Fine Arts

Here's some silliness I did from last semester's Fine Art Illustration class.

These are all model drawings or paintings from class. 

This was a homework assignment that was "your reaction to a song." I did a reaction to Weather Report's "Black Market." 

Here's a little thing I did over spring break to keep my watercolor chops up... also it is a birthday present portrait for my grandpa. Funnily enough, it's not a school assignment but it's one of my favorite watercolors i've done yet. I'm slowly learning.... :)

I am going to photograph some of my portrait drawing work soon and post it here... it's some of my favorite work that I've done all semester.

There's No Place Like Home!

This is part three of a three-article-illustration assignment, this is just the one that I have scanned/like the best. I'll post the others later, when I get my lazy butt over to scan them.

Anyways... the series is movie-themed... This is a piece in reaction to this article, about how a british snake-oil salesman sold the Iraqi government $85 million dollars worth of bomb detectors that are essentially total crap and do not work. And despite recent devastating bombings and everyone yelling that the detectors are fake, the prime minister (Malaki - shown in illustration as Dorothy) keeps on buying them. Hilarity Ensues - not.

revengeeeee of the kittens..

Here is something that I just completed for Illustration 2. This assignment was to conquer our "illustration fears" and make a piece about a subject matter and with a medium that you hate/are scared of. So that explains the slightly-sketchiness. As you can probably tell, I don't like drawing animals or cutesy kitschy things, or action scenes, and I also am afraid of watercolor. Although I'm slowly getting over that fear.

Anyway.... here's Kitschy Cute Animals in Action, or

REVENGE OF THE KITTENS!!!

Honestly, I'm on the fence about this one. I like the puppy. The puppy I used for reference, although you might not be able to tell from this, is absolutely THE cutest puppy in the ENTIRE universe. It's just a little fuzzy ball of fluff. sleeping on the floor. So that made it a little better.

The weird stylized cats though... I don't know. I guess that was me trying to get away from my thing about realism, because when the cats were drawn realistically, they were just super creepy, definitely not cute at all. Jessica helped me out, recommending that I make them super loopy with the eyes really far apart, a little chibi-ized (I shudder to admit), etc. Hmm.

What do you think? Cute and adorable or vomit city?

StalinMouse

Here is an assignment for my Illustration 1 class. We had to illustrate a short short story, and mine was about a dictator who dreamt he was a mouse, and it ended with him throwing himself into a well to get closer to the moon. So, naturally, I painted a portrait of Stalin, as a mousetator. With a moon. The colors for some reason uploaded rather washed out..

22"x30"

watercolor and acrylic on paper