student art | Vivid Foundry https://vividfoundry.com Creativity emerges, even from structure. Sun, 28 Jan 2018 03:18:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Fashion Illustration: Narcissus, cosmetic profile https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/07/fashion-illustration-narcissus-cosmetic-profile/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:01:01 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=755 This is part of a series of illustrations for the mini-project ‘Narcissus’ that I am going to produce. There’s a number of styles and techniques that are utterly new to me with this little project, so I’ll try to enumerate many of these details. This digital painting was first started on December 4th, just three […]

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]]> Drink by the pump: graphite concept drawing https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/12/02/stilettos-drink/ Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:23:43 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=738   Just my take on the glossy magazines, the glamour, the end of the night… I have been doing a lot of sketches of different materials lately – marble, hardwood floors, now in the form of still life. I love this form of reconstructing and deconstructing paper through the pastiche of drawing. Execution took under […]

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]]> Lobby: Illustration https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/30/lobby-illustration/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:37:21 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=716 Progress shots and final for an interior architectural illustration, 2-point perspective. Graphite pencils. So far: 2B, F, HB, B2.

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]]> Death drawing: Pastel sketches https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/23/death-drawing-pastel-sketches/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:29:45 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=598 An illustration from a skeleton in life drawing class. I'll leave it up to you to pursue the irony.

Chalk pastel, Bristol board (we were being thrifty. I'm not sure why).

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]]> Mural on two lockers: Fantasies https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/11/mural-on-two-lockers-fantasies/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:00:31 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=630 In the summer of my grade 8, I made sure that if anyone was going to be stuffed in a locker, they would at least get stuffed inside a pretty box. Ergo, fantasy locker murals! Both took altogether 80 to 90 hours to complete painting. Inexpensive acrylic wall paints don’t give the brightest shades and […]

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]]> Pencils and pastels: More figurative https://vividfoundry.com/blog/2011/11/06/pencils-and-pastels-more-figurative/ Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:36:38 +0000 http://vividfoundry.com/?p=799 Here is a series of figurative drawings in varying styles and mediums. First two were done with conte and pastels respectively, from live model, in 2006. This one below was completed less than two weeks ago. It was drawn on capriciously beautiful textile recycled paper, which made the whole process very unforgiving, because any erasing […]

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