Once again, working with one of the talented tae-ko's photos for a model. I hope she doesn't mind my posting these, I'm doing them purely as exercises, and I find her photography really inspiring.

Pencil and watercolor again, using the artograph for the preliminary proportions. Start to finish in about two hours.

Labels: illustration

Just finished my exploded diagram of a model car for 3-D design class. The line quality is nowhere near as dynamic as it is in Mr. Chu's cars, but I thought it made for a pretty good technical drawing.

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I'm learning to paint with watercolors. I'm not sure where I got the original picture that I worked from, but if anybody knows, please tell me and I will give credit where it is due. She was just in my folder of nice faces to draw.

I used an artograph to get the proportions of her face right in pencil, which is kind of cheating, but I wanted to focus more on the painting than the drawing for this one. The rest is watercolors, which I am starting to get the hang of, I think.

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Following the continuing adventures of my friend Brendan, he is now a blogger at hackerspaces.org. Read his first post, and go leave some comments to make him feel at home.

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School's started up again, and though I don't have much to show you, there are several projects underway. Here are some letters the AIGA asked me to paint for them. They will be part of a larger display at COD later.

Labels: design, illustration

Watch this video on YouTube or Vimeo.

This was my first shot at playing along with myself on video. I was so impressed by this young lad's performance that I had to try it for myself. The logistics are a little tricky to figure out, so I kept it pretty simple with this one, but I'll probably try some more daring videos like this in the future.

Thanks very much to John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton for introducing me to this song. It's also worth watching the more complicated version from the Jerk, which nobody can seem to agree on how to play, as well as this one with a young lady who has a much better voice than myself.

Labels: music, video