The beginning of the end

So it has been a long semester. I wouldn't say I am pleased with my

work this semester. I really only produced one thing that I am proud of. I do hope that my final semester here will bring better art. I finalized my schedule today and its different than this year, less free time during the week, but I think the classes will be much better than this past semester. One of them will be a storyboarding class and I am more than thrilled for that o

ne. Another one is Narrative Illustration, which I have been trying to take since my freshmen year. Unfortunately I had to drop Wine Appreciation, but I suppose my parents will be pleased about that.

This is a birthday card I made

for my roommate today!

Happy 22nd roomie!

This assignment is

from a few months ago, its a

coloring book about Kiba!

October-November 2011

Just a quick update- lots more to photograph and upload, I just haven't gotten around to it yet!
First is a digital painting and some concept work for my Concepts Class. We all picked Greek Gods to illustrate, I picked Athena. Below those are some life drawings I did recently in my Drawing Class with Jerome Witkin. Also, I am going to re-upload my video portfolio because it doesnt seem to be working... hmmm.

September 2011

So far senior has been good. The work load seems pretty heavy this semester with a lot of our assignments being due at the same time. I have three more painting to finish this weekend! Below is the sketch for our Haiku assignment- someone else wrote the haiku and my classmates and I have to illustrate them. The lucky ones get their art put up in downtown syracuse. I have also uploaded my sequential art assignment. This one was about death and the after life. Everyone interpretation were really interesting and extremely different, some were pretty upbeat and others not so much, mine is pretty positive I think, haha. Finally there is out "animals doing human activities" assignment- this has by far been my favorite, I have included the sketch and ALMOST finished product. I have to work on the lighting a bit and make it a bit brighter here and there but its almost there.

FAll SeMesTer 2010

This is all the work I did over this past Semester. I didnt put them in order, but if I had you'd probably be able to tell what was done before what.... I still have problems with color.. but I did improve slightly...

This is a study for the painting below: this was the first idea
This is a character study for the painting below.
This is the finished painting, I am very unhappy with it, but it was a learning process!

These are figure studies: some in pencil, some with pencil and acrylic.

This was for our "cinderella assignment". We had to redefine it. This is Russian cinderella. The first one is after, the second is before.

These are figure studies. Done with pencil and acrylic.

This was for a "inside/out assignment" titled: broken promise at graduation

This piece was for a 'made-up job' assignment. The job being a cashier at a snack shack at a zoo.

This painting was for a 'Hat' Assignment. It has some hidden messages.

This painting is a COPY of a Peter De Seve painting. I changed it around a bit, but it was a study to learn how to paint a bit better. It helped me a lot, but the composition and idea belongs to Peter De Seve.
This was for an assignment where we had to illustrate a Japanese fable. Its called Urushima, I decided to illustrate it in the Japanese Manga style.
This was for a 'Two People interacting". This is one of my favorites. There really isnt any color, its the under drawing thats holding it together.