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Hello! This is a sort of WIP for my Illistration final.
Now the painting is technically finished, but it’s only half of the project. The second half of the project is to DESTROY the painting, and re-paint it!😱 I’m actually not sure if that’ll be hard though, I don’t feel terribly attached to this piece. Frankly I feel I could use the practice! Have you guys ever done a project like this before? Was it hard to destroy your work? Did the reconstructed piece come out better? Comment and let me know!
I also did a few color/ composition studies that I like better than the finished product.
“Deified Self”
Woot! It’s my drawing final, and, in my personal opinion, the best self portrait I’ve ever done! It feels good to be happy about a piece!
Welp. This is what I turned in for my Illustration final
Is it finished? No. Am I going to work on it some more? Also no.
Ain’t no body got time for that.
Here’s the previous version in case you missed it.
I feel like it’s kind of cheating to post the same piece twice, so I might post a trashy doodle too. We’ll see.
My latest Drawing project, a composite surrealist landscape.
My latest Drawing project, a map of The Graveyard on The Hill from Neil Gaiman’s brilliant novel
“The Graveyard book”
Trying to get a handle on this character’s face
Our final assignment for illustration was to design three characters for an episode of a hypothetical Twilight Zone cartoon. I chose “Nightmare at 20000ft”, so here’s Bob, Julia, and the Gemlin!
A neat tidbit about the gremlin, my teacher and I decided that they attack planes to steal parts, so my gremlin has this makeshift jet pack to help him zoom around as he makes mischief!
In my illustration class we collaborated with the graphic design class to create a fake cooking magazine. Here are my contributions.
“Averse Allison”
Garbage Pail Kids inspired self portrait
new character idea! This is Evy the ghost! She died suddenly, and now she’s on a mission to let her friend know she’s ok. Like Harry Houdini and his wife Bess, Evy and her friend devised a secret code so that they’ll know for sure if they’re speaking to their friend on the other side. Now all Evy has to do is learn how to contact the living...
inspired by “The King and the Lionheart” by Of Monsters and Men
Art School Stereotypes I’ve observed*
Animation
N e r d s
Unhealthily obsessed with video games, anime, Disney, or some sick combination of the three
One of the most sleep-deprived majors, but also surprisingly chipper (there are exceptions)
Instantly recognizable by their triforce t-shirts or Pokemon Go snapbacks
In spite of everything, they have the highest population of straight-edge asexuals
If you weren’t straight edge and celibate before, then prepare to be, because you’re about to disown all bodily urges and dedicate your life to drawing cartoon animals
Illustration
Like Animation majors, but cooler and much better taste in fashion. A little less tech-savvy, though
Comic book nerds
Painting & Drawing
A friend of mine once said, “People who love animation go into animation. Then they realize it’s a ton of work and switch to illustration. Then they realize THAT’S a ton of work and switch into Painting & Drawing.”
Highest percentage of colorful hair and weird tattoos/piercings
grunge
Listen to music you’ve never heard of
Smoke a LOT, asthmatics beware
Ceramics
Kinda stereotypical stoners or high level artsy kids, but not that pretentious
Somehow even more conceptual and indie than P&D
Behind the ceramics building, there’s a sculpture garden of all the sculptures of students past. Every night, the campus closes at 4AM. They say it’s for security, but I say it’s because the sculptures all come to life at that point. I mean, think about it. The whole “spooky midnight hour” is so cliche, I don’t know anyone who DOESN’T stay up till midnight at least once a week. But 4AM? That’s the true witching hour. The hour that belongs only to the living sculptures (and architecture majors I guess)
Glass
Frankly, the least hygienic major
All the males and most of the females have a rank odor after being sweatily hunched over the steaming hot forges for too long
Might be stoners, but the chill, easy-to-hang-out-with stoners
Probably the most like a real family. I always walk by the Glass Studio at night and feel the breeze of warm air from their fire, catch a riff of tasteful classic rock, and hear the echoes of genuine laughter from within. It must be nice to have a home.
Jewelry
I dunno, I’ve never met one. They put on some sick gallery shows, though.
