Laura's Art Blog

Circus Fantastique

2010-04-14T00:46:00.000-07:00

Our final project for Viz Dev- design a main event for a circus in one week! Of course, designing a circus act means designing a circus, designing a background for the circus, designing circus clientele, workers, etc. It was a lot of fun!

This first street scene actually got into the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition. I didn't win any scholarships, but it will be hung up in the gallery in New York with the other 200 or so winners. Such an honor to be picked, and very exciting!

Donut Shop

2010-04-14T00:38:00.000-07:00

Locksmith

2010-04-14T00:30:00.000-07:00

A week long project to design a San Fransisco based locksmith. His name is Joseph.

Treehouse

2009-10-16T10:30:00.000-07:00

Treehouse project. I'm still working on it.

Kitchen Final

2009-10-01T19:08:00.000-07:00

Finished my kitchen today. Some major scale and tonal issues, not to mention design flaws, but oh well. Learning experience. Was very fun to do. :)

Kitchen

2009-09-25T18:15:00.000-07:00

A rough first pass of my newest assignment. It'll be all done and handed in by October.

Some Summer Arts

2009-08-25T22:51:00.001-07:00

Just a few things I was working on over the summer. The ones that didn't come out blurry on my camera.

Time spent spending time...

2009-07-26T10:42:00.000-07:00

Not much of an update since I haven't scanned in my things from summer yet.

Here's a crappy photo of my finished tidepool. It looks better in person, honest. ;)

Also, I finally got a photograph of this tiger that's been hanging in my grandparents house. I did this in 7th-8th grade or so, during a summer art class. It's fairly big- 18x24 and in oil pastels. Not bad for 14 years old eh? :D

Final Tonal Rendering

2009-04-13T22:04:00.000-07:00

On to the color comps...

Tidepool - Tonal Rendering

2009-04-04T21:45:00.000-07:00

Think I'm about done with the tonal. On to the graphite!

More figure drawing...

2009-04-03T23:07:00.000-07:00

Figure drawing of the last few weeks. Not all of it, of course... just the things I turned in. :)

Yay feet!

High Key

Full Range

Low Key

My Tidepool- continues...

2009-04-03T23:00:00.000-07:00

Starting my tonal rendering of my swamp with some small tonal comps done in Photoshop. I did about 10 of them and ended up with this one, obviously a work in progress. I've only just started rendering it. Rendering it on a small scale in Photoshop is helping a lot with the decisions I'll be making in my final tonal rendering, which will be in graphite and about 13 inches wide.

First rough- tidepool comp

2009-03-16T10:42:00.001-07:00

6.5x13 inch comp on vellum. Many layers of things to get my bearings on what I want in there. Still a work in progress, obviously.

Plein Air

2009-03-16T10:28:00.001-07:00

Still new to the whole plein air thing. I need more practice! This was fun though. A few hours in Kelley Park.

Moar figure drawing + draperies

2009-03-14T11:45:00.000-07:00

Feeling better about my figure drawing... my long poses still need a LOT of work.
Not quite as happy with my draperies as of late. I think I'm starting to rush them.

Figure Drawing

2009-03-06T12:33:00.000-08:00

Finally got a break-through in my figure drawing. Apparently having a killer migraine while figure drawing works wonders, cause you can't focus on anything. :) Not thinking = good figure drawing.

Object painting with no object painting. WIP

2009-02-26T20:23:00.000-08:00

Turtle shell! Teacher tricked us and told us it was due today, but it was just a crit. :(
It was a very nice and thorough crit though! I'll post the finished version Tuesday, when it's due.

Some Drapery

2009-02-22T23:28:00.001-08:00

Having fun doing drapery this semester. I think I've finally gotten the hang of it!

I spent about 3 hours on each one in the beginning, though this last one only took me about 1.5 hours. I really like doing them! It's very meditative. :)

Decorated Egg - WIP to Completion

2009-02-17T16:11:00.001-08:00

Below is a work in progress of my decorated egg. This is about 3 hours' work.Aaaand, the final product- probably done in about 9-10 hours total.
In case you didn't know, it's a Weeble. :) This one is upset because gravity won, and the Weeble wobbles no more.

Tidepool - 3 Eggs

2009-02-17T16:06:00.000-08:00

Little bit more of a challenge. I had more fun, but I got a lower grade. Only a B+ cause of my crappy white egg. :(

Tidepool - Egg 1

2009-02-17T16:01:00.000-08:00

A new project with a deceptively simple-looking idea; paint an egg. Harder than it looks, folks!

113a Final Rendering

2009-02-17T15:54:00.000-08:00

My color rendering for 113a. I'm happy with the bottom half, but not so much with the top. It scanned in terribly. D:

"Rendering" sounds a lot like "Reversal"

2008-10-15T17:32:00.001-07:00

My black and white rendering for 113a that was due this last Monday. Didn't take as long as the reversal. I didn't count the hours this time though.

Reversal

2008-09-13T21:40:00.000-07:00

Behold, my reversal. It took 75+ hours and lots of sleepless nights.

The picture doesn't really do it justice. The left side is a bit washed out, but oh well. I learned so much doing this thing. I didn't get the rendering done until the night before it was due. Then it just sort of hit me how to do it. It's still off, and the shadows aren't really spot on like I wanted them to be, but I did enough.

Huzzah, it's done. I think I want to take that class over again.

My "Expressive" phase.

2008-09-13T21:25:00.000-07:00

I found these charcoal drawings in my closet. They probably should have stayed there, but oh well. These are from my very odd "Expressive Drawing" class from Fall 07. The teacher was a very avid "fine artist" who made us draw with sticks and make ink splotches and cut out things from magazines.

I liked the class well enough, but the teacher never seemed to like anything I did. He must have been able to smell the Animation/Illustration on me. :P

Anyways, he told us to take still lifes(lives?) and make it abstract as possible. Where can you go wrong?

A still life of some kind of spongy thing and a rock. They look kind of alive, don't they?

Still life using a funny little rock with a washer stuck in it, along with some barnacles.

It used to be some seaweed and a shell. Now it's... um... Expressive!

Based loosely on a dried out vertebrate of some poor mammal. I give you Spy vs. Spy, penguin-style.

An Oldie...

2008-09-13T21:14:00.000-07:00

I found this a few days ago amongst my piles of drawings.

Isn't she cute?

I did this in 2005, if I recall correctly. Charcoal with watercolor. The head is too small, and there are tons of errors, but it's the thought that counts. It's still one of my favorites. She's got a wand! And a frilly hat!

John Clapp's Journal

2008-09-11T12:57:00.001-07:00

Some pages scanned in from my sketchbook from John Clapp's class - Spring 08

Perspective

2008-09-11T12:02:00.000-07:00

Some perspective ink drawings I did for Dave Yee's class - Fall 07. Each one took about 30 min to an hour or more.

Some Digital Stuff

2008-09-11T11:26:00.000-07:00

Some things I've done over the years on Photoshop that I don't hate to death.

Have to Start Somewhere...

2008-09-11T10:50:00.001-07:00

Hello, and welcome to my blog! This blog will focus on my school work and art created while at San Jose State University.

For this first post though, I thought I'd put up some old zoo sketches I did in 07, the summer before my first semester in school. You have to start somewhere!