Tuesday, March 22, 2011

New Class Stuff

Here's my character sheet for Traditional Animation with my final Toucan design, Sauron. He's really friendly and sweet, so don't let the name fool you ;]


A symbolic art-movement based triptych (I chose Art Nouveau) we had to do for Communication Design. It was supposed to be abstract and some kind of ~*graphic design*~ but the assignment made no sense to anyone and was ABSOLUTELY RETARDED so I said pff I'm gonna do what I want and do an illustrative triptych instead of guessing what he wants and making some bs'd abstract crap that I hate doing. I have no regrets, lol. The metaphor is that life is like a flower, and the lanterns in each panel are souls, growing bright before dimming and being snuffed out.


An analogous still life for Color class. It looks so much better in person, but that's partly because it's not really a good photo, plus Blogspot always makes photos really bad quality |D

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Nudes, Toucans, and Flour Sacks

From now on I'll try to do more frequent updates with just a few things in each post instead of saving it all up and posting every few months |D

I've been making digital artwork for a long time but always stuck to lines/cartoonyish stuff, even though I've been wanting to try digital painting forever. So I finally did my first real attempt at digital painting in Photoshop. I have A LOT to learn, but it was fun
From March 18th, 2011


A few more quick Toucan sketches I did in class, plus a cockatoo because they're just as adorable qvq


Over spring break the homework in Traditional Animation was to do 100 silhouettes of your animal and experiment with shapes. Here's 100 Toucan shapes, LOL



And here's the flour-sack story animation I finished just before spring break. I'm pretty disappointed though, I want to change everything 8\

Monday, March 7, 2011

Already Spring Break

Sorry it took me so long to update, I was waiting to get back a few pieces from my Color teacher, but didn't end up getting them back.. oh well 8(

A few weeks ago in Traditional Animation we were told about an animal jump assignment we would get after spring break, but the teachers decided to give us our animals really early. I got a Toucan and was really excited to experiment with different ways of exaggerating them, so I sketched out a page of them the next day


A brightly colored still life


Had to paint the same still-life twice with the background color changed. I hate re-doing the same still-life over and over again ;_; You can tell which one is my second one from how much messier and half-assed it is lskdjfs


This was supposed to be done posterized-like, but I got lazy sldkfjsdf It was another still life we had to do twice 8(


An interior where we were supposed to choose a dominant warm or cool color and then use an opposing warm or cool color in a few objects. I did the Common Room 8) Our furniture moves around on a day-to-day basis haha. WHY DID THIS COME OUT BLURRY, FFF


I've been debating whether or not I should upload my digital illustrations here, because I see everyone else doing it on their art blogs. On one hand it'd be nice to show people other things I do, but at the same time I like keeping school art and personal art separated, and don't know if I feel comfortable showing more personal art, even though I like it better 8c IDK, maybe I can get some opinions?