Summoning

Summoning
Ashley Almeida.

I had the pleasure of working with Kelsey Jarboe of Ascii Flower during Art Week Boston for the showcase Weird, Fantastic & Sublime–”a live literary menagerie of New England area writers of speculative fiction.“ Working with combining themes fantastical themes like magic and science fiction I created a poster to advertise the event. We went over a couple dozen thumbnails before deciding and moving along with this concept. Here’s a gif showing my progress moving from a thumbnail, to restructuring, inking and color.

Ascensão

Illustrating water is a constant battle.
The semester is finally over, so TAing is done. I need to assist in grading student work some time this week though. I just want to sleep and live off arroz doce, and cider for the holidays though.

Warning

I only ever posted the finished version of the rider, so I’m reposting him with his creature. Sorry about the lack posts; I’ve been pretty reserved lately, playing video games, reading, and drawing exclusively in my sketchbook. Been very moody about my work… I have 3D illustration work I could share, but I sort of don’t want to? I think it’s very mediocre. Eh.

A couple months old. Work, sketches, ideas for a comic I plan on doing. Mostly experimenting between digitally inking, working with comics (it’s been a while), and coloring. I think I prefer my work with flat colors. It allows me to still be extremely sketchy while clear. I think my work is starting to take a better direction, but I don’t know. I wish I had more work to show you guys, but I’m not going to be posting a bunch of storyboards I did from my animation class haha.

That update I promised is here.

Alright, here's a big dump of art...Have some bits from classes, wips/progress of sculpting Clinty. Conceptart for a scifi, racing beast. Preston Blair hands, feet and normal hand sketches.


Also, also, I've been working on making a list of female artists in the industry as a response to some sexist behavior and comments I've seen here and there (that I won't go into, because it's petty). It's only maybe 75 names long with a dozen links to relates articles and blogs, but I've been adding to it as I have time and come across/remember peoples' names. You can find it:
HERE.

Some Homework I Guess

Yeah, so, I forgot yesterday was Thursday. Here are some sketches for school assignment on plant phobias and an illustration I did for fun. I'll give more details next post I guess.

Updated WIP

I tried to apply crit and advice I've been given while also touching up areas that I think need more work. I've only been working on it for an hour or two at a time. It's a slow process because I'm still new to it.

Banner WIP

I want everything to be flat and lines except for the skin, but thus far I dislike how it looks. i probably should put it against a red background, because that's the actual color I'm going to use. I would really appreciate some critique here. I'm unsure of the skin shading... Thus far I'm not really where I want it to be. Suggestions will be extremely appreciated.

Here, have some more...

Okay, so this was a poster design for the House of blues for my Experimental Illustration Class.

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  Experimental Illustration. Was given an envelope and told to do whatever we wanted. I did this.

  An Illustration I did really fast for a friend's contest over at DA when i first got my tablet.

Experimental Illustration Dyptych. focusing on transgender.

Redoing it to obtain the concept i was working toward before. Melted skin morphing together. More natural anatomy. Proper male anatomy. Facial expression, etc.  

Class Assignments and One personal WIP (The first one)