It's experiment time :D

So... in my illustration class my teacher introduced me to like the coolest thing regarding color I've ever seen.  Just to set the stage, I'm not normally into color as much as value.  Using strong shadows, darks, and lights is usually more interesting to me, and when I color, everything tends to be very muted or dull.  I do think this is largely my fault because I don't use much pigment in traditional, and because I have a color aesthetic that was made from my youthful love of watercolor, which almost always tends to be more muted and subtle.

Anyway, today I was introduced to 'gamut masking' which is where you take a color wheel that has neutralized colors in the middle and you mask off most the wheel, and what's left open is what you use for your painting.  On the right is the palette I'm using for the my painting in the illustration class. 

For those interested, here's the picture I'm working on without any color.  Let's just hope that color doesn't ruin it...

This time...

I actually have the rest of the little character designs.
I've found that with these assignments for the imagination and visual literacy class, they tend to start really fun, but by the time I get to the end of the list of drawings to do, I get really frustrated and want to do something else.  It's hard to have no time to work on my own stuff (i.e. comics) and this class is a huge distraction from it.
 

On some of them, I was playing with some colors and using my markers.  I haven't used them since this assignment, which makes me kind of sad... but we do what we can when we have time, I guess.

 The unfinished girl on the right is my rockband character, Sophie, for anyone interested.

 I like the guy with the gun because he was the only one of these that ended up being more serious in style.  I would have liked to have been able to do more like that, but I guess it's okay because the next forty drawings were more serious drawings of expressions.

 I always tend to like the girl characters...

Clear

This was an abstract word for my conceptual illustration class.  My word was clear, and so when I was working out ideas, my teacher-man-dude kind of fell into liking the idea of the people in swimsuits in front of a wall.  So, that's what we have here... pretty much. 
I tried to get a glassy look on the swimsuits, but I don't know that it totally turned out, unfortunately. 

Alaska

So apparently, all of my traffic on this blog is from Alaskans on deviantart.  I think that I should capitalize on this and paint a picture about how awesome Alaska is.  I don't know anything about alaska... so... Instead you can watch the guy kick piranhas in Megapiranha







I did end up watching Megapiranha, and unfortunately, this was still the best scene in the movie.  There were a couple of good ones, like the guy sitting in the helicopter, wiggling around, but not actually flying, the piranha eating a helicopter, and the big badass gun totally being a nerf gun... but other than that, not so great.

And the rest of my character things... I'm sick of posting them one at a time

Also, every time I think about the BFA submission, I get these anxiety attacks.  It's really stressful to me (who finished before the original deadline) that they extended it two more weeks; it's just that much longer before I get to hear if I get in or not.


I also hate putting pictures on this blog thingy because they are so hard to organize...

Dressmaker

This was done for Richard Hull's conceptual illustration class... we were supposed to draw a quote, and mine was "time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."