Self Portrait #5: December 2014

Managed to finish this in time for the party-- Happy New Years!!

Drawn with Prismacolor pencils and a mirror

Sketchbook Stuff 12/27/14

heres some observational stuff

Sketchbook stuff 12/26/14

So these are from yesterday and I thought I would do personality/messy character sketches one day and then more observational ones the next day so here are some of those...

this isnt everything, I filled up like 4 pages yesterday but here...

More Figures!

here's more stuff from Ringling and Adelphi

Still Life

From Ringling Precollege

Ringling & Adelphi Figures

I never posted any of my Ringling figure drawings so here are some of those, also I was lucky enough to win a scholarship to a weekend figure-drawing program through my school and it's held at Aldephi University and it's pretty great, here's some of my work:

Self Portrait(s) #3: October

So I told my teachers about how I'm doing a self portrait every month and coincidentally I've been given a few self-portrait projects so here's one I did in Advertising and I made another version with non-local color, all done in illustrator and then converted to jpegs in Photoshop

Self Portrait #2: September

Continuing on with me challenging myself to making a self portrait every month here's this month's:

  I used a reference this time around rather than from a mirror like last time so obviously it's a bit more accurate because I have less experience drawing from life. Here's the reference,

 and I've also made a gif of screenshots I took as I drew it so its like a proccess gif except its really sloppy but you get the jist

One Year Ago Today

Exactly one year ago today I made this comic in my sketchbook about how badly I wanted to go to Ringling's Precollege program but couldnt because I was too young and this year I just barely made it, turning 16 three months before the first day, thankfully. Usually I'm shameful of my old work but this in particular made me laugh because what I wanted actually came true, we'll see about my obeese-waitress-self after graduation but it's looking promising  so far.

Self Portrait #1: August

I decided today to challenge myself to draw self portrait every month for a year, so like, this blog post is basically an unbreakable vow, an official document of mine I guess, or whatever. So one time of my teachers at Ringling who, you know,just happened to have worked at Pixar for ten years, offered us some advice( not that those two facts are correlated its just that I've been back for over a month now and that fact still blows my mind that this man had CASUAL CONVERSATIONS with Pete Doctor, animator/mastermind behind Up/American hero.) Anyway he told us that drawing from pictures is cool but drawing from life gives it that extra "umph". And so, here's a self portrait that I wouldn't say is my most true to life representation of me but that's where my "challenge" comes into play and I'm hoping that by the end of this year I will have my face...down pat. or that I could compile them in some elaborate portfolio piece...or something.
It took me four hours (10 pm-2 am) with a mirror set up next to my laptop and the desk-light I used had a very green lampshade so I came out very...green

We are Groot (tired)

I'm not gonna lie, this is not a portfolio piece, it's just something I did for fun, and because Guardians of the Galaxy was freaking awesome.
Rocket growls in his sleep pass it on

Erica

Practicing more with colors, digitally since I'm so often afraid of using color in my work--I drew Erica from last years precollege program at the School of Visual Arts whom I've managed to keep in touch with via Tumblr, this was created based off a picture she took of herself . Originally this started off a practicing with colors and somehow became this completed...thing! so here! have at it!

Ringling Precollege: Drawing for Animation- Character design, storyboards, and whatnot

Okay so this was the class I was most excited about because my teacher, Billy Merritt, was someone I really admired even before precollege so getting to know him as my professor was an amazing experience as he was a Ringling alumni and worked at Pixar for 10 years. In our first assignment we used these abstract shapes to create our own characters which is a lot harder than it sounds, then from those characters within the shape we chose we changed the proportions to emphasize cetain characteristics giving our characters personalities, mine I got very into which was good thing and I think Billy knew how hard I worked on this and how much I believed in this character.

We then took a video from youtube and found key fames in a single movement from the video and put our characters in the figures movement( mine was someone wiping out on a boogie board because my characters large-clawlike hands make him really clumsy)

lastly, we had to create a storyboard using our character in which they discover a package or gift for them. I used to to show more of my characters personality and how they environment they live in reacts to them, he's treated like a freak because of his large hands and his shell, his adoptive father is a fisherman who pulled him up in a net of hermit crabs and shellfish , he's supposed to have a bright blue shell(however all out work was in black and white) that the fisherman put aside to sell not realizing that it was a child, the shell's too small for him at this point in the story and he wants to leave his father's fishing company to see the world but his shell's no longer a home and is more of a paper weight to him now, holding him back.

My Ringling Precollege Computer Animation Work

Hello! So at Precollege, in order to squeeze in as much education into our minds as possible on whatever courses we chose we alternated between our two Immersion courses every day (with no class on the weekends except optional open labs). Anyway our first assignment was a still life we picked from the internet and then had to recreate using Maya, mine was so horrible I'm choosing not to post, sorry. Our second assignment was a simple ball bounce and then a robot animation with a model of our own design, however the only way to upload any of these projects is by rending it and then pulling it up in Adobe Premiere and converting it into an mp4 file and we didn't do that for any of  the animations thus far(the robot and the ball bounce). After this we animated our first Primitive Theater with a new model of our own design and by using Blendshapes for the first time, my model was similar to my robot because I liked the squishiness of my alien, here's my first Primitive Theatre

After this we became more comfortable with the software, Maya an now Premiere. Ed(my CA professor) gave us our first rig named Simple guy which we were to use to create another Primitive Theater with, with our own environment and lighting as the last one had as well. we also got used to this rig by creating a walk cycle with it--which was never uploaded to Premiere and wont be uploaded but here's my final Primitve Theatre

"So how did artschool work out?": My Ringling Precollege projects

So basically a day ringling precollege meant waking up for breakfast at 7 and after that point, creating art nonstop from 8:00 am to about 9:45 pm which was wonderful and something I wouldnt mind doing for the rest of my life, especially because I feel like this experience has made me a better artist in more than one way. Anyway, lunch is at 12 and anything before that is a "core classs" which rotated between Still Life, figure drawing, 4d(using time as the fourth dimension), sculpture, and digital( essentially, Photoshop class). Here's some of my digital work for now because I dont have a lot of my other work from my core classes photographed yet:
project #1: a simplified animal silhouette--a salamander, I was lucky to have some Photoshop knowledge under my belt for this class

Project #2: creating the feeling of a season (mine being summer) using abstract shapes and blending modes

Project #3: using a still from a movie and changing the focal point of the shot utilizing contrast 

Project #4: Use a portion of a song and illustrate the music through abstract shapes representing beats in the song (I used Weight of Living Part 1 by Bastille)

Back from Ringling Precollege

Naturally, the first thing you do when you get back from art school is draw so I was messing around in photoshop and made this. I used the Kuler extension in photoshop to create the pallette and I really like how the colors work together here.

HUUUUGE SKETCH DUMPPPP
some old stuff I forgot to post
some new stuff
wowowowstuff

My first time doing Hourly Comic Day

Nature boy
#Christinahatesbackgrounds2014
No reference used

Cecil Baldwin: Process

More stuff from last year...Jenny Flint!

Based on Crush

Transferred from my Tumblr

To Jess

Sculptris Alpha 6