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To The Bone.

2011-06-08T06:18:00.000-07:00

Workin so much lately. Here is something I managed to do in my free time.

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Untitled

2011-03-25T18:14:00.001-07:00

A WIP render of a museum interior that I am working on. I will post more stuff when I get around to it.

I swear.

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Slackin

2011-03-09T07:20:00.000-08:00

Gotta pick it up. I started this. I hope I complete it. Disregard the shoddy coloring on the sash for now, obviously these are base colors.

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Day of the Dead

2011-02-24T10:32:00.000-08:00

So, the new school has schedule changes every month. As a result, we have a finals week every month. I'm on my last day. Here are some pics of a sculpture that I was supposed to have done, but was unable to complete due to an overwhelming amount of work. As it was also my first time really sculpting, I didn't really know any tricks or real techniques to get this done faster. I enjoyed workin on this, I just wish they wouldn't have introduced it to us so late. I'll keep workin on it though when I get some free time.

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Grindin'

2011-02-09T06:10:00.000-08:00

Grindin hard these days. The new school has me in class 8 hours a day. The 3d work is a struggle, but fun. I'll post up some of my Maya scenes when I get a little more acquainted with the program. For now, here are some Figure Studies.

-Kapil

Hey Stranger

2011-02-07T01:09:00.000-08:00

It's been too long. I have things to upload. I just started a Twitter. Oh yea, I moved to Florida.

Here are some pieces to keep you guys occupied for now. The photo is of Danielle Sheerin, taken by herself. I will edit this post when I can find the link to her site.

Insert Interesting Title Here...

2010-04-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

So here are some paintings I've been doing. These are my first attempts at oil, so they aren't anything spectacular. I touched up my acrylic self portrait, so maybe you guys can a see a difference, also the "Invasion" cover is finished now, I just never re-posted it, so you guys can take a look at that.

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Figures...

2010-04-22T12:49:00.001-07:00

So school is almost over. Finally. Here are some recent figure drawings. I've been trying a new technique lately, it's been workin out ok. I need to push it further. Our class ended up drawing a photo of the Statue of David since our model stood us up one day...

Peace.

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The Window Is Not The View

2010-04-20T14:02:00.001-07:00

It allows the view.

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Art Is Just A Reflection Of Self

2010-02-26T09:59:00.000-08:00

Sometimes literally. It's been real rough lately.

I think this turned out alright, I had something so much better planned. Well, it doesn't always work out how you want. But that's life.

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Swamp...

2010-02-23T19:18:00.001-08:00

Quick swamp concept during class. I figured I'd scan and upload before I ruin it with color. I need to seriously work on coloring...amoung other things.

These moleskine sketchbooks are weird, i hate working in such a small format. It's great for landscapes though. Uhh other than that, life goes on.

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Invasion

2010-02-22T15:48:00.000-08:00

Speedy. Book cover idea.

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Same Shit, Different Day.

2010-02-20T17:05:00.000-08:00

Click on the pictures to see a bigger version.

It's been a little while. The new year feels the same as the last one. I still suck at drawing. I still have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. Happy Belated Birthday Kayla.

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P.S. Sorry for shitty scan quality.

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Gotta Stay Fresh

2009-12-17T17:04:00.000-08:00

So I'm almost done with my mid-term critiques, finally. I'm staying at the school a little late tonight to make one final push on some work that needs to be handed in tomorrow for my last critique. I don't have a lot of time to do the kind of art I want to do so this post has no "real" art included. BUT, for my "Figure In Motion" class, we are required draw figures in our sketchbook without reference every week for homework, so I'll just post up some of those. Enjoy...or not. It's your choice.

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Snakes Vs. Moose

2009-12-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

Alright, so this was a class project for Illustration Studio. The teacher had a us pick a random word out of a hat and illustrate the word. First we did a few thumbnails, then the teacher told us which two he wanted to see in a "tighter sketch." So anyway i don't really remember all my ideas, but i got the word "Luck." I ended up doing a final sketch of a woman playing russian roulette with a bunch of dudes and her posse. I was really excited about it, and then the teacher dropped a bomb on us.
"Ok, now i want you to switch sketches with somebody else." So I received a haggard drawing of something that resembled a snake and a moose in some sort of....something. When my classmate described the image to me it made sense of course... Anyway, we had to finish the other person's idea to complete the project. This post is my outcome.
This was really the first time i got into colored pencils, and I used canson paper. I should have picked a darker paper, to make the colors pop more. It all ends up looking kind of flat, but I was pleased with my composition and the accuracy of the moose (maybe not so much the snakes). Since I couldn't really go observe a moose, I just looked up a bunch of images for reference and created one that I thought I looked believable.
All in all, I was pretty satisfied with the project, I just wished the colors weren't as flat. Whatever, I'm not done learning yet am I?

Every Journey Needs To Start Somewhere...

2009-12-01T07:37:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Vanguard Art.

This is the blog of an aspiring artist. Not everything will be a masterpiece on here, but hopefully, it'll still be interesting to look at, if anything at all. I am a sophomore at PA College of Art and Design, and i'm not really sure what i want to do with my art anymore. I wanted to get into conceptual art and design, but there are so many other fields out there that it's so hard to settle. Maybe I'll just do what i want when I want.

-J. Kapil Renninger
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