(WIP)ped ( its a rant, watch out!)

So many works in progress, so little time.  Because of some pople ( no names) we have been set WAAAAAY back in a certain class. Ive been working tirelessly on a project for said class, and it has recently put on pause.  I'm trying to improve my technical drawing skills, but its really been hit and miss with the it due to lack of sleep.  (Its a lot harder to concentrate) 

I have here some works in progress, and one sketch from MICA that I dug up.  I didnt think it was all that good until i looked back at it.  I really like it now, so i decided to post it because it made me feel happy. 

Im kind of bummed about my not being able to get a portfolio review from RISD, the seniors keep bumping me off the lists :( Sometimes they dont even tell me. * sniffle*  anyway, i really look forward to my next review, this time maybe ill plan for it better.( I didnt know that they took down the lists to give to the reps so i just assumed it was cancelled and i didnt really have any good work to show the rep last time)  Ive really begun to look more into concept, so for the piece with the crazy-slanted ground plane i did a psychoanalysis of sorts. Tried to use the implications of color as well as different textures.  In the critique in class, they suggested that i not make the ground plane so annoying and to pay more attention to the direction of the marks.  Nobody really liked the ground halo either so i have a lot of work to do this weekend *sniff*   It was also suggested that i work bigger. PAUSE OK guise, heres the deal, MICHAELS WAS HAVING A SALE ON CANVASSES. i was just taking advantage of that :)  

Im really reluctant to start working bigger because i often see other people's bigger work and its like...eh.  I feel like i have more control over the events in the piece when its smaller. * sigh* 

Alright, moving on, so this little sketch is another WIP for that project in ID that i was talking about earlier ( if anyones read this far, youre awesome, i love you)  It will be one of hopefully three on this page.  Im afraid that the figure is coming out too flat like i dont want her to look like a plane, i want her to look like she exists in space, but im having some trouble with that.  We're designing a travel bag by the way,  so its an airport and all that fun stuff.  So anyway, the bag is not done.  Once it is, i was hoping to extend the pink/orange/red into the bag too to show that it fits your personality no matter who you are.  ( Thats the idea, to color code figures and bag based on their personality. ) Comment if youre into pac man tattoos!! ,

Im hoping that i can improve in that class. Ive been working really hard, but i know that i have a long way to go.  Once I complete the two point that has been giving me so much grief ill post it.  It's not that i havent finished it, its already been two weeks, come on! its that my final products are unsatisfactory and i think that i need to work on the way that i handle my pencil, especially with such technical drawings.   if lines get too dark, then the final product is invisible, if lines are too light then i cant prove the existence of the final product.  So its all a question of how much attention i pay to my lines.   I think by the end of this my drawings skills will improve exponentially.  

Pictures are up top if youre lookin' for 'em