painting a Master's

I recently had the pleasure of Tintoretto's Penitent Magdalene grace my ocular...modules for the first time. Oh Lord...

I think it's inspired me to attempt to recreate a classic painting, on occasion, to better grasp anatomy, color, lighting, value, etc. I learned a little while I recreated this. A bit of a speedpaint I suppose.

I'm going to try to hold myself to doing this at least once a week.

Tinoretto, Penitent Magdalene (detail)

speedpaint recreation.

I know a lot is off, especially scale and anatomy wise, but it was still a really great challenge for me and more an exploration of the colors he used. I didn't want to get too in depth, but I loved her face. The bone structure is so subtle and so beautiful. 

Daily Los Angeles and some sketches.

My sister, on occasion, texts me descriptions of interesting characters she encounters in Los Angeles where she lives.

Whenever she sends me a description, I'm going to draw them. A few months ago, she told me Morgan Freeman had stopped to eat where she works. He was wearing flanel, a baseball cap and ate ribs. And that's all she told me.

Thus:

enjoying ribs = saucy fingers/face

this is how I saw him in my head. hahaha, so precious!

I'd posted these on my tumblr, but I'm working on some ideas for a comic with my sister. 

And I've been listening to a lot of Welcome to Night Vale...

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I've lost count and fallen behind! This is more than just....a day. But I like the color palette so much that I kept tinkering with it and everytime I did I saw something new. I'm finally at the point where I can't lookit it anymore.

TAKE IT AWAY.

I took this image from my folder of inspiration. I think it's an instagram photo from NY Fasion Week.

Crystallize filter, and I think another one on top of that.

What is it even...

I feel like sometimes I can see that Miyazaki is always running my brain..

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Another "digging out" of an image. My mom saw a breakdancer.

Day 2! I actually did this yesterday and cleaned it up today.

Benedict - step by step

I hardly ever make gifs, and never make gifs of my art. However, I had the wherewithal to save this in the form of layers. So, here's a step by step of sorts.

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I've stored up god knows how many "how to's" in this folder. It's probably best I wipe off the dust and give them a shot.

Since I'm often and perpetually stuck on an island of the banal, I'm up for any suggestions that break me away from what I gravitate towards. Fanart. But you should draw what you love and I love all the silly pop culture things I draw, so I don't care.

When I first really started to draw stuff for myself, it was Harry Potter fanart. And I loved it, I still do.

I digress. One of the tutorials I found suggested using one of the filters from Photoshop, Crystallize, to a photo of your choice. At the very least, you get really nice color palettes.

I took this random image from tumblr. Which, after searching for the source, is a painting by Richard Estes called New York City Subway.

I used the filter Crystallize, and rotated the image.

It took a while to dig something out of it. I had to step away a couple times and erase the face(s) my brain always wanted to find. 

It isn't perfect, but it was really fun to try. I can't say I'd have come up with this on my own. 

Attempt no. 1 at an environment.

Post finals round-up

Here's a collection of all the work I did over the last quarter.


Some of the work from my vis II class. We wrote a script the first week, and the rest of the quarter was spent drawing, and redrawing the same script 4 different times, learning how to manipulate the viewer by changing angles/panels. One of the last assignments was to create 2 covers.

representational/design hybrid cover. 

design cover. oh, teddy. 

and then we inked one of our own.

The final pencils of one of the 4 versions, I think it was the 3rd pass and the one I felt was most successful:

The final for my storyboarding class, recreating different kinds of shot calls by using existing ones we were given. The example I was assigned was strange and foreign and the people looked like they were rollerskating down a hall

I hate zombies, and creepy things, and horror movies. Fear, in general, is not an emotion I enjoy. I'm taking baby steps to get myself out of this mindset. So I went for a post apocalyptic abandoned hospital...thing. Originality is my genetic makeup.

There were very few shots in the example I was given. 4 storyboards was all it took. I don't know why they turned out blueish when I uploaded them...

More storyboards from my advanced storyboarding class. We had to research some rad sword fights/duels, and create our own light saber battle.

There are a few other things I could add. But some stuff I'm not sure if I'm allowed to. If any of you read all the descriptive long-winded ramblings, bless you. 

Summer school starts in a week or so, and I've got lots of things to prep for AFO in August! Hard to get motivated in the summer. All I wanna do is nap in the afternoon and eat pizza...