It's Portfolio Time Again!

Here are some new things I'm thinking about putting into my new portfolio. Classwork stuff is mostly going to stay the same because I have to put them in, but hopefully the addition of my 113B stuff will help move my portfolio from "no" to "yes." There are some things that I have yet to scan in, but this is the new stuff I have so far.

Note: This is not my actual layout. They're just things I want to put in. They'll be arranged in a layout later.

I took Robin's design from Teen Titans and I made him older. I don't know if it would be good to put fanart into a portfolio, but I liked how he looked (minus his elbow areas). I might just end up taking him out.

An original character I made this summer. She's the first character I've made that I actually put into Photoshop and tried to make her look nice.

I mostly like this one for the arm and torso. I know the legs are weird, but I can either try and fix it, or I can just take out this one.

Pinecone (Graphite Rendering)

 Pinecone (Acrylic Paint Rendering)

Peruvian Pepper Tree Berries (Graphite Rendering)

Some tree in front of the library at school (ignore the notes I forgot to erase)

Another tree in front of the library.

Edit: Look at some of these again, I realize how bad the scans are. The trees and the berries don't look very good here.

Figure Drawing

Well, it's past midnight, but to me, it's still Tuesday.

So on Tuesdays, we have summer figure drawing. I got home, but I still wanted to draw, so I pulled up a figure drawing website with anatomy. I kinda liked what I drew. I threw a piece of tracing paper on top to clean it up a bit, but without all the under-drawing, it seemed to be missing the feeling I put into it...

Here's the one with the first drawing under it. It feels like it has more weight to it:

Here's the one with just the tracing paper. The lines feel so flimsy compared to the first one:

Well, anyway, I kinda liked it, so I decided to post it.

Also, I liked the face on it. It actually makes some sense.

**edit**
The hands and feet look really strange, especially the feet.... I've never had the feet look worse than the hands before.... But the model had weird feet... I'm used to drawing skinnier feet, and these feet were pretty big... I guess I should work on drawing thicker feet then.

Word a Week Illustration #3: Supervillain

Meet Tanya Victera.

I had her whole back story typed up, but it's pretty darn long, so I decided not to post it. I might post it another time, but for now, here's a sort of summary:

A child prodigy, she quickly mastered several forms of martial arts and is quite the marksman with firearms at the young age of nine. She's not a super villain, but she suffered a traumatic childhood and she is out to set the world on fire and watch it burn.


Yep... Looking at it now, there are some changes that need to be made, but overall, I don't think I'm very disappointed. Maybe just a little :P

Word a Week Illustration #2: Superhero

Last week's word was Superhero. I know Robin's not a real superhero, but I like him. Plus, two of my friends and I just finished watching the Teen Titans series, so we decided to spam others with Teen Titans characters :)

My friends did Beast Boy and Starfire. I was the only one who did mine in a Teen Titans style though. Beast Boy was very, very awesomely painted, and Starfire was done in the comic version, not Teen Titans version. For me, I just made Robin look a little older, and I used Teen Titan model sheets for my reference.

Again, I wish I had made a real background. I cheated and used a photo because I was already 3 hours late with my illustration. Had I painted one myself, I might have not been able to finish until the next day. Still, I'm happy with the way it turned out. I'm thinking I might paint a background for it to really make it my own.

Thanks to whoever's picture I stole for the background! :P

Word a Week Illustration #1: Turtle

We're doing Word a Week Illustration again! But this year, instead of having one person choose each week's word, we're tossing out themes and then voting on them.

Week 1's word was turtle. Here's my illustration:

Baby turtle really wanted that star, so he got some big friends to help him out :)

I wish I had added some sort of background instead of having it just plain black. I did this at a friend's house and I had left my tablet at home, so with what I had in my pen pouch, I made this in a half hour. If I had a tablet, I probably would have taken about 3 hours on this. 5 hours if I added a background.

Portfolio Review Attempt #1

This is the portfolio I submitted this past semester. I didn't get in, and I think I know why. I definitely need to work harder and improve before I apply again in the fall.

Cover Page:

112A Charcoal Reversal: Palazzo Ducale

112A Pen & Ink Illustration: "The Glove"

113A Black & White Acrylic Painting and Color Comps: Insomnia

112B Figure Drawings: Short Poses

112B Figure Drawings: Long Poses

Anatomy Studies

Drapery and Perspective

Sketchbook

Sketchbook

Happy 4th of July!

In celebration, I went on a tangent while speed painting. Yay.