The Cosmos

Who doesn't enjoy reading about space?

Demo Part 4

I've finished both of the demonstrations for my class. The materials again are pencil, gouache and acrylic paint. I did two demonstrations to illustrate the versatility of the technique that I was teaching them.

Self Portrait as an Onion

For some reason, while chopping onions to put in tacos last night, I felt akin to the tear inducing little vegetable. Watercolor and colored pencil on 300lb arches watercolor paper.

Demo Part 3

Here is the first demo, finished. Pencil, gouache, acrylic and ink on illustration board.

Jellies

Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil.

Call For Entries Poster

Yesterday, my friend Kenneth Franklin and I decided to collaborate on a call for entries poster for a SCAD Graduate Illustration show that will take place in the spring. Kenneth drew this, and I transferred it and painted it with watercolors.
The person in the painting is the chair of our department, Allan Drummond.

Demos Continued

I gave my demo in class today. I didn't finish the images yet; there are still three or four class periods until the project is over, but here they are so far.

Demo Drawing 2

This is a drawing for a demo using the same technique as the drawing in the previous post. I felt that, since it was such a versatile technique, I could demonstrate multiple ways to take it to finish.
The drawing is of John Brown, who I picked because of his amazing beard.

Demo Drawing

I am currently interning with one of the teachers here at SCAD and have to give them a technique assignment next week and do a demonstration of it. The is the drawing I am starting my demo with. The technique is the one I used to complete my children's book about Coyote and the Monster last spring and was demonstrated at the Illustration Academy in 2008. I will finish this using gouache and acrylic.

How I Spent My Winter Vacation

I did these three images while I was in Florida with my family over SCAD's winter break.
The first is a re-do of an image I did at the Illustration Academy last summer (2008). You can see the sketch and the original image a few posts earlier than this one.

The second image is from a sketch I did at the Illustration Academy this year. The assignment given by Mark English was to make a travel poster. I chose to do a poster for Neverland, since he didn't say that the place needed to be a real location. The sketch didn't make the final cut, but I liked it and decided that it might make a nice piece for my portfolio.

The third image is something I thought up while I was down in Florida. I visited the Kennedy Space Center while in Orlando and the place left an impression on me. I've always been fascinated with galaxies, stars, nebulae, black holes, planets, and pretty much anything that has to do with space, and I think watercolor really lends itself to depicting those crazy things out there. Who knows, maybe someday, I'll get to do a book about outer space.