Pinecone Painting

To me personally pinecone should really just be one word, you know kind of like pineapple, although I guess there's probably some weird English rule that will override my wish for pinecone to eventually become one word. However until such time occurs, I shall continue writing pinecone as one word. Maybe someone could explain to me why pinecone is spelled that way. Okay, back to the point of this post.

This project took several hours to complete, although while I am pleased with how it turned out, I feel like I could have done a whole lot better on it. Hence why I am deciding to redo my painting hopefully in the relatively upcoming future, even though I'm going to be working on another project at the same time. I really want to nail this painting as best as I can. This painting was done in acrylics on a 7" x 10" illustration board. Anyways, here is my painting!

Third Digital Painting

Here is the next one in the semester long series of 90 minute digital paintings. Gosh today has just been...well, tiresome to say the least, learning so much in both modeling in painting as well as in Maya. Anyways gotta go out to get ingredients to make lasagna!

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Second Digital Painting

This is another 90 minute Digital Painting assignment from my advanced painting class. Gosh, this week has just been so....mind bending. Wouldn't that be an awesome power in Avatar? Instead of elemental bending you could also mind bend? You could like create illusions to work against or for your opponents. I guess that's kind of a more offensive skill than defensive. Sorry, tangent. Anyways, here it is. I'll be honest, I really wish I was better at this, but that can only happen through practice so until such time that I do get better you'll have to deal with these....practices.

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Onward to practice!

Attempting to Paint Digitally

So the mark of a new semester, I'm taking an advanced painting class this semester as well as an introduction to modeling in Maya. I am both terrified of the idea and incredibly excited about taking these two classes. I mean of course I'm taking two G.E. courses. Anyways, I don't have that much experience with painting digitally so this was an interesting assignment to do. We had to copy the painting (not paint over it) to the best of our abilities for 90 minutes. And this was the result.
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Copy (no real need to point it out but thought might as well):

I'll be honest, this wasn't all that great, fun, but definitely not great. But the idea is to keep getting better at it throughout the semester! :)

About Last Semester...(cont.) (Flowers)

Flowers!! You must paint them!!
Yes, I know I was just getting to that.
Alright this is the final wave of pictures of my paintings from my painting class. I have to say I've really improved from the first day of this class. To my painting instructor, you are an amazing person and I feel so lucky to have you! I'll be sure to make visits! Here is the last wave!

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT!?!?

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I hadn't slept for a long time and-

DO IT BETTER NEXT TIME!!!! >:(

Okay you guys, just a note, if you're going to attempt something new that you've never tried before, don't do it when you haven't slept for a long period of time otherwise the quality in your work will dive down. Learn from my mistake.

See what happens when you are rested?

And that concludes the painting portion of "About Last Semester..." Next is animation in Maya!!!

About Last Semester... (cont.) (Still Life Project)

Alright, so this was the main project of the semester (we're getting close to the end now!) which took several weeks to complete. I'm quite happy with it! Of course there is still a lot to improve upon, but for the most part I feel pretty good about it.

First we drew out our thumbnail of our still life.

Then we painted over our thumbnails to get a basic idea of how we wanted to paint our final piece. (I chose the last one)

And once we have chosen the scheme that we want we go ahead and paint it! Pretty neat huh!

About Last Semester... (cont.) (Hourlies)

Is that even spelled correctly?
Who cares you're doing em!!
Right, so like it says, these are paintings that were done in an hour. They aren't on very big boards if that concerns you.
Right, first wave of "hourlies":

Second wave of "hourlies":




Third wave of "hourlies":


Onwards!

About Last Semester... (cont.) (Shell)

PAINT ME A SHELL!!
Okay, I'll try-
THERE IS NO TRY!!
Ack! Alright! I WILL paint you a shell.

Happy?
Mildly!!
Do you have to do that whole-
YES!!