Drawing Final

Hmmm, here's something a bit different from what I usually show,

for my final project in drawing class last semester, each student spent about six weeks developing a series of drawings involving any subject matter, as long as the basis of it was drawn from life... so, I chose to base my series on drawing a number dead things floating in  jars, with surreal elements incorporated.

I've had plenty of reference for this, as the RISD nature lab is full of all sorts of awesome specimines, in and out of jars, and I have my own collection of dead things that I shall be posting photographs of here at some point...

I think I created about 30 pieces for this series, with a general progression from the first ones being technical and linear to the latter ones being atmospheric and somewhat abstract. this particular drawing was the final drawing I completed for the series, and was drawn with charcoal on two pieces of 38" x 50" stonehenge paper, so the actual dimentions of it are 50" x 76"...

at art school, you learn to draw large things quickly, and I spent only one sleepless night during an already hectic finals week smashing this fellow into existence...  the main subject here is a spider crab from one of my crab jars, with an assortment of vaguely crabby legs being ephemeral and mysterious as he sits in the murky alcohol of his jar....

Mountain Coffee Process

well, here is a process compilation of another digital piece I am working on. With this one, I experimented a bit with the warp and blur tools, trying to make use of all of those little features that digital mediums provide while traditional do not... I started working in black and white, and added color afterward, which is a bit odd for me to do, but I can see how it has advantages, and may try the technique more in the future.

while I think I am becoming more comfortable with photoshop again, and it is a very powerfull tool with allot of useful features, nothing beats smearing paint over a board.

 hopefully I'll show some more recent sketchbook pages within the week.

Paintings

Here are a few recent paintings I've made, the first two were done for a class I took at RISD over the winter called 'SciFi and Fantasy Illustration' (which was taught by Nick Jainshigg http://www.nickjainschigg.org/ , an all around awesome guy), and the painting at the bottom is the first in a series of my attempts to broaden my portfolio with some more 'fantasy' oriented pieces. finished this piece about a week ago.

all of these were painted with acrylics on illustration board of varying sizes.

Aditional Sketchbook images from 2012 and 2013

Sketcbook Images 2012-2013

Here are a few images from some of my more recent moleskines, they are out of order as far as the time during which they were created goes, but they were all created some time in 2012 or 2013.

In my sketchbooks, I make use of a variety of mediums, including pencil, various colors of micron pen, walnut ink, India ink, acrylic paint, and even collage.

more information about my precious sketchbook pieces can be found on my Deviantart account, and more information regarding these particular images may soon be there as well.

Recent Digital Experimentation

After a couple years of focusing on traditional painting with acrylics, I have recently returned to digital painting.

my earlier digital work can be seen on my deviantart account, http://zypherax.deviantart.com/ , and I have yet to upload most of my traditional paintings, but I shall be sharing them soon.
I still have much to learn about painting, both traditional and digital, and I shall continue to develop my ability to make use of both mediums.

I regard this piece as an experiment as I readjust myself to photoshop, and it is still a work in progress.

Risd Application Drawings (2012)

 These were my home tests for my RISD application last year, the top image being the infamous bicycle drawing, while the other two are opposing sides of my 'two sides of the paper' assignment.