Caricatures

On Wednesday I have about a 3.5 hour wait between my last two classes of the day. So I decided to do some caricatures. One of a friend that took 30-45 mins and one of my wife 1-2 hours. I think ill be trying to do more caricatures in the future :-).

 

Jazz poster for school

Just got done with my jazz poster for my Illustrator class. It is not the typical jazz poster, with tons of color. I wanted to do something different that would attempt to get into or onto peoples minds lol so I made a Rorschach Inkblot test. This is the finished product of that crazy idea.  Hope you enjoy and hope you see jazz in this little inkblot of mine. :-)

Finished Big Jelly

  I decided to finish my big Jellyfish Drawing that I Started a few weeks back. It was the one that I posted about 2 posts back. Funny how it was just ment to be a quick few minute doodle to pre-occupy me before a class and turned into a multi hour piece. All I need now is a matte cutter. I have a bunch of pieces that I need to get matted. Hope you enjoy here it is.

 

O and along with this art piece I have used a new updated version of my signature. The usual MR initials, date, and now my right pointer finger finger print.  

Last Minute Digital Painting

So we had this Digital Painting project that is actually do tomorrow or actually today being its almost 1 in the morning....couldn't figure out what I wanted to draw and by the time I did it was to late to try some tutorials to help me get to where I wanted to be....so I did a Self Portrait....and here it is....hope you all enjoy lol.

what you missed while off line

  So I finally have a internet connection once more, which makes me very happy. Ive actually been much more busy then I thought I would be. Lately Ive had this thing about drawing jellyfish. Its all the curves and fluid motion that makes them appealing. That and all the fun colors.
   I also organized all my loose drawing into one large sketch book. So this is all I have for now, please enjoy the drawings. :-)

So I felt like drawing something one night. Anything at all it just had to be something fun and quick, Not taking up much time or becoming a large multi-day project. So I grabbed some markers and this is what came out. Not what I expected or was shooting for at first but it was pretty fun just drawing some randomness.

This was the next thing I did lately while the net was down. This is only two pages out of 37 at the moment in a sketchbook in which I taped all my loose sketches into. I noticed that whenever I showed my drawings to people they never looked through the stack of drawings laying all about but instead just the ones organized into pages. Now people will be able to see all those sketches that do not have a sketchbook to call their own and that they have missed.

While putting together all my loose sketches I came across this old doodle that I did with some paint. Its only about 3 inches by 5 give or take but I really liked it, looking back on it. So I decided that I would maybe try and make a larger scale painting of these jellyfish sometime, same style and everything.

Thinking of doing a painting of Jellyfish, I started to make a few fun sketches.  I really started to enjoy all the curves I could make while designing these jellyfish. Once Color came into the picture I was hooked. I think jellyfish are my new favorite thing to draw. Earlier today Mychiel (my wife) had to pry me from the TVs at Best Buy because they where showing some diving with jellyfish lol. They really are fun to watch move.

Yesterday while waiting for my evening drawing class to start I didn't feel like doing any homework so I pulled out a large piece of paper and started to draw a large jellyfish much like one in my sketchbook. This is as far as I have gotten so far with it. I am Dying to color it in now and maybe draw another one slightly further back but unfortunately I probably wont be able to work again on it till next Tuesday. I have Drill for National Guard starting tomorrow and come Sunday when I get back Ill be rushing to get all that homework done that is due Monday, that I didn't do earlier because I was drawing jellyfish lol. When I get it done I will post it.

That is the majority of things that I have been up to lately. Once school starts rolling I will Have some School Projects to start posting. As far as any plans in the wood works I will be working on.....I have tons, as well as a few Business projects that Will need my attention. One being the following up of my Purple Sharks for the Womens Rugby team, Two some graphic novel like illustration for a short story, and three getting my dad his business cards I made for him.  One of my top personal projects will be to get a website and business cards made up for myself so I can hopefully start getting some more jobs. Anyways its really late and I have to get to drill tomorrow. Until next time later everyone.

O and here is my dads Business card I made him. Im hoping it'll look pretty snazy once printed out.

