Painting - watercolours

I found these as I was organizing my room, they are small watercolours I made while in university. There are around 50 in total, and chose 7 to share! Each one is either a depiction of something that happened to me, someone I knew, or something that was said during a conversation that really stood out for me. 

Art - what does it mean

Flying and crying

Sleeping and snow plow

Fire - what would you grab

Dentist - no coverage

Best kind of party attire

Trying to work

Sketching hands

Skate Deck Design

For this project we had to create a skate deck design using vector and raster elements, brand our work, and use a "predator" theme.  The budget for this piece was $30.00 for the print.

Final Product!!!  :) 

Used an old skate deck to mount mine onto.
Although the blue of the snake/ splatter in the background didn't print with the same colour intensity of how i originally wanted it, I think it still works, and turned out great! 

Final Design

Texture/photo courtesy of www.cgtextures.com,
Used this texture for the snake's skin

Painting I made, flipped it on its side, and vectorized it for the background

watercolour splatter I created for the background 

Vector illustration took around 5 hours, then 1 hour or so to play around with the colours/gradients.  

Final sketch used to render the image using illustratorCS5

my sketchbook

Sketching Ideas

Predator Theme

Paper Zoo - DMA project

The objective of this project is to create a "paper zoo" of six different biomes and the animals that inhabit those areas. In class we were divided into groups where each group was given the task to paint in watercolour a specific Biome that would represent the background of the final product.  

We were given six animals that we're required to draw: Penguins, Bush baby, Lion, Squid, Desert Tortoise, and a Buffalo. We also had to choose six of our own, I chose: Arctic Hare, Toucan, Giraffe, Sea-horse, Snake, and a black tailed prairie dog. I chose these animals because they look very different from the required animals and they would be interesting to draw. 

Here are my drawings:

Bush Baby

Toucan

Lion

Giraffe

Squid

Seahorse

Desert tortoise

Snake

Buffalo

Black tailed prairie dog

Penguins

Arctic hare

Here is the final product of the Paper Zoo using the backgrounds created in class and integrating my own drawings of the animals:

Desert

Polar

Savannah

Savannah

Ocean

Ocean

Rainforest

Rainforest

Northern Plains

Northern Plains