So little Blog Love!

This blog has been so neglected it is crazy. Alright, well working on our third week of school! Absolutely loving classes, fan-girling about CA has made me so much happier this semester. 

If anyone kept track of my "promise" I made to post summer sketch stuff, I am real sorry for lying to you! But I have (almost) everything scanned, and I got this weekend to make the images nice. 

Love Friday's for the pretend down-time they give me. Until Then! Here's an awkwardly made PDF I did for my concept class, I need to redo parts so update on that soon --if I had a dollar for how many times I've said that....

Here it is!

Sketches For Friends

       May as well show these while I'm thinking about it, here's just some digital sketches of things I've done for friends this summer and in the school year.

The first was for my old boss, she wanted a little sketch of her dress that she bought for her wedding day. The second was kind of a WIP, but I never did end up finishing it... A logo idea for my friend's business he's a part of. Never have actually done graphic design sort of things, it was much harder than I thought it would be, despite how plain it ended up being. Fun stuff out of the norm for me I guess.

There's a Snake in My Barn!

Well jeez! It has been a while since I've updated this puppy! I've been working primarily in my sketchbook lately, so hopefully I'll get on scanning that stuff pretty soon here! 

Here's a little something that I have been working on!

 [looks like the colors didn't transfer, means I gotta push them more :) ]

      I'm real excited about the progression of this guy, I took a lot of time to plan and adjust and think through things I usually just put on the back burner... Like the fundamentals for an illustrative piece, hah! Whoops! I'm learning though and I'm less harsh on myself. Which is turning out to be a really good thing.

Mom's been yelling at me to allow myself to learn (what a concept!?), anxiety and negative thoughts are paralyzing!

But I've tried lots of different techniques that I've admired from friends and other artists! Took a long time to get to this point, but I'll post some other editions of it once I hear some feedback :) I don't think I'm quite done with this one, I hope not at least!

     I have tons and tons of sketches and different save points, on this feller! I'm really close to scanning my summer sketchbook though so big update soon! (hopefully)

S'more Portraiture Studyin'

Here's what I've done so far for today. This is "Hanna Marin" from Pretty Little Liars. Yes, I know I love terrible telly. But I am kinda diggin' what is going on here, really tried stretching the colors but its not quite stretched to the end. It'll do for now!

I really love doing portraits and studies and still-lifey things, but onward! Next time I post something I will make sure that it is the beginning of a 'unique' idea. No more of this 'from picture business' ha!

This one is about an hour and forty five minutes? Give or take.

Trying To Be More Productive!

I've been looking at some of these here blogs, I gotta be doing some work everyday! Yay for being more productive. Alright, so here is the first timed study that I've done in quite some time, I usually get way too wrapped up in the deets and just take up way too much time. Quick quality is going to be my new mantra for studies. Alrighty then.

Here is my lovely father! About one hour-- did cheat and polish up the blending a bit. 

Did this like two-ish days ago? No concept of time in the summer haha!

Some Dorky Fan Art

      No one judge me! Okay, I judge myself... I love terribly dramatic television. And! The premiere is tonight, so I got a little into it with this one. It's completely from reference, a still from a really old episode. Alrighty, here she is Aria Montgomery!

Did this all from far away-- meaning that I didn't zoom in at all to go nuts on details. Had the reference next to it the whole time, tried to pop colors a little more than in the picture... I don't own this picture obviously! I'd say I made this in about 4 hours? One layer in photoshop and still a lot wrong, but I'm letting it go!

Little Sketchy-Poo

Well, since summer has begun, I've just been doing odd sketches and things here and there!

      This is one that is a very beginning sketch that I did trying to look into an underwater scene that I've been really (internally) excited about since school was in session... Well! A little study, lots wrong in it but I don't doubt that I'll go back into this one and clean it up and investigate some more. Woop woop!

Inspiration from my lovely home! Good ol' Clark Lake!