Mawi

Color scripts

2010-08-25T21:41:00.000-07:00

First 8 are done. I have no idea how many of these I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna keep going. Must paint Faster!!Faster!!Faster!!

Sketchbook Pages

2010-08-21T22:16:00.000-07:00

Different sketches from Borders in Santana Row. Everybody looks boring.

Color script continued

2010-08-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

Yah I'm taking way too long on this. I gotta work on them more frequently. But hey at least I'm making some progress and I'm definitely learning a lot as I go, even though they really suck.

Color script continued

2010-08-10T05:13:00.000-07:00

I decided to get back to this assignment. One thing that is absolutely screaming at me while painting these, is how absolutely horrible I am with color. Oh well, I need to work faster and looser.

More Figure Drawing

2010-08-04T21:31:00.000-07:00

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Note to self: Learn to draw legs

Color script continued

2010-07-18T22:25:00.000-07:00

This last one was a tough one, because there is a lot of stuff and different colors involved. It was really hard getting all the warms and cools to harmonize and also hard staying loose with all the detail going on in the scene. I wish I could keep working on it and clean up my edges but I gotta move on to the next scene. Maybe when my painting skills get better I might go back and fix this stuff up. For now I'm just gonna keep themas nice and loose gestures, try and match up all the colors and values and to maintain the same mood. I definitely have to work on my edges though, yuk!

Ha I just did a quick side by side comparison of the entire script so far and wow, my colors are waaaay off!! Plus my values are far too light with not enough contrast in some. Oh well, just keep moving.

Figure Drawings - The good, the bad and the ugly

2010-07-17T12:56:00.002-07:00

Movie Color Script

2010-07-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

I'm currently working on a color script study of sort. I'm basically painting off scenes from the movie Girl With A Pearl Earring. My goal is to learn about color and composition and to get more familiar with photoshop. I am not picking colors from the movie with photoshops color picker but trying to eyeball and guesstimate as best as I can. So far I'm enjoying this exercise and hoping to produce 2 paintings per day. I've already learned a few tricks with color and composition and I think my painting has gotten better, faster and loser just by looking at the progression of the shots I've done so far. Plus I just created a brush in photoshop thats closer to an oil paintbrush and I'm really enjoying it. I'll continue to upload my progress as I'm working

Sketches

2009-06-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here are a few studies I did for the 2 rainforest paintings I did

Much needed updates PTII

2009-06-01T12:21:00.000-07:00

For some reason, I can't seem to upload more than 4 images per post. Any one have any ideas why?

Much needed updates!!

2009-05-27T12:04:00.000-07:00

Well this blog has been dead for a while. Time to bring it back to life. Thanks for the comments and encouragement guys. Since I have more time on my hands now I'll keep posting stuff more regularly. For now, here's stuff I've been working on this past semester and will probably keep working on over summer. So look out for updates!

Major sketchbook dump

2007-08-17T20:51:00.001-07:00

OK, OK I sooooo need to update this blog, so below are a few pages from my sketchbook.

There's more to come.

Lotsa painting

2007-04-27T23:51:00.000-07:00

Here are a whole bunch of paintings I did while taking Bunny's 113B class. Hope you all like them.

Figure drawings of the month and more

2007-03-24T00:38:00.001-07:00

Well it was a tough month for me, drawing wise. But things are starting to look up, and not a moment too soon because I have a portfolio review on April 20th. The head and drapery studies were done a while back. The figure drawing is my most recent work.

I went back to the basics on my figure drawing. At first I was really frustrated that my figure drawings seemed to be getting worse. So I went back to practicing the fundamentals. I guess its kinda like building a house. If your walls and floors buckle and crack, go back, and fix the foundation.

As Emperor Joseph II would often say in the movie Amadeus, "well, there it is."

25 Mins

Seriously though, if you haven't seen the movie Amadeus you live a sad life. Go get it!!

Master Head Study

Drapery

The bottom drapery is rather, odd. It kinda looks like the roots of a tree which was honestly not my intentions. Whats most interesting is that I drew this the same week we were assigned to draw 50 trees from life.

Well thats it for now. I promise I'll post some more drawings very soon. As well as some paintings!!!

2007-02-17T15:16:00.000-08:00

These are my homework assignments from Sheldon's class that I did last week. They are just 3 torso studies and a drapery study. I spent a lot more time then I normally would with this assignment and I'm pretty happy with the results. Hard work does pay!

How it all began.

2007-02-16T02:13:00.000-08:00

Well, lets see, whats a better way to start this art blog then by showing a self portrait? How about a really embarrassing, hideous, uuuuugly and unflattering self portrait. This was originally supposed to be a basic frontal, head chopped off, self portrait. But I decided to try something different because I was really bored with that formal stuff. So did a little thumbnailing and this is what I came up with...

Testing, testing, 1-2-3

2007-02-15T22:40:00.000-08:00

Just testing out how I can best post my work. But in case you were wondering, this is just a picture of some drapery study I did.
Not really my favourite but a fun effort.

My First Post!!!

2007-02-15T16:35:00.000-08:00

Well, here it is. My first blog post.

First off I would like to thank everyone for checking out my blog and showing some interest of my work. The main purpose of this blog is to document my progress and growth in my drawing, painting and storytelling skills. So I'll be posting a lot of my work here including projects from school, pages from my personal sketchbook and whatever personal projects I'm working on.

One of my goals is to post something once a month, until I get used to this whole blog thing and get faster with producing work. Then I'll step it up to at least a post a week. But that may not be for a while (I give myself 6 months)

Hopefully at the end of my stay at S.J.S.U I hope to use this blog as an online portfolio. I think it will be great, then, to look back at my work, now, and see how much of a growth I've attained with my art skills.

It should be a fun experience and hopefully a successful journey.