The Everlasting Journey

Another assignment for my composition class, this time focusing on a serpentine composition. The serpentine elements are there, but I feel that they're pretty weak. The concept behind the piece was a group of nomadic robots roaming the desert in a sandstorm. The first image was done entirely in acrylic, while the bottom image was a digitally enhanced version. I could have pushed the acrylic painting a lot more, but time constraints forced me to scan my painting and finish it via photoshop. I like it though, and will experiment with this traditional underpainting/digital touch-up process in future.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

I was super busy with the starting of classes and whatnot, but managed to scrap together enough time to make my mom a card.



This was interesting. Started out as a ink pen drawing, then added some ink washes to it and messed it all up, and then decided to cover up the ink wash poo by turning the whole thing into a acrylic painting.

Shiny

Another acrylic painting. The painting looks dark when you see it in person, but the branches are painted using gloss medium so you can see them every once in awhile when they reflect light. I need to make a habit of painting all the way to the border. Happy Birthday to my cousin!

More Acrylics

This was nice. Someone is gonna get lucky this Christmas.

Oils

My first time using oils :D
This was an assignment for my Illustration Techniques and Materials class. First we made a "random"collage (I say "random" because I actually planned out my collage to a certain degree...) and then we used the collage as a reference for our painting. It was frustrating and difficult at first, but I progressively learned as I went along. If you knew the order of the faces I painted, you would see a lot of improvement... but I'm not gonna tell you! My instructor said that the people looked like they were at a party and had too much to drink (or stoned out of their minds! lulz). I painted the faces as if they were hollow shells/mask and painted the swirls to represent thoughts and memories escaping their hollow shells. Cool. Expect to see more oil paintings by me in the future!