New website/blog

Wow it's been a while since I've been on here.
I'm not very active on here, but feel free to visit my website at
www.odera-igbokwe.com and my new art blog odera-igbokwe.tumblr.com !

Cheers,
Odera

Style & Substance

More work from this past semesterrrrr

Cinematic Storytelling

Work from Cinematic in the Fall

Colors Works

Some work from Color Works last emester

 

I've missed you.

I've been posting on my tumblr (odera-igbokwe.tumblr.com) alot recently, but I still really miss blogspot. So I' going to have to post everything I've done in the past year now haha.
It'll be great <3 ___ <3

Incomplete paintings~

In my free time during Wintersession I was exploring new ways to use acrylic paints, and this method explored underpainting to focus on strong value structure/hierarchies of light. And it really helped to separate value and color, not to mention I love moments when the underpaintings peak from beneath the painting (like the alazarin crimson coming through the viridian greens).

However in a rush to explore this type of painting, I created two pieces that are super generic for me that had....zero concept. I think the filenames say alot about the concepts (YELL AND STEAL MAH JEWEL.jpg and my favorite: I GOTTA JAR.pg) hahaaaaa xP
Not to mention it continued my pattern of super nebulous environments/figures floating in space/only showing from the torso up.

Heh, I'm a huge fan of atmosphere and such, but I feel like I need alot more clarity in my environments before I continue to ~nebulify~ them.
(Nebulify definitely isn't a word, but it's a Sailor Moon transformation/attack in the making :D~ )


Anyway there's alot of good stuff  for me to learn from these~ but I'm not sure if I'll be completing either of them. I do enjoy the two characters in I GOTTA JAR~! though :P
Also check out my superb anatomical skills in that clavicle of hers. . . x___x

C O L O R K E Y S

I've been trying to take things easier this spring semester, and I've been failing miserably.
For instance I'm currently on Spring Break, so I decided to stay and RISD and work on my portfolio/get my final internship applications out.

 My newest priority is developing environments, and really having strong figure ground relationships. So I did a few color keys~ each is done in acrylic (probably 3 x 5 or 4 x 6) with a few digital touchups~

 

These came out alot more successful than I anticipated. I think being on break and not stressing about them really helped me~also I discovered a method to working with acrylics that really makes sense to me and just ~frees me~ and helps me work in a faster~bold and efficient~ manner.