Humanitas

For Lifestyles we were given a "Vices and Virtues" assignment. Here is Humanitas (Kindness), and you can see Invidia (Envy) in the background. Unfortunately Envy's photoshop file was corrupted and my heart wept for days but Humanitas made it through!

Somewhere during crit for the sketches someone suggested "Sailor Moon meets Olive Garden meets Fairy Princesses", and so it was. It was a lot of fun doing ostentatious dresses and ridiculous hair, but I'm going to start playing around with different methods of applying colors. The color and composition of this thing isn't really doing it for me.

Details:

brain drain

The first half of the semester left me pretty mentally and emotionally drained so two days off for Fall Break were a welcome reprieve. After catching up with friends and feeling 80% more lucid I decided to slap color on some non-work-related doodles from my sketchbook.

Gotta love ladies floating in space.

Self Portrait

I may draw a more flattering one soon but for this semester this is as accurate as it gets.

My hair really is that dark, vast and endless.

Odds and ends

I made a blog header. I get super indecisive with color schemes so here are some other ones that I may rotate though when I get bored.

A little gore from my sketchbook too:

While working on both of these things I've been listening to Radiolab's episode Loops; it ain't no coincidence.

Paper Dolls: Week 3

Decided to make it a musician themed week. Yes, Justin does count.

Jabberwocky

I got to illustrate Jabberwocky by Carroll for Character Design! We were required not to draw in our native style but rather to try and imitate Mary Blair. I don't do lineless very often so it was a challenge, but by the end of the assignment I found the process soothing.

This was the first round of drafts where we had to figure out what the all the babble in the poem is referring to. The designs were pretty well received with the exception of my bandersnatch. I don't know what's going on either.

The last image is the scene where my exhausted boy becomes beamish after single handedly (ehehh) vorpals the Jabberwocky before he goes galumping back. The center bit is alright but composition isn't really doing it for me.

Paper Dolls: Week 2

The dolls bundle up, and so do I. It's freezing in Baltimore.