Graphic Design
In spite of Graphic Design as an art not being super emotional or indie compared to, say, Painting, the GD majors are probably some of the most tortured souls I’ve met
I used to be best friends/date a GD major and watched before my eyes as she was crushed by the world around her from Freshman to Junior year. Honestly I’m not sure if she still goes here. We don’t talk anymore, it’s too painful. I miss her, or rather, I miss the person she used to be. The person she used to be before Graphic Design.
I’m now roommates with a poor little GD Freshman, and I worry about her every day. Not as a lover like with the last one, but as a parent. What will happen to her? How long will she last? Cheyenne, if you’re reading this, run away while you still can.
Gets excited about fonts and kerning.
I don’t really know what kerning is.
Photography
Outdoorsy and nature loving hippies
The chillest major, I envy them
Photography IS hard work, don’t get me wrong, but come ON! You travel to a beautiful mountain spring, snap a few pictures, and call it a day
Never need to pull all-nighters
Seriously, I deeply respect Photography as an art and all BUT
Film
Some of them are also outdoorsy and nature loving hippies, the rest are hipSTERS
“I don’t watch ‘movies.’ I watch Films.”
Apparently they have something of a drug problem, i.e., half the class comes in stoned
My friend Chris said one of the film teachers plays Porno he made in class, I’m not sure if he was messing with me or not
Architecture
Oh boy, Architecture
The coldest hearts of any major
The only nice Architecture majors are the first years. After that last final, something inside of them breaks. At that point they either crawl to a different major in submission, or become as sharp, straight, and lifeless as the buildings which they spend so much time designing
They literally do not sleep
Seriously, I was pulling an all-nighter last week (since the Architecture place is the only place open 24/7) and I swear to god there was an entire CLASSFULL of the Architects up and jamming from 10pm to 7am. I tried to sleep, but the Architecture majors just wouldn’t quit. Also, it was so cold there. So cold. Cold from the hearts of fifth-year Architects. I’m bringing my winter backpacking sleeping bag next time.
Industrial Design
Mostly foreign exchange students, especially Chinese, Indian, and Korean
I don’t speak Chinese, Indian, OR Korean so I can’t say much else
Vaguely like Architecture majors, only they appear to have a normal spectrum of human emotions
Interactive Design
What is Interactive Design? Honestly I don’t really know. Like making Apps or some shmuck.
Tech
Graphic Designers who love themselves
Fashion
Mostly female
Obviously they’re very very VERY nicely dressed
Calm, confident, but also have fun sides
Textiles
Most of the textiles students I’ve met are just stop-motion loving Animators
I think the ones that aren’t are probably like grandmas that love knitting or something
Furniture
Honestly I didn’t know this was a major until like last semester
The only furniture major I’ve met was this Norwegian dude who looked like a greek god
We were once assigned to do a group project together but then he blew me off to go surfing so I had to do it myself. Seriously? Surfing???? Like I’d be mad but that’s a cool reason to blow someone off. Hell, I’d blow people off surfing if I had the easy life of a non-animation-major
Writing
“We have a writing program?”
They’re cool though
Get really excited about books. I’ve read only about three or four books so I kind of just smile and nod while they talk
Seem genuinely interested in other people’s stories
Community Art
I’m not entirely sure what this is
Passionate about social justice and teamwork
Disclaimer: No offense to any of them (except architecture majors)
*At California College of the Arts during the years 2014-2016
dear professor,
there’s a cat on my lap and i can’t work on my homework without disturbing him. please give me an indefinite extension.
thnx
Final project for my art studio class this semester!
for the project we had a pick from a list of prompts to base out illustration off, the prompt I picked was a mother trying to escape a dangerous city overrun with gangs with her 3 young children
My professor, who I havent been able to impress all semester said he really liked it :D
Art dump from my Digital Drawing class
We just finished midterms, so this is everything ive made so far!
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Some plant art from my drawings class
Some eyes for an assignment. Each one is painted on a 4"x4" wood panel. I'll have a total of at least nine different eyes, although I'll do more if I have time. Eyes are so fun to paint!
You’re here but I know I am alone
One of my favorite assignments where we had to make a CD cover for a song of our choice and make an illustration based on the theme of the song. I was and still am obsessed with the song Cold, Cold, Cold by The Family Crest and had to make something based off of the song. There are both characters I have been working on for a story, the one of the right is named Bomber and the other on the left still doesn’t have a name because pain. Anyways if you guys want to know more or even have name ideas feel free to ask/ comment! ❤️