Extras

Pieces from figure drawing:









This last one was for an assignment where we have to make it 4 times as big as an 18x24 sheet. My prof told me it was boring, I agreed, so I did another one. Well... I'm doing it. it's not quite done, but it is at least a bit more interesting than this one.

Painting failure

If all goes well, I'll be taking a painting class this fall. I've never taken a painting class before and never got instruction other than a demo my highschool teacher did my sophomore year. I have made progress since then (will be posting my first oil- just for laughs), but... I'm still struggling with it.

I was told to put off painting by a Calarts rep at NPD, but damn if I'm gonna stop painting. It really is something therapeutic (when it's going well), and it's just awesome experimenting with different mediums and techniques.

Not sure where I went wrong with this (probably the foundation), but... here it is so far:







I'm planning to work more on it, maybe glaze over some of the foundation hues and values, not sure. Anyway, I put this animation type thing together since I snapped many stills every time the megilp dried on me:

Painting Layers from Iggy K on Vimeo.

Failing studies

I've really fallen behind my sketchbook studies, this all I have. Hopefully I'll be able to make up ground when I'm on break:

Figure Drawing

I like this class. I like it a lot.

Got some help from a friend here about paying attention to the shadows more than the outline; better put: get off the outlines.

I'm also starting to realize, or at least acknowledge the play between an object's edge and what surrounds that object. After some help I'm also trying to better the values in my drawings by understanding (trying to) the quote:

"your lightest dark is darker than your darkest light"

I've heard it before, but never really understood, now I'm starting to. This advent actually makes drawing a whole lot harder, since...shading, even up to now merely consists of trying to get my values just enough so I can tell what the object is, but not really the placement in space related to other objects.

Still got about four weeks I believe in figure drawing, here's eight weeks:

One thing about this one (the one above) I actually didn't do all of it. Our substitute prof had us shift five times counter clock-wise from easel to easel for five minutes and work on our neighbors drawing. So...I just set up the drawing, everything else was darkened and the face especially was detailed by someone else.

Pardon the fade on some of these, when I had my car accident, I guess the impact was so violent that it unsettled some of the vine charcoal. I now have fixative.

The Grind

Haven't posted for many reasons, but notably however, I was recently involved in an accident that it really is a miracle I am alive and even more, well. My ol' '93 camry got totaled and I got charged for damaging a tree. I hit no one else, did not break a bone in my body; got out with scrapes, a severely damaged lip which is now healing from stitching, and a few bruises.

I have no idea how it happened as I was unconscious up until I was being pushed about into the hospital. I think it was mostly due to lack of sleep and a meager banana for breakfast. Anyway, and to my...not dismay, maybe shock- or just surprise; life goes on. Homework is still due, Conan still puts on his show, the Marlins still play their baseball, nothing stops.

I am posting up some assignments from my architecture classes. I don't like architecture. It's not fulfilling, It actually depresses me, I'm only doing it because a withdrawal looks bad on a transcript and I don't want a bad grade in the class.

It's one thing to dream up a building, to invent the facade, set in marvelous windows and doors, but it's quite another to make it actually work. To make sure everything lines up well, make sure the contractor can read it, make sure you have the right materials, and make sure everything is just perfect.

Have learned quite a couple of things though, most useful though was 1 point perspective using the grid, 2 point perspective using the office method, orthographic projections, and elevations.

I digress:

Have the plan for this plan-oblique somewhere

1 point perspective of the plan at the bottom

Isometric of the plan below

Vellum is obscenely expensive

Flotsam

Couple of stuff I found rummaging through my room (Most of it not finished), I'm pretty sure the third one is from this semester (ack):

Moving on

Some of these are from my personal studies, some were for class. I have recently come into acquisition of gray scale Pitt Pens, as well as basic colors. They're really nice pens, especially considering the price. I've always wanted Copics, but it's a bit too rich for my blood. These Pitt Pens still achieve kind of the same wash effect. My only gripe on them is they only come in limited hues.

Protip #1: when your Pitt Pen tip gets a little too "brushy", grab a some tweezers, pull the tip out from the trunk; new tip at the other end! Just push it back in with the new tip facing out.

Protip #2: Utrecht brand sketchbooks (even the hardbounds) are not that great for studies in pen, no matter what that label tells you.