Closing the Ohio Chapter

This is it. Final work as an undergrad student at CCAD.
4 years ago I barely even knew where Ohio was on the map of the USA, much less place Columbus on it. Didn't know what a Buckeye was, or why wearing blue and yellow was a bad choice in this city.
3 years ago Design Square studios were under construction, the Triad was an official dorm, the AMF was called the B&E, Design Studios on Broad were known as the Broad Street Facilities and the cafeteria was in the basement of Schott. color concepts, painting, 2d design and 3d design were separate classes. Styles and Concepts was taught by 3 different teachers - Tardino, Mahan and Wong. I've had them all. Professional practice was available at different times, and seniors could have taken Entrepreneurial illustration.

I'm going to stick around Columbus until early June, relax, work on personal projects, pack up what I can, sell what I can, toss the rest, clean it up as best as I can, and drive down to Texas (although my mother is trying to convince me to look into taking the bus.)
I might have gone to Austin just because it's a game development mecca, having relatives in the area is icing on the cake. :)
My Optional Practical Training should be coming in soon, and will make June 13th as the first official day I can work. I'm crossing my fingers that I will start working at a game dev ASAP, with late Oct / early Nov serving as the looming deadline. My brother is getting married at that time, and there's no guarantee I'll be allowed back in the country, even thought my OPT doesn't officially end until June 13th 2012.

Alright, on to my final projects as a CCAD undergraduate. (I have no plans to return, but you never know.)

Most of the stuff is under my Operation: Steel Stag umbrella.


Illustration Professional practice:
Officer of the АНЧИ (Army of the New Human Ideal) and a "tunnel dog."
Character and Creaturee design:

(Big thanks to Hannah Rivera for posing for me at Anime Punch :) )

Adv. Painting:
Navy of the Union of Nations (My personal favorite from the show)
a 36"x24" oil painting.

Union of Nations Space Force
36" x 60" painting, the biggest I ever attempted

Sculpture I:
Flight 19
Combining the second project: Hydrocal self portrait and project number 3: Welding into a single piece.
"Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on 5 December 1945 during a United States Navy-authorized overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida." (Wikipedia)

Project number 4 was time based.
I created this domestic fighter for it. I've built one of these when I was 14, and thought it would be fun to do another, something retro futiristic that would fit right in with Crimson Skies.
There was also a time limitation to consider.

Serigraphy:
I silk screened patches for the AUoN, fulfilling my requirment for alternative surface, and having something to wear on my uniform when I set up my table at Directions. I knew not to take it seriously from hearing what former participants had to say about it ;)
I printed on felt and foam sheets with sticky back I bought at wal-mart.

I also combined my final silk screening project with my science project, creating this piece on the short term effects of Dioxin, the nasty stuff in Agent Orange. A toxin we are all exposed to.
I think I like the origin file better.

Last but not least, the free model session
 I don't know her name, but I know she's CCAD alum, and studied American sign language.
Colored pencils. Didn't notice the distortion of the lower part until I photomerged today. Done 4.19.11

It is perhaps fitting that Jeremy would be the last nude I draw at CCAD. He is probably the model I drew the most, with Kelly coming in second.
Charcoal. I actually let the distortion happen as they will in this - the face, hands and legs

Slow updates

I think I should update more often, but it's the nature of this semester's classes, and maybe you, my followers, don't really mind.

Anyways, what have I done since my last update? A couple of free model sessions:
Matt, who has been confirmed as creepy by others, in oil pastels. Thank you Mrs. Wang for making me feel like I'm not that great with them whenever I pull them out.

I still don't know this model's name, cartoon duck tattooed on her lower back.
It's been a while since I've stretched my charcoal muscles, felt good.

Painting I finished for adv painting before Spring Break, dealing with Augmented reality.

 

Silk screening photo stencil project.

Happy new year :)

I ended 2010 attending the annual life drawing marathon at Tiltan, my old college. I talked with Erez and Michal, the couple who founded this small art school, and with Mail, the head of the graphic design course, who taught me back in the day.
I also saw Kobi and Ilan, old professors of mine, but we didn't talk.

On Friday I took the car to IBM in Petach Tikva, for the 2010 Israel game unconference. It was pretty sweet, seeing who makes games in Israel, listening to lectures, and dropping off some of my business cards. Free pastries for breakfast, free pizza for lunch. Can't complain. ;)

Sagi, charcoal, first drawing of the night, warming up.

