A. T. Pratt

Friday, February 18, 2011

Illustration 1

Instructor: Fred Lynch

For our first illustration assignment, we had to illustrate one word. I did "gluttony".

here's some other ones I didn't use.

friendship

hero

attraction/lust

chivalry

rejection

For the second assignment, we had to choose four words from one page of the dictionary and do two different illustrations that involve all four. I chose pipe, pirate, pistol, and pizza.

a view from my window:

"Unsolved Mysteries":

"The Escape" (repost)

Lost and Found: Snoop Dogg observing a giant eye-eye rolling down Waterman st.

"bad" illustrations for the word "lost"

"good" illustration for the word "lost"

Déjà Vu... tried to tackle this prompt as well as I could. The concept's a lot more complicated than a lot of people think. People didn't get these at first, but they did once I explained.

The final project was the Tiny Shirts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Painting 1

Instructor: Jean Blackburn

^my first oil painting. We had to paint a big setup of all these paper bags with just black and white, and mine doesn't look like anything.

our first and second homeworks were these horrible color swatches. Not gonna post those.

in class

We started off with a limited palette in class, and then for an at-home still life.

in class still life with more color

homework still lives w/ burger, hulk, headphones

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

This class was mostly focused on using anatomy, perspective, and light and shadow in order to create believable spaces in drawing. There are a lot of classroom exercises and homework assignments that I won't bother to photograph because I struggled so much trying to accomplish the seemingly endless checklist of requirements that would make a good drawing for this class. Nicholas Evans-Cato's ratemyprofessor page did not lie, he was a stickler for all of the minutae of drawing technique. Every imperfection or lack of clarity, he would point out like a drill sergeant. Sometimes I would be standing in his class practicing this or that different type of perspective, formulating my plan to burn down the illustration building, but eventually it sort of paid off in added technical confidence.

Here's one zombie invasion scene that I didn't completely hate

Towards the end of the semester, Cato had us switch to monochrome watercolor paintings, which I ended up liking a lot more than the charcoal/conte/mechanical pencil we were using before.

lily

trevor

hot young model

jim

marisol

my favorite ugly fat lady drawing ever

the last two weeks we spent illustrating these scenes we wrote. This one is called "The mystery of the glowing boot" by Yudi. It illustrates the story of a boy lured to the forest by a glowing boot planted there by some mysterious child killer with an axe. She wrote up a whole page of descriptions of what was to be in the scene, and then I had to render it exactly as she had described.

The next week we had to do a drawing that was a sequel to the other person's story, so I had the hand wielding the axe in the left hand side of the drawing belong to my own murderous clown character!

more jim and marisol

for our final we had to illustrate a scene of our own imagining. I have presented the image and many details, so that you may fully analyze the crime scene.