Pigeons & Pigeons & Whales

Once again, my overdue update shall be concerned mostly with school, seeing as school is my life these days (in a good way still, don't worry).

Some recent work:

The final piece for my colour class - the bird morphed from a falcon into a pigeon and got quite flashy. The teacher seemed to be a fan as I was working on it in class, which is always nice.



Some shoddy photobooth images of my first major drawing assignment. I hope to have some scans of this someday, as I was thrilled with how well the project turned out. It was a storyboard documenting a day in the life of a pigeon (from the pigeon's point of view).






The final frame, which was my favourite. In related news, drawing buildings takes 500 years (or approximately 12 hours for the whole assignment. Ouch).

In non-school work, all I've done lately has been a wash for some whales.





I promise it is not nearly so neon-pea-soup-green in person (though I think one more, browner wash might be necessary).

Now back to class! Onwards & upwards!

Schoolwork Proof

It seems as if every time I go to update this blog I am (a) prevented from posting any new personal-art due to school assignments, and (b) liable to go on and on about the stacks of crazy, amazing assignments I'm being given. After a few false starts, it finally occurred to me I should probably show off some of the aforementioned pieces of schoolwork. As my fifth week of first year starts, I've gotten some results I feel happy posting on this here art-blog, so without further ado, two samples of my school slog!



Above are my four favourite layouts from my second typography project. We were given five words (flight, gravity, expansion, force and radiation) and were to create paste-ups that expressed the meaning of the word through the shape/setting of the type. Yes, the above were all done by hand with each letter cut out individually. Yes, it took me zillions of hours (thankfully I enjoyed about 80% of those hours).



This one's a project that's still in the rough stage, but I'm pretty happy with the results so far (I've never been much good at drawing in Illustrator, so this one's been a challenge...so many wobbly lines!). It's meant to be four stages of a falcon's dive, which will, in part two, be merged together to somehow give the graphic illusion of movement. Or something. I'm still figuring that part out.

Along with the above assignments (and many more), I've found the time to get a bit of work done on the planning stage of the companion book for my February show, done a bit of writing, and finished what might be the biggest piece for said show - please enjoy this crappy photobooth progress shot from my last session working on it (yes, I have misplaced my camera somewhere in my apartment, why do you ask?).



As soon as I find said device, I shall update with a shot of the finished piece, as well as a few other artworks I've managed to get done. I swear, there is progress being made on things besides schoolwork!