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The Art School Process

Have a Blacksmith doodle, as an apology for skipping last week.

This is the normal process that you have to go through for art school before executing the Final Finished Image for a project.
First, always, you do research and thumbnails, then the rough sketch, then value comps. Sometimes (as in this case after doing value comps you're able to recognize parts of the composition that will be troublesome, so you go back and fix a couple things in your second sketch. Then you do Value comps again, Value Comps are almost the most important part of the process after Research. It determines where the darks are going to be and where your true whites will be, it's like your rosetta stone when you start working in color.
Then theres the Color Comps, where you're laying down color schemes such as Analogous, Split Compliment, Complimentary, Tetradic etc. Then you refine the color comp, adding the compliment to shadows and really laying out where things are going to be.
Finally you do your final line art, the part most people try to skip to. Then you do flatting, which means your making individual layers of color for each layer of space, and object. You don't pay attention to color at this point, you're just establishing your layers.
After all of that, you finally get to work on the finished image, which is laying in all the shadows and highlights and pretty colors you worked on in the color comps. This step is the longest but also the most gratifying, because you've made all your decisions already, you're just doing the busy work and last minute color fixes.

Here's an example of the Research/Thumbnails stage of a Bluegrass Project I'm doing for Visual Vocabulary right now. You can see how I've taken notes, and kind of doodled what things popped into my brain while doing the research about that genre of music. Then I made a few composition thumbnails sketches, keeping in mind the rule of the thirds, and making sure the boxes your working in are the same ratio as the final size you'll be working in.

Here's a look at what the final Line Art looks like for this piece. Note: Line width variation is your friend!! Thicker lines= areas of shadow, Thinner lines are areas that are facing the light source.

Next week, I'll show you the finished pieces for both of these projects, and kind of explain the compositions and how I colored them.

Here's some pages out of my sketchbook for Visual Vocabulary. Prompts were "No Where" , "Now Here", and "Zen Pop Mission" - for the last two.

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My Parent's came for a visit!

We got to explore the very beautiful Japanese Garden.

We also made an excursion to the very exciting Portland Meadows Racetrack. It took us a couple tries to figure out the betting machines, but once we did Daddy made $60! It was great because on Sundays they have Family Fun Days, so it's free to get in, parking is free, and they have races every 15 min.

The last magical thing we did together before they left, was make a trip to the Portland Zoo.

Then on Sunday, Sean, Patrick and took an adventure to Mount St. Helens (more pictures next week)

A Glimpse of life between the shades

Just a couple pages out of my rarely used brown sketchbook

and the finished Rhino Painting for Kate

Sketchbook Exposed

Just a couple sketches out of my sketchbook with Gauche and Ink

A doodle from the Train station yesterday and the sketches for the next painting,

and a little closer to finishing this thing, just got finish rendering the gun and the skulls O.o

Vivid Dreams

So, I had a pretty vivid dream yesterday, I was trying to drive to Seattle on my Motorcycle, but every time I got close I would realize I forgot something (like my leather jacket, or my helmet etc) and I'd have to turn around drive all the way back to Portland to retrieve it. Every time I crossed the bridge between Vancouver and Portland the gap between the road and the bridge got larger so I had to jump my bike to get across...and the last time I made the trip I crashed. Hard. I blacked out. I 'woke up' in my room and Gary -my brother- was staring at my face telling me something was "going to be expensive" I kept asking what was wrong with my face because he was looking at me so weird. I finally looked in the mirror and my eye was sewn shut and my face was covered in road burn. The last words out of my mouth as I woke up were "Where is my Bike?"

And as a reprieve from the violent imagery of my face here's a better scanned copy of Sean's face and the beginnings of another painting for Illustration Painting B :P

Collage and Clever Reference to Baroque

Portrait of Sean from life in my giant sketchbook, I'll put the scan up on my Deviantart on Monday.

We're covering the Baroque Era in my Art History Class and I'm in love with the pencil work and sketches of the work before it gets painted. So, I've made it a personal goal to be able to convey the same feeling in my sketchbook, not much improvement just yet, but soon!

and the in progress of my collage for Visual Techniques, the quote is "All is Fair in Love and War" it doesn't look like it right now but I guess you'll just have to wait till Monday to see it finished :P

Got Skillz?

A Portrait of an Old Classmate annnnd I finally jailbroke my Tablet so now I have Android 4.0. I was doodling in sketchbook pro last night and below is what occurred from it. I'm kind of impressed with myself right now because it is more difficult to draw on it than I was anticipating, but after a while you kind of pick up the knack of it.