Final Countdown

My FINAL finals are drawing to a close. I'm nearly finished with my '3D Image and Movement' class. I just have to finish the packaging for my CD and then drop it off.
Then.
I'm.
DONE.

It still hasn't 100% kicked in yet.
But while that kicks in, enjoy some of the work I've been working on:

Here's some screen shots of my 3D Image and Movement animation. It's really simple but I worked really hard on the squid model, creating it, rigging and animating it (it's little fins on its head move) and figuring everything out. My teacher Matt Wallin was a huge help.


I'll post the actual animation once I get the blogger bugs figured out.


Here are some of my Projects in Illustration projects.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with this poster but it's a lot better than it originally was.

This one I was very proud of. There were some things compositionaly I could have done differently but it was my first time doing a completely watercolored illustration and I loved it. I'll be doing more watercolor illustrations in the future thanks to this piece.

This illustration was done to go with an article about women in comics as creators and as an audience. For this illustration I focused on women as an audience and how mainstream comic companies typically don't cater to them, and even treat them in a condescending manner. I think this issue has gotten better than it used to be but it could stand to be better. I still cant' walk into a comic store without seeing covers like the ones in the background here. All those covers are based on covers from Marvel and DC from the last few years (this decade).



Project number 4 was a group project. I had a really great time working with my group members and I got my best grade so far for this project. We had to turn in production work for a comic that we created together and we decided to go head and do two pages of finished comic.
The story is about two people with Synesthesia who become friends. The girl, Antoinette, has visual/auditory Synesthesia (like me) and Tyler has auditory/taste Synesthesia. The backgrounds were done by Tim Robinson (he also did a huge painting of the bar/club environment for this) and the character design and pencils for the pages were done by Aimee Hwang. I inked the pages on a separate page of Bristol board with a series 7 #2 brush. Which I am now going to marry. I am in series 7 heaven with this brush and will definately be using it more, and practicing more.

This post is getting pretty long so I'll post my finals work for figure painting and digital drawing later. I hope everyone at VCU is having a good end of the semester! After graduation (the 20th of May) I'll be working on moving out so I'll be busy for a while. I'll try to post some sketches here at my tumblr before then.

Until next time!