Sagi and Andre, charcoal, one hour pose (These guys are champs, sitting for an hour straight)

Yael, 6B pencil, 30 minutes? hour?

5 min. gestures of Yael, charcoal

 

Yulia, 6B

Almost done

Last class is tomorrow, Friday the 17th at 3:30 pm.

There will be one more post following this one with work from Fall semeter 2010. Anything after will be from Israel, (and I'm planning to be productive,) until I return on the 14th.

It wasn't an easy semester, and I have some mixed feelings about how much I learned, and the grades I'm expecting.

Landscape painting was awesome, I enjoyed anthropology. Comic book was pretty good, but a lot of busy work. It was fun to mess around with Sculpey, and I might use it again to make little models as reference, but I don't think I can turn sculpting into a career.
Children's market illustration was ok, but not great, as was illustration methods.
Heard a lot of good information during professional practice, but I'm not super happy with any of the projects I did, even though they were self-assigned.
Web Design II was fun, seems like I put more effort into it than anyone else :)
(reminds me I need to work on the overhaul of my site)

Art!

Caripeta angustiora - Brown Pine Looper:
Gouache painting for illustration methods, done from photo ref

Page 2 for comic book class. We never got to the 3rd planned page.

Mighty mouse cover redesign, done in Painter and Photoshop.
Pro practice class.
Original

Heightened drawing self portrait, charcoal and white pastel.
Photo ref.

November - super month

November 2010 is going to be epic. A month I will remember until I die, even when I forget the names of my brothers.

Britanee and I will be celebrating our birthday next Saturday. It marks the start of my 3rd decade alive.
Time to start a career and lose my virginity. ;)
I'll also be going to Mid-Ohio-Con on Sunday, portfolio and business cards under my arm. Need to make some opportunities for myself.
The following weekend we are going to Illuxcon. The plan this year is for 10 of us to share a room, boys and girls. It's going to be interesting.
I have a portfolio review with Rob Ruphl, who happens to have been born Nov. 7th. :D

Better get to work on my branding.

Enough words. Pictures say more, right?

Landscape painting at Highbanks Metro park:

Professional practice: Vasselin Behrovitch, combat tracker, character design

Illustration Methods:

Seated figure graphite value study. (Thanks for modeling, Emily :) )

Human animal hybrid, greyscale acrylic. Lizzie with an Inca Tern.

Full color acrylic painting. We needed to come up with 5 nouns and 5 verbs and use them to come up with an interesting idea/composition.
The words I ended up using were lizard, missile, leap and fly.

Free model session:
I killed Audrey for the "Horror" theme required for Groff's sketchbook.

Audrey again. Choose this angle for the challenge.

Final finals, finally

From the last days of Fall 2010.
Mr. Kumlien was still pushing the idea of mass tones. (charcoal / Conté)

Mrs. Wong gave me a B on the spot illustration for an article about "winterizing your skin," the highest grade I got in that class. She thought I was avoiding painting. I was just looking for what other techniques I might use. I have been painiting for color concept all year.
A C+ on my sketchbook and final grade.

The final Bunn guns for Advanced Structural. (They don't shoot coffee :P )

I'm still waiting for an answer from Neopets about the internship, or that someone else might pick me up.
CSCC has a pretty cool lineup if I do stick around, I'm not too worried about being sexually assaulted in the toilets. I read about that last week, smells fishy.
I'm also working with the GCC on Project X, and having a blast.

Everything is due on Tuesday, more or less.
Electronic illustration is done. Finished it Thursday around 4 am, felt great.
Styles & concepts has a good amount of work completed, and I'll have another work to finish.
Figure drawing is out of the way, Psychology of development exam on Wednesday.
I have been thinking what I should do for copywriting, but nothing written just yet.

The biggest obstacle is color concept. Pixel art mock-up of a video game. Taking forever.

Final for electronic illustration:

Figure drawing. Audrey this week. A couple of charcoal (stick for the first, pencils the second)

And finally, Audrey in Crayon (plain old Crayola)
One of the first media anyone picks up (at least in Western culture) yet so hard to do serious work with it. In that way they are like pencils. I'm pleased with how this turned out. :)