2010-2011 No ceramics this year, as the studio I teach from is a hole in the ground becoming a new Multimedia and Fine Arts building. A colleague and I wrote a grant which will make it a 6 million dollar building with state of the art equipment. I'm jazzed! Teaching claymation this year along with 3D Art for Game Design and the Claymation has been fun. Artistically, inspired by the birth of my second daughter, I have gone back to essentials - I've been honing illustration technique and conceptual figure drawing. My figures have not only gotten more realistic, but my speed has more than doubled. As with all things, improvement has only made me hungry for more growth, so it could be my days as a potter are in the past and the pencil/tablet is the future (at least for a while). I've also been taking writing classes and my graphic novel plotlines are getting sharper. I will begin working on a finished ash-can by the end of the summer!
ABOVE- Character art for a new piece of writing - a fifty page sequential short story.
ABOVE - Fairly finished pencils for conceptual panels for Campfire's At the End of Days, now an eighteen chapter epic adventure which is being polished. Post apocolyptic, romantacist, steam punk inspired drama and adventure.
ABOVE -Concept art for Campfire's later chapters- A viking dirigible (with a logo design) and a female tarzan, the 'Wendigo'
QUICK SKETCHES These are 'stolen moment' rough sketches from the 6"x9" sketchbook that is always by my side. Ironically, these taking less than 20 minutes (usually during the girls' bath time or before work) are often my favorites. These exerpts are all from 'Shadow Heart', another sprawling epic sequential art story which I am in the process of hacking down to size. It is definetly getting closer to a real story. These images are from the re-written beginning. The drawings feature gargoyles come to life based off the Three Furies, a Demon Mage, and the main character Victory with an updated outfit.
Commissions Book cover reproduced with permission of the author
Student Demos In class demos that turned out well. These are all for my multimedia art class and 3D art class. They would be done in 5 to 10 minute demos (more than one, sometimes as many as 20 for the 3D character model). (TOP- LEFT) A quick anime style sketch scanned and colored quickly in Photoshop, inspired by my toddler Viviana and her friend Unicornio(recently gone missing from the Sanchez Public Library). (TOP-RIGHT) An example laying out orthographic drawings for a 3D environment model. (BOTTOM) Creating a character model-sheet (you can see the cheap 2 dollar 6"x9" sketchbook which is where I do 80% of my drawing). The 'finished' model after upwards of 20 short demos walking the kids through the process with their own models. A pity about the hair, but our old computers kept rejecting my tablet so I never painted it properly.
2009-2010 I've been as busy as I can be with a one year baby girl, but I am finding some time for work on two different graphic novel ideas. The panels below are for a Sci-Fi -ish story called 'Campfires From the End of Days"
Two panels and title page mock up from my ever exapnding story 'Shadow Heart' - Epic Fantasy and dark comedy in a more cartoonish style
Ceramics
2008-2009 Digital Art
Fine Arts
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