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! :) 

IF: Cultivate

"Cultivating a Friendship"
I decided to make it my mission over spring break to try out some new mediums and techniques, so for this weeks submission I chose to play around with water color. This was challenging as I feel that I have only just become comfortable with using a pencil, and now I'm trying to learn how to deal with the unpredictability of a paint brush! However even though my first try turned out to be a messy experiment, I'm determined to master this new medium!
Also there is an exhibit at the Legion of Honor featuring the work of Arthur Szyk, which further inspired me to improve :)

IF:Stir

Yay! I'm finally posting my first Real Illustration Friday entry!

When I heard that this weeks topic was "stir" the first thing I thought of was stirring coffee or cake batter, so wanting to make something a little more out of the box, I then came up with the idea of Poseidon stirring the ocean with his trident. However when I began developing my composition, I began to think of other element that I could add to make the image more interesting, so because the horse is one of Poseidon't attributes, my whole idea changed into a young Poseidon going for a "joy ride", and recklessly stirring up waves with his trident.

IF: Surrender

     Hi again! Just posting another late project for Illustration Friday! (I swear I will start posting them on time!) Anyway this time the theme was "Surrender" and when I think of the word surrender, the first thing that always comes to mind is the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz  sky writing "Surrender Dorothy!", however instead of sticking to her traditional broom stick, I decided to put her in an old fashioned airplane (just for the fun of it). Also I would have added some flying monkeys but I didn't wan't to get too carried away...
     Dorothy is leaning a little, and doesn't look very well grounded, but it was my first time drawing someone from behind, so the proportions are probably really off, and my Prismacolor could be blended better (there are noticeable streaks of colored pencil in the sky) but that's what art is about, learning from your mistakes, and if you can critique yourself then that's half the battle!

Hi! And welcome to my blog! I have actually been meaning to start this project for a while now (bad me!) so I have a ton of work to post here, and will hopefully be updating frequently! So for now here is a drawing I was planning to submit to Illustration Friday. The theme for this piece was "reverse", and so I had a brilliant idea (or so I thought) to draw a zebra with reversed stripes, (as in a black zebra with white stripes rather than a white zebra with black stripes). Unfortunately the reversed affect did not turn out as clear as I thought it would be, except for maybe the leaves which I decided to make red which is the opposite of green in order to make the whole composition fit with the theme.