Summer Sketching!

Cover of the new Sketcthbook. I love this paper, second one of these sketchbooks I've had and I am going to make better use of this one than I did the last.

Having fun experimenting with media and technique. The text says "Chill," trying to tell myself to relax and get into the drawing. Keeping it free-form and open-ended helped.
Water color, pentel brush pen and white gel pen

I seriously haven't had this much fun drawing since highschool. At least 10 years ago. I learned that I need more patience with my drawings. Impatience and anxiety have manifested as a result of the work environment at school. When more time is taken with my art, the more I get absorbed, the more I enjoy it, the better it becomes because I am willing to invest more time in it.
Watercolor, prismacolor marker, white gel pen, pentel brush pen.

enviromenting

The assignment was to take a photo (one that taken by yourself) and turn it into a medieval/fantasy scene.

Kent Station from the roof of the parking garage.

Original underdrawing

Mostly 'finished'. I wanted to keep this piece as simple as possible, looking  more at designing the shapes, value and composition rather than worrying about rendering.

"Done" ..... I really need to figure out how to do color correction on my monitors. Each one of the three is slightly different than the other. The textures as I am looking at them now are way harsher than if I look at this image on my main screen. Weird. Time to figure out  a good way to fix that.

It's Character Driven

Stupid fun assignment in my character design class sent me here: http://itscharacterdriven.blogspot.com/ .

Beautiful
Stoned
Mystic
May or may not be an alien

Pencil test

This is the current state of my animation for sophomore projects. I am working with a partner on this who is animating a separate character. Unfortunately we have not recently shot the two together. More updates as this goes through it's phases to completion.



And this is the background painting I did for it. The final animation will be vectorized in toon boom and then colored. The original drawing for the painting was mine as well.

My partner did her own painting and they both turned out good enough that we don't know who's we want to use yet.... we'll have to duke it out I guess.