Ver. 1 of First Confluence

Sooo. I bought a sketchbook for my good friend Hyung Min's 21st birthday. : ) When I buy sketchbooks for friends, I naturally write a personalized memo inside, and draw a little something to get them started. He and the other Game Art majors kept talking about Journey, which had just come out earlier in the month. So I bought it on PSN and got about halfway through before finals took over. It was amazing, even at just halfway. It still is amazing. So for his doodle, I thought about Journey. I based it off this fanart I was painting in Corel.

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This is another version of the painting. I put this through critique in my Illustration class. My professor had said that there needed to be some sand dunes in the foreground (mostly just more sand dunes overall), not enough value, and that the clouds needed some color. Yet another tried and failed piece, but there's a good start here, so I'm going to put it back into Corel and tend to the loose ends. 

If you note the watermark, you can find this piece on my deviantART: http://micalemer.deviantart.com/art/First-Confluence-301734283

And this is the sketchbook version, done in colored pencil ~ 

Thanks to my Korean friends for helping me out with the phrase (I'm still at the novice level to form a complex phrase on my own):

"너의 여행은 시작된다... "

"Your journey begins..." 

Today's figure class was... pretty much don't-even-bother-coming-to-class day... our teacher wasn't even there. But Heather and I went anyway, since it was the last class of the year. A few of our classmates went too, so it wasn't completely empty. So we stayed an hour to do a sketch and then went to go work on Illustration...;; How there is even time to do a blog entry, idek.

Semester's almost over!!!

City Island Landscape

oils + walnut alkyd on canvas, 14x18"

This was painted at the bay on City Island, at the Marina Jack harbor in Sarasota, FL.
I saw a dolphin here. Seriously. It was kind of awesome; one of the many perks of painting outside.

Wish I had more time to work on this... it was a 3-day painting, but I ended up getting about a day and a half to work, because I changed my composition on the second day. So this is a quick study painting. The clouds were so nice that day.

Weird Costume Today

But I don't want to offend anybody. : D

It was a fun pose, nonetheless. The all-white costume reflected a lot of the colors in the environment.

I think this will be my last figure painting until next semester. My teacher's opening up the medium for the remainder of the semester, so I'll either work with charcoal or maybe even digital... we'll see.




2.5 hours
acrylic paint on watercolor paper

Something Different

Although it probably doesn't look much different... my right wrist still hurts, so I painted with my left hand today. I remember my drawing teacher last year, Steve Kaplan, having us draw with our opposing hand in class, saying that it'd make us work harder to be accurate, and he's absolutely right. Your lack of skill really sharpens your ability to observe, because you're spending more time looking than stylizing.