Had to do a portrait for Computer Illustration.  Huge pain in the ass.  I chose to do Gustav Klimt and to base my illustration on a painting of his.  Unfortunately, as graphic as his work was, it still had brush-strokes and bits of stray color, and texture and generally looked 9-million times better than anything I could do with illustrator.  I did ( Read more... )

We have been working with plaster in 3D, it's good fun but apparently the humidity has combined with our collective ineptitude to create the disagreeable situation of everyone having wet plaster to work with that seems like it might never dry.  Oh well, here's the initial sketch:


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Remember when I posted the final version of my car illustration?   Yeeeah.  Thiel hated it.  He made really vague suggestions about what I should do to improve it that I could not for the life of me decipher.  Eli cleared them up a little.  I was going to start over and all told I think I should have because Thiel didn't like the new final any ( Read more... )

Our next assignment for Computer Illustration is a portrait.  I have opted to do Gustav Klimt, in as close an approximation of his own style as I can manage in illustrator.  Here is my sketch:

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To start working on our children's books we needed a story.  Justin and I had been planning to do a story together and it turned out perfect for this assignment.  I started with these character designs:

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Part of our figure painting homework is to do a themed drawing/painting every week in our sketchbook (after researching an illustration in the same theme).  The first week was animal, I found an illustration by Jill Bennett from Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox", which was a favorite book of mine as a child.  I painted a Donkey.  I need to work on ( Read more... )

Pratt has assigned us 15 pages of sketches from life, per week, plus an additional sketchbook illustration.  Here are a couple of the sketches I did the first week.  (I am now behind and need to catch up, go figure)


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For our next assignment in Ill II we have to do an illustration for a really short story about chickens and a man who eats them.  I did thumbnails and Thiel actually approved the one that I liked best, it should be fun!


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Here is the beginning to end of our first assignment in Illustration II.  I have Thiel this semester, I find myself enjoying him as a professor.  I think you'll see why.
He gave us the introduction to a story for a magazine that talked about high-end, fast cars.  I had a lot of trouble doing thumbnails because as near as I could tell the only real ( Read more... )

We had an assignment in computer Ill to do three related images.  I chose to do the three most sighted birds from the NH Audubon society's backyard winter bird survey.  Sketches:

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