Old Work

   So this will probably be the last post in awhile or least a month or more. Mychiel and I are in the middle of moving and I start classes again in 2 days.
   As I was moving stuff out I came across some old art behind a recliner, that I had done last year, some my first year in college in 2005,  and some from way back when I was in 8-9th grade. I apologize for the bad photography I just took some quick pics with my phone before continuing on with my packing. Hope you enjoy them.

Self Portraits I did last Fall semester. Graphite drawing on left and adobe illustrator on the right.

Top is done in color pencil a few years back. Kinda a post apocalyptic theme. Bottom Left Was done last Fall Semester. Short comic drawn then colored in Illustrator. Bottom Right Was a project I had to do for class in 2005. Its done with acrylic paint.

Two top ones are Acrylic Paint Way back in High school and the bottom one was a graphic design project for college in 2005.

Some photos I took for an Intro to photography class I took last Fall semester

Really old drawing from post to early high school.

Another Really old drawing from post to early high school time.  

 Post high school to early high high school. Tons and tons of little details. the photograph really doesn't show it well. Back in the day when I had more patience and just loved all the clutter.

Womens Rugby T-shirt Design

Ok so I finally got some mock up pics of what my t-shirt designs would look like, if printed, for the Womens Rugby team in Missoula. I may need to design another being that it is not exactly what they asked for but this is what I have so far.

These are the images I designed For shirt designs.

1 project down

Just a lazy day. Wishn I was fishing but ended up staying in today working on a few things. Its crazy trying to get things ready for school again and everything else that is going on in life At the moment. I did manage to get my one doodle done today. I always look at things afterwords and think I should add more but I think I'm done and ready to move onto my other projects now. Here it is. Hope you like it.

Current Projects Im working on

     So Im still plugging away at learning to draw cartoon expressions and caricatures but its kinda been put on hold along with my short one page pirate comic. Im currently working on a few shirt designs for Missoula Betterside Womens Rugby team and just a little side doodle i started.

Heres some of my my pre design drawings for the Rugby shirts that Im working on.

My Random doodle Im in the middle of. Marker and pen

 Heres the first panel of my one page pirate Comic.

So that Is what im working on ATM these three projects and learning how to draw cartoon expressions/caricatures

First Post

      So this is my first Blogger post. Not sure if I'm suppose to throw confetti or something to mark this life changing occasion or what lol. I thought it might be a good place to post stuff I make, at least until I have a website of my own up. When that will be.....I haven't a Clue...sometime this year I hope.

     What do I make You may be asking yourself.....well I have no specialty yet but what I am shooting for is doing a mixture of digital art/painting and traditional drawings or paintings.....o and maybe ceramics.....and whatever else I might make....basically I just like trying things that allow me to make other things. ATM my two main weapons of choice are Photoshop and Pencils. As far as subject matter goes....anything and everything....I would really love to be a concept artist / illustrator / graphic designer / art professor. 

     I doodle here and there and throw a few things around in photoshop but I do not have enough finished pieces yet to have much of a portfolio....though I've been told otherwise lol.

   My main goals this year are

• Get a website up
• Design and Print off My own Buisness cards
• Start doing more Graphic design /  illustrator jobs 
• learn more fun things In adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Develop my graphic design and digital art skills more as well as my drawing skills (at least by 50%)

If I can accomplish these things Ill be happy. If I accomplish more Ill be ecstatic :-)

Ill start Off by posting an Older project I did and a newer idea I was playing around with the other day. Maybe even those simple school locker name cards. Please do not use any of my stuff without first asking, thank you.

photoshop

All Work © Micah Rauch 2010

This is an older piece that I was pretty happy with. I found a tutorial I really wanted to do that involved molding smoke around forms and this is what I later used that nifty new technique for :-)

photoshop

All Work © Micah Rauch 2010

I wanted to figure out how to make a graffiti stencil look and this is what I came up with in about 15 minutes. Think I will have to play with this idea a little further later on and make some cool digital stencils. 

illustrator / hand drawn

All Work © Micah Rauch 2010

 
I made this for my mom who is a kindergarten teacher. Its a Name Plate card for the kids lockers. They are doing a kangaroo theme to bring in the new school season.