Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Ohhhhhh Kenshin, I found you.....

Hello! I'm Caitlin Bohac, I am 22 years old and a 4th year Multimedia Design student at UW-Stout. Like (hopefully) most people, I'm really unsure of where I might be tomorrow, let alone in the next 10 years. So instead I'll just say that I would one day possibly hope to be working in character concept/development. And over the last 3 years I have developed with an obsession with form, particularly human, and food; not essentially in any order or combination. Also, especially in the last month, I have been working more and more with digital painting. I took Kevin Pontuti's Digital Painting class over Winterm this year and I was just as excited for it at the end as I was at the beginning. It was possibly one of the best classes I've taken here at Stout.
The reason I am taking Drawing 3, is to not only hone my skills with traditional mediums, but to hopefully focus on making this class like an extension of Life Drawing. But also after hearing Amy's overview of the class syllabus, I'm looking at this as an opportunity to develop some really strong portfolio pieces and possibly even help me choose a direction for Senior show that I will eventually have to take in the near future. I'm not entirely sure if I'm approaching this class with the right attitude, but I am looking at this class as more of an exploration.

Now for a little more of a less formal intro, I love animation and find it one of my greatest inspirations. I am absolutely nuts about food, both eating it and making it, which probably doesn't help my obsession with it. Some of my favorites include seafood of the crustacean variety, pierogi, and sushi. I love watching cooking shows too. I occasionally play video games in my spare time as well. Usually either The Sims (2 or 3) and Natsume's Harvest Moon. I love animals too, my newest muse is probably my most recent Christmas present, my little 6 month old grey tabby kitten. She's so sweet and amazing. But I have discovered that it's difficult to draw when she comes flying out of nowhere and steals the pencil out of your hand.

Some of my Life Drawing II/Digital Painting work: 
Character Concept: Mara Purrun
Character Concept: Elizabeth de Farris

Life Size Skeleton
Portrait: Jake Peters