I finished four of my homework assignments and still have one left. I'll probably bang it out tomorrow.

Here's what I've done so far.


First, I finished off the water on the one half of the image. I feel like I was finally getting the hang of it.



Rubble exercise. Above is the rough rubble, below is my finished rubble.

I finished the Rogue piece. What's not to love about Rogue in shredded loincloth clothing and dinosaurs prowling the background? It was an exercise for foliage and rocks, mostly, but I decided to ink the whole thing for practice.


This is another rocks and rubble exercise. Again, I inked the whole thing because I wanted the practice.



Hoping to add one more inked piece tomorrow. I'm looking forward to doing it!

Here is the continuation of the last post.  Consider class four as the textures class. Well, textures part one, that is. We actually had so much to cover that we didn't get to finish all the textures that Ty had in mind for us.  This class basically covered natural textures such as foliage, rock, water, and fire. Smoke was the one that we didn't have the opportunity to try.

I also have a LOT of homework for this class that I didn't actually do yet. I know, bad jupe. I'll be asking my neighbours later if I can borrow their table and work in quiet without two wild kids climbing all over me as I do it. Plus, they have a clean dining room table whereas mine looks like Armageddon.

Anyway, here we go. Week Four.


First up was water textures. I had a lot of trouble with this and will be working on them a lot more in my homework. It's starting to come around but I have a long way to go.


And here is the water exercise. The person who did the penciling had no idea how to draw water, so it was up to us to make it look like water and to NOT trace what he did, originally.

Next up is the foliage texture. If you look at the top of the page, you'll see a bit more water practice.  Foliage was really easy for me. I picked it up without much problem at all. There are two kinds of pine trees: one is alive and one is dying. It's kind of cool learning how to do both, We learned leaves, conifers, deciduous, grass, flowers, plants, etc. It's neat how you do all of them individually.


After foliage was rocks. My buddy, Greg, is really good at rocks. I was good at some, but not others. I need more practice and have yet to do the rocks homework. I wish I had a picture of Greg's rocks. They were awesome.

Here are my less awesome rocks and rubble and mountains.


Finally, we learned fire. We didn't have a lot of time for fire, but that's okay. Here's the jist of it.


Lastly, we were given a few assignments to work on. Here is the one that I started. It's Rogue in a loincloth with a dinosaur in the background. She's in the jungle, and there are plenty of rocks and water and foliage to work on. When I finish the homework part, I'll likely ink Rogue and the dinosaur, too, because it's MFing Rogue and a dinosaur, right?


Stay tuned in. I'll have Week Five coming up this week, as well as some of my homework.

I've been really bad about updating this. I've been extraordinarily busy and was working on a buttload of commissions, so posting to the class blog sort of hit the backburner.

This is a sample of a few things I've done. First off, I'll start with Class #3


Class Three was the introduction of the crow quill and the needle quill, but before we hit those two instruments, we practiced textures of things.  The first picture is the apple exercise.  The first two apples appear as though they're cratered and that is because I was fucking up the concrete texture.  It was the one that I just couldn't handle.

Take a look at the pictures and try to guess what they are. The answer to what each picture is will be below the following image.



Concrete, concrete, fur, hair on skin, wood, sand, and concrete again.



Next up is an exercise we did in which the image needed a different texture for every item so you can distinguish what it is by looking just at that specific area.  We used different tools: dry brushes, markers, brushes, and were taught about toothbrushes and other items.  This exercise was also a way to show us how inking isn't tracing. The original sketch, as you can see above the inked portion, was a very rough image. It was up to us to make it interesting.



This is getting used to using a crow quill. The lines are fairly thick because the quill itself was fairly thick. It handles just like a pencil and was actually a great deal of fun to use.



Here is an exercise using the needle quill which gives you much, much finer lines. Again, it handles just like a pencil.



This is a mixed media exercise where we were to use the quill and the marker and the brush to ink Marilyn Monroe and Captain America.




That about sums it up for Week 3. Week 4 is up next in its own post.