Practice practice

trying to do some speed paintings lately. From life, pictures and imagination. I feel better about my painting skills than I did a couple years ago - but definitely not to the level that I want it to be. Got to keep at it!

1980s New York Flower Shop

Some Final pages from the New York City project from my Advanced Illustration Class. It was a lot of learning and I had a lot of fun also doing the project. Definitely need to work on my Environment and work on my volumes and light.

New York Project - Character

I went missing there for a few weeks, but I was gone for a good  reason. We're starting on a new project for our Advanced Illustration class. It's based on a flower shop in 80's New York. It's been a lot of fun trying to bring the feel of the time and culture of New York in the 80's. Here are some initial character designs for the Flower Shop Owner.

Here's the second week of ideations. Focusing more on portraying the feeling of a flower shop owner at first glance. I added flower textile patterns from the 80's as well; to add more of an indication of the time and culture.

Here's what I chose to go forward with to the final. Tiny Grandma Rosie! I need to work on this some more. Hopefully it will look more finished and defined when I am done.

Here's a really rough Maya Model I made to make sure that the lights and volumes are correct.

Here's the first pass of the Render using the maya model as an example. 

Next week is the final! Almost done - but need to work super hard to make it look better!

Quick Warm-Up Paintings

Quick warm up paintings before my doing the treehouse paintings

persimmon season

Fall and winter are persimmon season! My sister's boyfriend gave us loads of yummy persimmons so it's today's practice painting! Finals week is here. I have to finish off the Treehouse color paintings by Tuesday.

new updates! 11/19/13

some practice paintings and treehouse stuff for school. also, CTN was awesome! met so many great artist and definitely was inspired and feel so much better about finishing the school year. My library of art books is expanded now.. time to save up money.

updates_11.12.13

Been working on a new project these last few weeks for our intermediate illustration class. Still in the Gary Soto 1950s Fresno universe but now it is a treehouse design project.Up top are a couple paintings i did for photoshop practice using Dice Tsutumi's digital painting method. The three under are practice paintings for the treehouse project. The last few are ideations, prop studies and some exploration for exterior shot for the treehouse. It's getting to the last couple months before finals, gotta fire it up!

30

even though it took me so long.. i finally finished doing my 30 day challenge. Here is day #30, something you want to tell your friends. I guess what I realized is that, as i grew older i lost a lot of imagination. Sometimes it comes out, but working in this industry i feel like we as artist need to be imaginative every day, with everything that we do. Also we must look at things we see in a different way than how others might see it. I borrowed the colors from a Leyendecker piece, just wanted to make something simple. There are a lot of things that i want to learn, i hope i have enough time to learn all of them. 

also,
here's a stop motion that i did yesterday with a couple of friends

getting back into things.

First of all, Happy Birthday to my sister!

In other news, I have a little bit more free time nowadays after finishing my kitchen project. 

So I'm trying to cram some fun paintings while i still can. 

just trying to get better at this painting thing. thank god i learned how to use masks.

kitchens kitchens kitchens

Just finished the Gary Soto project for my intermediate illustration class today. We worked on these paintings for a long time and I'm glad that it's over. I definitely feel like I learnt a lot from this project and I'm really glad that I actually like the paintings I ended up with at the end. While I realize that there's a lot I have to fix with how I paint using layers, it was a great learning experience and I can't wait for the next one.

10/8 updates

 painting i did in class today 

 30 day challenge day 27 - favorite scene from a movie

update on my kitchen. last 2 images are from google sketchup. woo