this is a water color i did in my sketch book. i did pen and ink underneath and sleep depribed painted it last night because id missed some color

watercolor

well, I haven't posted yet, but apparently I have to. While we are on the topic of watercolor, here is a wet on wet hummingbird I did. I used some dots of masking fluid on the eye... I think I used some other places too and then did some more washes over them so they aren't pure white.



This is another thing. I don't remember all the techniques I used, but I think salt and a paper towel were involved.

Row Houses

While researching row houses for my final "safe zone" illustration, I came across some creepy images I thought I'd share.

I am almost done, but here is what I have so far. I am going to make some things darker.

Hopkins Scholars!

This is where I sit with my editorial Illustration of the Hopkins Students. I'm kinda freaking out about the way their skin reads. I used Micron and am kicking myself since you can see all the lines of the pen as this odd texture that I'm not digging. I am going to try and go a over it once if not a couple more times to smooth that out.

I have a ways to go on my background textures but am feeling confident.

New 8x8 Sketch!

Between class and my car I somehow lost my other large sketch, so here it is again, it's not too much different. I combined my very first sketch with my second to make this third version. Most of the shading and dark outline is going to be up front, on the shoe and flowers, so the background can recede.

Does it still look like a giant shoe to anyone? I'm hoping line weight and detail are enough to just make it look close. Feedback appreciated!

Sketch Plunders

Hi There. These really aren't as 'post-quality' as I would like, but I could definitely use the feedback. First off we have my crappy little 6x6 Urbanite fortune cookie spot Illustration. My fortune was "Diligence is the mother of good fortune."


This here is the revised version, I'm much more pleased with it, but also wondering if I should change anything before I attack it with ink. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. The concept is that the performer here trained dillegently for her gold medal and that these figures (which I will fade out when inking) represent her past work with her good fortune in the foreground. Obviously I need to tone down those figures a lot before i finish, but otherwise, any thoughts (especially anatomy wise)?



Lastly we have my editorial illustration assignment. This is not turning around as nice as I would like. I feel like the basketball players are dominating less of the composition and by bringing the yoga people in I'm focusing more on the meat of the article but the composition seems halved to me, there are crazy issues with perspective, and all sorts of other anomalies. Any suggestions on how to fix this?