Calla Lilies

Wow first update in months!


I've put art aside for some time now. I just couldn't bring myself to pick up a pencil or a paint brush to do anything...until today when I had some inspiring conversation with a dear friend. He inspired me to be a better person and inspired me to start doing art again. Anyway, this drawing isn't much but it's a good start for me to start this year (even though Jan is almost over...better late then never!)

If you've been wondering what I have been up to the last 5 months when I wasn't doing any drawings or paintings, I've been crocheting. I'm actually surprised that I haven't gotten bored with it yet. I started a blog to help myself keep track of all the projects. Feel free to check it out!

watercolor practice 2

I decided to try watercolor with the sketch I did a few days ago (click). It's on super cheap watercolor paper and I can't say I like the texture. it's not very obvious until it's been scanned.

Getting back in the groove

It's been a while since I drew anything and I made a promise to myself to never let it happen again. This is based off of this photo: (click). I tried to stylize it a bit from the photo. Will probably make this into a watercolor painting later this week.

Portrait study

Haven't drawn portraits in a while. Drawn from a photo. The perspective on this is a little off. Still haven't figured out an effective way to do hair...

Fish

More sketches drawn from photos.

Birds and chicks

Just got back to sketching after taking almost a month break from art. The whole moving thing is getting me nervous and making me feeling extremely uninspired. Been just sketches things that looks interesting to me to try to get back in the groove. Drawn from various photos found on the web

Tree

Something I painted a while back before I started using watercolor a lot.

More sketchbook pages

just a few pages in my sketchbook. I really need to draw more

watercolor practice

I finally bought my own scanner and it arrived in the mail today. This gives me even less incentive to leave my room....

I forgot how awful red scans...

finished?

I got extremely frustrated with painting clothes so I kind of just gave up on it...I'll save it for a different day. I think I'm done with the portrait. I'm running into the problem where the more i work on it, the less I like so I guess this is a good stopping point. 

photoshop portrait practice--work in progress

Just experimenting with painting in photoshop. I think this is the most successful I have been with digital painting. Hopefully the finished portrait will turn out well.

illustrator practice

I turned one of the bird sketches into an illustrator drawing for my vector imaging class. I still don't really get shapes but I think this is a step towards the right direction...

bird sketches

Dont' really know why but I started doing these bird sketches. they are a lot of fun and a really good stress reliever.

A new piece for my portfolio. Still experimenting with watercolor but I really like how this one turned out.

sketchbook pages

a few sketches i did last year that i finally got around to scanning

Imposter

An illustration I did back in fall quarter for sketchbook class that i finally got around to scanning. Watercolor and charcoal. The quote I was illustrating was "imposter!"

Silhouette

A watercolor piece I did recently. I was playing with shapes and colors. 9x14 in

Old charcoal sketch

I was cleaning up my computer and found this drawing from beginning of 2008. I remember working on this charcoal drawing in the middle of the night instead of getting my painting done for class the next day...

This is the first page of my new sketchbook for Sketchbook II class with Chad. drawn with charcoal from photo reference in moleskine sketchbook

photoshop practice

Wow it's been a while since my last post. I did this little portrait to practice photoshop painting techniques.