A while back I designed a business package for a fictional musician or music school with the hopes that it could someday be modified to fit my younger brother’s needs as a free-lance musician. Yesterday, that business package, which included a business card design, came in handy. Now my brother… Read More »Custom Business Card in Commissions Gallery
Classes are done for the year! All I have left to work on is some final papers. But as far as studio classes go, I am DONE with work. This is my latest piece from drawing for Illustration. Our assignment was to draw a gargoyle in an architectural setting. Now,… Read More »Gargoyle Illustration
This set of two is my completed final project for Lithography. Typically, when I set out to compose a work, I try to put together a window that allows to viewer to see into a complete scene. As an illustrator, I deal with narrative, setting, and continuity. Foreground, middle-ground, and… Read More »Third Print: My turtle!
This is the finished version of my second lithography project. After many disasters, I managed to pull four good prints to make an edition. Our assignment was to use a newspaper to inspire our work. What we took from the newspaper, no matter how much or little, was up to… Read More »Second Print
Once again, as part of my science and art class (which is now finished btw) we spent some time becoming familiar with different kinds of paint. This tiny little piece is my very first time working with oil paint! This panel is only 4″x4″ and has been gesso’d and sanded… Read More »First Oil Painting
I have completed a new illustration! It has been added to the website’s main gallery as well as the illustration page. This is a graphite 9×12 illustration of a waterfall spirit. Our assignment was to create some sort of denizen of nature. A spirit, or ghoul, or god of the… Read More »Waterfall Illustration
In my science and art class we have been learning about different kinds of paint: how to make them and how to use them. I’ve only ever painted with watercolors and acrylics, so it was my first time using fresco, egg tempera, and oil paints. Egg tempera is traditionally a… Read More »First Egg Tempera
So I was very nervous about lithography, as anyone would know if they read my “End of the Year Crunch” post. Fortunately though today in lithography I got more than I thought I would be able to done, and will be printing the first state on Wednesday. I thought that… Read More »Printing Wednesday
Really only three more weeks until this semester is over, and everyone–both students and teachers–are feeling the pressure. Those poor graphic designers! They’re reviews are coming up this Thursday and my boyfriend has been in the studio non-stop for three days. Lots of majors are preparing for their portfolio reviews… Read More »End of the Year Crunch
I got into my major! I passed the sophomore review with a score of 98. I also received a certificate for having one of the top portfolios in my grade! My work is currently on display in the Hartford Art school hallways. 😀 Today in drawing for illustration we learned… Read More »Outstanding Portfolio Award, Bad Illustrations, and New Artwork added to site..
Warning–this post contains pencil sketches of nude figures for education purposes. After five sessions, my Illustration class has concluded its unit on drawing directly from the figure. Prior to drawing from a model, we learned from a model skeleton about the correct proportions of the human body. We were given… Read More »Drawing from the Figure
Thanks to the 1and1 24-hour support team, the problem loading the main gallery and the RSS feed seems to have been fixed. And hopefully it will stay that way because I’ve just uploaded some old pieces I did in graphic design last year. I just dug them out of storage… Read More »Graphic Design
Two days and a row! New Illustration piece in the main artwork gallery and illustration page. This piece is a 9×12 graphite pencil drawing on white paper of a landscape. The scene is of very old ruins; all that remains are rocks that once made up the structures. The ground,… Read More »More New Artwork
So I’ve made a couple of changes to the homepage and how I will be adding news to the site. From now on, (unless people don’t like it) the RSS feed from this blog will appear automatically as the “latest news” on the homepage of the main site. Updates will… Read More »Changes to the Homepage and New Illustration
Added to the site today under the commissioned work gallery is a logo for a television show titled, “your senior moment.” The show is all about the elderly and is growing in both age and popularity. This gallery update should show on the main site even though the announcement about… Read More »Completed Logo for “Your Senior Moment”
Now that we’ve finally completed our unit on perspective in my drawing for illustration class, we have moved on to anatomy of the human body. We are starting with the skeleton and have been learning all the proportions and ways that the skeleton can move. Drawing from a magazine is… Read More »Learning about the body.
In order to help out with the upcoming performance of the “Vagina Monologues” at the University of Hartford, I designed the playbill. Nothing too fancy. I drew the image and the the letters out by hand and scanned them into the computer to add color.
Today on the main site I’ve added two new ceramics pieces to the main artwork galleries and one to the commissions gallery. The two ceramics pieces were both accidental in a way. I have visions for them when I began and they did not turn out anything like what I… Read More »More artwork uloaded
This Sunday I spent the entire day doing a photo shoot with my younger brother in order to promote him as a musician and give him some nice pictures to put on cds and posters. His myspace is located here: http://www.myspace.com/ericleva And the fruit of our labor can be found… Read More »Promo Photoshoot.