Summer Vacation

SO updating more frequently didn't quite work out when the last few weeks suddenly got really busy |D But I'm out now! School finished a couple days ago and I'm back in San Diego 8) This is the first summer I'm actually staying home and not going away on vacation, so I have a WHOLE lot of plans and things to do including a Rammstein concert, Comic-con for 3 days, an Owl City concert, and lots and lots of art and videogames yessss. I'm glad to be on vacation, but I miss Ringling and all my peoples already 8( I can't wait to be a sophomore, SO MUCH EXCITEMENT.

Here's my Toucan jump animation


Some little warm-up sketches


A still life we did a color wash over. The photos are a little blurry because my camera is dying and having problems focusing


My character model sheet for the exaggerated character walk animation for TA 1. I would post the animation except it's just one walk-cycle so it has to loop, and Youtube and Vimeo both won't let it loop without a pause between re-plays 8\


A quick day-and-night color study


Another really quick color study


I'll still be posting arts over the summer, though it probably won't be too frequently. I'll definitely make a sketch-dump for sketchbook pages though! Hope all your summer vacations are awesome! 8)

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

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\

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?

Winter Update Part 2

As promised, here's the second part of the gesture dump c8 These are all from November/December.

Most of these are 30 second to 1 minute gestures. There's a few random clothed models in there too, from the day the model was double-booked and didn't show up and we had students model haha. The stool pose at the very bottom cracked me up, he just suddenly collapsed onto it and I died lsdkfjs



And then here's another self-portrait with my earflap hat I always wear everyday during the fall and winter |D I had to do 3 self-portraits in 4 days, so I ended up just doing the first two that were for Figure Drawing, and then turning the first one in again for my Drawing class LOL.