Throwback post

oh hey blogger!

Senior year has been busy! I've been in the labs almost every night and my bed times are ridiculous. It's all good though. Anyway, I feel like I have to update last year's stuff before I can update new work. I am running on Cuban time so I apologize for the lateness. I'll start with figure paintings from junior year. I had the class for a whole year with Hodges Soileau who was an amazing teacher. He would point out things I didn't see, and really helped me understand shapes, value and color, even though I still have value issues. It was a fun class. These are pretty much in chronological order so enjoy :)













my stylized face


I thought this would be safer in case children were around... but watch out for the next one!


mr. boner has a tendency to stare down girls in the class with an erection. I was unfortunate enough to get a spot right in front -_-


my favorite part of this piece is her booty.


this chick played a guitar with no strings! It's not like I forgot to paint them in or anything...






this guy was in a weird position that he couldn't hold for more then 5 minutes at a time before shaking and having to rest. I felt bad, but it was a cool pose.




I was taking art history at the time, so maybe I was influenced by the baroque period? Old school chick.

Anyway, I had fun in painting class and hope to continue with oil when I have time.

Long time no see

Hey everyone!
I'm not going to acknowledge the fact that I haven't posted in forever. I feel like junior year was great and I'm going to miss Advanced Media and Figure Painting because I learned a lot. Summer was fun in Miami- taking summer classes, working for a month as an office assistant and getting a CAR FINALLY!! Went to LA for a week and loved it. I also had my fair share of TV with Man vs. Food, Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, Cupcake Wars, and DC Cupcakes. You know, a variety of things. I'm so excited for this year! Enjoy some stuff from last semester I finally updated :)


Balloon Boy Hoax editorial. This was a double page spread about how the parents wanted publicity and their own reality show and could care less about how they were exploiting their kids.


Song Reader Book Cover. The story is about this therapist in a small town who asks people what their favorite songs are. From there she can tell how they are truly feeling and can give them life advice based on that.


Open Assignment Editorial about a girl's reading preference. This is about a girl who is surrounded by superficial beauty and fashion magazines, but decides that she prefers to read the newspaper. It was a bitch cutting out all this stuff but the collage look is really cool.


This was for children's book illustration class last year! My story from creative writing in high school was the basis for the Lucy Mckay adventure. I was going through a phase of patterns and textures if you couldn't tell lol.


Man Pet Machine pen and ink. This is what I came up with for the infamous Advanced Illustration project Brandes gives out. I went the cutesy- children's book-Shel Silverstein route.


Linoleum cut of MIA. I had so much fun with this and we started the project the day before MIA's video for "Born Free" came out. Good thing Ron Weasley wasn't in town!


Linoleum cut of MIA with color. This took me forever to wipe the color out correctly. Printmaking is still awesome though.

Some computer Illustrations

Computer Illustration stuff I've wanted to fix and finally had time to. Illustrator is such a nice program!! I don't want to go completely digital but it's doesn't hurt to know your stuff.


Fixed this old piece. We had to do 3 vector icons with a common theme and I chose Fatty Foods. My teacher thought they should have something to sit on so I made plate shaped circles.


Vector portrait of my sister! The shadows were more blue before but I sorta fixed it. I took away some weird shapes too. I'm content with it now!


Corel Painter Project!! We had to take a picture of a still-life, draw it, scan it in and paint on top. This was the beginning stage of my thread themed piece.

This was what I turned in and my teacher thought I should incorporate more color into the other objects to unify the piece.

This was the final where I "unified" the piece by putting color into the other objects. I think I like the original better.


So I work at the Office of Development and they asked me to design an Annual Giving postcard for faculty. My boss Heather sketched out what she wanted, I refined it and finished it up in Illustrator. She wanted something cutesy for spring and I tried my best.


Final postcard design. I had a small taste of freelance? It wasn't that scary...

Enjoy!

any way

Double exposure mess up from cvs.


I can't wait for summer so I can do all the things I've been meaning to do but had no time for. I feel weird and it's probably my sleeping schedule that's messing it up. ughh I want to take pictures again.

OMG IT'S FEBRUARY!!

Here's something to tide you all over.


pen and ink self-portrait shouting


tevi


first doodle for character design of "Pretentious Girl".

I hope I update more soon!

-Kristen

And I turned ’round and there you go

Been doodling more. I'll put finished illustrations up soon I promise! Now that I'm on break I'm not sure what to do. I feel like I may have split personalities (artistically anyway) because I love sketching fast quick drawings but when I'm using pen I feel I need to draw slow, graphic shapes which is still fun. There is this underlying pressure to find a style and I'm still trying to figure it out. Cartoons or realism? OR A COMBO? maybe a combo would be my best bet to make both sides happy.



Kids in my ill class.


Kids in my Arts in Context class


Sleepers in Computer ill


my sister driving to miami for her birthday


my sister driving back


doodle man


Grace eyes


I drew Rachel a year ago in figure drawing class.


beach house


sketchy figure dancing


head studies from anatomy book


hands


figures



kids for a fake business card




see you soon.

-Kristen

no one does it like you

Junior year is coooool. I love my classes and I've been volunteering for things that take up most of my free time and yet there's always time for Farmville. Here's some sketchbook stuff. I've been trying charcoal again since it lets me get different values in. Lately I've been inspired by blogs that focus on patterns and textures. Printmaking and silkscreening would be great to take one day. I need more time!!


debbie



single ladies


michelle


after finding a spider on my ceiling corner


painting class critique


chicka


what tevi looks like over skype when he's reading


charcoal stuff


charcoal nude 1


charcoal nude 2


attempt at drawing melissa


i didn't end up doing this for the occupation illustration but it was still funny lol


Sheep shearing occupation thumbnail. I made thousands of little circle squiggles all around on my final and moved the type so it was horizontal.


the first page of my children's book for class! Her name is Lucy Mckay.


current project thumbnail for an editoral illustration. Balloon boy hoax!

-Kristen