tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21202154090654364112024-02-06T19:54:29.737-08:00jessica shirley illustrationjesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07462383323627770441noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120215409065436411.post-23030533518217088372015-05-16T13:05:00.000-07:002015-05-19T13:39:42.820-07:00Smart School Spring Semester My second semester at Smart School is just about over. Here are my finished pieces!<br />
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"Tender Briar" 12X18, oil</div>
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This is the most recent one. I used my eldest son as the model for this one. It is not intended as a portrait of him but it is a good likeness all the same. Rebecca reminded me of the importance of using everything good in the reference. </div>
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"The Golden Bird" 8X12, acrylic</div>
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This one is based on the fairytale by the same name. In my sketch the man was beardless but I used my husband as reference and liked the beard, so I decided to use it!</div>
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"For a Rose" 10X18, oil</div>
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This one is basically what it looks like. A version of La Belle et la Bete. :)</div>
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"The East Wind Came" 12X24, acrylic</div>
I just really like the imagery in this idea. The juxtaposition of the girl emerging from a cloud upside down and the bird passing by right side up.<br />
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This was the art director assignment. I chose to work on Karen Berger's spec Vertigo Comics cover assignment. She asked for a half angel half demon with a man (in jeans and a T-shirt) in a moonlit graveyard. So here are my thumbs. Rebecca wanted me to rework the composition on the one in the colored box. She talked with me about ways to do it.</div>
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So I came back with this revised rough drawing and I got the go-ahead.</div>
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I made my frankensteined reference.</div>
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My final drawing that needed a few slight adjustments before moving on...</div>
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My value study.</div>
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When I showed my finished piece to the Art director, I had mostly positive feedback. I needed to darken the man's hair and clothes for contrast. Adjust the value of the angel/demon's hair and obscure the lower of her feet (the one behind the man's hand) behind sheer fabric so the area wouldn't look so busy. <span style="text-align: center;">Below is the finished painting with the changes.</span></div>
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So Rebecca gave us a prompt for this one. Robin Hood as a girl either traditional time period, modern, or futuristic. Below are my thumbnails. We chose the bottom row center, however it was pointed out to me that her costume could be mistaken for Katniss Everdeen, so The next step was to explore costuming!</div>
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I tried a broad assortment of options. We went with #3, the military jacket and pants.</div>
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I then collected and hacked up photos to get my reference. Pretty awesome, right?</div>
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Here is the finished drawing</div>
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I chose #2 and then decided to try out adding a decorative element. I drew some thistles in my sketchbook and then manipulated them in photoshop until it overlapped the girl the way I wanted.</div>
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I have to admit it was a bit tedious but I really like the end result. Behold my finished painting below!</div>
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<br />jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07462383323627770441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120215409065436411.post-85891478420515459622015-01-05T11:07:00.000-08:002015-01-05T12:55:45.555-08:00SmArt school #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
For this next piece Rebecca recommended I try starting out with a photo I loved and I developing it from there. So I found some photos I thought were interesting and sketched them out in my book just to see how I felt about them. I went with a photo of a boy that I found compelling.</div>
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I decided I wanted him to be walking in front of a mural that would be coming alive behind him. I made a few different concepts around that. There were others, but I set them aside and played with the ones below a little more to try some varied compositions. I went with the one in the bottom right corner.</div>
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Here is my finished drawing.</div>
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I took my drawing into photoshop and started trying out color palettes. I had a hard time picking just one when there were so many interesting directions to go with. I showed them to Rebecca and she actually suggested I add some large shadows to bring the focus in to the boy's face a little more. She said any of the color palettes could work first she played with 7 and then with 1. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">From there I decided I liked the mood created by the blue green palette better even though I loved the red tigers too! (so hard to choose!) </span></div>
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Here is a partially colored underpainting. (it's kind of an ugly stage)</div>
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Rebecca s gave me some suggestions for finishing touches (warm highlights on the boy, yellow eyes and a little more glow in the stripes for the tigers) to make it look complete. And here is the finish! I'm happy with how it turned out.</div>
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I wanted my second piece at SmArt School to be based on the book Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I wanted to paint the character, Yvainne (a fallen star). I wanted her to appear otherworldly, like her hair and dress were being pulled back up to the night sky. I also wanted to show the silver chain that was used to hold her captive for a time by Tristram. I showed some quick thumbnails to Rebecca to have the idea approved. </div>
