Sunset painting

A painting we had to do at sunset or sunrise. This was directly from a photo but try to handle it like a plein air, allowing my self up to 3 hours and working quickly, allowing my instincts to take over.  Oil on canvas board.

Character in an environment

For Computer Illustration we had to create a character and then put that character in an environment.  I drew up a dwarf and decided to put him on a moose. I am continuing this into sort of a series of illustrations for personal use.  The next one I am working on is a dwarf on a giant kodiak bear.

The Ca d'zan

3 day Location painting at the Ringling Museum, about hour and half each day, The Ca d'zan is the mansion that John Ringling and his wife lived in here in Sarasota.  You should see the patio over looking the bay, if only I could sit out there all day.......

Figure Drawings

roughly 1-2 minutes

sketchbook figures, roughly 5-10 minutes

Sumi Brush gestures, roughly 30 seconds-2 minutes

sumi brush long poses, 20 minutes

Pencil 2 value (roughly) 10 minutes

Long poses 3-5 value

40 minutes

roughly 2 hour poses

Painting Show

Pictures from the Painting show Gallery

 The work above the bird I think is fantastic, but I sadly do not know the artist

same goes for the brownish interior, such an eerie feel it's great

Examples of work from fellow students that I know or know of them

 Junior Victor Maury

Great Illustrator, you can see more of his work here: http://victormaury.tumblr.com/

A very talented fellow sophomore Danica Jokic

Good Friend and talented painter sophomore Zach Nienhuser you can see his work here:

http://zach-nien.tumblr.com/

Another good friend and talented artist sophomore Karissa Costa and you can see more of her work here:

http://tothestarandmoon.tumblr.com/

Yet another good friend and exceptionally talented painter sophomore Grace Cheung

http://cornfish26.tumblr.com/

Senior this year and excellent artist Daniel Cruit

http://danielcruit.blogspot.com/

Good Friend who is also a sophomore Nick Archilla, awesome painter

Also a senior this year, exceptionally great artist David Han

 Top junior Brenna Thummler and bottom senior Gal Or

http://brennathummler.blogspot.com/

http://galorart.com/

and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the immense talent here at Ringling, it is truly inspiring

Illustration Painting Gallery

For those back home an update: I'm happy to announce these three paintings made it into the illustration painting gallery show here at Ringling!

The show is this friday, i'll upload pictures of the show and the fantastic paintings my fellow talented illustration student have made!

Day and Night

Yet another project for illustration class we had to depict a scene in the day time and at night to help us understand how to manipulate value and color.  After ideation/thumbnailing I settled for this simple composition.  I feel like I am better understanding my materials as well as composing an image through shapes. plus, it's a minotaur smoking a pipe which is neat.  Honestly, if I smoked i think there is no question I would use a pipe if you can see from most of my drawings as of late....

Acylic and colored pencil on illustration board

I would use oils but with the time we have to do a project and how i like to paint it would become a complete mess....

 refined value study

color studies

 finished illustration

 Detail pictures