113A Projects

This is late, but I finally got around to taking pictures of my projects from Ani 113a.

This is my black and white still life. I posted it as a part of my portfolio previously, but I took a better picture so I thought I'd post it again. I hated this project with a passion, but I did learn a ton from it. This is one of my first traditional paintings. Also, I hate acrylics.

Here's my color grid. I killed myself on it, so I thought I would post it. 

The project I thought was the most fun was the color comps. I hated them at first, but I grew to love them after doing thirteen in a two day period. I wish I'd finished all of them before I picked my color comp for my final. I think I learned a lot about color on this project and this is when I started to learn to paint loosely and light instead of objects. I hate the first comp; I would not choose those colors again. The bad color looks atrocious to me, but for some reason my friends liked it.

Finally: my final. The painting was much easier than I thought it'd be. It wasn't easy, but it didn't frustrate me nearly as much as the black and white painting. You probably can't tell because of the photo, but the paint application is much better in the color painting than the black and white painting. 

My still life tells a story. Can you tell what it is? 

Speed Painting #11 + Illustration Colors

So, the idea with speed paintings is eventually they improve. So far... not so much. I also forgot what time I started working on it. I thought it was 5, but I checked the clock when I was almost done, and it was still 5. So I'm either really fast or I don't know how to tell time with a digital read out.

Time: ~30-60 minutes

Actual Picture

What I thought I was looking at

Ah, the fun stuff! Well, not so much. I hate colors. I like drawing and painting, but everything in between is just really boring for me. Was trying to maintain a analogous red/orange/yellow color scheme with blue accents. It didn't help that my focal points were wearing red and black and my secondary focal point ladies to the left were wearing my accent colors. Which is why they will be covered in freaking shadows.

I did a value study also, but it's in graphite. So you won't get to see it since my scanner is dumb. Basically Hawke and Anders are lit the best, the fire in the background is really bright (as opposed to dark fire...?), and the sides are really dark. Otherwise Aveline, Isabela, and Merrill would be a little distracting.

... Merrill's looking a little pink. 

Time: ~2 hours