Figures, Paintings and Chara Designs

These are a a few figure pieces that I've done in my Figure II class this past week. I feel that I'm finally getting over my fear of pressing a little too hard into the paper and worrying about technique. I've yet to really see and feel the actual colors that make believable flesh tones. Those greens and blues baffle me. Anyhoo, the first image is a long pastel study and the second is my first figure painting in oil that I did today. I'm quite pleased with the results, but man--so much to learn!

Here are some recent character designs done up for Concept class. These were a lot of fun to do. Not too proud of the first two but I love the pompous lizard/bug thing and the fuzzy plant creature. I would love to do a walk cycle for him.
This is a landscape done in oils that I believe was done last Friday. Totally skipped out on FEWS to do it, but I definitely needed to do paint to warm myself up for a 30x40 illo for ILL I class.

Anyway--hope you all dig. Take care and cheers!

~Haylee

Spectrum, Gifts and Inks

Sorry about not uploading in such a long time. Been hectic balancing six very demanding classes, but whoo am I learning a ton of knowledge about illustration. Well, I decided to be quite brave this year and submitted an entry into Spectrum. I'm real apprehensive about it, but wish me luck in getting into this year's annual. What I have here for you all is my refurbished "Insecure" portrait that I put in for Spectrum, a Christmas present to a friend here at Ringling, and a black & white page of numerous sketches complied all together. I've yet to know how to put together a nice sketch page, but these are figure drawings from FEWS. Except for the little guy in the corner with the shades and robe.

Also, I'd like to give out a big thanks to Francis Vallejo for telling me about Norman Rockwell's book: "How I Make a Picture" aka "Rockwell on Rockwell". It is the most insightful look on how to make successful illustrations, not to mention Rockwell is just the man when it comes to creating heartfelt images.

Well, take care until next time! Cheers!

~Haylee

Goodbye '07--Yo To '08!

Hey hey people. Sorry about not updating for a while. It was pretty hectic back there at the end of the semester, and I was without the internet for Christmas break. So here I am updating now that I'm safe and sound back at my apartment!

What I have here are my finished storyboards that I promised to update with. They need a bit of tweaking, but they were all loved my my classmates. Which is a check plus. Then I have an old watercolor from my media class where we did the other class's portraits. I ended up with this guy, who I think was pretty awesome to draw and paint. Lastly I have two music albums that I did for my Ill class. Did the first one to Ali Farka Toure, a famous jazz/blues musician in the 90's and the second one to Morrocan accordion music. T' was tons of fun those two albums.

Well, I missed out on the Revelations workshop in Seattle this year, but I hope that all who went had an awesome time. Maybe next year I'll save up some dosh so I can get myself over there to see how they work their magic.

Heh, and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Mine sure was busy, but I got some well-deserved time off. Cheers to this new year and all the new artwork that will come from it!

Take Care!

~Haylee