More sketchbook madness

 

Something that makes sense coming soon.

My brush pen is dead

Here's what I made last night while it was dying:

Brush pens seem to lose their mojo so fast. I need to get a little more gouache for the sketchbook; it's better anyways. Oh, and my illustration teacher keeps stressing the importance of signing everything, so expect to see that little red DV on everything I do from here on out.

Figure Painting

This semester is my first experience with painting the human figure, and I think it shows.

Week 1:

Yikes. 

Week 3 (most recent painting):

At least this one is filled in all the way. Still, I've got a long road ahead of me.

My finished still life:

School again

A work in progress (I'm happy to say that the transition to oil paints has been a relatively smooth one so far):

And a bit of screwing around:

Bugs

My summer boss, who conducts agricultural research for WSU (I hope that's an accurate description), commissioned me to draw the life cycle of a thrip. My basic understanding of the thrip is that it is a very small pest that seems to live on just about everything, but notably on onions. They are also fun to draw.

I want to add some kind of background, but I haven't figured it out yet and I'm pretty tired and I just felt like posting something. Let me know what you think.