151 nvm150...

Direct Painting this is what i do...
Screw sketching x)
Well look whos talking... because i failed the sketch, he is cross eyed now, gotta fix that.He was done for illustration class,We're currently doing Comic-book or Graphic-Novel Covers and this is gonna be one of mine :)

ref here

now 22 Animals and 3 and a half Covers to go x)
Well here come some more sketchy real life things.

ref as in post before

Have a greate one.

Day 148

 Its about Time...

ref here

Spontaneous  (wanted to do a little monkey with elephant ears... then I noticed  he just looks very familiar. Could he be a character from this amazing Science-Fantasy-space-opera that revolutionized the Film-industry? )

first of a larger animal series to come (need to do 24 Animals for a class asignment) 

Wip but wont finish it i guess

Happy Holidays People ^^
regards,
Mitch

Day 123 - in da place to be ... :D

123

Hi guys.
Yesterday was amazing. The legionnaire is still not finished. Will have to go back up there on Monday and try it.
However I started something. A little experiment. My illustration class teacher showed us some of the guys who revolutionized comics in the ninety's(Ashley Wood, Simon Bisley and some others) and I was so inspired, that I had to try some new techniques, combining things i know with some new ideas. Here is the workflow.

This was so much fun!!!
I'll keep doing this I think. This is supposed to be a cover for project from illustration-class.
The transparent red color mixed with turpentine felt surprisingly marker-like.
Used Pentel Color Brush and Pilot O.4 for the sketch and then went over it with oils. Used only turpentine and  linseed oil as medium. The pre sketches for this, can be found in the previous blogpost here
And well I'ts not completely finished yet, I'll have to retouch it a little bit in PS to make the edges nice and crisp, and to add some type.

Have a nice Weekend. :)

Day 121

Hi there :)
Sorry it's taken me so long, and for being such a lazy piece of - . Was in a bad spot the last two weeks... I'm thankful to be out of that.

Here are some gestures and sketches have, fuuuun. :D

Yea. I love doing what i want :D
Now I've been learning about composition and it's pretty new to me, but fun as hell.
Its funny how some intentions of other artists reveal themselves to you, just by knowing some terms.... The heightened awareness of composition, i've got just by reading framed ink was really refreshing.
I'm doing gesture drawing again but my own way now. I think my teachers just confuse me right now, most of them trying to push me in diffrent directions, at least where the human figure is concerned. 

These gestures took 60secs each. I'm useing "posemaniacs.com" for them.
Well, well, there will be a little step by step, of me painting a Bust of a roman-frogface-legionnaire. :D
Don't worry, his expression is just so freaking frog-like, but see for yourself  I'll post him in a few days.

There is just one day to go, then it's weekend again!!!
Have a nice one!

regards

Mitch

Day 100 !!! Resumé

So there it is. Day 100.

AMAZING! :D

Yea, I reached my set goal, to get more order. I'm very happy and a little proud about that.
If you wan't to know what comes next read on further below

Here are some studies and sketches for now. I'm doing some Gesture drawing stuff... sucking at that. And another Selfportrait from today. The drawing sucks baaaaaad, I don't look that friggin smashed... Used my webcam for that and yea... at least the contrast seems to be ok for now. More monochromatic stuff to come.

Mitch wants honey :)

Ain't he sweet?

Well, well, back to my Deathline.
Now that I reached this goal, the road has been cleared for some further changes..
A New Semester started and with that new class projects are threatening to interfere with my improvements.
So for Day 150 Which will be around Sylvester I want to get at least some of them out of the way.
Those are The projects that I want to finish during those 50 Days.

- Design a Deck of Cards with at least 52 Cards in them. (We don't need to illustrate them all, it's for Calligraphy class ... I chose a fantasy theme )

- Create a Calender with illustrations. Theme: "... is Bigger than ... "

- Very short animated spot in Black and white. (its totally up to me what I do there, but I wan't to do this good anyway and try some of the ideas portrayed  in "Framed ink".

I've got some more but those will take more time and with some of them I can't rush it.

My idea for my diploma is becoming more clear each day.
Yea I know its still 700 Days but after today's great performance(the epic failure of a selfportrait)
the idea really seams to be the simplest part. Now I've got to prepare for it with more specific studies.

Have a great one!

regards,

Mitch :)