Starry Night

This was a special commission for my sister, with her only request being that it be thematically related to Van Gogh's Starry Night. The final piece will be printed on a meter long canvas print, so I'm super excited to see how it looks when it's done.

She also humored me by allowing me to make the piece fit with my bird obsession... :D

Birdybutt

A quick silly doodle returning to the style of Fuzz a few years ago, and also figuring out a legible signature for my work prints... :)

Doodle-bobbin'

Actually updating! Hooray! Apologies for my severe lack, and my need to finish updating previous posts(Namely my thesis posts ugghhh). Super limited wifi connection at the campground, set up in a friend's hotel room currently.

In any case though, I have actually been productive the past few days, though this is the only piece I have I can currently show right now. Starting to think I should try purchasing a scanner... Anyways. Doodles of some lovely feather faces to get back into the swing of things :)

Various breeds of macaws and cockatoos, and voila! They have the prettiest colors... :)

Skittles! Lovebirds!

Not really. Anyways. I'm trying out some different styles, and this piece is in the style(sort of) of Brittney Lee, who is phenomenal with cute things and birds and paper cutouts and just things in general. Definitely go give her a looksy!

In any case, the main idea for this piece was to try and push myself with color, and to try out a style that's outside of what I typically do. My initial idea had it being a lot more vividly colored, with a lot MORE colors, too, but I think I'm satisfied with how it came out.

Little lovebirds!

Adobe Illustrator. We Meet Again.

I decided to kick myself back into Adobe Illustrator, it feels like it's been ages since I used it, so I needed a refresher. I felt like a fish out of water through both of them, but I'm warming back up to the program. Slowly but surely. Yeah, something like that... Just two simple, flat little parrot vectors. Me and my birds, go figure. With a couple of tigers thrown in for good measure. :)

Preliminary Thesis Concepts

So, here we go. I started on my senior year project a few weeks ago, and so far I've got seven or eight pages of concepts and designs so far. This is just a bit of a teaser for it :)

The theme for my project is character/costume design based on creatures from myth, as per my usual interest. So creatures such as the three I'm showing the sketches for right now, the Egyptian Phoenix, the Norse Kraken, and the Greek Sphinx, each figure will vaguely resemble that culture, and their outfits will look like a mix of the creature and culture hopefully.

There will also be a full illustrated piece to go with each set of concept sketches, to be done for the most part in pen and ink with watercolor washes overtop, hopefully. We'll see how it goes :)

Speed Painting

More quick painting studies in photoshop, again jacked from Google images so I take no claim on the original photos :)

Quick Paint

A super quick photoshop drawing of a macaw, just something to break the lack of images on here so far :)