Concept

Some concept art for a group film. Mainly more experimenting in photoshop though.

Loosely followed this tutorial
and I guess it came out okay. I really liked playing around with the textures, but I can't get his method of applying color. Tried to add some red and green here but it's really flat:

and the little girl is hard to see/doesn't quite match. eep.
oh well.

Detail:

Progression:

love

my inking is rusty...

doodled while watching Emma. I love Jane Austen films...
they always end in happy romance :)

sketch-y update

This is what my life consists of right now:



slideshows. oh, so many slideshows. I agreed to teach Art Week for Kid's Camp and most of the kids are so young...I have to make lessons colorful and interesting somehow. This is the only way I know how to make slideshows, anyway. I really have no idea how to utilize Powerpoint...I just draw everything in paint and paste it. takes forever, though.

As part of the shapes lesson I talked about silhouettes. I found this online (though I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere else before) and I thought it was awesome:


gah. so iconic and effective!
I was very sad that the kids didn't recognize Pinky and the Brain. :C I grew up in a better time...

Anyway, if there's anything Art Week has taught me, it's that candy is a powerful motivator.

Here's some random doodles. I've been trying to get some good illustrations done, but there's no time this week to just sit down and paint. oh well








^potential character for film project

Clearly, girls are more fun to draw than boys. Also I realize that I always draw girls with unnaturally long necks. They're practically giraffes.




wedding dress pigs. Still need to be inked. Here's the ref dress
The picture came out too grainy so i tried to make it look old.
Btw, if you're interested in this kind of stuff, this site is like the holy grail of victorian dress references.

Sorry for the ugly camera pics. My scanner is well and truly broken (r.i.p.) but I'm getting paid soon so it's time to go scanner shopping! (:

Going to see WALL-E tomorrow! (finally)



pros: watching at the el capitan, which is apparently Wall-eed out
cons: going with a group of 50 kids.

hm.

Paintings

something non-digital for a change (:

old life painting warm/cool studies:





decorative paintings for fun:








seasonal! i'm supposed to paint bamboo on these but i got a little carried away. hmmmmm.





the blue is definitely too bright in the pictures. vile lighting!

Weekend Dump!

Run and hide!
....it's another edition of Old, OLD art (:

besides mazes and board games, I also used to like drawing outrageous treehouses. totally impractical dream dwellings that had game rooms, tv rooms and an ample food storage. I actually named them, too!:


The Eye House (...natch)


I think this one was the Dog House


The Security House o_o

hahhaaa yea right.

I have so much old art stored away because I thought that when teachers said "don't throw anything away!" there was actually a good reason for it. Of course now I know that potential employers would definitely not want to see my 6 year old scribblings, but it's still fun to look back.


I see this as proof of the saying that art is 10% talent 90% practice (or something like that).


6 yrs. present

horses. seriously the most difficult thing to draw when you're a kid. their back legs had me stumped for the longest time.

and to make up for all of that:




and a bunnie!

Gone for the weekend!

For You

it'll work out (:

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

hee, i got lazy toward the end.

oodles of doodles

...just kidding. just twodles.



errg. in progress. still trying to find a nice painting style in photoshop. I've just started getting into working with the brushes so it's still a learning experience, but I can't seem to get a nice smooth blend. I think I have something like makani's style in mind, but I'll probably experiment with some other methods.



and an ugly tiger doodled during a meeting. I'd just listened to the playoff game, so I think I had basketball on the mind.


verrrry frustrating. I think it's time to go back to traditional for a little bit.

i think i miss having assignments. i feel like that's when i'm a little more motivated, when i'm working creatively within certain guidelines. that's why i would be a good cog. haha