IF: Carry

Here is this weeks new Illustration Friday submission, this weeks topic was "carry" and I originally planned to make an elephant procession, but got too caught up in the design to the point where I couldn't fit anymore animals or people in without them blocking the view of the architecture, but I'm happy with how it turned out nonetheless. 

Old work: Figure Drawing

While I was digging around in my portfolio today, I found some old pen and ink work from my figure drawing class last semester that I never got around to posting. So here it is! (Better late than never!) Also my scanner cut off some of the images so that's why there are some missing limbs!

I think this last one turned out pretty solid, I don't know why but it's much easier to draw people from the back, less detail?

IF: Faded

Now that spring semester is finished, I'm trying to get back into the habit of doing a weekly Illustration Friday (even though for me it's more like every other week!) This weeks theme is Faded, which made me think of vintage photographs (maybe it's because of my new obsession of the early 20th century...or maybe it's because I went antique shopping last weekend) , either way I'm pretty happy with the results. 

Portraits and Pen and Ink

Here is some more work from my Figure Drawing class.  Last week we were focusing on the face and made a couple of portraits of the model, which was a good exercise because I haven't drawn faces (or at least not in great detail) for a long time!!!

We were then assigned to make a self-portrait of ourselves using dramatic lighting and wearing a hat, scarf, or just something different than what we normally wear, so here is me wearing a big floppy hat, looking silly but stylish (yeah you know you want this hat!)

And finally we began to work with ink this week which is fun yet frustrating, because it's a new material that I haven't worked with much and so I am super slow at getting things down on paper! 

More to come later...

IF: Heights (sort of...)

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Heights", I began working on this illustration last week when I was trying to find something to take out my midterm stress on, so really I wasn't thinking about the topic. But I suppose the bird perched atop the the temple works with the theme.

More Victorian's!

This is just a short post of something I was working on over the break. I think my understanding of perspective is getting better although this particular drawing didn't involve much perspective, but still I'm getting more comfortable with it and I feel that my work is showing more confidence every time I practice something a little more challenging. But hey! That's the only way to learn :)

First post of the New Year!

Hello! And Happy New Year! (even though it feels a little late to be saying that : P). My new years resolution this year was to make a sketch everyday (I'm proud to say that I've been keeping up with my resolution thus far but I can't say what will happen once the new semester starts!) Recently I've been feeling that I have been getting a little rusty on some basic drawing techniques like perspective, and so wanting to challenge myself and make something interesting, I sketched a Victorian house using two point perspective, with the help of some reference photos that I found off of Flickr (Although I did make up the background). 

After finishing my sketch I decided to try out my brush tip pens I got for Christmas!

And here is what I'm currently working on! Hopefully I'll have some more sketches to post soon!

IF + Figure Drawing

Time for my monthly update! I'm kind of hoping that I'll get to the point where I will have a weekly update, but for now here is an entry I made for Illustration Friday (Yeah I forgot to upload it again whoops!) Anyway the topic was "Mesmerized" and well...I went a little pattern crazy!

Also I've started practicing figure drawing from a web site that my sister recommended to me, so here are a few 10 minute studies (hopefully I will get faster at it): 

Sketch Dump!

Yes it has been a while! A friend informed me that I never update my blog so I figured that I better do so. Thus I am dumping everything (or mostly everything) that I have been working on for the past few months into one post! Enjoy!
Landscapes for my drawing class the first is done in graphite and the rest are in charcoal (This was actually my final):

Quick gestural studies from the Legion of Honor:

Practicing Perspective:

Here's a helpful tip for those who struggle with this concept (myself included)....Use a ruler...(For some reason it took me three years to figure this out, Drawing teachers often prefer that you don't use one because they want you to master the art of drawing a straight line, but truthfully I don't believe it matters (even professional artists use a straight edge when they want to get their angles and perspective just right) Anyway that was my rant...Oh yes! and one more thing! The Trans America building is difficult to draw (I did not use a ruler to draw that and I think it shows)

Just for fun:

This was actually an Illustration Friday entry for the theme "shadow" that didn't make it on time: 

I actually finished this back in February, It's based on a series of Chinese myths involving the moon:

Drawing 7B

I haven't posted anything new for a while, So here's some class work!

Pen and Ink gesture drawing, (She put various objects around the room for us to sketch, and so I tried creating a composition by combining the skull with the statue of a female figure, in the end I didn't end up finishing)

Here's a close up:

And another! 

 Prismacolor sketch, ( Practice in blending complementary colors):

More Prismacolor work, This time we were drawing fruits and vegetables (I ended up with a very purple eggplant) : P

Still Life (Graphite, and Prismacolor) 

And my current project is landscapes, she highly recommended that we try using a circular format for this assignment, which was interesting but I don't like being confined :( 

That's all for now! :)