Thursday, April 29, 2010

Finished phone repair shop


Mainly done traditionally with pen and prisma colors, I put the finishing touches on in Photoshop. I'm pretty happy with this so far. It makes me want to write a comic just so I can use it, which might actually make for an interesting story exercise.

Figuring out color!

It was a short day in my still life class today, so we didn't get the full six hours to work on our paintings. Today I wanted to focus on getting my concept down right off the bat, and so I decided to focus on color. My teacher brought in some beautiful flowers that I was immediately attracted to, so the first thing I did after laying in the basic shapes was nailing the color to the best of my ability. After I got the red and the yellow down, I left them alone and when to work on the rest of the painting. Everything else kind of had to be in relation to those two flowers. It was a really interesting way to work. When I first started, I would go in and jump all over the painting and try to paint whatever popped into my head. Now I'm trying to be more careful and consciously make a decision about what I'm going to do in the painting, nail it in the thumbnail or the first few brush strokes, then spend the rest of the time rendering it. This beats trying to figure out what I'm going to say as I go along, as this has meant many, many confused hours going towards a very muddled piece of work. Yeah for breakthroughs! Especially those that save you hours of headache.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Still Life Painting--in class exercises


Flowers! I just jumped right in with this one, not really planning out what I was going to do. It was a pretty simple set up, except for all of the petals. That was tough. It worked though. I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out, though given a few more hours I'd really like to render some of the flowers more and work on those stems.


We were working on a glass bottle and patterns last week. I tried to keep the painting really warm, and only went in with the blues towards the end to make everything pop. It makes it so much easier for me--at least at this stage in my painting career--to limit my palette. It also helped to keep the color wheel out and constantly stay within my color scheme.


Sunday, April 11, 2010

For fun

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Layout Rough






Phone repair shop layout, wonky style!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Still life DONUTS!




I had fun with this. At first my cool shadows made everything look green and very unappetizing, so I went back and only used warm colors on the food. Tough, but a good challenge. Its making me look at food advertising in a whole new light.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Cultural Narratives



Digital color study for the book "Some Prefer Nettles"