Erin Schwaner

Diptych Exploration

2011-04-18T13:57:00.001-07:00

Playing with an older piece.

Red Carpet Redux

2011-04-15T17:55:00.000-07:00

Quickly "restyling" her look

Scarab Shirt

2011-04-05T19:32:00.001-07:00

Freshly painted Scarab shirt for sale!

Figure Work

2011-04-01T00:48:00.001-07:00

Acrylic paintings done in 2.5 hrs in front of a live model

Placida Seafood Festival

2011-04-01T00:47:00.000-07:00

Prints I recently sold at the Placida Seafood Festival

Coming Home

2011-04-01T00:45:00.001-07:00

Personal oil painting about a drive I used to make quite frequently

Fashion Sketch

2010-12-12T18:30:00.000-08:00

Eek! A Tentacle Monster!

2010-10-28T17:28:00.001-07:00

This piece was produced for the 2010 Ringling College Illest of Illustration show book.I collaborated with the artist Kaleb Hazen on the whole piece, with both of us sharing work on the concept, thumbnailing, drawing, and rendering. Over all I feel like it was a successful piece, and very much enjoyed the collaboration.

More Fashion Sketches

2010-09-11T13:51:00.001-07:00

...Long story about my computer, and printer/scanner stopping working, and moving again. I'm having to take a long break from my Russell Brand african space jesus painting. I'm very sad about this :(

Vogue Sketch

2010-07-17T19:37:00.000-07:00

I was looking through a back issue of Vogue and this image inspired me. mix media

Final Color Study

2010-07-14T23:46:00.000-07:00

All thats left is to traditionally execute the piece. I can't wait!

Final Value Study for Aldous Snow

2010-07-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Final Thumbnail

2010-07-06T18:52:00.001-07:00

Final thumbnail to a promotional illustration I should have finished before next week sneaks up. It is inspired by the Aldous Snow quote from Get Him to the Greek "...white African Jesus from space". Thanks to the artist Kaleb Hazen for suggesting it.

Sketches and Studies

2010-07-05T15:13:00.000-07:00

Work in Progress

2010-07-05T15:08:00.000-07:00

Carbonmade

2010-03-14T13:48:00.000-07:00

Working on a Carbonmade portfolio, check it out!

www.ErinSchwaner.carbonmade.com

Skechin

2010-03-03T19:56:00.001-08:00

Coconut Crabs

2010-03-01T00:52:00.000-08:00

Illest of Ill

2010-01-27T14:59:00.001-08:00

So this post is beyond over due, but these tw0 pieces were excepted to the 2009 Illest of Illustration show from Ringling College of Art and Design

St.Kitts and Nevus

2010-01-26T11:26:00.000-08:00

Hand Colored Prints

2009-12-09T15:48:00.000-08:00

These are hand colored black and white prints on watercolor paper, water colored and then color pencil on top

Early Thesis Work

2009-11-20T12:53:00.001-08:00

Wheres the Love

2009-10-13T18:43:00.000-07:00

Illustration of Courtney Love, not sure if I'm done yet, but I thought I would through it up.

Dead Fashion

2009-09-23T13:12:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple rough sketches for the alternative fashion illustrations I'm currently working on inspired by A Perfect circle's album Mer de Noms

Botanical Illustration

2009-08-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

rough layout for a botanical piece, critts are welcome

2009-08-08T18:14:00.001-07:00

After shock of Illustration academy

2009-07-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

This summer I was part of the Illustration Academy. It was one of the most intense experiences I have ever had, my brain is still trying to process everything I learned. I'm having a hard time even sitting down and sketching with everything rattling around in my head. Here are a couple older sketches from the school year

Crit Please!

2009-06-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

A work in progess study of Caroline, I know I want to push the eye socket back more, and get rid of the harsh devision between her face and neck, but please crit!

Sketches

2009-06-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

Train my Brain!

2009-06-09T13:05:00.000-07:00

Our first Assignment at the Illustration Academy. I'm not going to say anything about it except that on the right is my final value and color study, tell me what u think!

