Dragons!

Here are some dragon designs that I fiddled around with. I hope to flesh some out.

Due to budget cuts, there won't be any Chinese Brush Painting classes in the summer. Actually, no community colleges are offering any studio art classes this summer. I would even like to take a sewing class, but no dice.

Catching up on Updates

So here are three backgrounds I did for Special Studies, and an apple I did from memory. Hooray!

Here are some apples I painted from life in my digital painting class using Painter. This was a fantastic exercise and showed me that I *CAN* digitally paint, I just need to be able to do it from my imagination.


I am also extremely interested in learning watercolors. I have all the materials, but I don't know what to do with them. The above image was just me having fun with nothing in mind. Unfortunately, it won't help with any projects I have right now. Hopefully I can do technical pen and watercolor mixes for my projects in my Special Studies in Illustration class.

Speaking of which, my self-appointed project this semester has been to do character designs and environments for my favorite book series ever, A Song of Ice and Fire. I am inexperienced at drawing people (let alone with their own personality) and backgrounds drive me crazy, but I no longer want to be afraid of them, so I'm doing 'em. In my "contract" with my professor, I said I'd make 6 minimum of character designs and 6 background designs. I've organized my projects with the absolute minimum work I need to do, as well as what I hope to accomplish, or even continue after the semester ends. If I didn't have an internship, it wouldn't be a problem to finish everything, but I basically have 2 days a week where I drive 3 hours round trip to LA, and it's time to sleep by the time I get back, so I don't work on anything. Here's hoping this semester gets some good work out of me!

My First Caricature

This was the caricature I did for my cartooning & caricature class. I used Illustrator to make the basic shapes, put in necessary outlines, and then used Photoshop to give it fuzzy edges when needed, and also used it to drop in textures I made with watercolor (scanned in at 1200 dpi since some were on 3"x5" watercolor blocks).

Soon, I hope to actually create watercolor images.