A Classic Peanuts Strip

Here's a classic comic strip from the Peanuts collection that seems to fit me to the letter:

The Terminology Journal

So, I've been busy with the two online classes from the Academy of Art University. Almost done. The final project for my "Crossing Borders" class was to create a Terminology Journal using 15 of the major terms we've learned over the course of the class. We had to illustrate each term in some way and then put them all together in book form. Below are the pages to my book:

The iMac

It's been a long, long time since I've posted anything. I had to miss my last two Figure Drawing classes due to a Taylor Swift concert and a trip to San Francisco and to Minnesota. My cousin graduated from college!! Good for her! And San Francisco is truly beautiful; it will be a real adventure to live there for a few years. Oh, and I did get accepted into the Masters program at The Academy of Art University studying Animation & Visual Effects!!! :) So, that's why I haven't posted anything. Busy getting all that together, planning the move to SF, and now my summer Online classes have started. Lots of stuff going on. BUT, I did find time to get myself a new computer...and not just any computer--I got an iMac! Here are some pictures I took as I opened and began to enjoy:

It's a 24 incher. Wireless keyboard and mouse. Plus, it came with a free iPod Touch!! I was originally looking at Macbook laptops, but this was actually cheaper and...it just looks cool. Still playing around and discovering stuff. Just need to figure out how I'm going to get it out to San Francisco...

SCAD Figure Drawing - Round 2 - Week 5

For the fifth week of classes, and my final week as I will be out of town for the next/last three, we started off with seven two-minute gestures. We then did two 45-minute poses starting off with boxes and cylinders to nail the perspective, then outlining and shading the figure. I was told by the instructor, Ben Smith, that the last drawing was "my best to date." A truly ironic comment for him to make, since it will be the last drawing I do in his class. Bittersweet...

SCAD Figure Drawing - Round 2 - Week 4

This week started off, as always, with some gesture drawings.  We then did 15 minute poses where we'd start with a kind of armature (three blocks for the torso and triangular "arrows" for the arms and legs) drawn with pencil and go over it with conte crayon.  One of my better weeks during this second round of figure drawing classes, but I still don't feel I've been doing my best work.

SCAD Figure Drawing - Round 2 - Week 3

Yay! We had Mike, the model, again this week! The dude can strike some amazing poses. It's ridiculous. Today, we used our pencils to draw the figure with cylindrical tubes, then used that as a basis to outline with conte and added some pencil shading on top of that. The day was bookended by gesture drawings, 2 minutes in the beginning and 1 minute at the end.