5/30/12

Man in the Moon Costume

(Ink and Marker)

I sat down with my sketchbook tonight and put some marks down. I came up with this guy in some sort of a moon or banana costume. I suppose it kind of works as a moon costume, it can be the man in the moon and the carrot on the string represents his continuation of the moon cycle? Sure. Let's go with that.

5/28/12

Hindsight is 20/20

One more Star Wars piece -

(Ink, Pen, and Marker)

After watching the end of Return of the Jedi, I couldn't help but think it was a big mistake to for Emperor Palpatine to send away his personal guard...



5/27/12

Sad, Sad Elephant Man

There's Star Wars marathon going on right now, so guess what I'm watching!  I had to do a quick sketch, so I broke out the iPad and whipped up something quick.  Anyone recognize this blue guy?

(Digital Media)

It's Max Rebo!  (Jabba's Palace - Return of the Jedi)

5/25/12

Kermit the Spider-Man ... or Spider-Frog?

(Ink, Pen, and Marker)

Don't ask me why I decided this was a good idea - it just sort of popped into my head.  Quick sketch, colored in marker.  I think I'm going to go ahead and do some more of these.  It was a lot of fun - and a good excuse to get back into using the brush pen and markers.  I think the green-guy would be a good Spider-Man.  I mean I guess Disney does own both Marvel and The Muppets...

***Update*** I totally just noticed that I'm not the first one to come up with the Spider-Kermit idea... dang. Haha.

5/22/12

The Hulk Sketch

VIC MAKE PUNY HULK SKETCH!

(Digital Media)

That is all.

5/21/12

Mr. Preato's Class

Hey I got a hold of a few more photos of my class's artwork display in the art show:

(Photo courtesy of Laura Mazzarella)

(Photo courtesy of Laura Mazzarella)

5/15/12

I'M BACK!!!

Wow, ok - it's been quite a while since I've posted anything, so I'm more than excited to say that I'm glad to be back!  Where was I exactly?  I was keeping pace with school and finishing up my semester.  i had an excellent experience teaching a great group of kids as part of a Saturday Art Workshop (SAW).  It was an 8-week program in which students showed up at 9:30am (way earlier than I probably ever got up on a Saturday growing up) to come to an art class (once again, I'm pretty sure I never went to school on my weekend off from school).  Anyways, the short story is that it was not only a great teaching a experience, but a learning experience as well.  We managed to get in 3 major art projects, and my class - along with 6 other classes held an art show to display the culmination of the SAW program.  Below is a snapshot of a corner of the gallery - my class's work is in the corner on the left.

(Photo courtesy of Carey Simone)

I've been working on some of my own art, though limited due to teaching taking up a lot of time!  I just got an iPad so I've been playing around with some of the art programs on it.  I settled on a program called "Procreate, it's worked for me so far, and I'm impressed with the level of features and ability in this program.  If you're interested, here's a link to their website: Procreate (I should really see about getting paid for advertising stuff!)  I can appreciate the iPad's sensitivity to finger-based gestures, but for a program like this is grabbed a stylus, and I went with the WACOM bamboo stylus, because frankly, their products haven't let me down yet.  Ok, enough talk, below is the first drawing I whipped up on the iPad.

(Digital Media)

For this work, I had some inspiration from a couple of sources: AVATAR's floating mountains of pandora, the beautiful illustration work from a game called "Machinarium", and a little bit of my own previous work.

I think that's all for now.  I have some other things in the works, and I plan on being more faithful to keeping up with the blog and posting regularly now that I have a little less "homework".  Until next time - keep on keepin' on!