Plein Air around CCAD

These are a few plein Air sketches I painted back when I was in university. They were all done with acrylic paint. 

black and white Thumbs

Here are some black and white thumbs for practice. More black and white studies can be found here.

Observational Studies

13x10in

12x12in

These took roughly 3.5hours 

Traditional Studies

The Kitchen

8"x11"

DSA Hallway

11"x11"

These  studies were done in acrylic. I intend on doing a lot more of this in the future. These took approximately 3-4hrs to complete.

Desert Series (continued)

More Desert themed spitpaints.

Desert Sketch Series

A while ago, I did a few desert themed spitpaints. Here they are. At this time, I discovered the ability to soften edges when using the lasso tool. 

Christmas Card

For one of my final exams, we have to make a Christmas card. So I decided to make a card with an illustration that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. I'm thinking of changing the dimensions of the card because that tangency between the edge of the house and the gutter is bothering me. 

speedpaints

piranha tank

pirate lookout 1

pirate lookout 2

purple valley

More 30 min speedpaints from recent days. Still working on shaping, composition, brush economy...

More speedpaints

one man snowman party

purple valley

daemon extraction 1

daemon extraction 2

More 30min speedpaints from the previous week. I need to improve in many areas from composition, to brush economy, and everything in between. more speedpaints can be found on my tumblr page. 

Speedpaint Blues

daemon extraction 3

death of red

red

thanks to the Daily Spitpaint group on fb, I've been drawing a lot of things that are way out of my comfort zone. It's quite challenging I tell ya. On the bright side, If I keep doing this for at least a couple years, who knows what'll happen?

More speedpaints

30 minutes as usual. 

Today's Quicksketches

flying house

flying house 2

Both took 30 mins.

Speedpaints

1 hr

30 mins

higher res images can be found here.

30 minute speedpaints

Top one took 30 mins
bottom 2 took 20.
individual images can be seen here on my tumblr page.

4 legged chairs

Here's a couple of quick 4 legged chair designs. more chairs can be found here on my personal website.

Cyborgs

Just a couple cyborg designs. 

Futuristic African Soldiers

Here are some character designs of a sci fi african soldier. these guys don't need protective vests because they are badass.

Isolated Palace WIP

Here are different concepts WIPs for a palace that is meant to be isolated from the city. I'm showing these to my teacher tomorrow. The plan is to get him to act like an art director and choose one for me to continue pushing.

robot lamp

the shading, especially on the platform on which the lamp is standing on is inaccurate, but I really don't care. It's only a sketch.

Spiderman (thanksgiving sketching series)

Spiderman has always been my favorite marvel character to draw, and this is one of the many sketches of him. I started this sketch in my morning class, then kept working on it in between classes throughout the day. with sketches like these, I usually don't use photo reference. I was greatly inspired by comic book artist Gabriele Dell'Otto's pencil sketches while I was doing this. Some of Dell'Otto's artwork can be found here. look him up...his stuff is great.