Some last touches

Here is the final illustration for the Society of Illustrators poster. I really liked the way that it turned out. It was fun thinking of some clever tag line for the poster. I ended up choosing "Home Sweet Home. Kick back and kick butt. Enter your artwork t the society of illustrators." The colors printed out really well...this was probably my best experience with the printer. I'm very pleased with it overall.

This was a super fun watercolor. This is my extra assignment. I tried using a new technique and style of watercolor. I learned a lot from doing this and I like the way it turned out. I had to redo it a few times because I kept overworking it, but it eventually turned out nicely.

This is my article illustration. You wanted a farmer and snow and there ya go! I really like the touch of snow on the farmer hat and on the trees and farm. It adds a lot. I also liked the mud puddle and the clor mixture on the pigs skin.

Society of Illustration 16 x 20I really enjoyed watercoloring these little cottages and then incorportating the design/illustration element into the road. It turned out really well and is pretty close to my original idea. The greenery could be a little more interesting but I think the house and road turned out very well.

This is my SOI comp. I orginally had the design words in a small stream, but changed it to a dirt road.

This is Abe, out of pop tabs! Thousands, actually. This was quite a project! I had a lot of fun with it though and I am very pleased with the outcome. It was very time consuming but it was a fun medium to work with.

Article Illustration

Okay, okay...this pig is a little donuty and the sky is obnoxious, but its cute right? I'm going to redo it, Rusty. No worries.

Life/deathI love the concept. I agree it needs more foliage. My tree trunk needs some serious attention. I'm going to redo it. I am determined to master this medium! (I have a week left and I CAN DO IT!) :)

Airbrush redo

I'm so happy i got approved! I touched some of the problems up that were caused by pulling the frisket off, but besides that this is what the chihuahua looked like originally. The paint is muc more even than the first attempt. I am happy with the final result, but i'm still bitter about that darn frisket!!!!

1st cheesy airbursh

Miderm Redo!

This is my redo for my midterm to replace the watercolor of Ronald Reagan.

This is my replacement of the sailboat

I hope you like it!

Photo Portrait and #11

This is my memory portrait of one of my best friends. I really like the color usage, but would like to go back with some more detail.

This is my number 11 project. I am really pleased with the way it turned out. It looks much better than the original.

Airbrushing

Here are a couple of the airbrush activities. A sphere and a Cube. My sphere is decent, except the bowling ball holes are a little wonky. Other than that though, I think I captured the light source pretty well.

I had a lot of fun making the cube. It kind of looks like the logo for nintentdo or something. But Rusty told me to step things up so I am doing my hardest to push, push, push! It paid off, because the cube came out clean and transparent.

Number 11

This is my number 11 project. There are 9 planets and then the sun and the moon. My medium was airbrushing. For my redo I am going to try and do this project on black paper and then have white orbit lines for each of the planets. I think that will really help my composition and make the whole piece a little more dynamic. There are certain things i like about this piece but I am happy that I get to redo it because there are definitely things I want to improve on.

Iowa Postcard- The Des Moines Art Center

This is a little noodley. I need to work on the structure and the sculpture in the front. I like the colors I used in the watercolor, but I just need to tighten things up now! :)

5 Best Pieces So Far

The first image I chose is this watercolor sailboat. I felt like this was the first time I understood the idea of a loose technique. I tried to manipulate the paint in different ways and this time I let the paint do what it wanted to do, with a little bit of my own technique.

This next image is of a cherry blossom tree. I used a blotching technique for the flowers and used solid line and loose filler form with the inside of the tree and the grass. I really liked the way this one turned out.

This was a full size watercolor of the antique photo we chose. I really enjoyed this assignment. I think I accurately depicted her sweetness and shyness. I liked the soft colors I chose as well. Overall I was really pleased with this piece of work.

This was the first piece of artwork I have ever done that I was truly proud of. I have never rendered someone and made them look like the person I am trying to render. This was a very encouraging step for me in illustration and art as a whole. I had a lot of motivation and I think I used it accurately to produce this watercolor.

This 5th piece was my first image gauche montage. I really liked the colors I used and the objects turned out pretty well. I really like the background sky and the anchor. I wish the sailboat was a little bigger so there could be more detail. I think the bottom of the lighthouse could use more work and some different stroking to show the curved shape of the lighthouse.

This is the image I am using for the homestate postcard. My homestate is Iowa and this is the Des Moines Art Center. I am going to do this piece in line art using a micron pen and then will overlay some of it with a light watercolor wash.

3 image gauche montage

3 Image Gauche Montage. I am really happy with the way this turned out. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I enjoyed seeing my work and time go towards something at least interesting. I liked the colors I chose and I liked the pick-out technique on the lighthouse and anchor. As Rusty said, my anchor is a little noodly, but I am going to try very hard to make sure my next one is "crisp". I would really like to hear that word with one of my pieces of work. One reason I worked so hard on this piece was because the images are very interesting to me. I am so excited to start the next one, as well as the postcard.

The Things I am Not So Proud of--

The first piece, tattoo girl, was me trying to get a grip on the watercolors. I didn't understand the loose technique at all! I was very controlling and things didn't work well. These were my trial and error pieces. They definitely caused me some trials and are definitely filled with errors but I learned so much!

AHHHH! First pick-out technique went terrible wrong! I learned what NOT to do.

A picture of me. Yes, my head looks squished but I have fun trying to do something I know so well-- my face-- because the mistakes stand out very much to me.

Pick-out technique. I went with a more abstract view on this. I really do like the way this tuned out but I don't think I accomplished the technique Rusty wanted us to master.

Watercolor Antique Photo

Watercolor Techniques

New Watercolors

I really enjoyed doing some of these. The pomegranates took longer due to to all the small seeds. My favorite of these is the antique photo replica. I liked being able to apply my own color. I also liked doing the 10 watercolors with the watercolor techniques. It was relaxing and I learned a lot from that project about watercolors and how they work.

Pomegranate Still life

Pomegranate

Cherry Blossom Tree

Pomegranate

Guitar

Titanic

Baseball

Little Bird

Little Girl

Watercolor Set 2-3