Well, hello there! It's been a few weeks since I've had the chance to breathe, let alone update my blog! I know you all missed me very, very much.
No?
I suppose that's okay too. Getting to the nitty gritty here: I've put a bit of a hold on my fanart for ThunderCats. Now that I'm back at college, Kyle and I have been talking about getting started on those Marvel redesigns. He's officially sent me a list of the different characters with descriptions of what he wants each one to look like. I was squeeing during most of it. There's no doubt I'm going to thoroughly enjoy myself during this project.
Originally I had planned to do this entire project with traditional media, namely, pen and colored pencils. Instead, I received a graphics tablet from one of my close friends, Chris, and after fiddling around with it, I've decided to do digital paintings of the characters. I'm hoping that this project will help me increase my ability with the tablet, as well as learn knew ways to use Photoshop. Just in the past few days I've learned so much about the difference between just editing photos and actually creating digital artwork. It's insane how much Photoshop can do. I would marry it if I could!
Alright, perhaps not.
I'm ridiculously excited for this whole thing, though. The chance to better my artwork in the areas I'm lacking is making me a little crazy-happy. So here's the first piece! Spider-Man redesigned! (This is just the front of the suit. There will be more to follow of the suit and Peter Parker.)
I'm also being challenged in my 3D Design Class. I've found that my brain works in a very two-dimensional manner, which makes this class a bit of a pain. Literally. In some ways it physically hurts to try and work through a project that has to be three-dimensional. But I've found that I have other people in the class that help me work through processes and ideas. We're all learning together and attempting to help the others along. That's a spectacular aspect of IWU: the small classes and tight community allow for that kind of professional fellowship.
We've already done one project in the class and we're well into the second. The requirements for this one is unit forms (which is going to be some sort of shape we create or find) and repetition of that form. I already have an idea for what I want to do, but getting the materials for it is going to be a challenge. One of the major downfalls of being an art major is the extra strain on your budget for art supplies.
One last thing! I promised that I would add pictures of the air force museum! I'll feature of few of them here, but to see the rest you'll have to follow the link to my deviantART gallery: Pretty Planes! (They're worth looking at! The planes are gorgeous.)
