REPOST: Some old, some new! oh & some really new!

Herro again,

I've got so much to share with you guys this time around, I'm afraid that next time I won't have anything exciting to share with you. :{ hehe. But I suppose I'll worry about that when the time comes. Anyhoots, new illustration project done! This sculpture was inspired by my friendly, curious, and troublesome dog, Maxwell (to the right). He may not look like much, but he can become quite the handful.

 

I call it "The Hamburglar".

The story behind this sculpture revolves around this little girl who yearns for truth, justice, and any opportunity to show off her ultra cool laser gun! She fights evil with her crazy, cool glasses, always-ready-to-stomp-some-face combat boots, and her trusty laser blaster gun. In this moment in time, she is simply hounding down the culprit who stole her hamburger. That nasty fiend, who does that raccoon think he is? I had a whole bunch of fun coming up with the concept for this piece. It was done in 2 weeks time. I hope to do many, many more sculptures in the future. Especially now that I got myself a trusty, extra-handy Sculpey clay conditioner! YAY!

 

A collection of butts, breasts, chairs, wigs, hats, and all that goes in between. :]

Some heads from my 30 heads assignment from Pratt's ill class last fall. The subjects include, but are not limited to: Paolo Carcamo, Deshe Reynolds, Ashley Rivera, Tarrah Belcher, Dillon Endico, and Izzy Ishmael.

This is a work in progress, started early this past summer, but never had the opportunity to finish. It's a wedding portrait of my parents in oil. I had to stop suddenly on this painting due to the happenings of finding an internship in faraway New York City this summer. I plan to finish this baby up over winter break. :]

The process work for an in progress illustration that I based a little bit on Alice in Wonderland's tea party, but less psychodelic and more children costume play pretend. It's been turned in for critique already, and I'm in the process of finishing it up. I'll post more on that later. :]

Til next time.

Love, Erica.

odds & ends from various sketchbooks

Hey everyone,

Hooray! 2 posts in one month! I'm on a roll. Hehe. Yes, I am currently working on continually posting in my blog more frequently. I'm getting there. ;] All in due time. Anyways, today's blog includes various sketches from the many sketchbooks that I seem to keep, but never finish (that's a joke on my starting many sketchbooks and flip flopping all over and in between them). The content really ranges from character sketches I drew over the past summer spent in New York while I was interning for Express to subway sketches to process work from various past and current projects I worked on.

I also included some preliminary thumbnail sketches I did for the last illustration i posted based on the theme "Adventure is Out There"! I had so much fun with that illustration. Doing the research and collecting the reference photos was the best part of that project, not to mention that I actually really liked how that illustration came out. :]

Then there are some 2 final line drawings from an old project from spring. It was a spin-off book cover for Brandon Sanderson's novel "Mistborn", which I HIGHLY recommend reading to anyone who is an enthusiastic reader of sci-fi/fantasy as I am. It's an amazing action packed book that has a little bit of everything: action, mystery, crime, religion, romance, and a very in intricate system of magic.

And last but not least, I included a linoleum block print I made for Brandes' Advanced Media class last spring that I especially liked how it turned out. I want to incorporate the themes of simple backgrounds, and heavily reliant on basic line weight, along with shapely animal designs into future projects of mine, because this is the direction I want to go in. It's a very comfortable and enjoyable style of painting and illustrating that exemplifies what I want all my illustrations to be: simple, fun, colorful, and cute. :]

Hope you enjoyed this post. Til next time.

Love, Erica.

p.s. coming soon! many pages from handmade sketchbooks, character turnarounds, and in progress photos of my newest illustration project that is strictly Hush Hush until next time. Hint: i'm working on a sculpture. ;] I do so love working in sculpey every once in a while. :]