Rose fan art & GD history doodles

Hi guys. Got a few new drawings:





Right now I'm unwillinly chillin' in the graphic desing computer lab. We can only print for two printers and there are like fifteen people here wanting to print multiple couples of their projects. My name is near the end of the list. I'm tired, and hungry and want to go home. :( After I get home I've still got to mount my project on some matte board. I could put that off til tomorrow morning though. . .

Graphic Design sucks. :/

I updated the characters, colors, and fan art pages with thumbnails. So if you think you missed anything that I posted in this blog, check out those pages.

AG fa nart by g-darious

It's funny when you stumble upon fan art of your character that you didn't even know existed:

artgyrl by g-darius

delicious surprise

Bend It Like Beckham, type self portrait

I finally got to see "Bend it Like Beckham" about a week ago. I wasn't disappointed at all, and now it's one of my favorite movies.

My last project in Typography class was to design a logo using my initials (SS). The design had to be look good when rendered large and small, and it also had to reflect our personality. Here's what I came up with:

prelim sketch | final design—done in Adobe Illustrator 10

artgyrl fall '03

I did this drawing a couple of weeks ago for a new design I had in my head: artgyrl

To bed I go. Got to wake up early to finish a last-minute project. :p

Femal Figure

::new art: *nudity warning*

figure drawings 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

I'm really proud drawings 3 and 4. I actually really loathe getting ready to go to that class because it's almost three hours long, and it's so monotonous in that we have the same model all the time. I wouldn't mind a little variety, but I understand that people willing to model nude are hard to come by. Still, I'm getting a lot of practice drawing a voluptuous female figure.

figure drawing: fara, jane doe, mohammed

A little over a week ago I turned in my first test in History of Graphic Design. It was a take-home test in which we had to complete four essays discussing what was talked about in lecture and in the first six chapters of the textbook. Of course, I waited til the night before it was due—Sunday—to start on it. I finished it up Monday morning. To my shock and amazement I pulled off an 88. I so thought I was going to be one of the people he asked to rewrite their tests.

Today we didn't have a nude model in figure drawing class. So people took turns posing, and we got to draw clothed figures. Actually, we're supposed to draw about three clothed figures a week outside of class in our sketchbooks, but hardly anyone has been keeping up with that continuing assignment. It was a nice change of pace. I must apologize to Fara for making her look like a man. My excuse is that I had a dull pencil that didn't allow me to execute the delicate feminine features of her face. :P Also, my little sister informed me that if I just add a pointed tail, Mohammed will look like the dashing Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler).

fara | jane doe | mohammed

Briana sketch, Spanish & GD Art History class

::new art: brianna

I did this drawing of Jamaal's cousin a little while ago. She's a very cute little girl, extremely energetic.

I just got back from morning classes—Spanish and History of Graphic Design, respectively. Spanish is ok. But art history is a bit more of a chore. The professor is very interesting, but I don't think he's aware of what time class is supposed to start, because he was like, twenty minutes late today. He's usually about ten minutes late everyday. I don't mind much though. I stay amused by listening to the conversations of the people around me. You tend to find out a lot by just listening.

Art Progress: figure drawing

Art is still making me broke. Word to the wise: Never go get your digital camera pics developed in the machine at Kinkos.

With that said. . .I have a couple of new pieces of artwork. They are some drawings I did in figure drawing. Correction, I have just one drawing to show you from that class. . .the rest are hanging up in the classroom.

::new art: figure 01

Buying art supplies is definitely going to break me.

Wednesday I went to Alabama Art Supply to buy a compass for my Intro to Graphic Design class. The cheapest one with an adapter for my $30 rapidograph pen was $12.95, so I bought it. I get to my class on Thursday and start using the thing, and it's really crappy. So I decide to return it and get a more expensive/better one. I get to the art store and realized that I have the receipt, but that I've left the compass at home. So I have to drive all the way back in lunch-hour traffic, and then go back to the art store. I ended up getting a different compass that was about $8 more expensive—but it works. Plus, it came with some extra parts. So, I'm broke, but I have a compass that better last a lifetime.

::new art: stevie nicks commission | nicole sketch

Y'all may remember when I posted a pics of the Stevie Nicks piece in progress. Well I finished it about a month ago, so now you guys can see how it turned out. The other sketch I did of my younger sister at the Wafflehouse. I think it turned out rather well considering I was shading with a mechanical pencil. :P

Enjoy.

