Over the weekend I had my convocation. So it is official now: I have graduated! The grad show was great. Unfortunately, I did not stay as long as I would have liked. There just wasn’t enough time to really look at everybody’s pieces/projects (we had over 350 students graduating). But I’ll be going back to see everything again.

Here’s a photo taken by my friend’s lovely sister. There I am standing funny next to my pieces. Do you see the piece that I’ve been working on for weeks? It’s done! I will post up a singular picture of it once I get around to taking a photo.

You can check out the pieces on Emily Carr’s website too.

Hello, here is a second process shot of this.

FYI, This is how I normally store this piece because I don’t have anymore free flat surfaces!

So Artemis Fowl is a lot harder to draw than I would have thought. I wanted to show his deviousness, his quietness, independence (seeing as both of his parents have not been a big part of his childhood) and how young he actually is in this one pose. There may be too many characteristics I want to embody into that pose.

A twelve year-old boy was a bit of a challenge for me, let alone trying to draw a fictional character from a series. Just like everyone, when I’m reading the books, I put my own image of Artemis in the story. For the longest time I always thought he was blonde…but luckily Eoin Colfer puts a few of Artemis’ physical characteristics into his writing (he actually has dark hair).

My assignment for Concept Art class is to draw our character in an array of emotions. I am hesitant and quite critical of this mostly because Artemis Fowl is not my character (if I was making up my own, I think I would have done some ridiculous emotions). For some reason it is a bit difficult to imagine this boy genuinely smiling. If you look, there’s one of him doing an awkward smile.

 

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