Star in a Jam Jar Illustration

Super Update

2010-08-17T10:08:00.001-07:00

Hello All. Haven't written in a bit due to various factors, that being having recently graduated and getting diagnosed with diabetes. Not to worry, its (mostly) under control, going to lots of appointments, etc.

Anyway, I recently did a T shirt design for my boyfriend's birthday, heres the design:
After some Adobe magic this is what the image looks like. On the shirt it looks a bit weird but I used a service to turn it into a shirt anyway... regardless my image is on a shirt and its awesome!!

Shirt pics coming soon~

Do you sweat when you die

2009-09-07T10:15:00.001-07:00

This is some random thought I had when i was looking at the work of Brad Neely.

I love that man; he draws ugly as fuck but I love the sincerity in his work. Oh and 10+ points for being hilarious.

I guess this may be a precursor to my eventual insanity. WHATEVER WORKS!!

Character of the NOW - Ghost Knight, Klaudas

2009-06-05T18:19:00.000-07:00

Ah, heres Klaudas, ghost knight doomed to walk a forbidden castle (which castle? I dont know yet...). But anyway, here he is. I made him up a year ago i think... while I was taking this class about King Arthur related literature.

I dont have many (if any..?) ghost characters, so I like him alot. Even if i like him i havent given much thought to how he completely looks, so i took some time to plan him out a little bit. I had some trouble with his armor, and had to edit some of my original ideas, but Im almost there. He still needs some tweaking, though.

I want to end up with a final, color character render. I know the colors and the pose, etc etc I just have to get his final design down :B

More sketches to come (hopefully)

Radcliffe Studies

2009-05-23T18:05:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, I sat down to doodle this character. He's one of my favorites and hes always great to draw even if it was a little hard... his hat bugged me alot).

Ill talk a bit about him before getting into my lengthy discussion: I sat down to do this because... hes one of my more compelling characters. The way I drew him here, i think it demonstrates how I draw, its super loose but it tightens up after a while. My mind usually fills in the blanks with the looser ones, so i dont spend more time on them but you can tell where i really payed attention to detail. If it looks animated thats good; I want my sketches to have a more animated feel to them, its gonna be better for the work I wanna do in the future.

Which is gonna lead me into my next discussion!!!

Drawing him I had something in my mind because, Id recently come to realize that even though I want to go into character design, which is all about how a character looks, Im really more interested in how a character feels. When I think so cinematically, it gets me in touch with emotions more than visuals. Does that make sense? I think its alot more important to have characters touch on an emotional level rather than a visual level, I mean, you can have an ugly character but if their emotionally compelling you can forgive their ugliness.

The things im keeping in mind though, are movies like the Miyazaki movies, or the older final fantasies, or other animated movies. Im taking more cues from animated movies because, as much as I like concept art, I want to get some kind of emotional response too (its not concept arts fault; after all, its all about visuals).

I want to find some kind of balance, cool looking stuff that can grip you emotionally too. My mind has been working in nothing but this way and its so awesome I can hardly express it, but anyway... Ill have to experiment with more sketches, which i will!

thats all for now, Ill have another discussion up tomorrow~

Portfolio SlideShow

2009-05-15T18:58:00.001-07:00

Here's a nice slideshow of my degree project pieces and some other portfolio tidbits.

On the agenda:

draw my merman!!!!
draw out radcliffe, fritz, and asgard
fiddle with blender (3d program...)
get ready for surtext show!!!
draw out lingering characters that just need drawing!!!
go to work (tomorrow...)

Til then~

FINISHED!

2009-05-05T19:23:00.001-07:00

AH! I've finished everything :)

Im so glad of it... Im all set for tomorrow. I wanted to bring some extra stuff to give my friends... but Im guessing itll have to wait. I have alot of stuff to take with me tomorrow.

Im excited, but a little nervous. Wish me luck~

Update 2

2009-05-05T14:11:00.000-07:00

AHHH, so much to do!

Its all nearly over though; tomorrow the senior class is gonna meet with artists and directors; exciting!

