This is the second main assignment for my digital painting class this semester. I see a lot of stuff I wish I did better on, but I'm trying not to beat myself up too much over it since this is probably the most complete and best painting I've done in my life so far. 

I owe so much to my professor Alice Carter this semester. She's a brilliant, but tough teacher. Like, she is tough but her advice sticks so well. I truly hope the improvements from this semester are continuously this fruitful in the end. :)

And sad thing - I like the dandelions better than anything else in the painting. Like, errghhh. Forty hours on that tree and one hour on a dandelion. This world is too much for me. Dx

Work in progress versions of the tree. The bottom two are some messy pencil and watercolor sketches of the tree.

  

Gonna start off my long hiatus with a small dump of stuff. xD The top is a sketch of a tree for class. The bottom is a painting of it, also for class. My reference was very, very unclear so I didn't know what to make of a lot of what I was looking at for the painting. I tried painting with the marque tool for this one. It looks flat, very flat - but I feel like it has an interesting look to it at least. xD 

I am totally ashamed of myself as to how severely this blog was during my Summer vacation. Orz 

But for reals, I had a long, relaxed Summer vacation and went studying abroad from September to the end of January. One of the greatest experiences of my life. It was expeeennssivee... but well worth it. +w+ If I had more money and wasn't worried about graduating sooner, I would have loved to stay in England for a full year. But alas, my resources are limited. :/

I'll hopefully talk about it more in some later posts since I did do a few sketches while I was in England and in Europe. (Sadly nothing too exciting xD )

Now, I realize that I haven't updated since I finished my last semester in May... This is quite the problem considering the fact that it's not like I hadn't done anything in that time between then and now. >__> I've just been bad at updating. 

I'll be updating by bits instead of putting up everything at once right now. Hopefully that will kick me into being more consistent about having a posting schedule. P: 

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The top one is different from the other ones which are doodles is that it's a commission piece I did for someone. It's a black and white bust portrait that I did for them. I added a splash of color as an extra effect. I enjoyed the result of this piece and so did the person who commissioned me, so I'm quite satisfied with myself. :) 

The two below is a character ideation that I've been working on lately. His name is 'Greg' and he's an awkward guy who has parents who pressure him into various things like being a doctor or trying a ridiculous amount of extra-curricular activities when he's younger. 

I wanted to base his personality a bit off of Benjamin Braddock from 'The Graduate' so I ended up basing very subtle points of his facial design off of Dustin Hoffman's face. The main thing I'm trying to capture is the feeling I get from looking at his face when he played Ben in the movie. 

I deffo have some sketchbook pages to upload later, but until I scan them I'll just post this digital painting doodle I did today.

I must admit, something about this doodle was somehow very therapeutic to me. Sorta like this rut I've been in when it came to drawing from my imagination.I just decided to have fun with this one and keep a lot of the background color's hue within the skin. I went a bit crazy with the highlights - but this was a fun time doodle so I'll let it go since highlights are so much fun. *A*

Mass Update Arriving Soon...

This semester has been buusssyyyy. @___@ Between working, a portfolio review for my program, and learning to properly paint has left me so much more exhausted than I could have ever imagined. The teacher was tough and gave us a lot of work, but I feel like as if I have learned so much this semester!

Now with the simple life stuff out of the way... I'm going to start with uploading the first pages of the sketchbook that everyone who passed the portfolio reviews are required to do. In due time I will look through everything I've been doing throughout the semester and picking out some more stuff to share. Enjoy~

It's actually a toy car which is why the paper in the background is at a funky angle. I think I ought to make the toy part more obvious later because otherwise this sketch looks likes a wonkily parked car. XD I've made it a goal to myself to improve on hard-surfaced objects like cars and such which have long been a glaring weakness of mine.

I need to slowly drill all the perspective stuff I learned from two years ago back into my systems. Hehe... Sad news for me today is that the pen I used to highlight with EXPLODED while I used it. O_o; But, I guess it's best not to get precious with sketches, right? Let it be and let go, I suppose.

I quite enjoyed the top sketch a lot more than I thought I would. My classmate and I were doing something really silly where I drew the main stuff and he suddenly wanted to experiment on my pen sketch by wiping his watercolors on it. The results were interesting and I admit that I've learned some really cool tricks that I want to use again from this weird experiment. For example, the wet pen ink ended up drying with a watercolor-esque effect. I was very pleased to say the least. : >

Just when I thought I would be excited to not touch acrylic again for a while, I decide to be a masochist and do more paintings. And with glass of all things. XD I've never painted glass before so I will admit that this was very, very tricky for me - especially the blue egg because I kept not being able to figure out how to mix that color out... I still didn't quite catch it, but I hope to go back sometime and figure it out. I also wish I did a more detailed sketch before attacking the ellipses like I did. They're quite... lopsided - but I guess spontaneous painting without a detailed sketch would do that.

Figure drawing dummppp~ : > This is a small selection of some figure drawings I did on the first day of actual class. The first "official" day of class was cancelled because the teacher I was supposed to have who was also my figure drawing 1 teacher from last semester had to take the semester due to nerve damage. ;___ ;

My teacher this semester is Ruben Perez who is currently an art director at Dreamworks. This will hopefully be exciting.

This is something I doodled in about forty minutes to an hour (???) while I was staying in a hotel at night. I didn't want to be obnoxious and turn on the lights in the hotel room while everyone else was sleeping, so I was just doodling junk for a while. I suddenly noticed after an hour of doodling about that I was positioned in the line of sight from a big mirror. Peering upon my reflection and noticing my laptop light put lighting to my face, I decided to do that before bed so that I can feel like I did something productive before sleeping.

I was sleeping on the floor by the window, hence the curtains behind me. the dark shape lump on the right is one of the beds I was sleeping behind.

I am still a bit mad at the colors now that I seem them on my desktop because I painted it on my laptop with the holy unreliable screen color/saturation/contrast/etc... and now the blues I put in look too saturated to me while they looked washed out like I intended on my laptop screen. =__= I was too lazy to retouch it, so everyone's just going to have to bear with this being it.

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I was at AOD in Burlingame over the weekend (reason why I was in a hotel room this weekend). Along with that, just a day before heading off to con was my first day of class this semester. O: So, basically... I've been busy with assortment of random things all week. :B I'll hopefully be able to just hit  a groove of just concentrating on all my studies and schoolwork eventually. I have no cons to attend to until March, so the prospects of me just hitting into a groove of some sort looks good... Provided I don't screw myself over with my inability to organize and schedule. ;___; Oh, the ways I sabotage my own life...