En Garde!

So about a week or so ago, sjsu had a guest speaker come in and give a pretty cool demo. His name was Chris Duval, and he was an actor, teacher and fight choreographer with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He was quite the character....pretty funny guy. So he brought with him some actual sword props along with some pool noodles and grabbed a handful of students and taught them a little thing or two about putting together a believable stage fight.

Not everyone was able to participate, and those that didn't (myself included), got to record all of the action in our sketchbooks. There was a lot of movement, so we had to draw fast and just get the gestures. It was kinda like a figure drawing session, only with less posing and more action, but it was fun overall.

As a result, Courtney decided to make an assignment from this experience and made us turn our sketches/gestures into an actual character. So these were a few of the gestures I was able to get.





This is the character I came up with. I really wanted to avoid the typical "hero" character with a sword, and attempt to make use of the prop in another way. I basically wanted to eliminate the use of a weapon all together and have the prop be something else. So, this is what I came up with.







haha, these were fun too. Enjoy!

-jeff

Another One Bites the Dust.....

So this past weekend, I'm pretty sure mexicans weren't the only ones celebrating.



Another victory for the Pacman.

Way Overdue

It's been sometime since my last post, but the end of the semester is winding down and I think the pressure might be getting to me. I don't know. So much stress, anxiety, excitement, nervousness, fatigue, insomnia, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. But even with only a few weeks left, I'm still keeping myself really, really busy. Hence, the very late update.









So this is the most recent version of my tree house project. I spent most of my time revising the exteriors that I didn't have much time to focus on the interiors. I basically bumped up the contrast on a bunch of things and added some details in certain areas. I also did some color studies, but those will probably never be seen. Hopefully I can go back and work on these some more and push them even further. Perhaps even redo the color versions. Enjoy!

-jeff