Constructive Human Anatomy

Hey, so I've been unable to update mostly because I've been too burnt out to draw anything too impressive but now I finally have some work to show. I'm taking a constructive human anatomy course where we actually make a wire armature and sculpt the bones and muscles of the body along with developing the drawing aspect of it all. Its a great take and a fantastic learning experience.

Here's the pose I decided on:

Now we needed to make a bossetti to work out any problems. It is essentially a small clay sculpture to figure out how you're going to sculpt a pose...so here is my bossetti. The type of clay I used was Roma No. 2...its a great brand and is used in the animation industry.

So now that I messed around with the clay and worked some of my issues out with it, I built the wire armature. I had a little trouble securing it, but with some help from a friend, I finally got it. This sculpture is about as big as my torso to give you an idea of height and I am 5'6". Here it is.

Lately I've been making the primative forms of the head, rib cage, hips, clavicle and scapula. Once those are on, I will upload more. Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Bon Voyage--for real

Ok, made you look! I just found some pictures from the end of Lacoste, and since I'm a big lazy until summer classes start in a little over a week, here are some pictures.

  Here are the 3 Sarahs:

Then me and Sarah at the Vernissage:

Me being Wolverine...I'm mature...lol.

Sequential Awesomeness!:P...and Chloe.lol.

Badass Fist Bump from Professor Tom Lyle!

And the whole group!:)

And many thanks to Sarah Herrin for unknowingly letting me grab these from facebook!lol. I love you self!:) And thats all for this week! But there will be art this summer...classes just need to start for the art to progress more than it is. Au Revoir for now!

Adam Hughes

So I've been meaning to make this post as well. I was cleaning my room when I got back to my parents' house and I found this list of advice made by Adam Hughes back when I chatted to him about schools and preparation for the real world. If you don't know his work, he's an amazing professional illustrator in the comics industry and a link to his work is: http://www.justsayah.com/ . Anyways, here is some advice from him:
1.Always be humble, but never let anyone walk over you.
2. Always be drawing. You will be a better artist by the time you get to your 10,000 much more than you are when you finish drawing number 500. The sooner you get to drawing 10,000 (or 100,000 or a million), the better you will be. Draw ALL THE TIME.
3. Be a little fearless. You will make mistakes, you will miss deadlines, and you will produce bad art through no fault of your own. It's not fatal. I've screwed up just as many times as I've succeeded and I'm going on 22 years as a professional illustrator. Bernie Wrightson just had his 40th anniversary in the biz! Al Hirschfield died at age 100 and was a working illustrator until the very end of his days.
4. Keep your portfolio brief and fantastic. If you cannot win an editor's eye with 7 pieces of your best art, you won't do it by number 100.
5. If you're a girl, be mindful of your junk. Some guys will give you work just so they can get in your pants. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Be careful out there.
6. Experiment when you can, but focus as much as you can. Be great at one thing before trying to be the mistress of all trades.
7. Finally- keep your eye on the doughnut and not the hole. When you understand these words, you may leave the temple, grasshopper.

                    Thank you Adam for this great advice! I hope this helps anyone reading this!:)

Vernissage/Bon Voyage

I wasn't able to collect much as far as Bon Voyage Dinner and Vernissage pictures go, so I collected a few photos to summarize the time in Lacoste.:)

 The first is our Travel Portfolio group for SEQA...

Next is a classic photo of some of the SEQA students, who were drawing crazy awesome dinosaurs that day...

Next is the lovely Marissa's pieces in the Vernissage

Also a great photo of some ARCH/Int.Design/Fashion students being awesome at the Bon Voyage Dinner...

And last, but not least, who could forget the pizza truck?

I am very thankful for my time in Lacoste and miss all of those who experienced it with me! Sorry for the wait on this, but I had a difficult time finding photos and I'd like to credit all those classmates whose facebooks shared these.:P Thank you guys!:)

End of Quarter---Travel Journal

Ok, so this is the last project post...its for Travel Journal. We went to Oppede, which is pretty much a walkable garden village and here's the project.
Pencil:

Graphite and Watercolor

So there it is! There will be more updates on the Vernissage show the end of this week.

End of Quarter---Train Station

So there was a collaboration project between the Architecture students, Interior Design students and Sequential Art students. The Architecture students create a train station, Interior Design students design their own kiosks and Sequential Art does a 3 page comic displaying the two in a story. My group's theme is "The Missing Piece".

End of Quarter---Research Book

This is the Research book for my Visual Storytelling Class. We had to research an artist and draw something in their style. But instead of the artist's 15 images, I'm going to include one of the artist's pieces and one of mine so you can compare the two.:)

1.Alex Maleev

2. Bill Watterson

And yes, I spelled his name wrong in my concentration...

3.Leonard Starr

4. Mike Mignola

5. Mitchell Hooks

Enjoy! More Project updates to come! Also note, that all of these projects were done in a week...0_0...other than the sketchbooks of course. Insanity? I think yes! But at least they were all great learning opportunities!:P