Post-Graduation

School's finally over, and I've been cruising right along project-wise ever since I got back into New York. I think the fact that I was so burned out last semester helped me find inspiration faster once I was free to do what I pleased, and I have to say it's been a lot of fun so far. For the past month, and next few weeks, I'll be working on as much art as possible. At the end of June I'm headed back to Buffalo to room with my brother- and that means I have to job hunt for a part time position somewhere hopefully nearby to pay rent and the impending school bills, and get resettled after moving again. So things might get stagnant for a little while after that.
For now though, I've completed two new paintings, and started a third (the digital line comp was done last week so it's a bit further along than that right now). The Daft Punk piece was a lot of fun to work on, and it helped me develop a much more intuitive and efficient way for doing final layout and color comps. The painting with the girl in the yellow dress was a trade through the pretty recent tumblr group- Crayon Crunch. Essentially a monthly secret santa event where people sign up by sending an email out of one of their original characters, and they'll be depicted by someone randomly chosen. The character I received for May was Ironmary's Mariska Morevna.
The third wip piece is something I'm playing with, concerning individual songs by groups I'm really fond of.

 

As usual there's a lot more to see on my tumblr: http://klang-art.tumblr.com/  where anything and everything goes up!

So many things so little time...

For internet that is. Once again my lack of posts is in no way reflective of the amount of work being accomplished in apartment R this year. I do have a large post planned for landscape painting (again) and illustrative drawing but I have so much work due this upcoming Tuesday I wouldn't expect them till a little later.
In the meantime here's the most recent project for C.F. Payne's class (Illustration Styles and Concepts). The assignment was meant to establish lighting for photographing reference and working from that. It was also meant to build on our previous assignment (master studies of portraits- John Singer Sargent and Dean Cornwell were my choices, shown in that order):



So for this most recent assignment we had to shoot good reference and create a portrait of a character from a novel/graphic novel. I wound up doing Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm rather happy with how it turned out (especially color-wise).

Paint!

As I said before- lack of internet does not equal a lack of art! (quite the opposite in fact). Here's some random ones I've been playing with for an upcoming art show:




And an older painting and demon doodle I never uploaded for some reason:


On a whole I'm feeling much more confident technique-wise- something sophomore year had me concerned about. I also think my general mentality concerning color is improving vastly but I'm going to have to do up some new pieces to prove it. For the most part this summer I'm trying to concentrate on basic weak points (hands, faces, and a refresher in animal anatomy.) If I get far enough on those I'll be trying to actually illustrate some stuff before school comes rushing back so in my free time I've been reading a good bit- just re-read some Harry Potter and I'm going to finally read Dune. The plan is once August rolls around I'll be illustrating some things I've been reading.