miscellany

end of the year art dump

Yay the school year is over!  Junior year has been crazy stressful, super exciting, and very promising on the career front.  I can't wait for summer to start so I can get a jump on my personal work, bulk up my portfolio, and catch up on much needed sleep!  

This is what's been taking the bulk of my time these past couple of weeks.  Its my second animatic ever, and the more successful of the two by far.  Feedback is much appreciated as I plan on continuing work on it over the summer :)  Please take a look, and thank you in advance if you do! (click to view at full size  on youtube please, my blog layout cuts off half the frame!)

Some work I've done recently for my other classes

character design/model sheet of an original character for computer illustration

illustration based on the word "facade"

character design/concepts for my animatic above

linocut print of the fox character from my animatic.  this was done in a reductive process, so a single linoleum block was reprinted and cut away for each color 

and some figure paintings that I don't absolutely hate. thanks for looking everyone :)

 <3

happy summer!

creature feature

some recent work from class, enjoy!

a mock pulp cover, although decidedly more cute than your traditional pulp magazine cover

illustration inspired by the art of Charley Harper.  The topic was "treehouse" so this is my spin on it.  mangroves!

yo ho ho

I'm working on an animatic for my storyboarding class and I thought I'd go ahead and post my model sheets since the actual animatic probably won't be finished for another couple of weeks.  The premise of the assignment was "somebody wants a bite of your dinner" so I decided to have mine set in the galley of a pirate ship :)

These are my character model sheets, some development sketches, and my rough layout.  In my original story concepts Finn was supposed to be a villain, but his design was too friendly.  I needed something to make him more antagonistic and terrible, so I gave him Crocs, because only terrible people wear Crocs :)

Musicians of Bremen

 We had an open assignment this time around for class so I chose to illustrate a scene from one of Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Musicians of Bremen.  I wanted to stay pretty traditional as far as my concept for this image; I chose a memorable scene from the story and tried to stay true to the text rather than rework the story or invent a new scene.  I also had some wonderful inspiration from the Golden Book version of this story which you can read/view here: http://goldengems.blogspot.com/2009/01/musicians-of-bremen.html

This is the final image I came up with, and below it is the version with the gutter and text added.

Thanks for looking :)

sketcheroo

Scanned in some stuff from my sketchbook today, thought I'd throw some of them up on here :)

some dog things and a multi-legged thing

some bear things. bears is fun to draw :3

selection of some figure sketches from last semester, most of these are 30 second poses with a couple longer ones on the left

chinese foo things. the top image became a digital painting that I did in character concept class last semester, but I liked the sketch better, and the bottom ones are variations/development of the design

aaaaaand a quick self portrait doodle wif mah puppy cause I miss her dearly <3 

doggies

Here's some digital work from my past couple assignments at school.  All of these were done entirely in Adobe Illustrator :)

This was a series of icons of a subject matter of our choosing.  Naturally I picked my favorite breed of dog, the shiba inu to be in the spotlight :)  I'd like to do one more for Fall, since that's the only season I'm missing here (the assignment only called for three and time constraints didn't allow me to do a fourth).  My favorite one is the middle dog :)

This one was for an assignment to do a full page editorial illustration from an existing magazine/article of our choosing.  Guess what kind of magazine I picked :P   The article was about research being done on the dog genome and finding the genetic markers for physical traits across different breeds of dogs so I chose to illustrate what I hope are some widely recognizable breeds all tied together with dna strands in place of leashes :)