The Stranger

i love Vimeo! it made things so easy for computer caveman like me. 

anyway, here's this short i did for class my first semester at the Academy! 

Enjoy!



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again, thank you jake and miguel. special thanks to the "stranger"

other things of the sketch nature

here's just some things form my sketch book.

and so... i've vowed to complete (at minimum) 1 sketch book a month... so far so good. these flower sacks are from septembers'. we had this assignment to draw these flower sacks to show volume of forms and stuff. i had fun with it. 

this one is from october. the never ending quest to make girls look like girls...

not so much...

still to much man...

there's a lot of red pencil that i used that didn't transfer well with the scan.

El Ruso returns

FINALLY!

im able to upload the other two! 

obviously, not as strong as the other two, at least i think so. this profile-type view is ok. im happy with it. but the last one i think i made some bad choices with the face and such. 

if i remember correctly my only REAL critique was that i put too much time into the hair. i should try and make it one shape and tone, and limit too much "noise" in the hair? even though i like what i did with the hair, i can understand where that comment was coming from. 

 

also, i should have played up the props more. or so says the instructor. but i understand that also. without those certain story telling elements it's harder to determine who this character is. so...

lesson learned. 

El Ruso

So0o0o0o0o0o0o0o,

here's the first big-ish assignment for clothed figure drawing. 

we were supposed to just create some character. no real guide lines other than creating a character. showing him/her in 4 different positions. being sure to show overlaping forms, strech and compression...blah blah blah.

and as you can see...i only have two... there are four but blogger decided not to load the last two... 

anyway, i had fun with this assignment.

my character is a former russian weapons engineer, rocket scien-tologist type of character. and now he's hiding from his government in america... fixing vacuums. i got some good laughs when i presented it. which made me happy. 

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Capsized when i turned 22

Here’s a few pictures from my Hawaii trip ’08. a lot of fun, a lot of laughs… a lot of people that just HATE life…

Anyway, I had a great time, so I decided to show some pictures that are minimally related to Hawaii.

Enjoy!


more to come.




























































this only proves that i have no idea how to format stupid pictures...

So I think this the second figure I did in class. Obviously a female figure. I was very happy with the results. Actually, so was the model. She even took a picture of it. And I know my instructor liked it also, but I think that was mostly cause of the improvement that I made from the last one. He was an awesome teacher. I think he was polish? Something like that. But he had a very, fuddy duddy attitude towards art, but he was funny as hell. I remember when he saw it his exact words were “…hm…not bad.”

Anyway.

I love clay. Clay clay clay.