Senior Thesis!!!!

Senior Thesis:
So this is my last year at Parsons and our thesis project isn't as stressful as I thought it would be. Then again its only the second week of school and I'm still working on my sketches and composition. The concept for this years thesis project is OBSESSION. The obsession I chose is nail art! I'm completely fascinated with it and I wish I had my nails decorated all the time but school, handling bags, materials.... even writing is stressful when having long nails. The topic is interesting and has so many possibilities in terms of imagery. Making the illustrations will be fun and its my goal this week to have everything down on paper. I need to have the composition down then start with practicing with painting materials. So far I'm at a good pace with all my school work and I'm going to do my best throughout this semester to keep it that way.

I'll be posting some reference images and other sketches down soon!
-Nicole

Sketches in traffic

Pencil, ink. Sketches going to Jersey.

Illus. Friday: Modify

Hey!
This is for this week's word, MODIFY. I read the definition of the word and was a bit taken back in terms of finding a drawing or illustration that matched the word. But then, while searching through my sketchbook, I found this painting/drawing... and it went through some serious modifying. Started with one color then it changed to another color and different drawings of things around me. So I just chose to draw my eyes and left my glasses out of it. Sort of scary and creepy.

-Nicole

In the Clouds

This was the first drawing/sketch made for the first summer sketchbook I started. The idea just came to my head and there it is! I want to try to maybe make a series of portraits, some from life, some imagined, but I'm not sure what I would do for the background.

-Nicole

Illus. Friday: Idle

Hello!
I recently joined illustrationfriday.com. Its basically a website where you can add your web link to the drawing illustrating the "word of the week". This week's word was IDLE. I had some trouble trying to get the image of the word onto paper and I think I went too safe with this one. Being that its the first illustration made to be posted on the website, I'm pushing myself for next weeks "word". I think I could have done something better, more creative or at least if the image is hard to see, maybe correct the scan a bit more then I have on Photoshop. I don't feel bad about the drawing but there will be a follow up to the word even though next week there will be a new word to illustrate. SO, I'll be continuing to make illustrations inspired by the website because I've been feeling more confident with what I've been doing this summer.

OH, the drawing is of my Shih-tzu, Brownie! and he's all about being Idle lol.

Tomorrow I'll also post some images from my sketchbooks I've been working on....

GOODBYE!!
Nicole :)

Pulmonary Candle Set

For my Drawing Mixed Media class, I was to study a system and make a 3D sculpture based on the system. I chose the Pulmonary circulation and the media I'm going to use is wax. I've got the sculpture of the heart done and I have to work on making the sculptures of the lungs and the wax mold. This is going to take forever... Oh, this is the sketch as to how it should come out... It's basically my Pulmonary Candle Set.




And this is just a doodle of the heart and some details I'd lke to add onto the wax/ candle.

Watercolor, pencil