Criminey! I've been such a slack-ass -- no art in a while. The good news is, I've got some coming. Hooray!

As it would seem, what may be my only vacation for this year begins tomorrow. To keep myself from stressing about this week's sketches, I've opted to upload one of my recent completed projects, 'Daily Addictions'. This was my first experiment in process art, and thus a bit out of my style, but it called to my love of beautiful papers.

The actual process involved treating my paper with coffee, food oils, heat, vodka, and cigarettes. I'm more proud of the paper than the images, so at a later date I'd love to continue with this process. I'd really love more ideas on what images I could use, or different spins on these. My main problem I ran into involved all my pens clogging up because of the oiled paper, so I didn't push things as far as I would have liked. And, if you couldn't guess, the piece was about the relationship between the objects displayed and the process of the paper.

( Four Large Images )

I admit, I'm late on this one. I totally fail.

No excuses this time, though. Just two little sketches I thuroughly enjoyed working on this week.

( To the MOON! )

Ah, finally, sketches are here! Only four, yet again. I've gotten out of the habit of using my sketchbook over the summer so it's going to be another week or two before I can start updating with new sketches of the week.

( Onward! )

Hidey ho, LJers!
Just giving a heads up that due to having been stranded in Augusta, Georgia this past monday and today being the 4th of July, I've decided to postpone Sketchbook Tuesday until tomorrow. Which, I suppose, makes it Sketchbook Wednesday. Which sounds better. Hm.

Anyway, sketches tomorrow, and if time allows I'll be picking up work on Illustration Friday again. Huzzah!

-Briana

Well, as of today my scanner is officially resurrected and I've procured my very first drafting table thanks to a kind and loving dad. Thanks, Dad!

And now, I really have no excuse to avoid working, so expect new things soon.

or Another Futile Attempt To Look Like I'm Productive

I've found that being in school is great for my productivity, what with assignments and side projects and the always possible death of one's grades and ensuing kicking of my ass by the parental units who fund said schooling experience. However, I'm not in school right now and I'm stuggling to find ways to keep myself productive in my art. So, until I find the Great And Mighty Answer to this delimma, I'm going to FOOL YOU ALL and just make you think I'm productive by creating Sketchbook Tuesdays.

Ahh, Sketchbook Tuesdays. Where you must suffer through whatever random slop I throw at you and SMILE. [or, you know, not.]

( Haha, suckers. )

Here's my submission for this week's IlloFriday theme: Spotted.



I don't think I'm done here, yet. Something is definitely missing though I'm not entirely sure what. The eye color needs to pick up the purples and needs a highlight, and the hair could use some work.

As to process, this is acrylic on illustration board, then a layer or watercolor, a wash of oil paint, and it was finished with acrylic and colored pencils.

Here's my piece for this week's Illustration Friday word, Speed:



Colored pencil on craft paper. Yet again, the scanner has washed out half my color. I'm thinking I'll have to start using a better scanner from now on, because it seems like all my favorite details are getting washed out when I use witeiris's.

For those who have been patiently waiting, and hopefully eagerly waiting, I bring you:

BunBun's Bad Hare Day

WARNING: Full text not enclosed. Until this book gets a good yea or nea on publishing, I won't be showing the entire story to the public. This project was far more about the images in the story, as it came from a study about patterns. I am not a writer!



( Onward! Image Heavy )

This is my first full attempt at illustrating a short children's book. The story itself was written by myself and Cam Cook, and I'm seeking some way to get the book published -- so any suggestions whould be helpful!
The illustrations are ink on glassine paper, and I can provide further images after the 12th of April if requested.

Woo!

Just for something pretty to look at, I bring you... Pommegranate!




This is Prismacolor Marker and Micron Pen on Drafting Vellum. Boder added in Photoshop.

Here's my submission for this week's Illustration Friday word: Spring.




I'm not terribly thrilled with it. I was having trouble getting the images to where I wanted them, and then when I scanned the image it completely washed out the entire piece. This is just an attempt at restoring the original color, and it didn't go terribly well. The original idea was really fun, though. I like working with lots of layers of color and just playing with my materials, so this is one I'll probably revisit sometime soon. I'd love to hear opinions on what I could have added or worked on, because this one just left me feeling utterly unfulfilled and aggrivated. As for particulars, this is Windsor and Newton watercolor with Prismacolor Colored Pencils layered over top on Strathmore illustration board, and touch-ups were done it photoshop.

But, of course, Hooray Bunnies!

Here's my very first submission to Illustration Friday:

"Simple"




I know it's terribly basic, but I'm only now getting my 'legs' for illustration, and I've been fumbling about with Photoshop which has only been going... interestingly. I started out with a basic black ink outline, filled in the color with prismacolor colored pencils, and tooled around with the background in Photoshop. All in all, it's about an hour or less worth of work and worthy of the theme "simple."

On a random side note, I'm addicted to naming everything, so for anyone wanting to indulge in my mini-psychosis -- the Koala's name is Bartleby and the Turtle is Jacob. They wage a war for pie, which is a noble endeavor. Atleast, I like to think so.

Basically, I had an art blog set up at Blogger.com and found out that I absolutely loathe their setup. So, as is tradition, I've run back to LiveJournal -- my home sweet home here on the web. Over the course of the next week I'll move my old entries over to here and start updating with some of the other illustrations that I have laying around.

This Blog has been created for me to flush out my learning as an art student and to get people to see what I'm doing, so always feel free to post any criticisms or comments or link others to this site.

And with that... Salut!

-Briana