National Portfolio Day

This past Novemeber, over one weekend, I attended the Calarts Open House and National Portfolio Day in the glorious NYC!!! And of course, naturally being a procrastonator, waited to the absolute last second to put together my portfolio! NOTE: DONT FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE BY PROCRASTINATING!

On Saturday at the Calarts Open House, Calart's alumni came and talked about their experience and took general questions from the audience. Even though we were obviously not on campus I could feel the Calarts magical energy flowing through my veins! For those of you who don't personally know me, I am a Calarts FREAK! I live and breath to aspire to go to that college!!!! It's Calarts or Bust!!!!(okay, im exaggerating). I was the only one to bring their portfolio to the Open House, which gave me so much more time with the figure drawing instructor from the college to review my stuff!

National Portfolio Day can only be defined as....crazy. It was held at the Javitz Center on Sunday and there HAD to be over 1,000 artisits there. Lines were over two hours long, depending on the college. I visted Ringling, SVA, and Parsons. I got great feed back and would TOTALLY recommend going to NPD for aspiring artists to get a base line and realize what they need to work on!

My advice: GET THERE EARLY!!!! You will be the first in line and be able to cover more ground because when they say the event is over at 4:00...Its over at 4:00, meaning they shut the lights off and force you to get out to line!

Here is my Portfolio that I lugged through NYC:

Figure drawing

Finally got to got to figure drawing open studio again! Only got there in time for the 1 hr and am really happy how it turned out!

October fest!

WOW! I never realized how fast this past month has gone until I realized I have been neglecting my poor blog! So, its UPDATE TIME!!! Below are some concepts, life drawing, and a work in progress!

Walk...Stop....Doodle!

Yesterday I finished my painful homework so I got a chance to go for a walk. And OF COURSE, being me, I brought my sketchbook with me. Sketching while walking is not something I would recommend due to it not being safe, at all! I walked to the park, sketched people walking dogs, people with kids, and people playing sports (not creepy at all). It was a great time!

Sketch dump!

So with the dreaded school back in session, my blogger updates have not been as consistent as I would like. HOWEVER, this will soon NOT be the case!!!

In the mean time, enjoy some sketches from the Grand Canyon, a still life from my room, Paranorman fan art, athletics, and a random doodle!

Happy September 6th!

Grand People!

Greetings! I am publishing this post in my cozy hotel in Arizona! Yesterday my family had a great time exploring the Grand Canyon! Unfortunately there is alot of rain due to it being rain season, but, we got to ride the bus more which meant MORE life drawing!!!!!! YAYAY!
I carried around my handy dandy water color pad, so I cant wait to go home and paint these!

Shopping!

Sorry for the horrible picture! My sketch book is HUGE and cant fit on my flatbed scanner. I am forced to resort to the camera.

Interesting people

Sorry for lost in posting everyday, but with summer wrapping up my family is FINALLY doing family vacations. So I will be taking another leave of absence for 5 days soon. But till then, I will be sketching like a maniac! Never can sketch too much I always say!

 FIGURE DRAWING!!!!!