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I went crazy with the thumbnails to see what I could come up with. I narrowed it down to three that I felt were the direction I wanted to go (1, 2, & 17) and showed those to Rebecca. We decided to go forward with #2.</div>
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I put together some frankensteined reference using my head and arms, some random photos for a torso (I'm pregnant so I couldn't use mine!) and an assortment of blowing dresses. I distorted the figure reference by elongating the neck and arms and even the fingers to get the form I wanted. </div>
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My husband gave me some feedback and helped me come up with the idea that embers or fire were coming off her hair. So, I was playing with having her hair look like it was glowing and a little on fire with burning bits floating off, kinda like a shooting star. Rebecca recommended I simplify the chain element so that it didn't compete with the hair. So it would wind up her arm and past her up to her hair, instead of going off in some other direction.</div>
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I decided to make the painting 15x22". So, I printed out the digital drawing that size, I had to do it in pieces and taped it together. I then, used transfer paper to transfer the basic composition and lines to my drawing paper so I wouldn't lose the nuances of the composition I had worked out on the computer. Then I drew the whole thing by hand looking at my photo reference on the computer and stylizing the drawing further as I went. </div>
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I showed it to Rebecca and she recommended some small changes to the body by narrowing the shoulders and the waist and widening the hips to give a more feminine form. She also recommended more fullness in the skirt to balance out the hair. Below is the final drawing with the corrections:</div>
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I mounted my drawing onto a 3/16" plywood board with matte medium, then started painting values in acrylic paint in muted browns. While I was working on my underpainting I painted over a photo of my drawing to do some color studies. I tried a variety of color palettes, but <span style="text-align: center;">I wasn't feeling right or certain about any of them.</span></div>
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Then my underpainting was finished, shown below:</div>
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I love what comes out when my husband and I have some back and forth about a piece of art that I am working on! So working from that, I glazed in my colors in oil paint over my acrylic underpainting. The face lost the look of the drawing during the painting process and I had to paint it out, redraw it, and paint it again. I showed it to Rebecca, she suggested a few minor tweaks and here is the finished painting:</div>
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I signed up For SmArt School earlier this year. There were many great artists to chose from but, since you only get to pick one, I signed up for Rebecca Guay's class. You also get to monitor one other artist's class, I ended up going with Scott Fischer. Class started in September and we were given our first assignment a week or two before class so we would have something to show Rebecca during class. She gave us some interesting photographic portraits to draw from so that she could see where we were at in our skill level. In spite of the fact she also said we could use the reference as "a leaping point" I took that to mean adhering to the reference as closely as possible. So here is what I sent her:</div>
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And also we talked about color studies based on other artists' paintings we liked.</div>
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And then, continued painting in thin glazes of acrylic colors to slowly build up the color without losing the drawing and values. I brought what I thought was a finished painting and Rebecca made a few suggestions on how to resolve the painting completely. They were really tiny adjustments but made a huge deference! So here is the finished result below:</div>
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I have really wanted to paint a portrait for a while now. Well I have finally done it. Next time, remind me not to use gouache though. I thought it would make for easier clean up- and it did. But man! It is ridiculous to make good color and value transitions! I already knew this, but I went ahead and did it anyway. If you have ever used gouache you know what I am talking about. The value changes as it dries. The darkest colors get lighter, the lightest colors get darker, and everything in between shifts too! well some how I got through it and came out with a decent looking piece. Not a perfect representation of my oldest son, but it's pretty close. I particularly like how well the ear turned out. Below is the drawing under all that paint.</div>
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I went on a trip with my husband to Barcelona and Copenhagen. It was such fun! The two places sound random but we were piggy backing off of his business trip. So we only had to buy flight tickets for me. It was amazing to explore the streets of Barcelona. The Museums were awesome- there was a chocolate museum! The tickets were chocolate bars! (note the gift bag in the above picture: it's full of chocolate) Both Barcelona and Copenhagen had a lot of bikes but Copenhagen had more, hands down. Copenhagen was covered in bronze statues. I particularly loved the Assistens Kirkegard in Copenhagen, it was a park and a cemetery rolled into one (I love cemeteries, more particularly old ones). Hans Christian Andersen's grave was there. By the way, I was happy in both places in spite of the fact that I am not smiling in the first picture!<br />
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Barcelona.</div>
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View from the room we were staying in while in Barcelona.</div>
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Direct painting (drawing with my brush)</div>
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Two days ago, I was browsing through Behance and saw a painting that triggered my art bug. It was a digital painting of a seer woman floating in a white, layered dress with a lace veil covering her eyes. She was holding out one hand with an eye on it (the eyes on the hands thing totally creeped me out in Pan's Labrynth and was only slightly less unsettling in Once Upon A Time). So I decided to try my own version. I was especially intrigued with the idea of painting lace, I haven't really done it much. And I liked the idea of the obscured eyes. I painted this in Procreate on my iPad. I like how it turned out.</div>
