Classwork and Photo Exploring

Hey everyone! Today I bring you a media exercise from my Projects for Illustration class. We basically had to do some experimentation with media by drawing a face. I chose to draw a bald man so I could focus on the shape of the head, even though hair is fun to draw. I found my reference via Coribis and got to work with some brush pen action.

I used the Pocket Pentel Brush Pen so I could get fine detailed lines as well as bold areas of solid black. This was originally just a study but it came out as a nice drawing on its' own. Even my teacher liked it. Which means a lot to me.

But then... my pen ran out of ink. And I had no refills on me (that'll learn me). So I switched to a 0.05 Staedtler Pigment Liner and sketched a bigger drawing of the face, with cross hatching. Needless to say it took the rest of the period to do. And it paid off!



This is the whole page from my sketchbook so you can see the size difference between the sketches. The clown-looking one was me mapping out the planes of the face roughly. As for feedback I got on these, I'm doing well as a draftsman, and I need to keep drawing from life. My teacher said it'll help me with my comics the style I use for them. I agree and I'm glad I'm on the right track.

Now have some photos!

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.
Cupcakes I made for Sarah's birthday.


Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.
Photos I took at the Honors Studio where I was lurking with a friend, and at my bus stop as the sun was going down. Now that I have batteries again I've started carrying my camera with me just in case I see something worth documenting or capturing. I'm taking a leaf from T.Yate's book with the photo slide shows here. I think it helps to keep larger batches of images organized.

Until next time!

Scanner Resurrection

Hey everyone!

GREAT NEWS! I wrote an email to Mustek, the makers of my scanner, and they sent me a link to a program to use with the scanner, and now I can scan things! YAAAAYYYY! So here are some things I scanned.

Notes for my figure painting class. I drew my teacher.


Doodles at movie night. My friends and their rabbit, Clover.


Oddball from Kelly's Heros (via movie night), and the office of the Com Arts department. I was there for most of that day...



Some of my friends during lunch break.


I haven't had a lot of spare time lately, especially time to sit and draw. Hopefully that will change soon.


My class work from figure painting for today. We start a new painting on the same canvas every day. It's a good exercise so I make sure to take photos.



Figure Painting class work from Monday.


I'm really enjoying my figure painting class. I've been thinking today about people who's painting work I really look up to. I decided on Frank Frazetta and Eric Powell, creator of 'The Goon.' I think it's only fitting that my painting heros are also comic book artists <3 I'll be trying to channel their greatness while I paint in class :P



I've also been taking lots of photos lately but I'll save those for the next post.
Goodnight and see you all later!

Scanner Woes- part II

Hey everyone!

You have noticed things are a little slow. Classes are in full gear, and unfortunately my scanner has stopped working. It refuses to work with my iMac and my iBook. I've tried everything I can so I've written an email to Mustek in hopes that they can perform some miracle to make it work again. It seems not to like Snow Leopard, and is fighting with the iBook even tho it actually worked on it a few weeks ago :/

I also have a scanner on my printer but its' much smaller (and I have big things to scan) but it doesn't seem to be working either :/ The scanner gods are angry. And so am I! Hopefully I can get these things fixed, and get the small scanner working at least so I can scan sketchbook pages. I'll also have progress photos from my painting class coming in soon, and I might be showing some digital comics I'm working on if I can get some more pages done in the next few weeks. So things are being done, I just need to work extra hard to show them.

Stay tuned! Hopefully more work will be up soon!
-Fran

Busy Signal

Messing around with colors and photoshop.


Back to You by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

I'm getting busy again.

Moar digital work

A few more digital works that I did last night.


Cage in her Hair by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
For this one I thought really hard about complimentary colors. Color is still something I'm experimenting with.


Senior Year by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Senior 'photo' of my Scion:Hero character Ramla.

Both done in Photoshop CS2 with an intuos 3 Wacom tablet.

Digital Love

I have been mad busy at the tablet today, just drawing away. I'm just in love with digital drawing today and even considering doing my new comic project completely digitally. And just in time for my digital drawing class I'm starting this semester! Here's one of many new things.


Layla by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Layla Von Gedge. A beloved character of mine who is part of this new project.

I have other things too but I may show them later. I have to hold back sometimes or I'll not have anything to show you later :P
More to come!

Silent Fran

My neighbors are keeping me up with their party shenanigans so here's a Silent Hill themed Deviantart ID. Done entirely in Photoshop.



And yes I am holding a Ukulele. I'm very serious about trying to get one and learning how to play it. I'm developing a list of songs to learn. They include the ending theme to Red Dwarf, Still Alive (Portal), and the theme song to 'Adventure Time.'
I'm also excited because I bought Silent Hill for the PSOne over the weekend. I can't wait to play <3