Heavens above...

Blogger, I certainly did not mean to abandon you for so long there.  I apologize.  But I do have a fab excuse this time.
This semester has obliterated my chances at producing finished work up until this point in time.  Two months into my last semester... that is far less than promising but I am moving as relentlessly as I can toward accomplishing some work whether my classes like that or not.  Next weekend should produce at least one completed something.

But, in the meantime, have a medley of stuff I've done in the past couple months.

Illustrative Drawing With Mr. Tardino.

This class. Finally a workload that is threatening to cave my entire life in on itself in an enjoyable way!
Illustrative drawing is one of my classes for the fall 2011 semester. Essentially we (the students) are each creating our own story for which we are designing characters, creatures, environments, etc. The fall semester centers a bit more around animals since we are able to go to the Columbus zoo!
My story is still a work in progress (as is every other story in the class)- but a quick summary of what I have typed up is here: (scroll past if you'd like to avoid reading)

So if you scrolled past basically all you need to get out of it for now is it takes place in Russia in the early 1900s (around 1905-8) and the animals involved are a Silver Langur, a Siberian Tiger, a Grizzly Bear, and two Timber Wolves (brothers). So far our class work has been mostly sketches and studies. I'll shut up now and let the pictures do some talking.



These three painting sketches were (as Tardino called them) "dream-scapes"- essentially quick environmental studies to get a mood and atmosphere across to the viewer. But from what I hear (from my roomie who is in the Monday class) he didn't want figures in them yet? Then again the example he showed us had characters in it so I just don't know anymore. But this is what he's getting.



Then some skeletons for all the beasties....and some walk cycles HERE and HERE.







Then some studies from the zoo itself....

All in all lots of work and I'm curious to see what my finished works wind up looking like for this class.

SCHOOL.

It hath begun. Three weeks in and I'm managing to stay on top of homework for once in my life. Granted it's only three weeks in. Anywho not much time for a detailed post tonight- if you want to see my ventures (once a day every day) head over to le tumblr:
http://klang-art.tumblr.com/
Since I can't go into detail about current projects (my head is spinning just thinking about them all) have a painting I did at the zoo last week- there's a bear in there (the sleeping blob in between the trees). Not that good but hey, it was an hour and a half in oils. It was fun practice.

Now I'm going to go back home and do more homework (seriously). A much more complete in detail update should make an appearance sometime this weekend.

Demon a Day (7)

Purson

Not so happy with this one but getting into the habit of painting black and white then doing a bunch of colored overlay layers isn't such a good idea.

The Bear and The Langur

Finished for class at any rate. I'd like to go in with some colored pencil and maybe some acrylics but the teacher only wants water colors- so until I get it back it'll stay as is.

Something cute?!?

Quick value study and thumbs for class on Monday- we're doing a watercolor painting and it has to involve two animals interacting. Here we have a gray langur telling a story to a moon bear. Makes perfect sense.

Really my main focus was trying to play to my strengths with prominent shaping but it turned out cute. Seeing how I'm lacking in cute portfolio pieces I'm ok with this.