Sorry for the lack of updates you guys. I've been busy w/ school. Two days a week I've got three studio classes that are 2 hrs 45 min. a piece. That's lots of fun, lemme tell you. Actually, the classes aren't that difficult. They're just long. But the good thing is that it's a pretty laid back atmosphere. For example, in figure drawing, we get a break every 20 min. when the model needs a break. I'll try to get some of those drawings up. There's too big for the scanner so I'll have to go w/ the digital camera once more.

The season is about to change, so a redesign should be up sometime soon. . . .sometime. . .

Fall Semester 2003: art supplies is raping my funds, figure drawing initiation

It's three days into the first week of school and everything is going pretty well. Monday started off horribly, because of complications from Sunday night that spilled over into the wee hours of the next morning. But all is remedied now.

On the other hand, school supplies is killer. I feel for the people that have to work and pay their own way through college. Just yesterday I spent almost $300 on textbooks, and today bought $80 worth of supplies from the art store (I got a 25% discount though.) I can't believe the most expensive thing on the list was a friggin' technical pen--$25. So I'd better get my money's worth out of this stuff.

I'm also taking figure drawing this semester, which means that tomorrow I get to draw a nude female for the first time. That should be fun. :p

slumber party inks

::new new art: slumber party inks

Who knows, maybe I'll even have slumber party colors in the near future. ^_^

slumber party & 7000 hits

::new art: slumber party

I think it's a fun way to celebrate 7000 hits. Thanx for all your support. =)

Niceville & Eglin AFB

Hi guys. I'm writing from a computer in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Express in Niceville, FL. I thought I'd get some drawing done while I was here, but it looks like that's not going to happen. . .other than working on my commission. But it's really nice here. The family, Jamaal, and I went to the beach and chilled. Before that Jamaal took me on a little tour of the flight line at Eglin Air Force Base. Some of the fun was taken away by some ignorant Air Force guys wondering if we had a permit for the camera we used, even though they announced over the radio that Jamaal would be escorting me around there, before we went over there. "We didn't hear anything about it," says this big black guy w/ freckles. I must point out that a radio was no where in his vicinity. No duh, you didn't hear it.

But I took pictures of them just standing around pretending to work. I'll have some post the pics when I get back home. ;)

movie experience: Bend It Like Beckham & Tomb Raider II

Last weekend, Jamaal and I had the most interesting experience at the movies. For the longest time I had been wanting to see Bend it Like Beckham but I never got around to going to see it. Eventually it was out of theaters. But then Pirates of the Carribbean came out, and the girl starring in it--Keira Knightley--was also in Bend it Like Beckham. So they rereleased the movie, I think to make more money, cuz it got good reviews and all that.

So, we're having a good time watching the movie. It's funny, and the story is just starting to go somewhere, when at a serious plot development point, the movie shuts off. So. . .long story short, after about 40 min of the incompetent teens working at the movie theater messing around w/ the projector, they can't get the movie to come back on. However, the manager gave us all a rain check to see another movie free w/in the next 30 days. But we also got to see whatever movie was playing at the time for free. We ended up seeing Tomb Raider 2. It was ok. . .much better than the first one at least. I think there were way too many close-ups on Angelina Jolie's lips.

So, we got two free movies out of the deal, but I still don't know what happened at the end of Bend it Like Beckham.

Crimson fan art

::new art: crimson - a character from an online rpg.

I wanted a change of pace so I decided to draw someone elses character. It looks ok, I guess, except for the fact that it looks like she's floating in the air. She's not.

summer class finale & yard work

Well, I'm done with my summer classes. I had my last exam in public speaking yesterday. The prof let us grade our own tests, so by my calculations I made about an 83 (he goes back and adjusts the score up or down). Not as good a grade as I wanted, but it's pretty good considering how I bluffed my way through some of the answered. Honestly, who reads the textbook anyway?

For anyone who's interested, I made an A- on my final project in 3D design. Hopefully I'll make an A in that class, and raise my GPA a bit. It's not really low in the first place, but I like to stay in range of the Dean's List.

I had to work with my dad today, and it was absolutely exhausting. He does lawn maintenance and cuts down trees. After the first yard we did, I was ready to be through. See, he makes me edge around the yards, that where you used this machine--an edger, go figure--and you go and around where the grass meets the sidewalk and it trims it up all nice and pretty. However, it's better if you have a lot of upper body strength, which I don't. So I'm all achy and stuff, and my dad wants me to go back out working tomorrow. :/