"Nobody knows it but me"

Finally!!!!!! i finished my series just in time to submit my portfolio next week. i'm so glad I managed to finish it and i'm pretty impressed with myself for completing 3 pieces in such a short time, that being said I think they could have been a lot better. i was definitely really ambitious with taking these on. i had to rush through them and i think it shows, especially with the last one, but i'm just glad i got them all done!

Life Drawing

my life drawing class has been going ok, it's not the best class ever and i'm not loving it as much as i wanted to. we started out using charcoal, and than black and white, and then added brown with those, and then we did pastel, and now we're using ink. it's cool that we are trying out different mediums but once i feel like i kinda get the hang of it we change to something new.

i havn't really gotten much worthy of posting but this one. we usually have two models and one of them is always the same girl, and this may sound weird but i don;t like drawing her and none of my drawings of her ever come out good :/ this drawing isn't of her, that's why i don't hate this one. there is some really talented people in the class though, i still have a long way to go for sure.

Way Cool!!!!

Michelle found this and let me know about it. The fundred dollar bill that I did for Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill project is featured on the ASU Art Museum website!

W.I.P.

I'm such a slacker. School is going to start and i didn't finish my series like i had hoped, go figure. I'm almost done with this first one, but here are some pictures of the drawing and my process. The way i draw is kinda weird, i've never really seen anyone draw the way i do so i'll try to explain. once i have my initial pencil outline, i start with the charcoal. i work in layers. I like to block everything in with a middle gray tone, and then from there i add another layer with the darker areas , and then i erase for the highlights. after that i give it a spray of fixative and go over the darks, and i basically just repeat that for however much it needs. I don't work from left to right or start with one area, i'm kinda just all over the place. It basically looks like shit until i add the final layer and it starts to come together towards the end. I think i'll post the finished scan when i have all 3 done, which hopefully is sooner than later.

Ughhhhhhhhhhh

So I'm trying really hard to get started on a series because I need one for my portfolio and I'm having a hard time coming up with what i want to do. I have a general idea, which is a start, but I like most of my work to be conceptual. I also like my stuff to be surreal. Problem is i need multiple references, and even when i get my idea, it's not always easy to find references that will work. I'm trying to keep it simple and something i can finish in a reasonable amount of time, but the more i think about the harder I'm making it for myself, but then I need to think about it because I'm setting a goal for myself to get the series done before break is over. I only want to do 3 pieces. This is the the part of the process i hate the most.

Still life

Two more still life drawings from my drawing I class. Now that I have finally gotten a lot of the stuff i have been needing to get scanned done, I'm finally going to start on some new stuff. It's weird though, I didn't take a drawing class this semester and I feel like I haven't drawn in forever, because I really haven't. It seems kinda foreign to me now. I love all different mediums, but not drawing for so long, it's weird to think that's what I actually do. I'm sure I'll be pretty rusty.

Ceramics

These are some things I made on the wheel when I took ceramics in high school. I love working with clay and I'm actually taking a ceramics class this upcoming semester so I'm definitely looking forward to that.