June 30, 2010
Year: 2010
Medium: Graphite, colored pencil
Format: 5″ x 8″ moleskine journal, 2 page spread
Copyright © 2010 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2010 to Present, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
November 25, 2009
Year: 2009
Medium: Graphite, red and black india ink, colored pencil
Format: 5″ x 8″ moleskine journal, 2 page spread
Copyright © 2009 Berta C. Roebuck
Detail
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Ink.
November 25, 2009
Year: 2009
Medium: Graphite, india ink, colored pencil
Format: 5″ x 8″ moleskine journal, 2 page spread
Copyright © 2009 Berta C. Roebuck
Detail
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Ink, Journal Pages.
November 25, 2009
Year: 2009
Medium: Graphite, acrylic, colored pencil
Format: 5″ x 8″ moleskine journal, 2 page spread
Copyright © 2009 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Ink, Journal Pages.
September 4, 2009
Title: ‘Black Crow’
Year: 2009
Medium: India ink, graphite, colored pencil
Format: 11″ x 14″
Details: For sale, original and prints
Copyright © 2009 Berta C. Roebuck
Detail
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Ink.
May 1, 2009
Year: 2009
Medium: Final: Digital, Adobe InDesign. Original Illustration: India ink, graphite, colored pencil
Format: 8.5″ x 11″
Class: Typography I (CDES 334) at Chico State
Details: Résumé, focused on my art background
Copyright © 2009 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Graphite, Ink.
November 5, 2008
Title: ‘Deep Blue’
Year: 2008
Medium: Graphite, colored pencil
Format: appr. 7″ x 10″
Detail
Copyright © 2008 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite.
August 6, 2008
Title: Ad studies
Year: 2007
Medium: Prismacolor markers, ink pens, black and white colored pencils
Class: Graphic Visualization (CDES 333) at CSU, Chico
Sources: Clinique and L’oréal advertisements from the magazine Real Simple
Details: These are hand-drawn illustrations traced from magazine advertisements. The idea was to learn how to quickly comp out ads using mainly marker, trying to keep the time under one hour each piece.
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Marker.
August 1, 2008
Title: Visual Timekeeper
Year: 2007
Medium: Pen, colored pencil
Format: approximately 5″ x 5″
Details: I drew this as a Christmas present for my brother-in-law. He loves to play the drums and his alias is Visual Timekeeper, denoted by the hourglass inside of the pupil.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Ink.
August 1, 2008
Title: Mystery Folding Card
Year: 2002
Medium: Colored Pencil, Ink Pen
Format: approximately 4″ x 6″ each
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Copyright © 2002 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Ink.
July 25, 2008
Title: Drawing from 1989, no.2
Year: 1989
Medium: Colored Pencil
Details: Drawn when I was 9 or 10 years old. I’m pretty sure this drawing was done in just graphite originally, and that it was my niece, Jessica, who added the colored pencil when she was 8 or 9 years old about 10 years later. Gotta give credit where it’s due! :)
Copyright ©1989 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 1988 to 1989, Colored Pencil, Drawings.
July 25, 2008
Title: Drawing from 1989, no.1
Year: 1989
Medium: Colored Pencil
Details: The drawing on the left I did when I was 9 years old. The drawing on the right my mom drew of me while I was drawing the one on the left. :)
Copyright ©1989 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 1988 to 1989, Colored Pencil, Drawings.
January 22, 2008
Year: 2007
Medium: Pigment liner (.01 and .03 mostly), colored pencil
Format: approximately 6″ x 8″ or 6″ x 9″ each
etails: These are drawings I did for three of my close friends for Christmas/New Years. We had decided to make “admire statements” for each other, implemented in whatever way we chose to do so, instead of spending money. What a a great idea! The idea came from my friend Jamie Varon, and she wrote about it in this post. What I chose to do for my pieces is use a common quote in each of the pieces and incorporate words which I felt described each of their characters (which you may or may not be able to make out in the images below). I had no idea what I was drawing for each going in to them. They just sort of… happened. And I love how they turned out!
I chose this particular quote because each of my friends are experiencing great changes in their lives, and I wanted a way to express that friendship is important, no matter the distance between the friends. Here it is in type, in case you can’t read it in the drawings…
“Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we are not all still friends.” - author unknown
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Ink.
December 28, 2007
Title: ‘Red Enchanting’
Year: 2007
Medium: Colored pencils, ink pens, ink wash
Format: 6″ x 9″
Details: My first attempt at an abstract…
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Ink, Ink Wash.
November 28, 2007
Title: Wine Corkscrew
Year: 2007
Medium: Prismacolor markers, black and white colored pencils, ink pens, graphite, Adobe Photoshop CS3 (final)
Format: 11″ x 17″
Class: Graphic Visualization (CDES 333) at CSU, Chico
Details: For this assignment we had to redesign a common household object or appliance. The final was to be a comprehensive rendering of our idea, printed out digitally in color on 11″ x 17″ paper. It had to include a title, a short description, images of the product in use, elevations (“flat” renderings of the product), and possible other colors (optional). For the final digital composition I scanned, and then layered in Photoshop, pieces of the studies I had done (displayed at the bottom of this post) instead of re-illustrating the combined items by hand.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Here are the studies that I did for this piece. Click on any of the thumbnails below to view a larger image.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Digital, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Ink, Marker.
November 13, 2007
Title: ‘Trash Collect-igator’
Year: 2007
Medium: Prismacolor markers (30%, 50%, and 70% cool greys), black and white colored pencils, ink pens
Format: 11″ x 15″
Class: Graphic Visualization (CDES 333) at CSU, Chico
Details: For this assignment we had to create a robot that could perform a typical household chore. I think mine is pretty self-explanatory, complete with the end of it’s tail being a step for opening the mouth wider… or lifting the trash lid in terms of a real trash can.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Ink, Marker.
September 25, 2007
Title: Untitled
Year: 2007
Medium: Pen, Colored Pencil
Format: appr. 5″ x 6″
Source: The martini glass I drew from memory, but I got the idea for the flowers from Web Designer Wall
Details: This is what I came up with for a friend who wanted me to draw an invitation to a party she was hosting
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Colored Pencil, Ink.
July 15, 2007
Title: ‘Self-Portrait, Age 28′, In progress v.1 and v.2
Year: 2007
Medium: Colored Pencil, Graphite, Charcoal Pencil
Format: 17″ x 14″
In-progress, version 2
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
In-progress, version 1
Categories: 2005 to 2009, Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphite, Works-in-Progress.
