Well, we've been SUPER busy this first two weeks and I wanted to prove it by showing how many things we've done so far. Mind you, all this work has left me stupidly tired and in much need of rest tonight, but I'm trying to stay up until dinner so I can eat and then go to sleep. Since I needed something simple to do in the meantime I decided to get a head start on scanning the artwork and posting it.
I'm going to try to keep up with stuff this term (like now) so you can see it as I finish it, but that might not happen so don't be surprised if it doesn't. :)
In order of completion:
Green Turbo Shell, colored pencil on white paper
Green Turbo Shell, colored pencil on toned paper
We did another replica piece, this time in acrylic...
This is the original from one of John Dawson's Nature of America stamps
(he works in acrylic so it was a natural choice for this assignment)
Here's my copy (my original is 3"x3" - took me ~10 hours)
Blue Gum eucalyptus, acrylic (tromp l'oeil style)
And last but not least... (a third colored pencil piece)
Leucadendron in colored pencil on Duralene
(yes it really does look this vibrant and that is due entirely to the Duralene
surface we had to use for this last assignment, I will most definitely be using this stuff again)
So that's what I've been up to these first two weeks of class, kinda crazy right?
Right now I'm working on a final spot illustration in colored pencil (on Duralene of course), a 3-point lighting illustration in Photoshop (it's essentially a small spot illustration but with really dramatic lighting), and a "special-view" illustration of how rock type and structure in Zion National Park creates the Zion "hanging gardens" (you'll see when it's done in a couple weeks - in the planning and sketching phase for that one right now).
Also in the works, an acrylic painting in which I'll be rendering a full scene (as opposed to just a single specimen in a white background).
Fun stuff. Please excuse me while I pass out now.
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