Spring Semester 2011 at AAU part 1

So, after a long semester of not updating this thing, it's finally time to put some junk up here so all of the 0 people who see this can...see the work I did. so a little about this semester; well....it was a crock of shit. if thats even a thing. i took 2 studio classes with 2 liberal arts classes. i really enjoyed the liberal arts ones, but the studio ones were 2 of the hardest and least fruitful classes i have ever taken at AAU. One was a water color class (ill 2) and the other was the second comics drawing class. i learned a lot about techniques and style, as well as about myself and about my work in each class, but i found both teachers to hold biases against nearly all of my work. the ill 2 teacher was not as obvious or as vocal about it, and i liked him a little more, but yeah the other guy was a little harder to handle. and i can say that knowing he will most likely NEVER be interested in seeing my blog. ok now onto the work...

this was my first decent project i did in water color, it was supposed to be a t-shirt design for the zoo or something, here is the first comp;

then after the first critique i went with these final lines

and then this was the final water color. i didnt do great on it but whatever

here is the second assignment i got from the ill2 class. this is a portrait of my girlfriend at the time. the background is supposed to say something about her personality, so it is the ipod menu thing in a stained glass like design because she is very religious and she loves a ton of different types of music. this is the photo i worked from...

 and here are the lines of the first comp.

then here is my color comp process getting to the final colors

they are all done in a technique that was an option to do, which is using a shadow color to block in all the shadows, and then use a skin tone wash once the shadow side is dried. the shadow is supposed to be a color, a temperature, not just black, so i was practicing with that trying to not make it look weird. i dont think i was successful until the final.---but this guy under here is just a process pic before i added the skin tone wash

this is the final and this is what it looks like from a photo....

but i took a scan of the final too and i think the colors come across much better in it

thats it for now! part 2 later...