Phantom 309 wip

colorizing the Phantom 309 pic in my previous post ;_; omg i'm SOOOOO FREAKING SLOW--that corner took more time than I anticipated (*cough 3 or 4 hours cough*)

I feel a little foolish for putting a lot on my plate especially because I now have a big side project with a looming deadline =_= owalsjfl;asjflkj
but anyhoo--I hope I can use this in my portfolio (minus the angry octopus) once I finish-
See you in t-20 hours!
 (June 21, 2012 2:17 AM)

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 Hi guys! here's another update-- I'll just continue on the same post whenever I do wips so that it's more organized :D 

anyhow...around 5:30am, my tablet totally gave out-I tried to keep it plugged into the tablet with rubber bands-I was wiggling the cord too much in there and broke the port ;_; it's kind of unfortunate that this humongo tablet won't work just because of that really small port thingy. I'm hoping some of the people in the student store/ wacom customer service could provide me with some repair information.

but anyways...crappy wacom 1 tablet to the rescue! with absolutely no pressure sensitivity! That proved to be minimally detrimental though--still (sort of) finished it

so--down to business: here's the first pass. Honestly everything in the middle ground and background is too vibrant and the hierarchy between values isn't as obvious as my value break up. I'm getting too distracted by everything in the foreground. The food on the counter is beginning to look like it's a part of the floor too @_@. Dem lemons in the iced tea are so yellow, it's almost as if they were picked off a radioactive lemon tree. So those are some things on my list to fix.  

As for additions, I need to add the 'push' sticker on the door, the poster on the side of the entrance, texture to the floor, and then add the 'today's special' thing in the bottom right corner of the foreground.

But I really did want green in the foreground, yellow orange in the middle ground, and a blue violet for the background.

(June 21, 2012 5:16pm) 

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first real pass with all the whistles and bells--i'm so sick of looking at this =_=

June 25, 2011 2:15pm

What have I been up to?

So it says that my last art post (before the previous one I just posted) was back in December of 2011
Here are just some of the highlights of the things I did for the past 6 months

father's day card for the padre-guess we fished up something worse than the lockness monster. it's the aquatic bigfoot!! (or bigfin/flippers)

Color and Story: Narrative triptych- the story was supposed to be inspired by our choice of image from the ones our instructor gave us. The story of our triptych didn't have to match or continue story the image but just be inspired by it. When my instructor saw my sketches for my triptych, he said"....well.....I didn't expect this." haha. The story is of a mafia boss (who is also a granny) who cuts off her henchmen's fingers whenever they do something wrong. She bakes them into a batch of cupcakes and gives it to the police as a prank. 

Color and Story: Leo, Holly, and Job following Ayesha to the Pillar of Fire (She by H. Rider Haggard)

Effie Trinket

Inventive Character: designed a few characters from The Hunger Games

45 rpm album cover for Dewey Cox and Darlene Madison's "Let's Duet". Dewey Cox Walk Hard was so damn Hillarious, I advise everyone to go see it (except for children and teenagers with no sense of humor)(beware: it is rated R for a reason)

 soo yeah! I have been having fun discovering what I can do :) I am beginning to love working digitally!

Phantom 309

Hi guys! It's been a while!!

so I was a little reluctant to keep posting here because all of my wip stuff is on tumblr but I am going to push myself to update this blog now instead of tumblr!!

yeahhh
so this is for graphic design for entertainment class
we were supposed to design a layout illustrating one of the scenes from the song "Phantom 309" by Red Sovine.
This is just the value breakup for my layout. I know there's a few things that I have to changeo n the left side because the values are beginning to spill into one another with the food on the counter (haha...no pun intended)--but I just want to hear what my instructor has to say before doing anything

I was influenced by Lou Romano's style when working on this piece. He worked on the Powerpuff Girls, The Incredibles, Monster's Inc. and so much more!! I also found out he did a bit of voice acting in the films he designed for. That is just the icing on the cake for me!! I totally wanna do that too!!
Anyhow-- I am most definitely a fan or his work and I hope I can do him justice when I finish this.

new blog AGAIN!!

ok ok I'm not closing this one down because you can actually comment on stuff here...
I don't know what I'm doing with all these blogs but I'll have to shut one of them down eventually
but I started one on tumblr
snow*cinder sketch

Portraiture midterm

before and after pics of my portrait--will update with a better final picture.
I struggled a lot with this--it was mentally and emotionally taxing -_- I kept on erasing the face because the colors wouldn't be right or the nose was too far to the left or something like that....
I was far too focused on one area and stressed out about it ~I forgot there were other components that needed to be painted. I turned to my friends for their advice which was really useful--and I appreciate it a lot.

the crit was to be mindful of my edges, some of them are too harsh like the line dividing her bangs from her forehead. Light the outer right edge of the hair. Fix the highlight on the left side of her head. Crop wasn't convincing enough, zoom out a little more so that the bunny ears are fully visible and the figure smaller.
I was thinking of painting a couple more flowers. Her shirt really bothers me-- there should be more highlights there and perhaps redoing the shadow on her cheeks, underneath her eyes.

oil isn't my strongest suit but I really tried my best on this--I'm never sure whether the painting's good or bad especially after staring at it for more than 10 hours.


EDIT-- so here' s a better picture of my portrait--;_; i didn't fix anything haha mainly so the model can see it ~ not sure if you'll enjoy my portrayal of you- the idea was to make it look more 'cartoony' than realistic

CP: Honeybadger Cafe

;_; I love this place

I wish I lived closer to this cafe

-_- there aren't really that many study places where I live

anyhoo--the perspective is kind of wonky towards the ends of the pictures...

but I love doing these--been a while since I worked with copic markers -- kind of rusty ~_~

but I'd like to do more of these in the future!

I highly recommend going here :) my favorite drink has to be the almond milk tea and the Italian Mango Soda

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short rant:

I JUST WANT TO PLAY! ;_; four more weeks until freedom!!!

even though I know I'll get  bored after three days

things to do on my list, beat alice madness returns, read the hunger games and other suggested books, cover some songs, improve my sketching for entertainment stuff, get out of my house, and most of all COSPLAY!!! :D in my own house I guess haha

just random and completely irrelevant, I want to comment on my friends' work
but every time I post, it doesn't show up on their post :(

ID: book cover for Breakfast at Tiffany's WIP

Just a screen shot of the book jacket assignment I'm working on--
The most important thing missing is the title--have to work on that by hand but I think I kind of like how it's turning out :)

~_~ ahh the color palette is kind of bland...i had this really golden yellow but during the crit, they associated it with Spain or Mexico and said to go for a more urban feel

Honestly, this project kind of bored me when we were first assigned it--but then I started getting into it :D -- I had a whole bunch of other ideas for this book but they were too uhm...extreme haha I portrayed Holly to be some kind of 'gold digger' XD (part of her is) I wish I didn't watch the movie -_- visually, movies ruin everything if you don't read the book before it.

I can't wait to print it out!

disclaimer: I do not claim ownership over Breakfast at Tiffany's or Vintage International-- I did not write the summary of the book or bio of Truman Capote, I just copied it off of the version I have at the moment. This is merely a class project.