Senior Ills & Good,Bad & Ugly Footage

Yeah, I got a mega post going on right now. I've got photos from the Senior Illustration show here showing various people and senior set-ups such as Jane Radstrom, Erin McGuire, Adam Volker, Tina Sweep, Andrew Wright & Larissa Neto. They may not be the most flattering pictures of the Seniors, so sorry guys. I'm still trying to figure out how to make my photos look decent. Also, I've got photos from Erik Jones' "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" show that was hosted by Digital Three Studios. It felt really good to be showing with other big-wigs like Nathan Fox, Shawn Barber, Sean Chapman, and much more. The pics I took were before the flood of people that came from the CA show, but it was a good turn out.

So I also have my full portrait of Zero Wolf from Apocalypto, and some spread illustrations done for a mock-up article.

Congrats to all you seniors!!

Cheers.

-HH

The Good bad & UGLY!!

Hey there everyone! Thought I'd quick upload the info for Erik Jones' "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" show. If you're in the Sarasota area stop by Digital Three Studios that's located off of Blvd of the Arts on Saturday, April 26th from 8pm until Midnight. It's going to be a great show since I was able to see a sneek peek of some of the pieces, and they looked nice! So I have a small preview of my own piece: Zero Wolf from Apocalypto.

Hope to see you at the show and take care!

-HHerrick

Best of Ringling + Progress!

Hey everyone!-- Hope everything is going well for you. Just got back from the Best of Ringling show and took a couple shots while I was there. Also, have some goodies for you all to feast upon ranging from some pencil renderings, figure painting and a recent illustration done for a play called "The Giver" that's being shown here in Sarasota. It may possibly make the poster for advertisement, although there's not any dosh involved at least my stuff will be seen.

Anyway, thought I'd give a quick update--back to work!

-HHerrick

Foley's & FEWS

Wow, two updates in a week, that's a record for me. Just thought I'd post up the best of some figure work that was done this past Friday, and some photos of Jane and Tina's show at Foley's. It was really awesome to see some of our most talented peers being shown with Picasso's drawings, not to mention the sushi was delicious.

Picasso was once asked: "Out of all the pictures you've done, which is your favorite?" Picasso replied, "The next one."

Take care everyone and thanks for stopping by!

**Edit: I added in that portrait piece that I said I've been working on. Just got it photographed properly for all your viewing pleasure. Hope you all dig!

-HHerrick

Update

Been quite busy as of late. Been feeling the fire underneath from all the deadlines that have been pelted at me the past few weeks. But hey, this is the most fun I've had yet! Been learning and connecting more with all you good people, it really is great to hang out and just learn from one another. Well, I've been motivated to practice more with graphite as of late and it's been quite rewarding (not to mention really relaxing). It's making me return back to my sense of values and shifts in planes, which is something I need to practice at daily.

I've really been trying to push my vision as to seeing in three values and dividing values into simple shapes. Also I have some head studies of a friend for a new painting I'm conceptualizing, pics from the past Avant Garde event (sold two pieces!) and a finished illo based off of the fable "Androcles". Androcles is the story about the man who removes a thorn from the paw of a lion, and is later captured; the lion sparing his life once they are placed in an arena together. It was fun to illustrate, quite helpful with using the James Jean technique by dividing shapes with color over your line work. I realized that I have too much going on in my compositions and need to really simplify my focus.

Hope you all did well at the Avant Garde, and the best of luck to those entering for the Best of Ringling! It's going to be a wicked awesome show this year!!

Cheers!

~Herrick