POST 100

Well, so this is my 100th post. (EDIT JAN. 12, 2012 - This is no longer my 100th post due to some post deleting for cleaning purposes!)    I figured since I just began animation school, that I would post all the things I've done before I started classes. These pieces were mostly done in Newfoundland. A lot were done during the 24 Hour Art Marathon in St. John's. I taught a workshop while I was there about artmaking and idea application. It went pretty well and I think people had fun. Enjoy!

 

This was made during Benjamin Allain's artist workshop. We had to draw on pre-made coffee spills. We drew what we saw in the spill. I saw an elk thing and some skulls.

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A fanart of one of the guys from the band "Hot Chip."

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This is a concept for an acrylic painting. I don't know if I'll ever get time to paint it, but I enjoy the watercolour sketches I did for it.

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This final image was done because I was listening to the song, "Here in My Room" by Incubus.

HAPPY 100th!

Now hopefully you'll see some serious improvement. Onward to Animation Classes!

The Legend of Korra

I leave for a mini-trip to Miramichi tomorrow. I'm going to bring up some of my stuff (bed, dishes) to my new apartment! Yay!

I don't know if you've all heard about the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender TV Series--- The Legend of Korra. I AM SO EXCITED.

Here is a wee fanart of her doing some water bending. I scanned a sketch and did the cleanup/colouring in Flash. It turned out pretty good for the amount of practice I have with the program. Took a long time... But I'm happy with it! I can't wait to see what my skills will be like once I graduate school! EE!

Anyway... Enjoy!

Painting in PS

I'm trying to improve my painting skills... So I thought I'd start off with something fairly easy- Cartoon face. I think I'm learning. =D I LOVE learning.

Mar markers

Today I begin my vacation now that my shift is over. =) I am happy.

Markers

I was working with markers again.


A Self Portrait. I love doing those, apparently.



More with the cheap markers. Dog lady.

Cleaning Up

I decided to clear out my old deviantart gallery and delete it. The username was "Pingu6312" and had been "dead" for about 6 years. It was about time! Here are 4 pieces I saved. They were all done in 2003 when I was about 16-17.


I had a huge crush on a boy. This image was a result... done in watercolour pencils I do believe.



This was inspired by The Dark Crystal movie. Jim Henson and Brian Froud's creations are always fantastic.




This was back when I was seriously into Anthro art. I still kind of am deep down... I find I've really lost my knack for it though. I had started colouring digitally back then. I'm kind of sad I went to university in one TINY way, in that I didn't practice drawing or digitally colouring or anything like that that much. Lots of "high" art but not nearly enough drawing practice. I think that's the one thing I'd change if I could go back in time... practice more.



Was, and still am a huge LotR fan. Hehe My old gallery was filled with Lord of the Rings stuff.


Anyway, I better get back to watermarking my current artwork. Thanks for taking this trip with me down memory lane!

Funnyish story.

I had this big plan today in which I would practice my markers and then practice my photoshopping. I started with marker... found out that there's a right and wrong side of the marker paper. I scanned in my drawing and my practice ended up being solely Photoshop oriented.

Katara and Aang.. adulty-ness. In some weird place. Yes.





Edit: I like it better without a background!

Bird Head Man

Drew this at work today. Yep.

Practicepracticepractice

My first piece using markers on actual marker paper. Wee fanart of Hitomi from Vision of Escaflowne. LOVE that anime.



Third try: Katara from the cartoon: Avatar- The Last Airbender. My current fav cartoon("anime?").


A Jelly. My second try with the makers on marker paper. I was trying out blending. It didn't work as well as I had hoped.



Random watercolour on crappy watercolour paper. I like the colours, though.


This was my latest work using markers. I really like it! Birds on a Wire.



And a lovely angry man that will belong to my bbfitww, Alicia! For her Birthday. <3 Or whatever holiday comes up. Haha.

A lot of perspective and a lady

I have a hard time photographing my work due to hot spots. I don't have a setup that allows nice photos. I'm hoping I'll find a solution in September. Ideally- I'll find a GIANT scanner. *Drools*

Summer

This was drawn with reference to a wonderful picture of my boyfriend and I... that's him. What a charmer.



A cartoon-y drawing loosely based off of a vimeo video lady. She was funny but I don't have a link. Sorry!

Today really felt like summer. =)

Digital Painting

I'm trying yet again to paint some stuff using Photoshop CS3. Here is a weird creature looking at some rocks... Yes. I really need to work on backgrounds/background ideas and detail.




I am trying to work with colour as well... I need to start paying more attention to the colours I'm choosing, and not just doing what I think "fits" because... I am becoming dissatisfied with the results.

Robots Are Too...

Really liked working on this one... <3 Will be for sale somewhere in NL.

Painting again

I've been brooding for a long time about what to mail to NL to my PMU cohorts for a cafe feature thingy... so I've finally started painting. I'm going to mail them drawings and some portrait paintings. Exploring myself and my life.

Here is my first acrylic painting. (I've dabbled with them once before on some scrap canvas paper... haha)



Here is a WIP shot. I really need to take advantage of a sunny day, go outside and get some good shots of my larger pieces.




I'm really enjoying the medium. I just need to figure out/fix my earring. =P I miss oils though. I had them figured right through.

Perspective Class

I'm taking a class in perspective. The first class went over 1 point and 2 point perspective. Our second class was "draw this hallway in 1 point." Here are the results of those lessons.

In the first class: He hauled out a giant cube (metal bars) and told us to draw it. Then halfway through he tossed on a pillow and told us to include that with some tonal study.



Here he showed us how to prop up our drawing boards, and we spent the next 2 and a half hours breaking our backs drawing the hallway in front of us in one point perspective. I'm learning a lot and starting to enjoy perspective. Crazy huh?

Apres Wisdom Teeth

So I had my wisdom teeth out Friday, and I'm finally able to mentally tackle art again. I really wasn't feeling up to it til now, so here are some pieces I've worked on.

Opinions

Some things I'm working on for a new series of paintings.





This is the design I'm settling on for my first painting. Any suggestions? I'm going with acrylic on a 16X20 canvas. (Store bought crap- I don't have the resources to build my own canvases right now =() For colours I'm thinking of mostly off-whites for all of them. This one will have a brown-y reddy tinge for the linework. Is any of this explanation making sense? Anyway, suggestions? Comments?







Also- This is from last week's drawing jam.

What I've been up to

What does Diglett look like underground?


Some sketchies.


Watched some weird video with a horn-ed boy.


Tinyface lady.


Ever go slugging? Me neither.

Sketches and stuff

I was working on a piece to do with a robot...



My DRAWING JAM image.

FISHGIRL

Here is my fishgirl... and her bff- owl girl.