More Joan Progress

Had some time between classes this week, so I started slapping down some of the background.  It's a lot of real estate, but hopefully it won't take too long once I get cooking.  The hair and the beginnings of the armor are from the last spurt of free time I had about a month ago.

Harvey, not exactly an NDA...

The high school that I teach at has a really great drama department, and since last year I've been doing the poster art for the fall and spring shows.  This fall's show is Harvey - set in the 1950s, it's a little yarn about a fellow named Elwood who sees a spirit, Harvey, who happens to be in the form of a six foot tall rabbit.  Needless to say, Elwood's a bit off his rocker, since no one else can see Harvey, but it's his sister, Veta, who has grown tired of Elwood's eccentric behavior, that gets committed to a sanitarium.  Don't worry, there's a happy ending.

These posters are a great opportunity for me to stretch my "inking" legs, since they are printed in black and white, and try to channel some of the great illustrators that I admire from the past.  The figures are the two leads from the show, we did a quick photo session (man does stage lighting come in handy...), a few sketches for an approval from the drama teacher, some ink and hand lettering later, and here we are. The printers will take care of the rest of the layout, I'll try and post the finished poster once it gets back.  Good fun.

Works in Progress

One drawing and one painting.

Thumbthing

Portfolio

Ascension of Joan, 32 x 48, oil on canvas.

Fulmination, 20 x 15, oil on canvas. 

A Chance Encounter, 32 x 24, oil on canvas.

Early Gifts, 21x30, oil on canvas.

RTM, 30x18, oil on canvas.

 Firebrand, 28.5x22, oil on canvas.

 

The Guardian, 30x24, oil on canvas.

A Delaware Christmas, 21x30, oil on canvas.

Winchester, 17x32, oil on canvas.

The Black Arrow, 20x30, oil on board.

Scavenger, 15x19, oil on canvas.

Beorn, 36x18, oil on board.

Firebrand, 22x16, graphite on paper.

Ascension of Joan, 16x24, graphite on paper.

The Guardian, 10x8, graphite on paper.

Grendel in his Fen, 12x24, pen and ink on bristol.

Poster for Harvey, 17.5x25.5, pen and ink on bristol.

Poster for The Sound of Music, 11x17, pen and ink on bristol.

Demolition Squad, 30x15, ink, charcoal and chalk on watercolor paper.

Thieves in the Night, 18x24, ink, charcoal and chalk on watercolor paper.

"Can we keep it?", 30x18, ink, charcoal and chalk on watercolor paper.

Would be Dragonslayers, 20x30, ink, charcoal and chalk on watercolor paper.

The good, the bad, the mystic...

Every gunslinger worth his salt needs a magic magenta winchester...

This also ended up looking a little more like me than I wanted...well me minus about 75 pounds...

More hhhwip

As it stands on the easel, right now.

A quick B-dub photo to see how values are coming along.  Think things are going well...may knock the mountains around the left shoulder back a bit more, and add a few more darks into the face, but I'm pretty happy with the value overall.  This however does fail to mention the HUGE amount of refining that still has to go into the figure...Hopefully have this off the easel by the end of the weekend.