sketchbook. [updated 14 june 2006 (about time for an update!)]

[phasma]

check out the latest batch of drawings/paintings by scrolling dowwwwn.

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short introduction: my name is michelle and i am seventeen years old. my current goal is to get into art center college of design for the fall 2007 term.
i want to do the illustration program with a focus in entertainment arts/design.

uhm, yeh.
prior to this last summer, i worked mainly from photographs; now i feel as if i am cheating by using them, though i recognize the benefits of having a reference photograph.
sooo, if you'd like to see some of my previous work, go here.
the work that i'll post in this thread will be all done from either life or my imagination.

i know i have a lot of room to grow, so i'd like you to give as much constructive crticism as possible :]

thanks in advance.






one/three minutes:


three minutes:



three/five minutes:


more than five minutes (i've forgotten how long, but shorter than fifteen):

[no worries, he's not flipping you off]


[i reallly didn't like how the head turned out... so it's better headless]

randomness




[still] life drawing:




yay for handsss.


i'll post more soon.

[meykurt]

very good works for your age. i like the lines in charcoal ones(they are charcoal, arent they?). a mixture of strong and heavy lines. keep this style when drawing with pencil.
you have a good talent, i wish you will enter the school you want to.
keep up.

[phasma]

thanks very much, meykurt . some of the [half-clothed] figure drawings are a mixture of black pastel and charcoal... but yes, mainly charcoal was used.

[Richard_M]

Nice start. I'm liking the one/three/five minute poses. Nice expression. Do more anatomy studies they really help. I have worse anatomy issues.

I went and looked at your "older" art and found this: "the nose knows all"
What a GREAT drawing. I laughed out loud when I saw it. I have two dogs and I can't count the number of times I have had a cold, wet nose right in my face. Halarious!

Keep up the great work.

Thanks!

Richard_M

Why yes...I DO have a Sketchbook.

[phasma]

Richard_M: ha, thanks. that's my family's fourteen-year old beagle... she's got character, hooray.
i will definitely work on anatomy... i just need to break out of this laziness.

i have not been completely slacking... but yeh.
i think i was having some proportion issues the other day while working on clothed figure drawing.
anyways, here we go:

one/three minutes


three/five minutes


five/fifteen minutes (i know it looks like a shorter pose :/)


uhh, i don't even know why i'm posting this crap but i kind of liked the color usage? it is sooo proportionally off and i destroyed the head [intentionally]. it's pretty massive though, like 4' x 2' 6". sad.


i drew this while watching the tele. i heart tea, yay tea.


an oddly shadowed hand.


and now for some nude figure drawing from the summmmmer (2005):




a clothed one from the same place:

they're all shadowed from when the photos were taken... but they're just on newsprint... and i don't know.

practice, practice. why am i so lazy, i don't know. i'll overcome it, no worries.

[phasma]

i think i have an eyelash in my eye, and it's ridiculously painful.
yeahhh.
anyways.
here is mah latest update.
i haven't done too much lately, but heyyy, i've done something? yeah.
i had my last final today. now i have a week and a half of free time to devote to art, hooray.



(javier is generic... sad.)

(DSG 1041. haha, my zombie looks like he saw a butterfly.)

(kitties don't stay still too long.)

[head-plane studies]
(doodle-crap)

(they were playing tetris... yay tetris)
(back of my father's head)

[MarkHarchar]

Phasma, I really like alot of the stuff you have in your SB. I noticed a couple of things that were pointed out to me. Some of your subjects lean to the right (I assume you are right handed) like the pirate coffee mug. There is a nude life drawing where the guy's legs are really improportionate to the rest of his body. You definitely have talent. Work on your hands some more and keep doing the gesture drawings, because you seem to have a good handle on them. (Better than I do).

[phasma]

aw yeah, i am right-handed.
thanks much for the comment, hylandr! i appreciate it.


a small update:


[the semi-erased bit there was the start of a foot/toes. yeahhh.





yesterday i went to the burke(?) museum on the uw campus and did a little life-drawing of native american masks and such.


[the top section of this mask, which i didn't draw, was probably the coolest thing about it. shame.]


[i realize the right eye on this is totally whack. but yeh.]

annnd... that's it.
i still have another week of spring break.

[Sepulverture]

You're most definately on the right path man. Keep up the great work!

[phasma]

thanks sepulverture!

here are some gestures from wednesday.
2-4 minutes, each on a 18" x 24" newsprint page:







bleh... i like a few of them... but there are some proportion issues in there.

30 second:


annnd... some sketchbook shiz:

[phasma]

relatively blind contours:
[the instructor gave us permission to look at the paper only to reposition the pencil...ish]


(haha, the legsss... oh geez)

blind contour with my left hand:
hahaaaa.

not-so blind contours:
[the manikin was freakishly-distorted in itself, but i elongated the torso further (unintentionally).]
[collaboration of sorts? i drew the uhm, 'interesting' angle of the clothed human form... and the other person drew the raccoon and surrounding area.]




still-life contours:




an experimental(?) acrylic painting:

less than two hours? i'm not sure. i hadn't painted with acrylics in a long while, so this was kind of frustrating... it was doubly challenging because i had someone be the model, but she was knitting and talking to others and not staying still too long. buuut i'm not complaining... it was really cool of her to sit there in the first place. the way i painted her though, makes it look as if she had a stroke and was paralyzed on one side of her face. ahhh.

annnnd... for my oil painting class, for the copy-a-painting assignment, i'm working on a painting by tom swimm:

i've never oil painted before... so this is different... but it's fun. i can't wait to paint something from life, rather than copy another person's painting.



ohhh yeahhh, and tomorrow is earth day! just to let all y'alls know if you didn't know already.
happy earth day. tomorrow.

[Goog]

OMG! your lines are so perfect! Beautiful stuff in here, specially all those life drawings. And those blind contours are amazing. Great, great stuff.

[phasma]

thanks very much, goog!
i'm a bit late in response, but better late than never, eh?

so. my art classes for spring quarter are all over now.
tomorrow i go in to pick up my artwork, and take my chemistry final... boo chemistry!

but uhm.
here's an art update for all y'alls' viewing pleasure(?).

continuous tone - bone still life


random line - still life.


woo, crosshatching. of a skull. and such.

[now step back a little, and it actually looks like something, haha.]

corner of the room! ohh yeahhh.


more random line-crap.


messy atmospheric perspective.


contour/partial cross-hatching (haha) - in the car. bumpy/curvy roads suckk for drawing in the car, y'know.


birdhouse done with calligraphy pen, ha.


random topics from http://www.ldaustinart.com/paul/speedpaint.php:
[i just did sketches... and i didn't really take forty-five minutes.]




zombie cowboy:

and this is just a creepy lady (i advise you not to eat her brownies.):


what else? oh yeah! paintings! yay for oil painting.
here's the finished copy-a-painting painting:


the still life. [i was not the one who set up the still-life.]

this is unfinished in my eyes, but i'm done working on it. soo... yeah.

and my abstract painting... hahaa.

well. uhm. it's fairly abstract?
no reference.

there's plenty more to come... once i pick up the rest of my drawings/sketches and my other painting tomorrow...
so. get ready?

[phasma]

and. tell me if this page loads too slowly, and i'll try to do something about that. mmh, yeah.