Self Portrait Round Two

So for this assignment we were instructed to choose one (scratch that ... Rusty chose one) of our ten selfies from the previous assignment, and then re-draw said illustration at 200%. So here is the "chosen one" twice as large.

Confession: I didn't spent four hours on this one. I spent maaaaybe twenty minutes drawing this one, as I had planned on spending Sunday afternoon on Illustration and may have overlooked a previous commitment I had made when drawing out my time budget for the weekend. But that being said, Mary Immaculate's janky overgrown flowerbed looks really good with 87% of the weeds/jungle gone thanks to what we did yesterday afternoon. But that's not relevant at all. Moral of the story, I didn't use my entire budget (or even like 1/4 of my budget) but I'm somewhat happy with the result. 

My Snapchat History Contains Better Self Portraits Than This

(taking inspiration from one of my favorite SNL characters, the lovely Stefon)

So this assignment entailed drawing ten self portraits. I chose a variety of photographs to draw from, and attempted to find pictures that encompassed a variety of poses for optimum variety.

So here goes.

I spent a good deal of time on the first ones (and now they're posted out of order) and then kiiind of rushed through the last two. Which are just the contour lines (and are probably pretty easy to tell which is which). I don't have much else in regards to reflection on this assignment, other than I was much more critical and deliberate than on the earlier assignments. 

10 Random Things That Have Nothing to Do With Each Other

So here are the ten illustrations of just random things with different styles.

I think this was more challenging with the rest because I feel as if I didn't personally get to know every single nook and cranny of each photograph. Previously, I got to know each subject really well when I spent four hours examining every. single. detail. that I could draw. But this time ... this time was different. I feel like I just used these pictures then left them out to dry. I wanted more time with them. I didn't want to leave them feeling like they didn't get the attention they deserved.

Another challenging aspect of this assignment was choosing which photographs to draw. I kind of just browsed through photos that I had and then just selected various ones. This was kind of the same process with choosing which style to draw, as I saw the photograph, imagined the illustration, and then chose the line art style that would best suit the nature of the illustration.

Some of these are man made and some are natural, I tried to break it up in order to get a myriad of style options

Above we have a pumpkin and some soy leaves. The pumpkin was shot in St. Louis and the soy plant in Pershing, Missouri. Because knowing where these photos were taken is necessary to seeing this illustration. I mean not really I just need time to kill while the next illustrations are scanning. 

And here is a wheat plant or something that was on a beach in Cumberland Island, Georgia. And a very basic rendering of the steeple of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis.

We dont even need to talk about the one above. If you figure out what that is without my help, you win the prize. Or you can just shield your eyes. Either one. But below it is a little scribble tractor, photograph taken at Corn Fest in Edina. 

Flower from somewhere and then this green spaceship sculpture deal we found on the side of the road (legitimately) on the way to the Illinois State Fair last year. 

Annnnd then some kind of bug thing that was in my car once and a Coke can. 

The End.

Natural Illustration

Waaaaayyyyyyy overdue on this post. Sorry, Rusty.

So here are my ten natural line art illustrations.

In ways of reflections, I'm kind of happy with how these ones turned out. I spent about 25 minutes on each one, but towards the end I ran out of ideas of styles. Confession time: I couldn't find my black ink so I mixed some black paint (watercolor) and thought it was consistent and apparently it was not and I ended up with tone and I'm sorry again Rusty for jumping ahead and apparently ruining your life with that one. (This blog post is just turning into one big apology letter. Gooood.)

I've also been getting in this habit of doing 11 illustrations instead of ten (usually because I just miscount), which is kind of nice because then it allows me to find the least horrible one and not display it. Although usually I forget about folding it over or cutting it off and then I just cover it up with another piece of paper when all of the illustrations are out on the desk but then someone (looking at you, Rusty) foils my plan of hiding my imperfections and all just goes to hell. But it's fine.

Anyway, here are those illustrations I mentioned above before rambling on about nothing:

Illustration in Color

So I'm a bit behind on the blogging process ... but I'm jumping ahead and posting the line art + Photoshop color before posting the last two "Ten a Day" assignments. So here's this: 

This one involved pulling a drawing into Photoshop, tracing the line art in varying widths of brushes, and then dropping color in another layer. I mean ... it turned out. It's not great but I'm okay with it. 

And here's my line art drawing scaled up with color. This was a bit of a different approach, which involved layering color over the original scan + multiply.