Summer Sketch Dump 1. 0

Summer Sketch Dump 1. 0

Here's a small look into my summer sketchbook!

Fun with Photography

Practicing my photography skills!

Computer Animation

What a trip. This class. Blew my mind. I learned so much and still haven't learned enough. I had 3 projects for this class. I worked in Maya and Vray primarily.


1. Bathroom Blitz

Inspiration from Disney's Beauty and the Beast movie. The bathroom comes to life!
(I have to convert the animation file for this! Please enjoy my other projects for now)

Sketches:

2. Kid's Room Interior

Rendered in Vray

3. Dino Dance

Music: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) by Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington

In a sea-weed hat on the rocks I sit

For my second project in 3-D illustration, I created a mermaid out of sculpey! I do enjoy working with sculpey. This is a project I've been meaning to do for awhile.

Please forgive me. I'm quite terrible at taking progress shots along the way:

Scale Model of a Bungalow

This past semester, I took the 3-D illustration class with Hazelrig. Who is an amazing artist! I really wanted to challenge myself and do something a little outside my comfort zone and I thought this is the time to do it! 

I decided I wanted to make a scale model of a house. I knew that since I had no experience making one before that it might take me a little bit longer, but I had no idea what the scope of the project would need to be. Unbeknownst to me, Hazelrig used to make the most wonderful scale models, so he had high expectations for me. 

Needless to say, I struggled. I was using styrene plastic to make it and I found it incredibly difficult to work with. I should have used an easier material like foam core, at first. I ran into so many problems between cutting, the adhesives, the scale, even the floorplan and windows gave me trouble! I worked so hard on this project and when the due date came around...I wasn't done. I had walls that fell down, furniture that didn't quite look right, and for some reason I decided I wanted to paint the walls. I really wanted to decorate the interior, but I should have saved that for another time, because there was no way I could finish on time. 

I learned a lot from this failure of a project. I learned about understanding my own skills and how to make a realistic scope of work. I learned that it's okay to ask for help and there are special adhesives for certain kinds of plastic. I learned when you have plastic laser cut when you're in a pinch, it releases toxic fumes. I learned that super glue eventually will come off your skin (it won't be fun for a while, but it'll come off), but superglue will not come off your phone camera. 

During this whole project, I was happy. I was trying something new, I put my all into it. I tried every possible solution and had to think my way out of problems. I didn't end up with a good final product by any means, but the lessons I learned make up for it, I believe.

 

Interior Sketch Dump!

I apologize for the lack of posts lately! This has been one of the craziest semesters yet.

Anywho! I've been drawing interiors! I fell in love with Copic markers! They're like butter. I love illustrating with them far more than the prismacolor pencils on newsprint. I think I'm an ink kind of person.