Here are some “studies” I did of lions for the piece I posted last week. While I was looking online for reference material, I came across this charity in Florida, Big Cat Rescue, with two awesome YouTube channels which were very helpful in getting interesting cat poses. The first channel has educational videos and such. … Read More
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New print : The Lion
Here’s another print in my “feral children” series. This print is inspired from the book, by Joseph Kessel “The lion”. On the left is the picture colored digitally, and on the right is the silkscreened print. This print was a bit more difficult to color match, especially since I was dealing with four transparent colors. … Read More
Drawing classes
So this summer I ‘ve enrolled in a couple of drawing classes. I’m taking a portraiture class. I’m fairly happy with the woman’s portrait, less so with the man’s portrait. Either way, the two portraits lack “the essence of the person” if I can go a little metaphysical for a moment. I’m also taking a … Read More
An ode to pigeons
Here’s an illustration inspired by my experience with pigeons (as a little girl). The image on the left is the digital image from which I printed my silkscreen separations. The one on the right, is the silkscreen print.
Portraiture class sketches
This summer I’m taking a lot of classes at SVA. One of the classes I’m taking is a portrait-making class. Although I know how to draw people, I’m bad at capturing a person’s likeness, which is why I thought to take the class. Also, I was inspired by looking at the sketch portraits of Sargent…one … Read More
Photo sketches
Came back from a long vacation. Spent my time drawing from fashion magazines. Since I do a lot of figure drawing I’m good at drawing naked people contorting in weird ways. Fashion modeling however has clothed models in stiff positions, which is a change of pace from what I used to. The other nice thing … Read More
The Storyboard book: Steamboy
For students of animation and film making, here is book containing the storyboard for the anime movie “Steamboy”. I wasn’t too crazy about the movie when I saw it, in fact I can’t remember the story, but visually it’s a very nice movie. It was directed by Katsuhiro Otomo , of “Akira” fame, and I … Read More
SVA Thesis show: Illustration as Visual Essay
I saw the thesis show for the “illustration as Visual Essay” program (SVA) last weekend. The reason I went is partly because I’m interested in the program, and also I’ve met a couple of people who are graduating from it this year. I was told that the thesis for the project has to be a … Read More
Figure drawing : couple
Went to a life-drawing session last Wednesday and had both a male and a female model. It’s only the fourth time I’ve drawn two models at the same time and it can be challenging to draw two bodies in short poses. I personally wonder how the heck the models can actually be both naked at … Read More
Fiction Project
I decided a couple of months ago to enter the Fiction Project at the Brooklyn Art Library. I decided to use the opportunity, with the very real deadline of May 2, to work on a autobiographical comic I’ve been wanting to do for two years. Because it’s an autobiography, I’ve been stressing over finding the … Read More