Here is my 2018 art recap featuring my ~Top Nine~ from my instagram, and a few of my favorites through the year.
I worked on so many fun projects that have yet to be released, and a few that I am able to share artwork from already, including The Last Unicorn Tarot suit of wands!
I really enjoyed working with all the different mediums: gouache paint, water color, pen and ink, crayons, markers, color sticks, and digital painting.
This year I received an ipad pro for my birthday and have been using procreate ever since! I dont think it will ever take the place of my beloved CS5 or cintiq, but its allowed me the ease and accessibility of creating digital art on the go.
I have so many goals, conventions and projects lined up for 2019! I feel excited to finally be getting back to "A Fairy Tale"!
Thank you for following me through my artistic journey! Happy new year!
In the summer of 2016, my companion and I went on an adventure to Prague. It was our first trip together abroad, and we absolutely loved it! Prague has been a favored destination of mine due to its whimsical architecture, rich history, and being the home of one of my absolute favorite artists: Alphonse Mucha. It was serendipitous that my absolute favorite band would be playing there at that time as well. We spent 10 days exploring the city of Praha, the surrounding country side, and ended our vacation with a bang at a MUSE concert.
Seeing Muchas "Slav Epic" paintings in person was incredibly awe inspiring.
It was the blending of my favorite artists, musical and visual, that inspired me to create a series of art nouveau illustrations based on MUSE songs. I began studying the visual style with purpose, drawing from what I had observed at the museum and from all of my art books and saved images online.
The first song that stuck in my head to illustrate was "Revolt" off of MUSE's Drones album.
I drew more inspiration from the painting "Liberte" by Eugene Delacroix.
I began playing around with different period fonts, and created basic geometric frames in Flash.
After struggling with the pose of my drawing, especially the hand and the controller, I remembered the most basic of artist rules - you are your best reference! So I took some photos of exactly how I wanted the hand to look.
Below is a gif of my process, working through the sketch ideas to the finished color.
I wanted to capture what the song feels like to me in the womans pose and expression, as well as add little hints from the song, what I perceive the message is.
Art is, after all, in the eyes (or ears) of the beholder.
Coming up next in the series will be "Starlight", "Super Massive Blackhole" and "Glorious".
Looking forward to sharing my progress!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
The Witching Hour approaches on All Hallows Eve and its time to submit! This is a good first pass, Im happy with where its at for now. Very fun to make some legit fan art for my favorite game. Cant wait to see what the others have submitted to the art jam! Special thanks to OC Remix and their Balance and Ruin for providing some awesome ambiance.
So, I have had some pretty awesome teachers at the Academy of Art University, and even though I've graduated they still continue to help direct me and give me feedback on my art. One in particular has always pushed me to try new and different styles. During my last semester that notion was daunting and terrifying and I fought against it like a feral cat. But now that I'm out from under the security blanket of my thesis I've been tip toeing around and playing with some new ideas.
I chose a few of my favorite movies and characters to start off with the experimentation.
"You remind me of the babe..."
"The harmony of the Universe depends upon an eternal balance. Out of the struggle to maintain this balance comes the birth of Legends."
Ok, this one may not be an old movie, in fact its really quite new... But I saw it and thought it was super cute and was inspired to draw something about those two crazy love birds in the film.
