Holiday Cards

So this is the finished Holiday Card painting. I made sure that for the final print I made a nice big cheesy “Happy Holidays” to slap in the bottom right corner. I’ll spare you here.

Semester's End

Technically, I have one last crit on Monday, but all the work is done for that, and I’ve posted all of it before. This is how the one piece came out. You’ll notice that I’ve added line. I did this for several reasons. I’ve realized that my painting style doesn’t do my skills as a draftsman any justice, also my skills as a painter are–well, let’s be honest–limited. Additionally, I’ve really been diggin’ on Pete Hawley lately, so I’m adopting some of that… He paints such cool babies!

Also, this is how my crit wall looked for Mark Tocchet.

Lastly, this is a holiday greeting card I’m going to send out to a few people as a thank you for all the money I got for my birthday this year. $400 worth of art supplies thanks to the generosity of people, most of whom I don’t know well enough. So anyway, this was a quicky, two days from start to finish. You’ll notice the line, and you’ll also notice I’m working thinner. I’m trying to hang onto my drawing for as long as possible. As usual the photo is awful. This is only exasperated by the fact it was wet.

Home Stretch

This semester is rolling to a close. I deem the first piece done, since there really isn’t anything I can do to it that would significantly improve it. Additionally I hate doing tedious detail work, and I tend to fuck up a piece if I look at it too long past a certain point. The second could benefit from a little more TLC in the water regions, which I will probably do next week at some point.

Progressing

It’s the home stretch to the end of the semester.

This week thus far…

Unfortunately, the painting that I showed earlier has gone missing… oh well, I guess I’ll do it again. Anyway, here is a painting I’ve been working on so far this week. It is 30×40 inches.

This is still in progress and isn’t due for another two weeks. I’m pretty excited though, as I think it’s going pretty well.

In Progress…

The word prompt was “rain.” I have an in-progress crit tomorrow, we’ll see what he says. Hopefully the finish turns out well.

A Big Ol' Update

So, as you may have noticed, I’ve been fighting with my style for the past… oh… two years or so. I pretty much learned to draw in a theme park doing caricatures and hence have an aptitude towards goofy exaggeration. However, I am also capable of drawing realistically (I’ll do a post with some of my figure drawing soon). Not only that, but I’ve been trying to figure out how to integrate my aptitude for exaggeration, with my predilection towards serious topics. In the past month or two I think I’ve found a happy balance. Ironically enough, my stuff has gotten to perhaps its most exaggerated point yet. I always kind of thought I’d find myself between extreme stylization and realism, but I was wrong. All of the pieces could benefit from some more time spent, but I unfortunately don’t have the time to spend. Hope you like them.

Taking It Easy

Haven’t really been doing much lately… I’ve been pretty lazy as it would. So here are two of my latest paintings. The former is just about done and the latter is probably not even half way. Enjoy…

xoxo,
Jon

An update — Paintings and Sketches

This one is nearing the finish line, I’ll take a look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes to see what I think about it. Horrid picture as always. The actual painting is a little warmer than that.

Detail Shot.

And now some random sketches.

This last one was for a flyer for the birthday party my mom wanted to throw me for my 21st. She told me not to make it “too dark.” So I decided to make it really really ugly instead.

Philly Love