Thesis Update #3

It's almost the end of the semester and my thesis is wrapping up.  Below is the finished version of the third child and the pencil work for the fourth (and final) child.  Soon they will all be turned into postcards to be printed so that for my final critique I will have both a poster and postcards of each child.

Thesis Update #2

Thesis is on a role and these kids are lookin' gross!  Below I have the finalized version of the second piece and the line work for the third one.  Enjoy!

Thesis Update #1

Thesis is going pretty well, I think.  I'm certainly having fun with it.  Although, I don't think I've explained what my thesis is yet on this blog...  In the last year I've become really interested in the issue of industrial agriculture.  The more I learn about it, the more disgusted I become and the more I'm drawn to buying local food.  So, for my thesis I decided I wanted to address the general lack of knowledge on the issue of factory farmed food.  I decided to do a four-part poster series using children as examples of unwitting people eating what is clearly disgusting food.  The children themselves are also unhealthy looking because they are direct products of their diets.  Below is the final version of the first poster (still subject to change), plus the original pencil sketches for the first two posters.  I intentionally gave myself extra space in the original pencil drawings so I would be able to crop them down however I wanted.  I am currently working on adding color and text to the second piece.

Again, I just want to express how much I'm enjoying this project.  Drawing chubby children is super fun!

You Crazy Kids!+

Last week, for my lifestyle illustration class, we had to create a two page spread about a couple on an "evening out."  Being from Florida, how could I resist drawing an elderly couple on a date?!  So fun!

And here are my most recent paper dolls outfits for this week:

(all clothing seen on paper dolls have been created by actual designers, I didn't make any of them up)

Lifestyles

So, I'm taking a class this semester called Lifestyle Illustration with Dan Krall.  He's awesome, but I'm struggling with what exactly makes an illustration a "lifestyle illustration."  Here is my first attempt, a two part series loosely based on life at the Green Tortoise Hostel in San Francisco:

 

 For lifestyle illustration, we also had to create three paper dolls to dress in designer clothes every week...

In other news, thesis stuff feels likes it's finally falling into place.  I'll be updating about that soon too.  Now, it's time for the weekend.

For Funsies

I got a Wacom tablet for my birthday and I was having some fun with it yesterday:

 

I'm pretty much in love with this new tablet; it's unbelievably easy to use.  And I'm super excited to have it in time for senior year - which starts in a week.  Just one more year at MICA and then I'm off into the world.

Printmaking Things And Such

A bit delayed, but I finally uploaded and edited the pictures I took of some of my printmaking pieces from the spring semester.  I have some more that need to be documented, but I'll get to that later.

The first three are a couple different prints of a copper plate, plus a detail, and the last two are of a three layer photo lithograph that I made for my litho final, plus a detail.  Not the best quality photographs, but you get the idea.

Right now I'm doing an internship at a gallery in Los Angeles.  Yay for gallery experience and being in California!