no school! no rules!

Hooray! I am done with this crazy semester! I am so excited for next school year too, because I will be working as the new illustrator for the school newspaper! I cant' wait. 

I am waiting on all of my finals to get graded and handed back before I can show you guys all that junk... I mostly just want to do a huge blog post filled with cool pages from the 2 sketchbooks I had to keep this semester. But until then, here are a couple things to keep you occupied, cuties!

 

This was my final for my drawing for illustration class. Our prompt was "frog prince" and we could interpret that however we wanted to. I decided to draw a baby frog prince (I know, he should be a tadpole, but look at how cute his weird legs are!) I was really proud of the way this one turned out. Ink will always and forever be my favorite medium!

 

Here is some weird sketchbook stuff from my personal sketchbook. I drew a cat in a fire... kind of dark. Sorry (but not that sorry)...

 

...and here is a creepy girl with what appears to be a dog nose. I was just having fun with exaggeration in the figure and got a little carried away. 

Well, I am excited to be posting regularly, and I will keep you guys updated on my Etsy shop stuff! Thank you for all your support through such a crazy semester! 

much love

xoxox

cheers,

ashley 

a quick post!

Guys! I am so excited for summer... you have no idea! :D I've got so many fun plans... I just can't wait. This week is finals, so next week I will have some fun stuff to show you guys. Until then, here is a couple things I did this week and one of my finals.

  

So here is a detail shot of the final I turned in for my advanced figure drawing class. I did a caricature of the Beatles... Ringo is just showing the other 3 a song he wrote... and they aren't super excited about it. I am okay with the way it turned out for a final, but once I get it back with a grade, I am going to fix a couple things, including Paul and George's faces. Then I am planning on selling prints! I am sure I will post this again with revisions in the near future!

 

This is a quick cartoon I did of my friend Ruth... doesn't look too much like her, but I still enjoy the way it turned out! :)

 

And just for fun, here are the easter eggs my family made :) super weird, right?

cheers,

ashley fairbourne

almost done, but not quite.

Woah! This semester is killing me. But it's almost over! Apologies for the lack of posts as of late. I cannot stop thinking about all of my plans for summer! I am going to be setting up my Etsy store, doing tons of commissions, and starting a few side projects! tee hee! I am so excited to get things moving... I am also debating whether or not to get a booth at Salt Lake Comic Con this September... who knows! But I will keep you guys posted for sure :D

  

This was done for class... its a collage that we painted over with acrylics. I call it "Leather Head."

This was for the same acrylics class. We had to do a gesso transfer (if you are interested in a tutorial, I would love to show you all how it works! It's super easy and I could see it being useful with crafting!) I had pretty high hopes for this one, and it mostly ended up looking like an ad for Ray-Bans. 

This last one was done by my friend Alex. He drew me. Don't I look good?

cheers,

ashley

one more month!

Here I am! Hello!

It was Spring Break last week, so I decided to take a break from life and school and just chill out and watch a ton of movies. 

Still waiting to hear if I made it into the Illustration program! I should know by the end of the week (let's hope so!) But in other news...I've only got about a month left of this semester until SUMMER! What?! So excited about, dudes.

We've been doing facial expressions and caricatures in my advanced figure drawing class, so if you follow me on instagram, I am sure you have seen most of these! Lets see if you can guess who these peeps are! Ill give you a treat (just kidding it will just be a smiley emoticon).

 

So that's been fun! I also found a bee outside my house the other day.. poor dude was frozen solid.

Here are my portraits for the week! We had to do textured surfaces... I really enjoy textured paintings... I had the most fun with the first painting of the girl with blue-green hair. The bottom left reminds me of Frankenstein haha.

Finally, I just wanted to show you guys the gorgeous necklace my friend made! She has an Instagram (@orbit_pluto) so you should follow her if you want some awesome crystal jewelry! She ships! And if you live in the Provo area, she is going to be selling them at Unhinged within the next few months hopefully!

cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne

the most tired human.

What in the world happened to me? Oh, well first off, I moved. Second, school is the craziest thing. 

BUT SPRING BREAK IS NEXT WEEK! WOO!

So hello! Glad to be back in the groove of things... quick update: my new house is cool. still settling in, though. Attempting to catch up in school and producing a lot of work. But most importantly -- I am turning in my portfolio tomorrow to see if I get into the illustration program! Send good vibes my way/cross your fingers/wish me luck/whatever it is you do!

I am so excitedly nervous.

 

One of the pieces from my acrylics class this week. We had to do implied textures, which basically means it looks like it has texture, but if you touch it, it really doesn't. I did this one with hydrogen peroxide.

 

I did this one with salt and some oats (haha)... it was really fun to experiment with different items to see what they would do to the paint.

 

Just a quick fashion sketch for my sketchbook...I have been really into stripes lately. I'm pretty sure I've said that on multiple occasions... but whatever.

And lastly, I had to do a children's book illustration-type painting for my figure drawing class... I had a lot of fun with this. I think I might tweak the grass so that it is a different color, but for now, I am extremely pleased with how it turned out! :D

cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne