I have Grease music stuck in my head. :(

So, it's been hot. And school has been ending, and I've been having a pleasant bout of senioritis. As a result, I haven't sketched (!!) as much as I should have in the past few days... but I thought I was on a roll with my blog updates, and I want to keep up with this habit as much as possible.
Here's some relatively old sketches and bits from a project of Barron's (done in the past month or so).



These last three guys are bits that are put together in a finished painting. I'm going to work on the final a little bit more, and then I'll post it up as done, so keep an eye out if you're interested. :3

Animal farm

If you go to my online portfolio (http://ashleyboydportfolio.blogspot.com - or just click on it through my profile), you can see the nicely finished character pieces I did for Animal Farm. But I thought I'd put two scraps up here from that project that I and others liked.
The first one is an early character study of Napoleon, and the second is a windmill establishing shot.
You'll also notice that I'm updating more, which is a thing I want to regularly do now. :3

I was hungry.

This was for a project where I'm scrapping everything (including this) and going in a whole new direction, but I still liked these little dessert ideations. I quickly painted a few in Corel Painter 'cause I wanted to try the program out.

*tap dancin' towards graduation*

So I thought I'd share some of my stuff for Barron's class. This is my spread for this semester's zine, titled "Sweeet," where I talk about drawing crazy monsters as a kid.



This semester Barron assigned everyone to do covers for the zine, and normally we'd just pick one, but since this time it was a nice collection of pieces we decided to place our own covers on each of the copies. This here be mine. I know it's 'a wolf in sheep's clothing,' but I like foxes better. :P



...and another plein air study. There's problem areas, but then there are nice bits that I do like in it, so I thought I'd post it. Done in an hour and 30 minutes, I think.

An update...

I have a lot of stuff I could show, but I feel like none of them are in a finished state to really show, y'know? But then I remember that this is a blog, so it's pretty much assumed that everything posted on here is a work-in-progress.



At any rate, here's a 1 hour study done at a nearby park...



And a character design of Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist. The painting still isn't done, and I keep going back and tweaking it, but here it is for now.

I haven't updated in a long time, so I thought I'd just do an art dump. These are some viz dev shots I did for the BFA project, based on Sara Gruen's book Water for Elephants. We're done in class, but I still consider them to be works in progress. Any comments would be nice. :)

Every blog needs a cat sketch...

Canaan has a very soft, luxurious cat-bed he can sleep in at any time of the day. Instead, he prefers to sleep in a cardboard box filled with trash. We keep meaning to throw it out, but haven't the heart to upset his day.
...sketched in Photoshop, yo....