Academy Assignment & Sketches

Ahhhh, back from the Academy, what a journey!  Words can't describe the experience.  I will post everything done from the Academy once I find a large enough scanner, but in the mean time I've posted our Rolling Stone assignment from visiting artists/instructors Robin Eley and Scott Anderson.  The letter I drew was "F", so I chose to do the group the Fugees.  I've included all the process work: thumbnails, sketches, and final drawing.  I enjoyed this assignment tremendously.  Finally, in celebration of the new Batman movie I posted a quick sketch from the sketchbook of my favorite childhood hero and television show growing up.  Yes, the POW! Batman.  Can't beat that, haha.  Well that's all for now!

Academy Figures

Here are some of the figure drawings we've been doing at the academy.  This technique all the instructors have showed us is pretty dope.  All of these range from 5-20 min. and the last one was done with my right hand.  I think I'm starting to grasp the idea of how these pastels work and I'm definitely having a blast here.

Few Sketches

Book Cover

Here's my rendition of the book cover for the book: Fallen Angels.  Started out painting, then worked it's way to digital for a few last touches.  It was always one of my favorite books growing up, about an African American teenager from Harlem coming into his own in the Vietnam War.

Plein Air

I haven't been plein air painting in a while, but here's my first shot back at it.  Now that I have a little more free time, I'll be going out a little more and painting more  landscapes and other things.

Blind Musician, Figure, and Collaboooo

I realized I haven't posted anything that I feel really represents how I normally work, sooooo...Here's a few paintings (above) I did a while back, the 1st one is a conceptual piece about a blind man inspired with  music, the 2nd is a nude figure study, and the 3rd is a collaborative piece with my roommate, we painted each other.  I painted the figure on the left.  

Sketchboooook