Monday, December 20, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Rocking the boat
I've been taking my tablet to my weekly figure-drawing sessions. Started out a bit rough but it's totally freeing being able to move a bit of color around and keep myself moving fast on the tablet.
Hopefully after doing these for a while I'll finally and get bored and convince myself to take watercolors with me. But, for now, I'm pretty happy with the results.
Hopefully after doing these for a while I'll finally and get bored and convince myself to take watercolors with me. But, for now, I'm pretty happy with the results.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Been a year huh?
A year ago I went home for winter break and immediately found myself bored out of my mind, and decided to ask all of my friends on facebook to send me photos of themselves for me to practice speed painting. I cranked about a good 16 or 17 of them in a month, and learned a lot...
I feel like doing that again this year, but I'll probably move a bit slower and not do so many... I'm taking my tablet to figure drawing to get faster. Pics of those studies will be up shortly.
The first of my 2010 batch: Spencer and Brad
I feel like doing that again this year, but I'll probably move a bit slower and not do so many... I'm taking my tablet to figure drawing to get faster. Pics of those studies will be up shortly.
The first of my 2010 batch: Spencer and Brad
Friday, November 5, 2010
First post of my last year in school
... 7 or so weeks into the quarter, I finally take a breather and post here.
For a while now I've been lucky to get 7 hours of sleep in a 4-day school week. Definitely been working harder than last year... but I'm not as stressed out, somehow. If I had to guess as to why, I'd say it's because I'm really happy with my professor, and though he's an extremely intimidating individual, I think we finally have a clear and mutual respect for each other. Also, now that I'm 21 I can go out for a drink or two with my friends and colleagues, shoot the shit, and yap for hours and hours about school because that's just about all we can do.
Anyways, for those of you I am ever-neglecting to update, my lamp project has evolved since the summer. We now have a "pedestal" to go with the lamp, which sounds like a strange accompaniment to a desk lamp, but has become quite an interesting problem. We have fairly free-reign over what the purpose of the pedestal is (as long as their IS a purpose).
So this is what it looks like after working all night in the CAD lab. These were rendered in a pretty sub-par program but they pop out fast so I can render changing concepts as I go.
The top of the lamp rotates, and the lamp is only lit when the edges are aligned. Tiny magnets offer a little feedback as well. When the lamp is sitting in its tiny index in the pedestal's table, the form is continued down to the base. This way, the user is encouraged to turn on the lamp by "normalizing" its shape, and hence its purpose: to be a light.
So now is the scary part-- where we have to build it. I'm looking for an aluminum sculptor/welder, or a commercial/industrial specialist who isn't afraid to tackle something of such small scale. The top diffuser will be SLA'd or FDM'd, depending on the properties of samples I have yet to acquire.
And for those of you that could care less about ID and weren't impressed by the pictures, this is a teaser to a painting I've been working on in my little spare time for the sketchgroup:
For a while now I've been lucky to get 7 hours of sleep in a 4-day school week. Definitely been working harder than last year... but I'm not as stressed out, somehow. If I had to guess as to why, I'd say it's because I'm really happy with my professor, and though he's an extremely intimidating individual, I think we finally have a clear and mutual respect for each other. Also, now that I'm 21 I can go out for a drink or two with my friends and colleagues, shoot the shit, and yap for hours and hours about school because that's just about all we can do.
Anyways, for those of you I am ever-neglecting to update, my lamp project has evolved since the summer. We now have a "pedestal" to go with the lamp, which sounds like a strange accompaniment to a desk lamp, but has become quite an interesting problem. We have fairly free-reign over what the purpose of the pedestal is (as long as their IS a purpose).
So this is what it looks like after working all night in the CAD lab. These were rendered in a pretty sub-par program but they pop out fast so I can render changing concepts as I go.
The top of the lamp rotates, and the lamp is only lit when the edges are aligned. Tiny magnets offer a little feedback as well. When the lamp is sitting in its tiny index in the pedestal's table, the form is continued down to the base. This way, the user is encouraged to turn on the lamp by "normalizing" its shape, and hence its purpose: to be a light.
So now is the scary part-- where we have to build it. I'm looking for an aluminum sculptor/welder, or a commercial/industrial specialist who isn't afraid to tackle something of such small scale. The top diffuser will be SLA'd or FDM'd, depending on the properties of samples I have yet to acquire.
And for those of you that could care less about ID and weren't impressed by the pictures, this is a teaser to a painting I've been working on in my little spare time for the sketchgroup:
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Girlies
More figure drawing. Been going almost every week for a few months now... All of these are done with Prismacolor Pencils with Prisma Markers (for the longer poses).
There's one set I need to photograph and stick in here.
Be sure to check out the sketchgroup! It finally got somewhere (it only took all summer...).
There's one set I need to photograph and stick in here.
Be sure to check out the sketchgroup! It finally got somewhere (it only took all summer...).
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