Paint, Photos, Pixar, and Pride!

Academy of art classes are in session! Taking: Comic book illustration, digital painting, and painting the clothed figure.

2 Hour portrait with live model

Unfinished portrait, about 1 hour session

I went on a photo shoot and snapped a few I like:




I got reaaaaally bored waiting at my BART station so I messed around with framing and color rep.




Fashion photo shoot style

The pride parade in San Francisco was great! I had to get over to Pixar so I only got to stay for about an hour and a half but it was well worth it.





Unfortunately a few anti gays showed up to protest. The reason this sign bugged me was because he used the equality symbol from a gay outreach association that I support and turned it into a derogatory slogan.

After the parade my good family friend Ronnie DelCarmen and Tess took my family and me to go see Ratatouille at Pixar!! It was an amazing treat and a great day. Not to mention that Rat was the most BEAUTIFUL movie Pixar has ever done!! Brilliant. Go see it! I'm for sure going to see it again in theaters.

Im not crazy about pencil rendering assignments....but I am about summer!

Zippy-News:
1) Got braces off!
2) Last day of school: TOMORROW!
3) Finished 2 big watercolor art pieces that will be displayed in some random bank (have to find it to snap photos of it)

Here was the tedious (and under-rendered) assignment

Self Portrait

Umbrella

"Favorite object in room" (yeaaah my superan statue!)

"Something Metal"

Detail shot (my amazing friend helped with this one)

Her artist parents say (in Chinese)
friends mom: "Paul made himself look 20 years older..."
friends dad: "Yes, just like how you make yourself look 20 years younger in your paintings"
haaaaaaaaa!

And here is a snip-it of the Night my friend and I missed the last BART ride home (stayed at this CD release party/ concert for too long) and had to stay in the city until 8AM. We walked around and stayed in 24 hour places until we got to the Ferry Building to watch the sunrise! ...Then finally fell asleep in the St. Regis Hotel like classy bums.

I love big open spaces

The adventure begins...

...and ends.