Tones with Two Tools

Playing catch-up right now as some of my assignments were just returned to me. Below are my crowquil practice studies (many are rushed because I was confused about the due date). After that are two mixed-media illustrations, five hours each. Learning so much in this class, man oh man!



FIRST ASSIGNMENT: CROWQUILL STUDIES

FIVE-HOUR MIX MEDIA ILLUSTRATIONS:

Sloppy Original. I redid it entirely.

Much Better!

Antiques & Feet

This quarter is sweeping right by. Here are some of my Sketchbook class entries from this past week.


IN-CLASS FRUIT SLICING:

HABERSHAM ANTIQUE SILVERWARE:

OUT-OF-CLASS ASSIGNMENT: 3 PAGES FROM LIFE, 3 FROM MEMORY

Advanced Inking

While I wait for the first set of assignments to be returned to me, I s'pose I'll go ahead and show the other work I've been doing for this class. This quarter, I am taking my first sequential art elective: Advanced Inking. It's only been a couple weeks, but I can tell this class is going to kick my butt in the best way possible.

The first half of the quarter is going to be dedicated to experimenting with different materials. So far, we have experimented with nib (I'll post those drawings later) and brush. Each of these drawings is brief, only an hour's work. I'm thankful for the freedom to experiment and the absence of pressure.

Sketchbook (Spring Quarter Class)

We've entered the final quarter of this school year. I am taking a break from storytelling this quarter and focusing on much-needed drawing and technique. In a strange series of events with my credit transfers and previous course exemption, I found myself having to take another foundations drawing course. I decided that I could always use more practice with on-site drawing, so I signed up for the drawing elective, Sketchbook.

Here are some entries from the past two weeks (including a 7-day food diary assignment). I'm a bit rusty with watercolor.


CLASS TWO: BONE STUDIES IN INK

CLASS THREE: BELTS, BUCKLES, AND STRAPS

CLASS FOUR: ON-SITE DRAWINGS AT JERE'S FURNITURE WAREHOUSE

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: 7-DAY FOOD DIARY

I'm looking forward to practicing more with color media and drawing from life!

Horses in the Hallway

Another quarter is over! Is another year really almost gone?

Here's the grand finale of my only studio this quarter, Visual Storytelling 1. Our class was challenged to create a four-page comic in which we wake up in our dorm room late at night, grab a "weapon," and open the door to see something of our choosing.

My wonderful room mate and dear friend, Cassie (check out her blog too!), took this class previously and I remembered her assignment. At the end of her comic, she chose to open the door to a unicorn. Seeing as we share the same dorm room and had the same professor, I thought it would be funny to have my story be a continuation of hers. I wake up to realize she's not there, hear noises, and join her in the hallway with her unicorn.

Check out her project to see what I mean!

Page 4/4 of Cassie's comic

So anyways, here's what I came up with:


THUMBNAILS:

TIGHT ROUGHS:

Another aspect of this assignment was to experiment with bleed page format (panels that extend to the edges of the page). After doing our tight roughs, we were to arrange the panels in such a way that there would be at least one bleed per page. This was my first time experimenting with this, but I liked having the openness of this option.

BLEED EXPERIMENTS:

FINAL PENCILS:

And so ends another quarter at SCAD! Next quarter's menu includes two studio classes: Advanced Inking and Sketchbook. This will be a bit of break from storytelling, but I'm excited to build up my technique and craftsmanship.