Speedpaint Week 8

It is week 8 already, and we have NOT fallen off the wagon!! XD

First, thanks to Jeff and Nick for taking over the speedpaints. We are changing up the structure of the sketch challenges slightly in order to up the difficulty of these challenges. We'll still rotate between our list of concept art categories, but we will all try to add more elements to each painting; for example, a prop or a creature should be included with a character.
This week's topic was either to paint a knight or the European folklore character Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is basically a witch-like old lady with metal teeth that flies around woodlands on a giant mortar and kidnaps children as a hobby. She also lives in a hut that for some reason stands on chicken legs. Though she is usually a stock antagonist, sometimes she is consulted by heroes for her wisdom too. Amazing job again, everyone!

Also, our website header is finally up! Hopefully it's a nice showcase of how far we've come this quarter and how hard we kick ass in general ;)

Annick Huber

Jeff Yu

Nick Palmer

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Lily Cho

Speedpaint Week 7

This was an exceptionally hectic week for everyone, since the actual meeting was cancelled in addition to it overlapping with some school events; but it's nothing to worry about! I know a few people are still catching up to their Week 7 speedpaints, so we'll look forward to seeing those, and thanks for everyone who is still sending in stuff.

The topic this time was "Dragons blowing up in any time or place". 

Club meeting changes!

Hey guys, just to keep everyone updated, seeing as many students were out of town or sick, the meeting this Friday was canceled. Also, since I have just started a new job and can't get back to SCAD until at least 7PM on Fridays, I regrettably won't be available to run speedpaint challenges anymore.
I believe that either Nick or Jeff have mentioned that they could take over the Friday meetings; nomatter who ends up taking charge of it, we can still continue to get together every Friday and paint. I will still head to SCAD as soon as I'm off work to collect the speedpaints, and I'll continue to moderate this blog.

Sorry for the sudden change, guys! These speedpaints have been a great experience for me, and I'm sure we have all visibly improved because of them. I really hope we won't fall off just because it's the end of the quarter.

With that said, meeting or not, we still have a painting topic this week!! We are doing creatures, and the subject is "Dragons blowing up in any time period or setting". Everyone will have until next Friday to draw something. Lets continue to blow this shit up (pun intended), guys! ;)

-Irene

Speedpaint Week 6

Hey all! We were sadly missing a few people, but still got a load of smashing submissions. Since it is week 6, we're starting the topic cycle over again. Our subject today was a "futuristic, underwater military transport going to war".

Remember if anyone wants to touch up this weeks challenge, you still have a week! Thanks guys.

Max Currie

Jerrell Drakes

Chris Lane

Irene Strychalski

Nick Zamudio

Jeff Yu

Keren Philosophales

Jeremy Cropp

Speedpaint Week 5

Congratulations on Concept Art Factory for making it to week 5!

And congrats to everybody at SCAD for surviving midterms too. This is the halfway point of the quarter, and I think we're at a great spot.

This week we did our mega mashup challenge, a character in a full environment, with the extended time limit of 3 hours. The discussions we went through to decide the subject were pretty entertaining, lol :D We finally settled on "Futuristic Biotech-driven Aztec city (with or without aliens)".  Thanks again for the great submissions! Also, since this challenge is a cumulative of everything we've learned so far, I'm planning on putting everyone's week 5 piece together for the blog header next week. So if you would like to retouch the painting more before it goes up, DO IT FAST!

Nick Palmer

Lily Cho

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Chris Lane

Annick Huber

Blog problems

Hey guys, just confirming with everyone that the blog is working and fine. I know that it apparently disappeared for a day or so on Sunday (April 24th), and Blogspot displayed the blog as having been removed. After I signed into the club account today to see what was up, the blog miraculously reappeared again. Our URL is the same and our posts are all present. I don't know what happened, but lets just hope it's a one-time glitch and we won't have any more trouble!

Irene

Speedpaint Week 4!

Thanks again guys!

This week we did something a little different since the topic was environments. Thanks to everyone who showed up, even though I know that with midterms coming up lots of us are smothered with work!
The theme was "Cheerful 1700s palace airbourne by ballons", with the exact culture and technology of the environment up for everyone to choose on their own.

Also, please note that WE ARE CHANGING MEETING TIMES! Since there are several clubs right before us and we don't really start work until 6:00, we'll just meet at 6 instead, so the meetings should end around 8.

Annick Huber

Jeff Yu

Lily Cho

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Nick Palmer

Chris Lane

Jerrell Drakes