More Work in Progress

"You're saying yes all the f___in' time, yet nothing's DONE"!

That's what Gordon Ramsay would say to me if he could see me now. So yea. One semi-finished illustration and one WIP. I am planning on adding more gawking people to the first one and fixing the perspective a bit more. I struggled with this one because it reads more like an ad. I think the third one will be more successful since it's just a big cocktail-scandal party.

Pride

This was the second illustration for my class. The theme is pride. This isn't quite done, nor are the last 3 or 4 illustrations I've done. I need to set aside a month after this semester is over to finalize everything. But here's the progress.

New Semester

Wow, an update. So these are a couple projects I was working on for two separate classes that still need work. My theme for my portfolio class is tentatively "fashion illustration" though I've resolved that it is, in fact, taking cliche fashion illustration scenarios and putting a twist on them. It's true that fashion illustration is usually about the clothes and what not, so what I'm doing is more about the lifestyle. But rather than promoting the lifestyle to the point where it's nauseatingly glamorous, I'm trying to illustrate that high status doesn't exempt people from being people. There will be 5 total when all is said and done.

Finished Semester

Well, finally finished a particularly grueling semester at CSULB and so it's time for Winter vacation. I'll be doing a few [unpaid] commercial boards to beef up the portfolio and then it's off to hopefully get some paid storyboard work. In the meantime, more drawing and more [digital] painting to prepare myself for my final semester at CSULB and then it's off to [finally] meet the "real world" head on at the tender age of 27.

Anyway, here're some drawings from life and some more colored faces which I think are more successful, in terms of color, than my previous batch. I even like the bottom right hand corner one in spite of her frightfully large eyes.

Second storyboard assignment

The assignment was to take an Aesop's fable and make a storyboard out of it. We were to do a minimum of 30 frames, which is what I ended up with. I left a few out, however, cause' they just seemed redundant. Overall, I think some of the drawings are okay, but the pacing is a little choppy. Time to move on to the next one.

Watercolor series

Here's some school stuff. I have to admit to being a bit proud of myself with these in terms of color. Yea, stuff is crooked and it ain't perfect, but it's the best I've done so far so, yea. I feel like I'm finally getting color, thanks to George Zebot's instruction.

Production Stuff

Ever get the feeling that life is out to get you? How bout' a UFO? I decided long ago that my soul mate was abducted by aliens and that was why I couldn't find her, here in sunny Southern California. Anyway, I'm dizzy after doing this stuff.

Anybody know an easier way to draw buildings? Please let me know. =(

First Storyboards

Here're most of the panels from my first boarding assignment. Some are missing but they simply feel a bit redundant. I think I need to work on drawing buildings. Anyway, the "story" is pretty retarded and doesn't really warrant mentioning, but hopefully the drawings read.

Richard

I've been looking through my life drawing stuff and, strangely, all my best drawings are of the same model. Actually, it's not really strange: He's great!

Flowers

So I'm taking a watercolor class and we're painting flowers. This isn't watercolor. This is my attempt to supplement my watercolor studies with less expensive computer studies. I think it turned out okay for doing it off the top of my head but I guarantee you my instructor would laugh. I'll upload more digi-flowers and possibly even watercolor flowers later on.