Spring 2009 Begins!!!

I'm back for another semester! Just 3 semesters more to go and I will be done with school! Anyway, one of the classes I am taking this semester is Sci-Fi Illustration (science fiction, fantasy, horror). My first assignment I had to choose an illustration idea from a specific author's work. I decided to do this bronze, flying fish and do a cross-section of it while practicing with my Cintiq and digital painting skills (still need to work on these skills). This semester I will be able to experiment with more ways of cross-section illustration as I will be doing cross-sections and exploded view of machinery from H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds" So look forward to more work this semester!

Advanced Perspective Final- 540 Powell

"Deliver Us To the Promised Land!"- Advanced Perspective Egypt

Advanced Perspective Midterms

Here is the fixed and monochromaticly colored version of the samurai.

Even though I have not posted this piece's tonal drawing, this is what I call the "reverse Noah's ark." Same wrath, but instead a world destroyed by desertion and the dove is delivering water to the land ark.

Here is the geisha piece colored. Our midterm in Advanced Perspective was to finish three illustrations. I decided to take a wing at Photoshop which I haven't touched in awhile as far as digital painting because I am unfamiliar and haven't always been the biggest fan, but anyway, here are the three I chose to do.

Noah's Ark Advanced Perspective

New Workspace and drafting table

Although I am still in Academy of Art University housing, I was able to pick up some new helpful tools. I needed a way to trace my larger drawings for cross-sections and Advanced Perspective that would be larger than my giant light box. The only solution would be a glass drafting table. This was the last one at Blick so I bought it. I put a lamp underneath to make it a massive light box. And do to its height I needed to find a chair (plus one that is comfortable due to the long hours I would be working) and was able to get it from Staples. Hopefully in a few semesters I can get an apartment away from AAU housing, but until then, this is how my work station will look like.

Geisha Perspectives/ Cross-section