#80 sketches/Greaser gang

ughh horrible camera right now, sorry.

I'm doing a shape oriented character project.  These guys are greasers, whipped them up real fast for class yesterday.  Haven't named them or the group name yet, but at least they have some character!

colors for no reason!

Also unrelated sketches

#72 Fiddling

Quick oil study at a cemetery...need to paint on site more often!

sketch

ink wash wip

sketch for a collage

another one!

#71 Illuxcon/ update

So I went to Illuxcon in Altoona, Pennsylvania last weekend!  It was totally worth the student ticket price...more so!  Met some AMAZING illustrators, including Petar Meseldzija, Danato Giancola, Omar Rayyan, Gary Lippincott, Joe Kovach (My teacher) and so many others!

My roomies and I talking to Gary L.

I have no idea who took this picture or how they knew who I was and tagged me on facebook.... >.> but I feel honored to have witnessed such a spectacular group of artists share their talent! Not to mention the beautiful prints I received.

Altoona was such a beautiful place

I did not take my camera regrettably... check out Klang's blog for more pics of the spectacular area and show!    I am so inspired and ready to explode with artistic influence after this thing... I'll definitely be there next year- see you there!  I'm also very excited about Spectrum coming to Kansas City :D


Welp anyway here's a small update on the small happenings of Amanda's time at art school...

The start of using a technique that C.F. Payne developed.

Some derpy lil doodlies from the Illuxcon awards ceremony

Donato Giancola with his best of show award

Gary Lippincott

Thumbs for a mixed media project involving David Byrne

 

 I HAVE to find time to work on personal projects... ILLUXCON TOLD ME TO

Thumbs and ideas?

Design ideas for a festival poster in ohio.  I'll do either The Feast of The Flowering Moon  or Alefest (beer, yay!).  I'm leaning more towards Flowering moon because I love the Indian culture (Cherokee-holla) and feel like I could pull the best aesthetic from it.  Still working on the concept of lighting in it, though, because it's the festival of the MOON... so does that mean it should be at night TO SEE THE MOON?? No idea.

Feathers.

If it's at night, the moon could silhouette her head and there could be fire light reflecting off of her front side...? Hm.  Will do paint comps. Btw text would be in the corn there.

 Lots of thumbs are needed... I'll get back to you on that...

Any comments or opinions are greatly appreciated!

#67 Planes!

Planes studies and whatnot.  I'll bring bigger paper next time so I can get actual detail!

Bus people

It could be YOU!

The more I look at it the more I hate the proportions... ink is funny that way.

Nibs

Wow my first time really trying out nibs and it feels pretty damn good...just some silly sketches playing with shading and whatnot.  I'm in love.

*The creepy face* from my reference folder

inked over a previous sketch...it looks so much better :I

#64 City creeping 3 (n' junk)

"show interactions with people" ..."AND USE THE MANNEQUIN TECHNIQUE"
Goddamn it...

mannequins wow

And then there was digital design!

RANDOM SHAPES are meaningful to me.