quick update/preview

I was in Chicago for an all day Saturday trip thanks to Megabus and CCS Hall Council and the people that signed up for the event. so now I'm playing catch-up with lots of work to cover and I plan to update this blog eventually.

besides that, here's 2 images from my fig 2 self portrait assignment. The charcoal was hard to do with the mirror pose and lighting. I then cropped the shot and adjusted my head position so it'd be easier to mirror paint. The lineart photo was taken at an angle, the work is not actually slanted back as you see in here (i will post a better photo later). 80s bike chick= me. :D

fig 2 painting and etc

So I've been late with updates but here is some stuff from Figure Illustration 2 that I've been working on these few weeks.

Sketchbook stuff (sorry these are crap camera shots, will scan better images later):

1. Process work for my Wyeth mastercopy (sketches, B&W studies, color study, thumbnail, charcoal study, lineart, underpainting):

N. C. Wyeth's Boys of King Arthur illustrations are really cool, but have a wide range of color. With my limited palette of titanium white, yellow oxide, red oxide and mars black, it's weird to go by the tone of the piece... color swatches ahoy! the "dirty" earth tones are difficult right now.

And an in-class from last week I actually like:

Harry needs to dress as Santa sometime. The "Surfin' Santa" from those beach ads, to be more specific.