Hi all! It's been a pretty crazy week. My Dad had a minor heart attack and was in the hospital for several days. It was pretty scary but the doctors went in to check his heart and there was very little new damage. Everything went really well and I'm really, really happy that Dad's back home and seems pretty much back to normal.
Here's a pretty crappy sketch from the hospital:
He was pretty grumpy that day.
In other news, I just finished a one week assignment for Concepts. We were to illustrate a menu cover for a sort of modern Italian restaurant in London. The idea was to base our illustration around a single item on the menu without using any sort of cliche menu/Italian food imagery and without simply drawing the dish. I chose Sotto Zero, a desert item including lowfat frozen yogurt, fresh strawberries, fruit coulis, and a chocolate straw. I've been wanting an excuse to draw a cute girl in a highly patterned dress for a while so I decided that this was my chance to run with it. I really want to work on infusing more pattern into my work.
This was also my first time using gouache. I'm not sure how I feel about it, yet. It dries reeeaally fast. But I like how colors lay over each other as opaque. Acrylic can require a lot of layering, which can get really ugly really fast.
I also did a sketch for "The Book of Romance" sketchbook this week, but I didn't get a chance to scan it. I'll be sure to get it next time.
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Gouache, i feel, is best when you're using it like any other paint. I had to use it for my Design 1 class, & the teacher wanted us to make things smooth & similar & have clean edges, & have the gouache be opaque. So i really didn't like it. One day, she thought we needed to practice with it, so she let us paint fruits & vegetables, & that felt a million times better than trying to be all design-y. It's really good for certain things, i would say, but they do take getting used to. :\
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