Quick Color

This is another drawing I did for art class last week. I mapped it out based on our in-class model and then did the color in about two hours without a model. It was done very quickly overall just to get the assignment done. The placement and proportion of the features are pretty off. All the facial features are too small, and the ears are too high for starters. But I liked the color well enough to put it here. When I was presenting, someone in class pointed out that it looks like she's just walked away from a fight. They're not wrong. I tried to smooth out some of the reds and purples with other colors, but she still looks kind of beat up.
This was done in colored pencils. I am now the proud owner of skin tone and regular color sets of pencils. What I'm most proud of about this piece are the eyes, lips, and highlights. You'll notice that the highlights of the eyes are pointed in the wrong direction, but other than that I think the eyes look really good. Mapping out all of the highlights on the face beforehand really helped. I could have darkened her left eye a little more, since it's in shadow.

So overall, weird piece, but I'm happy with parts of it. God's will be done.

Full Figure Portrait

This is another drawing I did for art class. The teacher wanted us to draw one boy and girl full figure each. This is someone I know from church that volunteered to be the subject. It wasn't modeling because I took a picture and based this drawing off of that. I'm not great at drawing people realistically, though I am getting better because of class. I also prefer drawing most of my subjects in whitespace, but my teacher prefers a background. It's easy enough. As I understand it, I'm actually much better at landscapes than I am at people, but I prefer people.

This was done in charcoal. I'm not personally a fan of charcoal because it's so messy, but I get the appeal.

God's will be done.

Still Life

This is more art I've done for my art class. It's one of the early (more than half a year ago) big page still lifes I did. It's done in pencil, like most of the stuff on this blog. I used my blending stump a lot to try and portray the glass. Because this was something for class and not for me personally, I don't have that much to say about it. I also put a lot more work into it than most of my art.

Art class has been good because the teacher comes at art from a very photo-realistic perspective. He's detail oriented and wants everything to look exactly right, which is the opposite direction that I come at art from. So I've learned a lot I can apply to my regular work. Praise God. God's will be done.

Erigo

This is a drawing that I did as an illustration of a story my friend wrote. Here is the link to that story: https://pyzaist.blog/2020/01/06/glens-tale-erigo/. You should read it. It's diction is engaging and well done, its minimalist style is easy to follow, and it plays with reader's expectations for the genre in a way that's optimistic and satisfying.

I did this drawing over Christmas Break, and I don't really have an excuse for not posting it here sooner. It's a pretty good drawing. I can definitely see the influence my art classes have had on my work. For example, this drawing has actual depth. The characters aren't just standing right next to each other in a blank white space. There's also foreshortening, which I'm particularly proud of. Obviously there are still some problems, particularly with the perspective and Erigo's proportions. But, overall, I'm very proud of it. I like the lightning effect and the sorcerer's finger. The contrast of the dark and light parts draw the eyes nicely to the two figures. I was trying to capture the energy of the finger from The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. The sorcerer's design was actually inspired by Blackwolf from the animated movie Wizards by Ralph Bakshi. I should mention I've never actually seen the whole movie. I've just seen some of the art for it. Erigo's design was mostly inspired by stills I could find of Aragorn from the live action Lord of the Rings movies.

It's, I think, the first time anyone has essentially commissioned me. So I tried to pull out all the stops. God's will be done, as always. I leave this up to you.

Space Cowboy Concept

More drawings from my art class. We're going to be doing character design for the next few weeks. And finally we get to stylize our drawings. All the character concepts have to be based around the theme of Space Cowboys. So I came up with this character. I'm especially happy with him because I actually went through the silhouette and thumbnail process before just diving right in. That let me pick and choose from the designs I liked best and combine them all into one final design.

You may have notice that the pose is a lot more dynamic than what I'm usually up to. That's purely because of what I've learned in class. I used a line of action and the "draw through" technique on his head. I should've included his hat brim with that too before I drew everything else. Something to remember for the actual assignment.

This drawing isn't going to be one I submit, which is why there are still some "errors" and a lack of shading. I just wanted to have fun drawing him. Praise God.

Insect Drawings

There are two more drawings I did for my art class this semester. For a long time I've been fairly good at reproducing images (if they're not people) with enough time. You can find these two images with a little Google searching, but I still signed them because I consider the drawing and shading and whatnot my work. Maybe I've got the wrong idea.
Anyway, this top picture is clearly of a spider. I like the pattern on it's abdomen.

And this is a drawing of a bee. I used my wonderful new precision eraser for some of the hairs. I like how fluffy it ended up looking. And the abdomen actually has some shape thanks to the direction of the shading.

Anyway, I like both drawings so I thought I'd put them here. Thanks be to God for everything.

My Friend Ink

This is a piece of art I did for the art class I'm taking. It's a drawing of the library here at my university. I've been meaning to post some of the art I've done for that class so far, but I haven't gotten around to it. So I thought I would at least post this tonight. It's a 2-point perspective drawing, which I'm only just learning how to do. I used pencil to outline the drawing and ink grey pens and a black pen to do the shading. I haven't really done much shading before because it took so much work, but these pens really really helped. I had fun exploring what the pens can do and combining them to make in-between shades. I'm happy with how the trees turned out, especially the ones on the left. I wasn't sure how they'd look. I also really like the water here. It looks how I wanted it to. And the umbrellas have a nice outline to them.

I thought I'd include images of it in different stages of development, since I took them.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. God help me to swallow my pride in both directions and teach me that sometimes the only person being hard on me is me. Thanks for this picture. I love you. God's will be done.