Traditional Art...

So maybe I've been a little biased towards my Graphic Design projects lately, and you thought I was dual-majoring. I have thus decided to display the little things I've done on the side. As pitiful as it is, these are actually almost all of the drawings I've done this whole summer. Above is another graffiti drawing, something that is becoming a favorite style of mine. It says, "can," by the way.

I bought some of George B. Bridgman's books and these are drawings I copied from his Book of a Hundred Hands. I, of course, take no credit what-so-ever for the drawings, I'm just showing how I've been attempting to emulate his cool style--especially with such a difficult subject as hands.

This is rather embarrassing, so naturally, I have to post it to the world wide web where everyone can see. This terrible smudge of charcoal is supposed to somewhat resemble the likeness of my little sister. Yeah, I know, needs serious work. I'm too lazy, though, and I justify it with these facts about it: 1) It's the first charcoal piece I've done since late April, 2) I only spent an hour on it last night, and 3) Hill thinks it's the coolest thing.

Self Portrait #11

Here's an ambiguous self portrait I've done. I chose the card because it said, "self awareness," thus it was surely meant to have a self-portrait drawn on it. 3/22/09 By the way, I'm only counting the self portraits labeled as such and I'm not counting repeats...

SketchCards

This is a forgery of one of Will Sliney's drawings, I'm trying to experiment with different styles, you see...

I went outside with my camping chair to enjoy the awesome overcast weather today and drew the tree I sat in front of--there was a big pile of leaves, needles, and pine cones next to it (hence the scribbling). Both of these were drawn today 3/22/09

Explorations In Graffiti

Did this one today in 119. Says "Dindy," which is Megan's new word for the day, as she tried to say both "nifty" and "dandy" at the same time, and she liked the word, so I commemorated it, graffiti style. 3/22/09

This one actually belongs to my first group of these cards I've been doing--I'm uncertain when I did this, but it was around the end of Feb/beginning of March. I love this one, although I'm sad that my card was too small for what I ended up drawing...

Me, Again

A new self portrait! Did this last night, I really really really like it. Once again, it's on a 3x5 index card. 3/21/09

Cards1.1

I did this to, once again, emulate Jake Wyatt's kind of style, I'm just really fascinated with the way he does sketches. I'm not gonna tell you what this technically is a picture of, 'cause it's disgraceful, but it looks cool like this. 3/19/09

There's a message within this cool emulation of Jake Wyatt's style of text. Basically the same as what some know from my other blog. 3/20/09

The last couple hours I've been reading Native American legends for inspiration of stuff to draw. The one above and below are both part of the Apach legend, Destruction of the Bear. The fox who is apparently the hero--possibly in most Apache legends. 3/20/09

This is a bear from the legend. I drew a heart with a knife in it, to try and throw in more of the legend with this little picture--the heart is in pen that I drew with after I filled in all the black, you'll probably have to blow this one up to see it. 3/20/09

Another Apache legend; the Jicarilla Genesis--this is the guy looking through the hole to discover the world above ground after the "game" thing. 3/20/09

This guy looks more like a pretchikus old-person, rather than the cool, hardened warrior I was drawing from...oh well, it still turned out kinda cool. 3/20/09

Crop

2-4-09

This is my Part B of the abstraction assignment. It's a crop and enlargement of one of my abstractions. 18 x 24

Abstraction Completed!

It's done! Part A is done! I was really happy with the way this project turned out, and I got lots of good feedback from my peers. Now I just have to choose a section of one of these to to crop and then enlarge to create another, new piece that is compositionally sound (and it has to be 18 x 24).

Abstraction

I'm abstracting this picture for these thumbnails:

The first of my sketchbook pages containing the thumbnails for the abstraction assignment for 2D.

Everything above: 1-26-09

I actually did this last sketch-page in class today 1-27-09

Some of these I did last Wed (the left 2) and the right one I did last night with the others.

Last thing I sketched over the Christmas break. Colored Pencil. 12-29-08

Done sometime during the first week of January. I hate the ugly thing in the top corner, but the hippo skull is cool, especially with the mix of pen and pencil. (I did the pen outlines first, then went in with pencil for shading.)

These aren't the greatest quality sketches, but they're all for concepts--this is the stuff I did at the USU Museum of Anthropology with Megan, Kierstin, Katie, and Lindsey. 1/10/09 pencil

Sketchin' S'more--That Sounds Good Right Now

12-15/17-08

I did this page in between performances (and during some, I'll be honest) at Lizzie's Ice Skating show of people in the crowd, sitting unsuspecting that they would forever be immortalized in the pages of my sketchbook.

This is some doodling I did on the airplane going to Orlando 12-20-08

Sketchin' Along

Sketches from Art History, Biology, and the Alexis Rockman lecture.

I did most of this from sitting in the hall at 7 AM waiting for my counsellor to get there at 8 so I could be the first to sign up for 2D Design.

Ideas, mostly, and some sketches while waiting to get in Bio (I was early to the class, as usual, and there was a class in the room, so I sat in the hall and tried to surreptitiously sketch people.)

Thumbnails

These are the 16 thumbnails I had to do for our line composition project in 2D Design.
Horizontal/Vertical line composition thumbnails.

Curvilinear line comps.

Diagonal Lines.

Combination of the four types (horiz/vert count separately).

Sketch Book

11-2-08

The start of my favorite part of my sketchbook--pretty much everything after this point (unfortunately, I'm just about half-way through the thing) is really good and I actually like to look at them often.

11-4-08

I like this one because when I got bored of all those gestures, I started abstracting them--my first true effort to expand that part of my skill-set

11-4-08

11-6-08
Another set of abstraction exercises, put to work with logo-style trees and simplifying pictures of weather systems, a red-rock canyon scene and a picture of a sandstorm.

Sketch Book Stuff

Today is the first day of college. I don't have a class until 1:00, so what could I possibly do that's better than updating my blog?

Here's a nice out-of-the-ordinary art piece for me. I did this at the beginning of last year in AP Art after I saw the Sterling Scholar kid do something like it, so naturally I copied his ideas in my own sketchbook, because that's what I like to do.

I drew this charcoal spider at my Grandma and Grandpa Brown's house during the October General Conference last year.

This is a more recent sketch from this particular sketchbook. I did these in Koosharem after I found a load of animal books on a bookshelf, this last May. I then inked out the elk on 6-15-08.

I also did these on my Koosharem trip in May, but I only wanted to show the elephant because I hated the antelope when I was drawing it, so I stopped, and I still hate it now.

When I went to San Diego, I saw lots of booths for caricature drawing, so I decided I'd do my sister as we traveled back home on June 15th. This was my very first caricature, so sorry Hill, and sorry to all those I just gave eye spasms to.

Commercial Art

This was one of my favorite projects in Commercial Art my Junior year of high school. In that class I got way better at pen and ink stuff.

Some more pen and ink stuff. The bottom part is a kind of doodle I did as part of the class, then decided to do one with my sister during church.

This isn't pen and ink, but here's some of my first cartoons as we did a very small unit in comm. art about cartooning. These aren't great, but I like a few of them.