Some new ink drawings

A new update, since i'm settled. Completed my Philadelphia internship back at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. I'll be helping out one day a week due to my changed hours in Manhattan at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. I still got a few weeks to go, but I'll be working there four days a week, instead of five.

So, i've been doing a few drawings as i've been traveling - got a brush pen from Blicks (they finally stocked them at either store!) and as expensive as they are... it's delicious. I usually just throw down a loose gesture sketch, then ink in the final drawing to keep it alive, nyan.

And some general drawings I've done~. 

Life Drawing Final

Haha, i've been posting up all of my classwork/homework lately, because that has been the only thing I have time to work on... I can't wait until I get to start up on commissions, personal/RP (I use my logs as inspiration for illustration), and practice to improve my skill with various mediums. I'd really like to work with oil paints, but I can't remember for sure if I can bring my oil paints on the plane with me... I think I can, with checked luggage!

Anyhow, back on subject. Give or take 10 hours, and here's how far I got with this charcoal piece. The original idea was to take a photo of yourself similar to the "Jenne Femme" cast copy drawing, and make yourself into a cast drawing based upon it. Yeah. It's harder than I thought... I want to smooth places out, but I want to keep hard edges in others...

Here's process shots - I took some videos myself, to look back on how I work.

When I'm done working on a last painting for another class, I'll come back and bring out some minor highlights, and smooth out minimal places, and also - clean up the edges. That's the thing I don't enjoy about charcoal - it's dust getting all over my white part of paper...

A preview of a current project!

I'm not out of the fire just yet - but I at least got to pick up on my final projects again, after some issues. Here's the last project to my Junior Studio - a Holiday/Christmas Card. Watercolor on 140 Hot Press Arches.

I really do want to be able to make more smooth brushstrokes - one of the reasons I'd like to intern under someone who also can do watercolor, on top of whatever I end up going for.

 

After getting to scan in some other sketches and process points, I thought I'd go ahead and post some of what led me up to it - Here's the original value marker drawing, and color comps - In the end, I combined parts of the comps from both versions - the darkness of the cat in the first, and the darkness of the wall surrounding the window in the second.