purple..

And then the final!

This is the interior illustration, a two-page spread, with space for text.

Messy sketches. I picked a passage from the book which reads:

"It screamed again, the sound deeper-chested than before, more resonant. I raised my staff, anger and terror and determination surging down into the wooden tool, and shouted, "Forzare!"

My color rough

And final!

Extra bonus: This is how my final for Adv. Perspective looks like, all the drawings mounted on two big boards for presentation.

CF3 Portfolio

Some favorites from my final portfolio for Clothed Figure 3, life drawing class. All these are from the second-half of the semester. For those interested pose duration is marked in the corners.

Igster & Peebs

Another Illustration 2 project, render an animal, realistically, in watercolor. Then create a character from that animal.