color!

Today in the studio I started with color. I was working on it from 11 to 5:30. Here's what I have so far.

Finished ink drawing

Today I finished the ink drawing for my first illustration. It took a lot longer than I expected. I was in the studio on Thursday from 8:30 until 4 and then on Sunday I was in the studio from 3 until 11 working on this drawing along with my resume and abstract. Today I spent 2 more hours in the studio from 4:30 until 6:30 putting the final touches on the drawing. Tomorrow I will go onto color.

Tuesday

Today I was in the studio from 9 to 5. I started inking the final illustration of Jane that I drew on the 20" by 30" illustration board.

This weeks progress

On Wednesday the 12th I went over to Jane's house to interview her and take photographs. I recorded our interview and on Thursday while in the studio from 1 to 4:30 I transcribed the interview. Here are the parts that I found to be most interesting:

"Oh I looked just like I do now, short hair. Um my my hair was always real fine and stringy."

"I was the shortest one in my class and I couldn't get into the girls drum and bugle core because you had to be 5 feet and three inches."

"I was saying, I was 5 feet. I was 93 pounds."

I haven't decided yet if i want to use all three quotes or just choose the one that I think goes best with the illustration.

I also started doing sketchs for my final illustration of Jane. I chose the picture that I found captured her energy the most and started to draw it.

On Saturday I was in the studio all day and finished the first full size draft of my final illustration that I did on newsprint to see how it would end up looking.



I then did a few practice sketches of her face to see what I thought would look the best.


Today, sunday, I was in the studio from 1:30 to 8:30. I purchased illustration board for the piece and then did a final drawing on that board. I will upload a picture of that when I photograph it.

Physical

By mid December before the ip consultation I would like to have 2 final physical illustrations done and three interviews.



Today I stayed in the studio from 1 until 4. I did some sketching and planned my interview for tomorrow. Tomorrow I am going to Jane's house to do some sketches and take more pictures for the finial illustration of her which I will start later this week. I also will bring my tape recorder to record my interview of her.

First Week in November

This week I was in the studio from 1:30 to 4:30 on tuesday, 11:30 to 4:30 on thursday, and now, on friday I have been here for an hour.

On tuesday I scanned the full length drawing of Jane and tried to work with it in different mediums. I also started gathering information for my grant appication.

On thursday I decided I was going to do a really large scale drawing on my grandfather to practice drawing a lot bigger than I am used to. When that didn't work out too well I tried doing a larger version of the drawing of Jane and I had a lot more success with that.

Today in the studio I took a break from my IP work and decided to work on an illustration that I did last year to fix it up a little so that I can submit it to the all student art show.

Last week in the studio

On tuesday oct 28 I worked in the studio from 1:30 to 4:30. I created practice sketches from the photographs that I took of Jane, the first person I have interviewed.



On thursday oct 30 I worked in the studio from 12:00 until 4:00. I worked on a full length sketch of Jane while I was there. I will post an image once I have it scaned.