Painting 1

You know you're desperate when the only thing you can upload are still lives :'(

I'm sorry I don't draw anymore ;n;

Paintings start from week 3 to the end of midterm. It's pretty cool how we have to train ourselves on how we perceive colour, like where tones are warmer and cooler. And even when you can't use pre-mixed blacks or browns the class is pretty fun. 

Plus my prof is super nice and extremely helpful which makes me want to work harder :'D

Figure Drawing 1

Got my figure drawing portfolio #1 back today and I got an A :D!

My prof is the type of marker who is, "an easy marker but it's hard to get a good mark" type of guy (his exact words no joke). So the A was like... so much more awesome :')

He took my best pictures out of my portfolio, idk if he's putting them up or what, but if he does put any up I'm going to take a picture and blog it tomorrow x)

This one was my favourite out of everything.

Like, it was perfect ;o;

I know it's only my first 2 months of school, but that mark just totally made my week ;u;

OVERFLOWING WITH JOY AND HAPPINESS (my family can't take it much longer)

Weekly Sketches #1

Sorry my artistic absence, school's been somewhat busy recently and to be honest I just haven't been drawing anything terribly interesting. School's really hammering us with the basics (like colour theory and shape, construction, etc.) and we haven't gotten many chances just to let ourselves be free~

But my conceptual process class, taught by Julia Breckenreid (I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I've always wanted to do that :'D ) forces us to keep a daily sketchbook so I thought,

why don't I just post what I have in there? It proves to the internet I'm not artistically dead and it'll help motivate me to actually do them every day :p

Every week, most likely on Mondays, I'll post 6 pictures from my sketchbook. Since I'm starting this late though the sketches on this post are from the middle of September. I might post a few more in a couple of days to catch up. 

My reading week just finished... today I guess so I'll be getting a lot of projects back, like my figure drawing portfolio and some painting pieces. I'll upload them when I get the chance :)

What is art?

Once upon a time,

there was once a sketch.

It was a nice sketch,

clean, neat and tidy.

but soon after,

the sketch was overpowered by a terrible force.

It was drowned in useless decorations.

Lost in a sea of senseless colour.

Now the sketch lies buried underneath,

waiting one day for someone to see it's former glory.

And that's what happens to all of my pictures. HOW DO YOU ART????

I'll upload some school stuff once I actually start not being terrible.

Portfolio Drawing Test

I was going to post my portfolio for a couple of months now, but having a broken camera and a tendency to procrastinate kind of delayed my plans. Now that I have a new camera, and I have to re-start my work ethic, I'm going to post my accepted Sheridan Illustration portfolio up half today, and the other half whenever I photograph all my pieces :P

Overall I got a 78/ 100 score on my portfolio which though is not the greatest, it's a solid score that will get you into the program. The minimum score to get in this year was 55/ 100, but the minimum really depends on the people applying and in general how good their work is. One year the portfolio minimum was a 66/ 100.

For the drawing test each piece was marked out of 10, and I'll post my mark for each picture. Probably my drawing test was the best part of my portfolio. 

Figure Sitting

Figure Standing

Figure doing an everyday activity

Figures - 9/ 10

Pen drawing with a figure in a room, creating a mood/ atmosphere. NO PENCIL.

9/ 10

Looking through a window, shows perspective and understanding or foreground, middle-ground and background.

8/10

Cube, sphere and cylinder objects before.

Cube, sphere and cylinder objects after a change.

Objects - 7/ 10

Just a note with the figures, for the two people who have censors over their eyes, I just didn't want them to see my blog and be like 'I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PUT THIS UP ARGHHHH' because they both didn't like those pictures :'D

And I'm pretty sure I lost marks on my objects because my 'change' was not that creative. yeahh

Hopefully this helps some people needing portfolio examples! I found very few portfolio examples when I was doing mine and it wasn't fun. If anybody has any questions then contact me at Lynn.Illustration@gmail.com, or send me a note on deviantart or tumblr. Don't know how helpful I'll be, but I'll try my best :)

Best of Luck guys!

Some helpful links:

Conceptart.org (you'll have to go through a whole bunch of pages, but it's worth it!)

Jori Bolton's portfolio (done almost 4 years ago but it's extremly helpful and his drawing skills are amazing! He got a 89/ 100 on his portfolio)

Andrew Sonea's portfolio
Anna Ballares' portfolio

Emily Bauman's portfolio

Lenny Lishchenko' drawing test
And example of an accepted piece by Carlos Sulpizio

Square Foot Show pt.1

 Pretty for Pretty's Sake

12" x 12"

Acrylic + Embroidery thread

07/27/11

So I'm a real cool kid and I didn't spell Pretties right, but you know what, idc. Maybe we can make a whole bs meaning for the picture using my glorious error and I'll end up looking like an intelligent and witty individual.

But in all honesty this has no meaning whatsoever :| I just wanted to draw a pretty tiger because I have no artistic drive /sob. And I bought an expensive thing of gold paint and I wasn't just going to let it sit on my shelf without being used >:|

Details:

Little embroidered cheeks!

Metallicy goodness which SHINES IN THE SUN/ MOON/ DINING ROOM LIGHT

If anyone is in the GTA (or even better downtown Toronto), come visit the Square Foot Show at Twist Gallery, 1100 Queen Street W. The opening night is August 6th at 7pm and  I'll hopefully be there too!

More info here~

Square Foot Show!

It's been awhile since I last updated this blog! Sadly I can't give an expectable excuse such as 'I've been working too much to post' or 'life's been so busy!' 

Rather it's more there's some family issues that are slowly bothering me and I have an intense art block.

But I entered into the Square Foot Show at AWOL Galleries so tomorrow, after I get home from dropping everything off, I'll make another post with more pictures and what not explaining that I'm artistically alive (barely) :D!