Ghost of Gone Birds

An assignment for my Natural History class. Had fun with this, trying out a more graphic approach to stuff.

Boyfriends moving in in a couple days, so I need to get some work done in the next few days. Gonna touch up on some things and post them sooner or later.

So Red Nose Studio (Chris Sickels) had a gallery showing at my school

This was the Thursday before last. It was great. The gallery opened at 5:30 or so and he did an hour long talk later that night. I always love when Professional artists visit my school and give talks, it's always informative. He shared its and bits about his process, jobs he turned down to reach his goals, and the evolution of his artwork/style. You can view his website at : http://rednosestudio.com/
During the opening and speech I took some photos so I'm just going to share a few of my favorites, yo.
I mostly wanted to just capture the "feel" of the gallery and talk. Enjoy. 

Oof, an update

Sorry about the last two weeks, I haven't really had anything I specifically wanted to share. I've been meaning to convert some motion tests and "studies" from Animation Basics I. Right now we're story boarding and drawing up ideas for our final project. Been doing multiple things in my Phobias & Obsessions class, going back and redoing a project. Have a lot of sketch book drawings from my Natural History drawing class. I'll probably share the more finished pieces from that class toward the end of the semester. My book illustration class we've mostly been doing out concepts, and I honestly need to haul some ass in that class, but when I get it together I'll be sharing that. I've been busier with school that I expected at the beginning of the year, but I'm just dying to take a break and do my own work, get out my own ideas. I just feel bad whenever I put my own work first before school since I AM paying money for school.

Fear of Pee-Wee Herman from my phobia's class.

From my Natural History class. We had to take an article about weeds, & design the page with an illustration we did from our sketchbook.

Just a couple pages from my personal sketch book of some ladies and butts. I would post more from my sketchbook but I sort of plan on going back through it and making a lot of finishes from stuff I jotted down and drew. If I don't finalize anything by, I don't know, the end of the semester/school year I'll just post it on here. I don't know... should I post that stuff anyway or just wait till I've made finished pieces? I'll be starting a new sketchbook soon too.

Some Crafts from last semester

Some stuff from last semester. A toy made from recycled trash for experimental illustration and a book that I made for my sequential illustration class. I also have a "stand-up" type book I made for the same sequential class illustrating personal growth, done with paint, thread, marker and modified paper.

OOF

You know that feeling when you literally have a million things to do? Yeah, well, I do. I don't like it. Have a convention this weekend. Have an exam tomorrow that I need to study for. Have homework I want to redo, touch up, finish, etc. Time to workworkwork.

Lines that make bodies

Oof. Now I can go do some homework. Semi sort of behind from stomach flus to ulcers to colds. A great start to a school year. Sorry for the brief updates.

These are the last of the gesture drawings from my Anatomy class first semester of last year. Most are two minute poses, but there's one that's a 20 minute pose (and obviously not a gesture). Some are five minute poses. Grabbin' my tea to workworkworkwork.

And by Thursday I mean two hours into Friday, right?

No. Yes.

Here are some sketches from my editorial natural history drawing class. It's sort of fun to experiment with some mediums I previously hated and get a new feel of just being messy. I actually really enjoy this class, but the work itself I don't like. While I do like what I've been doing in class, I personally don't think it's art so much as "hobbyist art". But hey, maybe that's just me having to shoot down everything I do as an artist. Maybe I've been an art school too long... who knows, I was jerk enough without the elitist art spewl. I happen to have a tumblr now, by the way: Link. I have a pretty cute background I made on there (and twitter) too. [The skulls are of a parona, a rabbit, a bird and a rat for the BG.]