Weekly Drawing!

BEARS.


in other news, classes are going well. I'm in Stop Motion and Thesis 1 this time around for the art side. You'll probably see more russians as I work on my short thesis film about Varinka and Oskar. And for stop motion, i'm doing bears. Big fat ones.

coincidentally, the latter was the theme for this week on the weekly drawing group on facebook.

Look, it's awesome again

I hadn't realized this blog hadn't seen any sweet visual action since April 13th. Oops! Well, I've actually had a lot going on since then. I managed to get through finals, which is very exciting, but  sadly, my grandfather passed away as well, so i had to get back to Portland for the funeral. My mother said she put some of my artwork up on the bulletin board in his hospital room, which made him really happy, especially since it gave him a reason to talk to every doctor, nurse, anyone who came in his room. He was always a people person, so it was comforting for me to know I could at least be with him in that way, if i couldn't see him in person before he died.

I guess the good news is that now I have a bunch of stuff to put up. Here are some various layouts and background studies i did for my Siberian project:

The last four were rather fun, i did the black and white version first, and tried adding the color in photoshop using layers and blending modes. This technique definitely has it's pros and cons, but i really liked how the night color study came out.

And here is just some random sketchbook stuff, and life drawing. bowchickabowow.

That's all for now. I'll be posting a few animation samples up next, as soon as I figure out how to get them online. Also, there will probably be some more sketches and such up next week, after i go back to school and get to use some scanners. Check back soon!

just a little bit awkward

for a fun little exercise from http://design-a-character.deviantart.com/blog/31532325
i should really do more of these, they're great practice. I'm sure i could have pushed the designs a bit further, but i wasn't in the mood to think too hard.

Another true story

UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH.

Quite rusty.

After i filled up my last sketch book, i discovered that having not done much regular sketching outside of class has had me slowly but surely losing my confidence with drawing people. I bought myself a moleskin to try and get back into the swing of things...things are off to a rocky start, whoooo boy.

My life drawing has gotta a little stiff, i need to find some ways to loosen it up a bit.

Children's Book Illustration

Here are a couple of finished assignments from class. I had wanted to do space girl in traditional media, but i ran out of time after and was too behind in my other classes after i spent a week sick and thought it better to do it up photoshop for the sake of ever finishing it.

The aliens were fun to come up with.

EPIC FAIL and lesbian pirates.

lately I've been totally unproductive, either feeling too sick or too busy or just too tired to draw, except for a few attempts which are unfortunately the result of reading too many artists blogs, cold medicine and a whole lot of frustration.

I somehow think this happened because i read too much shoujo manga. Id like it to be, but I don't really think that is a valid excuse for all the anatomical fail happening in this image. But hey, cleavage.

More awkwardness and self-deprecation from anthropology class.

To summarize: