breadmaker
January 1st, 2008, 08:55 PM
Sup CA! My username's breadmaker, but feel free to call me Vicky.
My buddies Pseudocognition and Danuh introduced me to this place, and it seemed like a good place (and a good day) to keep a good eye on my new year's resolution progression.
So as it is right now, I'm a 17 year old senior in high school, so I'll be graduating in five months, give or take. I'd like to go to art school, though my immediate plans are to stick around for a year because I'm kind of poor. Regardless, I'm hoping for a degree in either Illustration or Medical Illustration.
I rarely actually finish pieces, I typically just doodle stuff and I've started to grow on doing things from life, which I feel have helped me in more than one way. I'm still a much more traditional person, with my most common mediums (from most to least) being pencil, ballpoint pen, colored pencil, watercolor, pastel, and uh...anything else.
The previously mentioned New Year's Resolution was to, plain and simply, draw more. January is important because I have a college interview and portfolio review towards the end of the month and would like more pieces to include. Thankfully, they're lax about what is and isn't included which gives me a little more freedom.
Other goals include -
I. Work on my contrast. As you'll see, my pencil pieces are VERY VERY light, and I almost never go dark enough.
II. Do more figure drawings, and work more on the male form. Nothing like more excuses to stare at hot semi-naked men.
III. Try to finish more pieces despite school and ice cream scooping eating up all of my time and energy.
IV. Do more speed...stuff. Not drugs, stuff that's speedy. Speedpaints, the timed exercises from posemaniacs, that stuff.
V. Get art site up by Spring. Or, preferably, by second convention of the year (Katsucon in mid-Feb.).
So with all of the gibbering out of the way, here's some recent stuff to show off. They're mostly things drawn from posemaniacs or magazines, either in pen or pencil, and a few facial feature practice doodles and an OC are thrown in as well.
I also added in some older school projects, some of which are over a year old by now, done in either pencil, colored pencil, conte crayon or charcoal. Those in charcoal were figure drawings of other kids in my class, and each took me between 10 and 15 minutes; the one in conte crayon was a cubist piece inspired by the works of Braque and Picasso with game pieces as my subject.
Also, I apologize now for how much I talk! :D;
My buddies Pseudocognition and Danuh introduced me to this place, and it seemed like a good place (and a good day) to keep a good eye on my new year's resolution progression.
So as it is right now, I'm a 17 year old senior in high school, so I'll be graduating in five months, give or take. I'd like to go to art school, though my immediate plans are to stick around for a year because I'm kind of poor. Regardless, I'm hoping for a degree in either Illustration or Medical Illustration.
I rarely actually finish pieces, I typically just doodle stuff and I've started to grow on doing things from life, which I feel have helped me in more than one way. I'm still a much more traditional person, with my most common mediums (from most to least) being pencil, ballpoint pen, colored pencil, watercolor, pastel, and uh...anything else.
The previously mentioned New Year's Resolution was to, plain and simply, draw more. January is important because I have a college interview and portfolio review towards the end of the month and would like more pieces to include. Thankfully, they're lax about what is and isn't included which gives me a little more freedom.
Other goals include -
I. Work on my contrast. As you'll see, my pencil pieces are VERY VERY light, and I almost never go dark enough.
II. Do more figure drawings, and work more on the male form. Nothing like more excuses to stare at hot semi-naked men.
III. Try to finish more pieces despite school and ice cream scooping eating up all of my time and energy.
IV. Do more speed...stuff. Not drugs, stuff that's speedy. Speedpaints, the timed exercises from posemaniacs, that stuff.
V. Get art site up by Spring. Or, preferably, by second convention of the year (Katsucon in mid-Feb.).
So with all of the gibbering out of the way, here's some recent stuff to show off. They're mostly things drawn from posemaniacs or magazines, either in pen or pencil, and a few facial feature practice doodles and an OC are thrown in as well.
I also added in some older school projects, some of which are over a year old by now, done in either pencil, colored pencil, conte crayon or charcoal. Those in charcoal were figure drawings of other kids in my class, and each took me between 10 and 15 minutes; the one in conte crayon was a cubist piece inspired by the works of Braque and Picasso with game pieces as my subject.
Also, I apologize now for how much I talk! :D;