Poster!

My work got featured on the poster for SCAD’s student Scientific Illustration show, “Illustrating Nature”! c: I got to keep a copy of it.

Exhibit!

Two of my works on display in Morris Hall, the Illustration Building at the Savannah College of Art and Design. These were taken quickly with my cellphone, I plan on going back sometime soon to get better photos of them. :) The top picture was also put on the poster advertising the show for the GNSI Conference next week. Hopefully I'll get a copy of that poster to show you guys.

More Mythical Creatures

My latest project: building the anatomy of Sleipnir. Those legs are getting difficult to work with, but I wanted to make at least one counterpart to my Pegasus illustration this summer, if not more. The muscles will be hard to figure out, but it will be a nice challenge, I suppose. It's difficult to find time to work on him right now, though, with my internship. But that shouldn't be a problem in another week or so. :]

Pegasus Anatomy

My final for World Mythology: I chose to illustrate the anatomy of Pegasus. Graphite & Adobe Photoshop CS4. More mythical creature anatomy to come. :]

Horse Head Écorché

An écorché of a horse head, built up from a primitive form, with overlayed muscles. Done in Chavant (medium) for Constructive Animal Anatomy. Completed May 2012.

For those who don't know, "écorché " is a French term meaning "flayed" and is used for artwork (sculptures, illustrations, etc) in which there is no skin, or the skin is being removed somehow.

Completed Atlas

Completed rendering of the Atlas of a horse. Done with carbon pencil on vellum, 6 x 10 inches. Completed May 2012.

Atlas of Horse Construction

My process for drawing the atlas (first cervical vertebra) of a horse, for Dynamic Visualization for Scientific Illustration class. Completed May 2012.

Running Horses

Illustration of horses in an environment for Constructive Animal Anatomy. Done in Photoshop CS4, May 2012.

Baby Alligator

A sketch from Constructive Animal Anatomy, we had a baby alligator come in. :]

Also apologies for not updating as frequently, this term is terribly busy.

Luna Moths

Final Luna Moth rendering for Drawing for Scientific Illustration. I’m very happy with the way it turned out. Carbon pencil on vellum, 6 x 10 inches.

Completed March 12, 2012. Also available in the Black & White section of my portfolio page.

Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus)

My final for Electronic II. The original project was a concept design one, but I asked if I could do something Scientific instead. So I had to choose an animal, depict its skeletal structure, muscular structure, etc, and draw it in its environment. I chose the Arctic Fox because I kind of miss the North.

Completed March 11, 2012. Photoshop CS4 and Corel Painter 12.

I will probably be making revisions on this after critique. It's also now available in my Portfolio page.

Arctic Fox WIPS

Just a small preview of some of the work I’m doing for my Electronic II class. I still need to render the bottom part of the jaw in the first picture.

Moth Linework

Composition for my final for Drawing for Scientific Illustration. I'm going to be rendering it with carbon pencils on vellum. Never used those materials before, this should be fun. Here the male and female Actias luna are shown, finally together in the same picture.

I am also working on anatomical studies of an Arctic Fox for another final. They will be posted as they are completed.

I definitely have my work cut out for me, for the next week and a half.

Also, updated my Portfolio Page with additional works.

Actias luna (male)

This is the male luna moth that I am working with on the next part of my final for Drawing for Scientific Illustration. My professor wanted me to do a traditional orthographic view of him, and she also told me to just place him on the scanner and scan him (reference for later; they’re so delicate). And this was the result. I thought it was interesting enough to share.

Unfortunately, his antennae were destroyed before I even took him out of his triangle. I'm going to try to reconstruct them.

After discussing with my professor, we have decided to place both the female and the male moths in a vertical composition on the Root Phi, to be rendered with digital oils in Painter. My next update will be the line-work of this and my completed orthographic views of the male. The female construction can be seen in my portfolio page.

Actias luna (female) Construction & Animation

Actias luna (female) Construction & Animation, done for my Drawing for Scientific Illustration class on layers of tracing paper.

The rest of my animations for this class can be seen in the 'Animations' page.

Completed February 20, 2012.

Caribou at Dawn

"Caribou at Dawn", a concept painting for my Electronic II class. Done entirely with Corel Painter 12. I rather enjoyed doing this piece. :]

Completed February 17th, 2012.

So about this blog...

It's here mainly as a substitute for my personal website and portfolio, which will be available summer 2012.

My current portfolio can be viewed under the 'Pages' tab. But I hope you enjoy what you see regardless.