Little Red Back in Action

I did another painting of Little Red, this time about to encounter the wolf. In retrospect, I think there are some changes I would make to the environment if I were to go back and do this again. I also thought I would post the sketches for the wolf and a couple early sketches for Red. I don't think the wolf has the same rhythm to it in the painting as it does in the sketches... but hopefully we learn something from each painting we do to apply to the next one, right? I do like how the colors turned out in this, though, especially on Little Red.

Society and Life Drawing Update

I've got some good news: My landscape from my previous post got into the Society of Illustrators Student Competition! I found out on Valentine's Day, and the previous few weeks had been pretty terrible for one reason or another (illness, money, frustration with progress, etc--the stuff we all struggle with, right?), so this news really buoyed me up. I feel humbled to be included among so much talent. 7 other BYU students got in, including my good friends Liz, Colt, Melissa, Brittany, and Josh! Check out Society's winner page for our school here.

On another note, I'm taking Bob Barrett's Life Drawing class this semester. I had been very frustrated with my progress for some time, but I feel like I've made a breakthrough over the past few weeks. Here are a few drawings I'm pretty happy with so far.

Odds and Ends

A couple more things I forgot to post from the end of the semester. A landscape painting and the Salty Mermaid Gang.

Final Pinocchio Concepts

The two prop designs and two story moments that wrap up my concepts for Pinocchio (for now)! 

Little Red Environment

The best thing about the end of the semester is finishing up all of your projects! Here is the environment for the Little Red riding Hood character I posted earlier. I got a lot of great feedback from my teacher, classmates, and reviewers at CTN that really helped me push myself with this piece, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I think I want to put Little Red somewhere in there, just to add a bit more story.

Draw Draw Draw!

Instead of drawing in a sketchbook this semester I've been drawing on loose sheets of copy paper. I realized the other day that I've almost gone through an entire 500 page ream of paper in this semester alone. I don't think I've ever drawn so much in such a short amount of time. What a semester!

Here's some more stuff from my animation drawing class. We had two perspective assignments and then a character assignment where we we chose a person from the Sartorialist blog and turned them into a character for animation, comics, etc.

Pinocchio Steampunk Western

For Concept Design class I get to retell the Pinocchio story in a different genre, so I of course chose to combine my two current obsessions: steampunk and westerns. I know, you wish you were in this class, don't you? Here are Pinocchio, The Blue Fairy, and Monstro.

Also, I designed some environments for the story. I haven't really designed environments much before this, and I wish I had because I really liked doing these. There's Geppetto's workshop, Pleasure "Island" (it's a train in this case), and a desert town. I want to color these and make a few changes if I get the chance.