digital painting ("faron the water dragon gets a makeover")

It's always refreshing to look through your old drawings and get bitten by the redo-bug. I stumbled upon this old painting that I did of Faron, the dragon from Skyward Sword, and I wrote it down on my long list of "THINGS TO REDO."

this is the updated version: 

and this is the old one:

and a process gif! 

here's a process gif of another painting I did. I didn't have a lot of screenshots so the transition between the second to last frame and the last frame is a bit...abrupt. 

Graphic Design 06 - Get Out the Vote! ("Lolcat wants you to vote nao")

In Digital Design, our assignment was simply to create a vote poster. A lot of people came up with some really cool stuff!

some sketches and thumbnails

some rough drafts:

    

some rough drafts:

and, just for fun, Maru: 

WUPR Illustration 01 ("i have no shame with my political views")

For an issue of WUPR, we were tasked to illustrate an article of our choosing. I chose an article that was about the faults of the current GOP, mainly how it devolved from a party that stressed low-taxes and seeking energy sources within the country, to a party made up of conservative-right-wackos (Tea Party) and flip-floppers that utter gaffes every other sentence (Romney) whose party agenda is anti-everything. 

                             

original sketches/thumbnails: 

I think I'm going to revise it in the future. The text could be better arranged, and I could do a better job with coloring. Maybe I'll even change the format/layout of it to better illustrate a sense of passed time? 

wuslam - october slam

WUSlam once again. This poster was done for the October Slam. I went a different route and drew it all by hand, instead of constructing everything entirely by presets.

some sketches/thumbnals: 

sketchbook 02 ("i draw a lot of stuff, i'm just bad at uploading it")

I'm alive, I swear! Most of this was done in September, but I never got around to scanning them. 

"wuslam likes whales" (september slam and whale icons)

(final version)

I was asked to design a poster for our school's poetry slam team, and it wasn't easy. I played around with a couple of ideas:

(as you can see, none of them really went anywhere.) (though looking back, I kind of like the third one.) 

definitely rolled with the blue one. 

some sketches of whales:

 the silhouettes!

fanart 05 ("pokemon is the comeback kid")

done in Photoshop, using a crayonwax brush to achieve celshade effect

AND here's a WIP that I desperately want to finish. If only I had 1) all the time in the world, and 2) my tablet pen. (it is weeping silently in a package in a mailroom that was closed on Sunday and Monday)

that font's really awful because y'know, my handwriting, but I'll get around to fixing that soon. this was a story that i read online! it was alright, but the title was cool, so the fanart bug bit me. 

collaborative comic - the diary of dr. michael kaiser

W H E W. note to self: never try and crank out a comic in three days! it's unhealthy!

also not helpful that my tablet was out of commission, so there's that.
nonetheless, here it is. written by my partner in the comic club at school, kyle flagstad, and drawn by me.

figure drawing 04 ("nudity gets an inkover")

a series of 20 minute studies, all done primarily with ink (and some blue colored pencil on occasion)

(I really enjoyed doing these)

I'll post my charcoal 20 minute studies once I find the SD card for my camera (sigh). 

sketchbook 01 ("alex doesn't believe in normal graphite pencils yet")

some speech bubble fun on a flight back from New York. 

YOUNG JUSTICE! I love this show. I'm a sucker for DC (or Marvel) thrown into a melting pot of teenage drama. (But no, I do love the characters very much.) 

Good ol' OCs and halfOCs (Paper Mario redesigns turned into mine? So half they are). 

figure drawing 02 ("predictable warning: unclothed human beings up ahead")

Over the summer I took a figure drawing class, to brush up on my grasp of the human anatomy and also explore with stylizing the body. Before every session I would do a style warm-up for five minutes or so, to familiarize myself with my own style so that I wouldn't resort to hyper-realistic drawings during the actual session. 

Style warmup! 

30 second ink warmups. 

one minute, with blue pencil

one minute, with red pencil

more one minute drawings, with blue pencil

2 minutes!

10 for the two on the left, 5 for the one on the right. 

15 for this one ("I WILL STRETCH YOU, GOOD SIR.") 

and about 15-ish for this one (it was part of a 20, but I spent the other 5-8 minutes zooming in on his face and hat). 

Caption: "Welcome, ladies."