Robot chickens and guns

So, ignoring the fact that these are Tom and Jerry strips, this is how my BFA stuff has evolved. Tom and Jerry will be replaced with two amazing pages from my comic. The character lineup is finished and the painting is still at 75-80% done. I've already made all the wooden panels the pieces will be mounted to, and they are ready to go. Now, what's left: I have to choose 2 pages to display. I'm not really sure how to do that, do they need to be in order? Should they show essential plot points? We shall see...



This is my robot chicken I'm working on in Sculpture I. Well, I should say that this is a model made out of foam core and held together by sewing pens, tape, and luck. The jaw moves, and I intend to make the feet and legs posable when I get to them. The final chicken will be constructed with construction insulating foam—you know, the pink or blue stuff that you buy in 4' x 8' sheets at Home Depot. And I'm hoping to make it about 3 or 4 feet tall.




My husband was my model long before I married him. He's always ready to do the most ridiculous things for me. I translated this photo of him into a scene from my Red Forest comic. Sorry the words are whited out; you can't read them until you see the actual book. No spoilers.

Important Picture

Personal work.
I'll put more meaningful post tomorrow.

More Nine and Chupacabras

My acrylic painting of the Nine-Story hotel that will become part of my graduation exhibition late this month. I'd say the painting is about 50-70% finished; I still need to make the building look really grungy and apply shadows.


A bad photo of my character line-up, also for my graduation stuff. This is probably about 95% done, as it may need some touch-ups after critique. I used the wonderfully fun wax resist technique, and I am very pleased with its results.


For the Holiday Bazaar Art Sale, I've been working on sewing multiple stuffed-toy chupacabras with different accent colors, such as different colored arms (upper left corner of box) and eyes (see pics below). They've been an exceptional hit, and I've practically sold all four all ready. Wish I had more time to make more...


Chupis, as I call them, have two sets of eyes, a snake-like tongue, and claws.



Their backs are laced with ribbon, imitating those really hard-core back piercings. Yeah, a chupi can handle it.

Graduation work

Just a couple more sketches of mural ideas for Poplar Point Health and Rehabilitation Center. I think the second one is too much like a Levitra commercial to be accepted.








So this is what my BFA pieces look like so far. I'm still sorting out some things, like number of panels and their sizes, but everything is shaping up nicely. The building piece is going to be full color acrylic on wood. The character lineup (see close-up above) will also be in color, using the wax resist technique I used on the original character sheets. Debating whether to have more than one actual page up, though I think I might be making new panels so that I can put up two, instead.

My teachers approve.

Finished Food Pieces

I've said a lot about these before, and now they're finally finished.
salmon
chickens
cow
pig

These are some covers I made for a simple book I whipped up for my friend Brian's birthday. The interior pages are my ninja comic from way back.
front
back

This is the mural Chihiro and I have been painting in the lobby at Poplar Point Health and Rehabilitation Center. Everyone there seems to really like it, and we even got an offer to do a mural for a person who saw us working. Our school manager suggested that we add more striations in the rocks and make them more realistic. Except for that, I'd say it's pretty well finished. I thoroughly enjoy working on it, especially with Chihiro, because she's such a good friend. Who knows? Maybe this could become a career path...

Slow News Day

Been fighting with school computers trying to post, but I finally figured it out. I think.


This is the finalized version of the Molten Sphinx design. It's rendered completely in Illustrator to avoid raster-image pixelation (forgive my spelling).


Here are my "suspect your food" pieces, improved by limited color on top of black and white acrylic. I plan to scan them in nicely a little bit later. Each one is just a bit larger than an average scanner, so I admit to putting it off until I have to.

Thumbnail for my comic, page 3
70% colored page 1

The vast majority of my time is spent on this comic. I just finished pencils for page 10, but I do have stuff to go back and correct on a couple of pages. I've started copying page 6 onto good-quality paper, and I've barely started coloring. Still, I'm stubbornly trying to finish the whole thing by the end of the semester. Got to get my rear in gear, eh?

Finally, back

Finally found a computer I can post from freely. My home computer had a costly demise, anywhere from 120-400 to fix. It's not that much in the grand scheme, but I'm debating whether or not to fix it. Would be nice, though...

Anyway, this is more of my "suspect your food" series.


Both done in black and white acrylic only.


Drawing for the final piece in the series. Because it took me so long to make this post, I've already finished this painting. It'll be in my next post.


These guys are color studies for my comic, which I have renamed once again as "In the Red Forest." "Fallout" is a videogame name.


This is my formed Chupacabra. Upon the advice of several people, I've decided to make a few to sell in the Holiday Bazaar. He's (or she's) a huge hit!


An acrylic painting done for the Bazaar. My love of chickens knows no bounds.


A better picture of my design project. This, too, has undergone revisions, and the newest will be posted next time. Can't wait to see it on stage and packaging!