absurdly large watercolor

This is an absurdly large watercolor I did. It's basically a scary girl with a LOT of freckles. I had to go over her color like 5 times to make her look good enough, and I splattered her colors. My favorite part is probably her eyes. The hair was a nightmare. We don't talk about that.

product and newspaper illustration

We had to create an illustration of a product and an illustration to go with an article in the newspaper, so I chose a bottle of perfume for my product, and an article about a neuroscientist researching dogs, the illustration for which is a dog with a phrenology brain illustration. I like the way these turned out. The perfume could probably be a little tighter, that's difficult to do with watercolor! I think the dog illustration turned out to be cute.

ten similar & ten abstract

For this one, we had to take an image and paint it ten times differently. We were allowed to crop, paint in different colors, or different styles. Pretty flexible. I chose to just change the colors to practice with that aspect of watercolor. I painted ten colorful birds. For the other part of the assignment we just had to do abstracts of different color schemes. I did harmonious colors, meaning five colors that are next to each other in a color wheel. I am only showing the front five because the back ones are ugly.

HOLY WATERCOLORS BATMAN!

Ok I haven't blogged in a while, so I have a buttload of stuff! yay! I have 2 larger paintings, architecture and "critter." For those I have a bridge and a rhino, and I'd say the rhino is probably a little more acceptable. I also painted a self-portrait, but it's a horror to behold. I'll spare everyone. We've been painting ten watercolors for each class period, and as of today I've done thirty of the small paintings. I chose several of them to post, and these are somewhat decent. Some are fruits, some are "things with sides," and some are just whatever I felt like doing. Yay!

3 watercolors with line

So we had to do 3 illustrations incorporating using paint as line, and I didn't like it. My lines in these pics look weird and forced, I just like the large blocks of color much better. These are all pretty mediocre, so hopefully I just get better and can forget about these :P Be on the lookout for a flood of watercolors soon.

KITTY!!!

Here's the cute kitty I illustrated today in class. We used only watercolor, no pen. We used different brushes to imply line. I didn't really use much line, because kitties are very furry. I think it turned out pretty well for being done during class :)

refined illustrations #2

Okay, here's the refined versions of the toilet and monkey. They turned out okay, could be better, could be worse. I'd like a little more darkness in the monkey, but when it comes to large blocks of black, Microns are not my friend. So I only did a little bit of the solid black blocks. That illustration took about an hour or so, and the toilet took about ten minutes :P