An Update a Day, Day Five

Here's an axolotl drawn with Micron pens. I ran into problems trying to find the right texture for the skin because I had two different references, one where the axolotl was pink and another where the axolotl was black with rough skin. I decided to weave the textures I saw in both references together, referencing the pink axolotl more where the values were lighter and the black axolotl more where the values were darker. Enjoy!

P.S. My mat was destroyed over the course of the semester. Sorry.

An Update a Day, Day Four

Here's some watercolor pieces I completed sometime first semester. I really enjoyed the technique for its fast pace and quick execution. For those of you wondering, the food was this weird fruit jam, or "fruit cheese", spread atop cheese and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

An Update a Day, Day Three

Guess what? MORE FIGURES.

These were all done in graphite, a medium I was fortunate enough to explore during high school. I had a difficult time seeing the correct proportions with the pencil, and as evidence, I made a quick edit to the third figure down.

For my approach, I tried to capture the gesture as quickly as possible using simple strokes and shapes. Concerning the rendering, I approached it tonally until I captured the basic design of the shadows, and then, I went back and forth from a tonal approach to a mark making approach. I feel like the weakest part of the drawings, as far as rendering's concerned, was the line weight. A lot of the shapes seem to fall flat because of it. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy.

An Update a Day, Day Two

This is a fairly recent painting done for Painting I. We primed the canvas with black gesso, so the process was to paint around the black and utilize it as we saw fit. My goals in this painting were to focus more on simple shapes and the design of the buildings around me, to explore temperature with a limited palette (the scene originally had a fairly limited palette, but I tried to simplify it even further), and to study the behavior of the sky.

I'm always fascinated with the sky. I used to see, at most, two colors, but now, the palette seems to be constantly changing. I left an impression of the changing light in the sky, the yellow in the middle of the shape, and I really enjoy it. I hope you guys like the study.

An Update a Day, Day One

I'm trying to keep myself busy by uploading a post a day. I plan to upload past and recent works, experiments, studies, failures, and successes. I hope you guys enjoy the series as much I will working on it.

The next was an experiment in both process and execution. I tried to represent the concept of Schizophrenia through figurative work, and the only part of the process that was planned was the juxtaposing of figures and the letterings' design.

A big thank you to my good friend, Sishir. He's a big inspiration as to why I'm pursuing more experimental work and his stuff is always inspiring. Check out his blog at: http://sishirbommakanti.blogspot.com/.

A Quick Exercise

I had a lot of fun doing this quick self portrait, so I thought I should post it. I focused more on manipulating texture and trying to prevent the painting from looking too "digital".

Also, here's a speed painting of an alpaca.

A Quick Post...

I felt like making a quick post as an apology for falling behind schedule the past two weeks.

I learned a lot about pushing saturation, and how it interacts with the other elements existing in the picture. I'm especially interested in pushing the color and saturation in reflected lights while maintaining control over temperature, another subject that I've been trying to pay more attention to. Again, I can't thank my peers enough for teaching me and helping me along. Never a dull day.