Drew some favorite veggies for fun. Radish, edamame, avocado (although technically a fruit), carrot, sweet pepper, and cucumber.
Quick little illustration for participating in a Kill Bill character redesign on Ten Paces and Draw (be sure and check back, they’ll be posting up everyone’s contributions).
Back to work
I’ve struggled with motivation since I’m out of school for good now and waiting on my internship to start next month. But now that I finally have time to work in my home studio I’ve lined up a bunch of little projects to keep busy (including participating in the wallpaper project for the “gold” theme week on The Fox is Black, check it out). More regular updates planned for the summer as I work on these projects and get back to more sketching and experimenting.
A photo from two weekends ago at the Illustration Senior Thesis show with my project “A Year of Daydreams” calendar. (You can view the entire project on my portfolio site). After so much work it was great seeing the show all come together and have my pieces alongside so many other talented peers. Last weekend was our graduation ceremony and Ringling’s class of 2012 officially became alumni! I can only hope I’ll be crossing paths with my friends again soon out in the professional world.
Oodles of bunnies! Prepping little sticker giveaways for the senior illustration show tomorrow (April 28th starting 5PM at Ringling College, my work will be in the Basch Gallery). I’ll be sharing an update soon on the finished images from my senior project along with photos from the show. Other majors are having their senior shows all this weekend as well, really inspiring to see so much topnotch work.
On Graduation
During my freshman year at Ringling College a senior told me that my time here would fly by. I really didn’t believe him (especially after my community college degree felt like it dragged on and on). But here I am four years later and I can barely comprehend that this is the final week of my art college education. Learning art is a lifelong journey and many of my peers are ready to get out of here and move on, and so am I, yet a part of me also feels incredibly sad about moving on from what has so far been the best chapter of my life. I’m really excited to start my career as a professional illustrator and I owe everything to these last four years of experiences.
Took a quick pic of one of my quail linoleum prints. This was my first time doing multiple colors/blocks for a lino print and it came out okay for these but not so great for some other bird prints I made. Traditional printmaking is not a fun media for perfectionists, although I’m definitely learning a lot.
Dribbble
I just started a Dribbble account and I’m already a little obsessed. I think it’s a great concept (sharing little process “shots” of your work for a community of designers and illustrators to critique and comment on) and the website is so well designed it’s a pleasure to use. Check out my account for a couple shots of what I’ve been working on for my senior project. And I’ll be updating it a lot this Summer with personal work for sure.
Literally only a handful of days left until senior project is due along with too much other work, I’m so burnt out. Feelings best described via rudimentary animated-gif-making skills.
Something else in-progress I’m working on right now, figuring out the values and colors. Going to be one of two iPhone wallpapers.
Preview of my in-progress Senior Project (aka Senior Thesis, except without the lengthy research paper involved). It’s a calendar of daydreams with each month featuring a different scene. I have eight months done and four more to finish up along with adding textures to each illustration. Can’t wait to share the final product with everybody!
Doodled this to spruce up my info page. Clearly my project priorities are in the right place tonight haha.