I got practically everything done too.... *whew*. Once things finally die down, Im hoping to start up some new pieces, using some paint I got from Blick with Abe the other day. Greens and purples, pretty colors! I wont have time for that though... until after tomorrow x_x

Anyway, sketches and things to come, for later~

AHHH

2009-04-20T17:50:00.000-07:00

Hyacinthe character study

Man what a day~

Tried to do alot today, went to get supplies for the DP books and print some pieces for the portfolio(the sketch above is in it).

For the most part I got alot done but still... wish I could have done more D:

Ill get more done tomorrow~

Update

2009-04-15T08:08:00.001-07:00

The last time I got one of these bracelets was when I was 5, when I used to get sick alot.

I cant help but like it for some reason; nostalgia I guess.

Really tired today... and had an unfortunate morning, woke up at like 5 or 6 am with excrutiating abdominal pain... never happened before. My mom took me to the emergency room, where they took my blood and everything... tests results came and everything seems fine, but it worries me... atleast things are okay right now. Most annoying time in the world to get sent to the emergency room.... I suppose it could be worse.

Anyway, heres what I got done:

Degree Project:

6 pieces for the semester- DONE

graphic summary layout

graphic summary (2) - DUE APRIL 24TH/APRIL 27TH

framing (doing that saturday, gotta get supplies friday)

supplies for graphic summary (friday OR AC Moore)

Portfolio:

Take good shots of DP pieces (DONE)

Get portfolio (DONE)

Pick pieces for portfolio (DONE)

Make spine for portfolio

business cards/postcards (DONE)

promos (in the works)

* Go to SPACE 242 (April 24th)

Website:

website linking/blog (DONE)

get template for blog/make pretty

Thats all for now, updates as I think of more that needs to be done.

Gaming Goodness

2009-04-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a game Im absolutely obsessed with; LittleBigPlanet.

The games an absolute GOLDMINE of creativity; so much so, I think its a crime for anyone at school not to have played it, so thats the plan. Im gonna bring the ps3 to school so anyone can play (keep in mind im absolutely paranoid and Ill be watching over the ps3 like a hawk...)

For good measure, Im bringing Resident Evil 5 too, for those trigger happy ones.

*the little doodle up there is of my sackgirl, a cosplay of my character Hyacinthe*

Vinyl Figures

2009-03-31T20:30:00.000-07:00

These are the little guys I'm hoping to have done for Portfolio Night -->

They still need to be sculpted, luckily I bought what Id need, and I recruited my best friend to make one of them for me (thats what friends are for, right?). She's helping me plan out some other promo stuff, and if we get our way, my booth (so to speak) is gonna look like some mini gaming/comic expo (lol), which isnt a bad thing right?

Of course not.

Illustration Ahoy~ Part Duex

2009-03-31T20:17:00.000-07:00

Hey, its part 2! Just a few more illustrations, and an extra sketch:

This is a global warming piece from last year, it still remains as one of my favorite pieces.

This was a character design for my old DP idea; I didnt end up using her for it, but I used her character design for other things.

Another scrapped DP idea, he's a culmination of a few floating ideas. I wanna use his design somewhere else eventually,though.

An old character sketch in photoshop, I happen to really like it, although I dont like photoshop almost at all these days.. maybe I ought to take it up again.

That's all for this illust. dump for now~

Illustration Ahoy~

2009-03-31T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hello internet, finally I have some pieces to upload, the first few of which come straight out of my degree project on masks~~

In terms of specs, each one is made with watercolor, and watercolor pencil. And Arches paper, cold press I believe.

Onto the art~~

"Dance with Death"
(this ones a bit massive for the template of the blogger, so this thumbnail leads to the full view)

"Beauty in the Beast"
(its cheesy I'm sorry)

"Plague Mask"

Next post, more pieces forthwith!

First Post

2009-03-29T19:16:00.000-07:00

Here's my illustration Blog! Here til I can get my website up and moving...

I hope to get some work up here for you soon~

*Star in a Jam Jar Illustration*