A Long List of Things

I've actually been doing a lot, starting many things and working on them as I go. I guess this is the most exciting thing this week is my little ode to League of Legends and their stunning pairings.

Two of my favourite wrapped in one drawing. Caitlyn x Vi and Leona x Diana.

The Law and The Rebel vs The Sun and The Moon.

I'm treating this as a test to the style I'll be trying to refine the rest of the summer. I've struggled with trying to find that balanced blend of cartoon and rendered illustration that I oh so love. I do need to try and push things a bit more.I think for my signature theme of pretty girls I do have a knack for eyes, at least that what I find myself mostly captivated towards.

I'm kinda bummed I didn't work as hard to keep up with my blog but I will do so now as I think it's pretty rad to see process work.

I have a very specific swatch collection that I work with in photoshop. I do like the uncoated pastels as a base to work off of in school when I don't have my laptop with me where I have a good 30 or so colours that I like to constantly refer back to.

 I did end up colouring the sketch from the last post. I tried to do a simple block in and minimalistic shading. I tried, and I felt so sad after I was done, but it wasn't the type of image that needed a lot of rendering. I like the legs the most in this.

 Justin Chan, an animation student in the year below me started this pretty cool collaboration across Twitter that invited artists to do a quick sketch of the first 150 pokemon. I was inspired by Pasquale D'Silva's project featuring animals made out of triangles (Triganimals), http://psql.carbonmade.com/projects/4812927 and decided to take a stab at this very graphic geometric style.

The pokemon I got was Jolteon (the right) which is the lightening evolution of the starter pokemon, Eevee. I'm working on finishing the set of all the eeveelutions. Currently on Vaporeon, the water type.

I think I may make a button set of these when I have finished :)

 Wanting to vamp up my twitter page I decided to make a new drawn ID versus taking 50 + photos. I am an artist, why shouldn't I draw? Mint is one of my favourite colours so using that muted pastel ( my favourites ) as my background I quickly got to work on another minimal rendering piece that I am actually quite smitten with.

My friend Hayley,  is a photographer who goes to school with me at Sheridan and is an active artist in other mediums as well. I want to describe her drawings as ... she means well. I'm kidding, she's very talented and you can tell she has a lot of fun working in other mediums other than photos. In our group of friends though she's very fashion forward ( like I try to be! ) and so she was pretty, emphasis on the pretty easy to draw. She's a lot of fun and has a definitive style is which is a mash up of pin-up and 90's cool.

My intention will be to also draw the rest of our group of friends, who now that I think about it are all very smartly dressed, trendy folk.

Que the cloud over your head that tells you your friends are all way too gorgeous and deserve to be models. Well, they are, maybe not by an agency but they're used quite a bit as other photographer's models in school.

Poo.

Moving on are just random sketches that I posted on instagram throughout the season from my sketchbook.

 ^ This one was done at the taafi festival in July.

This is my original character Ellie, she's a waitress. She works in a trendy coffee house, so maybe a barista too. Shes got sass for days. 

Again, as promised I will post more. If I don't I will get a tattoo.

Well that's not such a bad punishment.

Well except that I can't tolerate pain at all.

We'll come back to a later date to discuss what my punishment should be if I don't keep up with the blog.

Yeah? Yeah. Thanks for stopping by and things. 

Life Drawing Portfolio Sem 2

Lately I had been uncomfortable with life drawing, feeling no sense of improvement and losing that will to try harder in it. I can remember feeling the conte and then not knowing really what I was doing with it. I would make scratched on the page that didn't really connect or express what I wanted to capture. Oddly enough, I had a better go at it after taking a break and then consecutively going to extra life for four days. it was just a weird culmination of my sketching and letting myself believe in what the conte could do for me rather than what I could make it do for me. I hadn't taken the time to get to know the conte.

By no means did I become some life dawing prodigy, but I definitely found myself doing better when I wasn't going after a really awesome drawing. I got what I was looking for when I by chance stopping adhering to the 1 minute sketches and just repeated the same pose again and again. Then when I woke from my stupor and tried a new pose something better came out. 

I think just trying to make every drawing so good messed me up hard. In a backwards sense, I think I came to like life drawing again when I saw this portfolio finished. There's a lot of very talented people in my program, and I know that they work really hard studying the human form. I forgot how nice it is. Goal for third year? Actually go to extra life a little more. Maybe not my outrageous goal of 3-4 times a week, but more like 1 or 2. I need to make better use of my time.

And then a sketch I liked in the new small book I bought. What am I doing, buying 5 sketchbooks at the end of the year. Like I am going to be able to fill them all in 4 months.... Well, there's a challenge.