Homework can be a real drag, especially when it piles up the way it tends to at Art Center. But once in a while, you get an assignment where the instructor tells you to do pages of sketches of dinosaurs. Technically, the assignment was to draw dinosaurs and other animals, but he had me at "dinosuar."
The first image here is a compilation of several pages of quick, 1-2 minute thumbnail sketches:
We were then asked to pick one animal that we briefly studied and do a couple pages of research sketches. I chose the T-Rex because... well, it's the T-Rex. As part of my T-Rex research, I also studied eyes and scale patterns of modern lizards to help envision what the T-Rex may have looked like:
I then drew the T-Rex from my imagination, referring to my studies:
After I finished this assignment, I found
this awesome article, closely related to this assignment. Two new dinosaurs! Pretty cool...
We were then asked to pick one animal that we briefly studied and do a couple pages of research sketches. I chose the T-Rex because... well, it's the T-Rex. As part of my T-Rex research, I also studied eyes and scale patterns of modern lizards to help envision what the T-Rex may have looked like:
I then drew the T-Rex from my imagination, referring to my studies:
After I finished this assignment, I found this awesome article, closely related to this assignment. Two new dinosaurs! Pretty cool...
For our redesign, we were assigned the topic of "A Children's Fantasy Garden." A lot of the plants we saw at the arboretum are kind of scary, with all sorts of spiky things protruding at eye level. So I just pushed that vague threat a little further into a more overt and even aggressive nature.
This week's topic was really fun for me, as I've always been obsessed with things of great scale. The more I worked on this, the more I realized that I'd really like to do a very finished piece based on this painting. Because of that, I haven't finished all the details this piece demands, for I want to make sure that I devote the necessary time to doing it right. I envision the completed piece being much more overgrown and aged, but I plan on using this as a starting point.
This is the end result of manipulating and painting over a scanned image of crumpled aluminum foil. It took about an hour spread over too many attention-deficient sittings.
Hey, this is just a quick little speedpainting I did this afternoon. Composition needs work, and there's not much detail, but that's what a speedpainting is, I reckon. I just needed to post something; it's been a while.
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