Memory

The Ghost Bear.
              This bear was more a figment of our imagination as kids. When my cousins and I were playing in the forest at my grandparents home we always thought we saw bears or wolves or deer, all kinds of things. Aside from rare occasions when deer would come in sight (those were cool) we never did get a full glimpse of any of those things. The idea behind this painting is that the ghost bear served as a guardian to us kids playing in the woods, keeping us safe from the real bears that might be hungry enough to eat us, so my little imagination thought.

Song Assignment

 

Be sure to listen to M83 song, Midnight City while looking at this piece. The two go hand in hand. 

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a little portrait I'm working on of a neighbor for class, still a work in progress but I'm liking how it's going so far :)

Man Alive! I have been busy!

Well, busy and working hard. Good news moment, I got second place in the Figure Drawing Show here at BYU, yay! This is the winning piece:

Also I'm learning maya and just completed my first model ever!!!!! :DD SO excited about that! :)

I will be making a second one before the end of this semester, but here is my seal in a view different angles:

I do think the face is still quite a bit creepy looking, (mostly because the UVs around the mouth are kind of messed up, I should have fixed that) but the texturing was fun and I'm pretty happy with it overall being my first model. The next one will be a penguin, then whatever else I can come up with from there. I still have yet to learn rigging and animating as well, which I wish this class would go over but it won't. I'll just have to learn it elsewhere. Special thanks to Josh for helping me out when I got stuck in places. I love you!

Happy Halloweenies!! almost anyway :)

I don't have a halloween piece to post, but I do have lots of head paintings and a mythical creatures farm painting and a lot of peter pan drawings (those will be found in future posts)!!!

Be Excited!

So I have some great news! After two years of building up my portfolio since my last big disappointment, I have finally taken the steps for a second attempt at applying for a BFA in Illustration at BYU, and I GOT IN! wahoo!!!!!! (victory dance!) and I have further more been accepted into the concept design track emphasis of the BFA so I am super psyched! Here's some art to celebrate:
(The colored ones were drawn using a program called Colors3D for the 3DS console. It is a pretty shnazzy digital sketch book. Thank you Josh!)

Also keep posted for updates on this years Chalk the Block Contest: https://www.facebook.com/chalktheblockevent
This year, Josh and I and his brother and his dad are going to be teaming up to produce something awesome! Here are all their blog links:
Josh: http://joshsimagination.blogspot.com/
Kevin: http://beawesome.blogspot.com/
Steve: http://keeleart.blogspot.com/

Figure Drawing Journey Winter Semester 2013