Coming to an End

2009-05-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

Grave-Oil

2009-05-05T17:19:00.000-07:00

Fashion Illustrations

2009-04-10T08:43:00.000-07:00

Working on some fashion style illustrations for my media class, this one is watercolor with digital texture on it to make it look aged, let me know what you think, crits are ALWAYS welcome

ANTS! ...new camera!

2009-04-04T13:16:00.001-07:00

So the internet seems to desaturate this photo, but I got a REAL camera today and am super excited so I took a bunch of pictures of ants which I am deathly afraid of

Best of Ringling

2009-03-24T23:26:00.001-07:00

So I am very very excited that this year I got into the Best of Ringling show that was jurried by Sean Barber if you don't know his work he is definatly worth checking out! The piece of mine that made it in was Jaimee, its a great feeling to get into Best of Ringling because it was my goal for the year!

Geisha Girl

2009-03-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

Another piece I am still currently working on, done with the figure but I am very unhappy with the shadow and also plan to add in some kind of out of focus background, if anyone has any ideas or crits feel free to comment!

Jaimee

2009-03-20T17:11:00.000-07:00

Portrait of my boyfriend's, roommate's girlfriend, done in oils

Tool Converse

2009-03-11T23:56:00.001-07:00

I ordered costum converse off line in the color pallett of the Tool verve ending logo. I then painted and sealed the logo for my boyfriends birthday. "Embrace whatever may come."~ Maynard James Keenan

I Scream You Scream, "We all Hate Self Portraits"!!!!

2009-01-14T09:07:00.000-08:00

This is my Advanced Media class "48 hour ink self portrait with lunch". I swear that is how I look all the time (private breeze and everything) when I eat ice cream.

Sketch Book Cover

2009-01-11T00:22:00.001-08:00

Got alot of sketch book work done over the break and some great ideas for paintings, this is one of the covers I did, trying to play around with Much's style, I know it has some problems but it was fun to just go at

Life Size Eyes

2008-12-11T18:28:00.000-08:00

I did these over Thanksgiving break for fun. I enjoyed it so much I plan to do a whole series of mini body parts. They are 2.5"x3.5" and 3"x3" inches done in oil

Digital Illustration~Promotional Piece

2008-12-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

I guess its about time I put up some digital stuff I work hours and hours on a sailboat for the assignment then last minute did this piece of Charli. I like it alot better, I think it is more illustrat-y. It was fun to play with that much color

Amelia

2008-12-04T08:26:00.001-08:00

An ink painting of my little sister's best friend Amelia, I have known her since she was four, boy has she grown into a beautiful young woman. I still have some things to fix on it but I just really felt like putting it up, took alot of careful layers

Lil' Monkey

2008-11-26T14:12:00.000-08:00

Portrait of my little brother done in ink line and splatters, and white acrylic for the highlights.

30 Portraits in 30 Days

2008-11-10T22:23:00.000-08:00

Watercolor my friend Charli

Color pencil on construction paper

Acrylic washes on watercolor board

Some of my 30 portraits in 30 different mediums done in 30 days (all 12x12)

Sketch book dump

2008-11-10T22:10:00.000-08:00

Just a few things from the summer and some life studies from this school year out of my sketchbook. Mediums used : gouche, brush tip markers, ink, inkwash, prismacolor erase colored pencils, and graphite

Portrait Class

2008-11-10T22:02:00.001-08:00

Oil study on unprimed wood I found on my way to class, painted in about an hour

Oil study on masonite, done in a couple hours

Oil Study on gessoed illustration board, done in about an hour

Michelle

2008-10-24T22:27:00.000-07:00

Two oil paintings I did at a large scale.

Sea Bitch

2008-10-24T22:15:00.000-07:00

My first digital Illustration! It was accepted and currently hanging in the Tata Galla

Self Portrait

2008-10-14T22:22:00.000-07:00

as much as I hate to have to paint or draw myself I feel like this one came out pretty well done in 3 or 4 hours