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Another painting made on my iPad. I used a photo as reference. I didn't follow the reference very closely. I like how it turned out.jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07462383323627770441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120215409065436411.post-11899036042191737862013-06-11T06:51:00.000-07:002013-06-11T06:52:33.778-07:00iPad Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is some iPad Art I made recently. For the top one, I used reference from deviant art for the figure and winged it for the background. For the bottom one, I used random photo reference from the web but exaggerated her features for fun.</div>
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So I have finished my little watercolor studies. Ideally they would be super simplified but I wanted to flesh them out. I think I will probably stick with the first one for Reality Not Included 2 but I want to take some of the others to finish for myself. </div>
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This one is the most interesting one to me.</div>
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I like the mermaids face and hair in this one. Other parts need work.</div>
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The original watercolor of this didn't turn out so good so I digitally reworked it to make it feel better.</div>
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I made this for the <a href="http://theartorder.com/" target="_blank">ArtOrder</a> Challenge- dragon world. I thought that in a world with dragons, what are some of the ways you could study dragons? This image shows a glimpse into the perilous life of the professional dragonologist. </div>
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I picked my favorite composition out of the 20+ tumbnails I made. Then I refined it on the iPad, then printed it out so I could transfer it to watercolor paper. I made the watercolor below first. (I did a <a href="http://vine.co/v/bXTr9H7x2eD" target="_blank">Vine</a> while I was at it!) Then took it into Photoshop and simplified the background and darkened the cliffs. I decided to make the dragon green and digitally painted more lights/shadows and refined certain parts on the dragon and the glider/man. The results of the contest will be up next week. I'm kinda excited! I bet there is going to be a lot of cool art!</div>
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Here's my Illustration Friday contribution. The prompt is "wool." So, I decided to draw a shepherdess and a goatherd. </div>
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The moment I read the Illustration Friday prompt "storm" I had an image come to my mind of a storm wolf - whatever that is. This image is pretty close to what I saw. I don't remember ever hearing of a storm wolf before but it feels like it should be a thing of myths. It was drawn and shaded with pencil on paper, then colored it on my iPad.</div>
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This is just an old painting from about five years ago or more, it was for a class assignment where we were learning about masking. I got a lot of practice masking this one! I don't like the colors so I'm sharing a grayscale version. The texture is nice.</div>
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So I've been experimenting with the app Vine. It's not perfect but it is fun and with a few changes could be awesome. Anyway, here's a link to one of my Vines: <a href="http://vine.co/v/bnrJzIKvuUP?fb_action_ids=4371456410093&fb_action_types=vine-app%3Apost&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%224371456410093%22%3A507556639282537%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224371456410093%22%3A%22vine-app%3Apost%22%7D&action_ref_map=[]" target="_blank">my nose itches vine</a></div>
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I've linked more to my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jessicashirleyart" target="_blank">facebook page</a> and my twitter ( @jmlshirley ) it's a diverting little app! Go and try it!</div>
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So, I got an iPad with Retina for an early Christmas present! I invested in a couple nice styli and several art apps to try out. I just made this one in Procreate App which I like quite a bit. Another App I like for recording ideas, coming up with concepts, or just playing, is Paper by 53. So far I'm very pleased with my purchases.</div>
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This is also a self portrait (bet you didn't know I was a ghost!). Happy Halloween!</div>
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Even though I have several works that are related to water, this is one of my favorite pieces. I would still like to do an original work for the IF prompt (we'll see if I get to it!), but for now I will use this.</div>
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I have been making art, I just haven't been uploading it! I had a lot of fun with this one. I have more that I'll post in a little bit...</div>
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My three year old wanted to play Go Fish with my five year old (almost). But he doesn't know his numbers very well yet, so the poker cards were no good. I decided to make them some cards for Go Fish thinking I could do it quickly, but the project ended up taking a bit longer (like all day). First of all, our printer wasn't working very well so I decided I would have fun making stamps and color the prints with colored pencils. </div>
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Here are the cards before color. I really like my fish!</div>
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The stamp for the back of the cards, tested on scrap paper.</div>
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All twelve colors.</div>
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For some reason my three-year-old took a few bites out of the back stamp. Luckily, he didn't swallow. But still, what the heck, is he a boy or a dog?! It's not like he's teething either-he is three! Anyway, I tried to salvage it by going for a corroded/grunge look.</div>
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Finished! (I did end up laminating them later)</div>
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And they are a success! Little hands- they had to lay out their cards and have a barrier in between (Battleship style).</div>
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