Happy Death of 2011!

At last, the semester is over, meaning a month of freedom and lots of artwork! The past few weeks were pretty rigorous, as I had a very critical evaluation of my independent study progress in front of the entire art department. They gave me a lot of incredible feedback, but each professor proposed a different different way to branch out my study. Even so, there's definitely a lot I need to learn about drawing the figure, whether that's more muscular anatomy, proper proportions, gesture, and style of mark-making. Not mention I need to occasionally think about why I'm drawing the figure: a question I tend to gloss over a lot.

Glossing over that, here's my current work!

A few of my last drawings for my independent. Next semester I'm going to make an appeal to let me sit in on dissection...I think I can do that?

Sadly my final project for my landscape class went from 3 paintings to one, though I'm not dissatisfied with the result. The original photo really surprised me with how exquisite even the dirty back-end of a fish market can look under the right lighting conditions. Take more early evening strolls. It's great inspiration.

Final project in Intro Sculpture was a collaborative sculpture out of recycled and found materials. My group made a dragon, with me making the head. Tragically it rained for a week after being set up outside our Sustainability Center, and only the head survived. Now it crowns the railing of my front porch. His name is Frat Dragon (due to the source of his materials).

I play Pathfinder and I enjoy it very much. Too much. So much, that I redraw my character's pet every time his appearance changes...which is every other week. Tee hee.

With only 20 minutes left of 2011 as of writing these words, I can definitely say that it will not be missed. 2011 put a huge strain on my family and I, not to mention being the most difficult year of college. Now that I'm leaving college, my life isn't going to get easier, but it can at least get better. Here's hoping that I, everyone reading this blog, and, uh, I guess everyone else has a smarter, healthier, faster, more productive, and better dressed 2012 than 2011. Happy New Year!